
04/13/2023
Catch Justin Marks reading from his new book on Friday night at Rhizome DC ahead of this weekend's Conversations and Connections Conference!
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Catch Justin Marks reading from his new book on Friday night at Rhizome DC ahead of this weekend's Conversations and Connections Conference!
Get tickets and support Rhizome DC by becoming a member
Justin Marks reads from "Aging Out" at KGB Bar. IF THIS SHOULD REACH YOU IN TIME is available everywhere!
If This Should Reach You in Time, out now from Barrelhouse Books: https://www.barrelhousemag.com/shopone/if-this-should-reach-you-in-time-by-justin-marks
Today is the official release day of IF THIS SHOULD REACH YOU IN TIME by Justin Marks, a book that voices all your fears, wrestles with the current world, and reaches out toward the smallest glimmer of hope.
If This Should Reach You in Time sounds the alarm of climate change and democratic collapse with tender lament and guarded hope from award-winning poet Justin Marks. “There’s no way around / not being part / of the problem,” Marks writes in “Along for the Ride,” “The best case scenario /...
Join Natasha Oladokun for an online poetry workshop this fall exploring the poetics of intimacy. Learn new approaches, get feedback, meet great people, write great work.
What is the difference between proximity and earned intimacy? What power dynamics and privileges determine who is “other,” whether with regard to race, gender, class, or sexual orientation? And most immediately: how is our relationship to relational intimacy rapidly changing in the midst of a gl...
Back by popular demand! Natasha Oladokun teaches the Poetics of Intimacy! Class starts Oct. 9th!
What is the difference between proximity and earned intimacy? What power dynamics and privileges determine who is “other,” whether with regard to race, gender, class, or sexual orientation? And most immediately: how is our relationship to relational intimacy rapidly changing in the midst of a gl...
New poetry book from Assistant Poetry Editor Lucian Mattison from the good people at CRPress, out October 15th!
Lucian Mattison’s poetry collection, Curare, is a work about remembering our humanity in the face of the destabilizing and dehumanizing forces of technology, climate change, and capitalism. The image-rich poems delight in the odd and off-kilter while walking an informal lyrical path through landsc...
Introducing our next poetry book! IF THIS SHOULD REACH YOU IN TIME by Justin Marks! “There’s no way around / not being part / of the problem,” Marks writes in “Along for the Ride,” “The best case scenario / is long term disaster”.
In his fourth collection of poetry, Marks renders global threats as intimate and personal. As we turn inward, terror and sadness take hold. This is a book of crisis and dread, both human and spiritual.
Design by Shanna Compton.
If This Should Reach You in Time sounds the alarm of climate change and democratic collapse with tender lament and guarded hope from award-winning poet Justin Marks. “There’s no way around / not being part / of the problem,” Marks writes in “Along for the Ride,” “The best case scenario /...
Applications are open for Barrelhouse Writer Camp, a short, super laid back retreat in Central PA. Dates in late June and early August.
Writer Camp is a laid-back mini-vacation with plenty of time for writing. No readings, no mandatory sessions, no schedules: you decide when it’s time to write, read, or nap in a hammock. Each participant also has the option of receiving detailed feedback from a Barrelhouse editor on their work.
Your registration fee includes lodging, all meals, a few group activities, plenty of time to write, and campfires every night.
A writing retreat in central Pennsylvania. No readings. No itineraries. Just writing, campfires, one-on-ones with editors, and time to do what you want. Lodging and meals provided.
Missing already? Join us next month for Conversations and Connections: a one-day, online way to stay connected with the writing community, get some practical writing advice, and even meet one-on-one with an editor. Seventy bucks gets you workshops, two free books, incentives from small presses, and a virtual happy hour. Comfy shoes not required. Writersconnectconference.com
Still a few days left to register for our upcoming fiction workshop with John Cotter. Meets every Sunday on Zoom for 8 weeks. $250 registration fee; financing options are available (just DM us). John is an excellent, incredibly well-read teacher, and this is a great opportunity to get some good work done and think about your current manuscript in new ways. Open to all skill/experience levels.
https://www.barrelhousemag.com/shopone/are-there-rules-zoom-fiction-workshop-with-john-cotter
Still a handful of spots remaining in John Cotter's online fiction workshop! Course Begins Oct 17, and meets on Zoom every Sunday for 8 weeks. Focus is on interrogating the conventional "rules" of fiction writing + generating new materials. $250 to register, full details at the link
https://www.barrelhousemag.com/shopone/are-there-rules-zoom-fiction-workshop-with-john-cotter
Should we kill our darlings? Must we show but not tell? Does it matter if setting is a character? Which of the received rules of writing fiction really do hold up (as some of them undoubtedly do) and which are merely words? Join John Cotter for an 8-week generative fiction workshop beginning Octob
New book alert! Starting today you can pre-order Christine No's debut poetry collection WHATEVER LOVE MEANS! We can't wait for you to read this one.
“I hold anger like my mother / wedged between shoulder and spine / where wings should have sprouted / but didn’t.” Whatever Love Means is a record of past lives, of people and places, of the ghosts that won't leave. Some parts are memorial, others are made up; all slipstream, still, around a s...
quick heads up we're opening soon for fiction & nonfiction, + ALL GENRES for a special cryptozoology themed section in issue 23. more details tk
Cover reveal for Christine No's Whatever Love Means coming this fall! Pre-order opens on Sept. 1st. Get ready!
Cover by Shanna Compton.
One month from today we're kicking off a new online poetry workshop with Dan Brady! This is a generative workshop so you'll come away with a bunch of new poems, insights, and, dare we say, friends. https://www.barrelhousemag.com/eventscalendar/2021/9/12/contemporary-constraints-online-poetry-workshop-with-dan-brady-september-2021
Writer Camp is back! This year's camp will be Wednesday, August 4 through Sunday, August 8.
Check out our website for lodging and cost details, covid-19 adjustments, and some really good photos of hammocks and sunshine.
Applications are open now, and should only take about five minutes. A writing sample is *optional* and there to help us match you with an editor if you're interested in an editor meeting. And as always, no submission fees.
A writing retreat in central Pennsylvania. No readings. No itineraries. Just writing, campfires, one-on-ones with editors, and time to do what you want. Lodging and meals provided.
New online workshop opportunity! Natasha Oladokun on the Poetics of Intimacy: Meeting the "Other" in Poetry! Starts 2/14. Registration is open now!
Poetics of Intimacy: Meeting the “Other” in Poetry What is the difference between proximity and earned intimacy? What power dynamics and privileges determine who is “other,” whether with regard to race, gender, class, or sexual orientation? And most immediately: how is our relationship to re...
The time has come! Now accepting preorders for Gina Myers's incredible SOME OF THE TIMES!
Sales of the book support The Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project in Philadelphia and the First Ward Community Service’s LACER (Literacy Arts Cultural Enrichment Recreation) program in Saginaw, Michigan.
Get a great book, support some great causes. You can't lose!
Those who are familiar with Gina Myers's previous work will be pleased to see Some of the Times build from the same base of social consciousness while also pushing in new directions. Myers captures what it feels like to live in this era of late capitalism in a way that few other poets do. This is
It's cover reveal day! Here's Gina Myers's forthcoming SOME OF THE TIMES! Pre-orders begin 9/15!
Good morning, friends -- through the month of June, we're donating proceeds from all sales to The Hurston/Wright Foundation in an effort to support Black writers, both locally and nationally. If you'd like to support Hurston/Wright and add some more Barrelhouse to your lives, now is the perfect chance to check out our books, lit mags, chapbooks, and t-shirts.
Our newest book, MERCY, a memoir by Marcia Trahan about true crime obsession and medical trauma, launched this week.
https://www.barrelhousemag.com/shop
Online short fiction workshop with Barrelhouse Editor and writer Dave Housley. This is an 8 week workshop that starts on January 6, 2019 and ends on March 3. Participation is limited to 12 people and every participant will have a chance to workshop 2 stories.
Nonfiction writers, we are now open for essay submissions until 5/24. Full guidelines here.
https://barrelhouse.submittable.com/submit/812/nonfiction
We're open for essay submissions for 2 weeks for print Issue 22 (coming probably in Spring 2021). Please note that Barrelhouse is interested only in essays that deal, in one way or another, with pop culture, though pop culture here is defined in a fairly broad way (essays we've published have incl...
A reminder that two of our editors have an 8 year backlog of podcast episodes (almost half of them pretty good!) available to fill your ears with content when you exhaust all other options
Books · 2020
Celebrate love today with our new online issue, guest edited by Tyrese Coleman.
Edited by Tyrese Coleman. Celebrating Valentine’s Day of 2020 with poetry, prose, and art.
APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN for Writer Camp 2020! You've seen the creekside Instagrams, heard about the laid-back vibe and instant writer friendships, and read the work that's come out of camp. Join us this summer!
Camp 1: Thursday, June 25-Sunday, June 28
Camp 2: Wednesday, August 5-Sunday, August 9
Details and application info here: www.writer-camp.com
An writing retreat in central Pennsylvania. No readings. No itineraries. Just writing, campfires, one-on-ones with editors, and time to do what you want. Lodging and meals provided.
Friends, we need your help: The Library of Congress wants to stock Barrelhouse. They need 2 copies of each issue & our archives are cleared out. If you have copies of BH issues 7, 13, or 14 that you can spare, we'll trade you a new subscription for them. DM for details.
Excited to take part in The Inner Loop: A Literary Reading Series's Winter Gala! TIL does so much for the DC literary community. You can even win a Barrelhouse prize basket at the silent auction. Grab a drink with us and show them some love. Tickets are going fast.
Open Call for the "I've Got Love on My Mind: Black Women on Love" Online Issue
We've all heard the saying, "Trust Black women." But for Barrelhouse's special online issue, guest-edited by Tyrese Coleman, we are saying instead "Love Black women." We are saying, "Black women love." We are saying, "Read Black women!"
The theme is "I've Got Love on My Mind." We are looking for poetry, fiction and nonfiction that interprets this theme in any way that speaks to a Black woman's experience or interpretation of love—love for others, the spectrum of how and who we love and why, self-love, romantic love, familial love, a void of love, loving what others do not, loving your culture, your country, not feeling the love. We want work that isn't afraid to be avant-garde, irreverent, snarky, experimental, profane, moving, against expectations, or all of the above.
We are open for submissions from November 1-8. Please see Submittable for full details.
Thanks for submitting your work to Barrelhouse! Before you proceed, a note about open and closed categories. If you don't see the category that fits your work, we're not open for that thing. We keep submission periods pretty short because we're hoping that helps make our response times shorter, a...
Hey poets! We're open for submissions from November 1-15. Details on Submittable.
Thanks for submitting your work to Barrelhouse! Before you proceed, a note about open and closed categories. If you don't see the category that fits your work, we're not open for that thing. We keep submission periods pretty short because we're hoping that helps make our response times shorter, a...
The DC Lit Crawl is this Sunday! Do you have your ticket yet?
It’s back! Please join Barrelhouse and MoonLit on Sunday, September 22nd for the third annual DC Lit Crawl. This year, we’ll bring contemporary and engaging literary voices into Eastern Market/Capitol HIll, showcasing and celebrating local literary artistry featuring Tyrese Coleman, dave ring, K...
Big announcement time! Barrelhouse has two new poetry collections on the way, Some of the Times by Gina Myers (2020) and Whatever Love Means by Christine No (2021)!
Thank you to everyone who submitted to our 2019 open reading period for poetry manuscripts. The amount of good work out there is overwhelming. We wish we could publish so many of the manuscripts we received. Trust us, world, there are a lot of good books coming your way in the next few years. We’r...
Very excited to offer a new online workshop with poet Natalie Eilbert! Natalie has designed this course for anyone who has ever been told their poems are too evasive or obscure. This course is for anybody who wants to enhance their lyric voice and to find meaning apart from the status quo. Is that you?
In this 8 week online workshop, we will consider what meaning means in poetry. Poetry cannot and should not be read like prose, as it is not meant for information gathering. We read poetry because we cannot shake the ineffable from our faculties; because poetry locates a supreme feeling and reason
Friends, you may remember that earlier this year we gave our Amplifier grant to the Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) , which does great work in providing books, writing materials, and writing instruction to incarcerated people. They're legit, and they're doing great work, and they need your help for a new ambitious project to pay for college course for up to 15 incarcerated people. Please consider donating, and share widely.
“This class made me feel human again. This class took me back into a world that was closed off for years. I want to thank this class for the opportunity to be Ricardo again.” The Appalachian Prison Book Project, based in Morgantown, WV, began in 2004 with a handful of books being mailed into pri...
More Issue 19 fiction previews, this time by Jonathan Pescke and Jackson Vrana.
Like what you read? Want a lil' lovetopus for your shelf? Check our website or your local bookseller.
Read fiction excerpts from our latest print issue. (Available in our store , in Barnes and Noble, and at your local bookseller.)
Today's issue 19 preview: excerpts of poetry by Mackenzie Schubert, Claire Morgan, Mylo Lam, and Steph Sorensen.
Read poetry excerpts from our latest print issue. (Available in our store , in Barnes and Noble, and at your local bookseller.)
Issue 19, which features all previously unpublished authors, is available now! We'll be featuring excerpts from the new issue all week.
You can order copies online, or find them in Barnes and Noble or at indie bookstores across the country. Look for the . (Or subscribe to Barrelhouse so that good good content comes straight to your door.)
Read fiction excerpts from our latest print issue. (Available in our store , in Barnes and Noble, and at your local bookseller.)
Good morning, nonfiction writers: We're open for submissions for issue 21 for the next 2 weeks (subs close midnight on 5/12). Full details here:
https://barrelhouse.submittable.com/submit/812/nonfiction
We're open for essay submissions for 2 weeks, and this time around we're looking especially for your essays that feel a little weird, a little fractured, a little bit messy. We thought about defining this more specifically, but have decided that it would be more fun for you to run with it. It woul...
Last year, Barrelhouse got to wondering: What would happen if a literary magazine said, instead of "Send us your best work," we said "Send us work you love?"
"You’re a writer, and you have this....Something. It’s short. It’s weird. It’s scary. It’s powerful. It’s hilarious. It’s something you love, but have no idea who in the hell would publish it. Maybe you’ve agonized over it with others. Maybe you’ve kept it all to yourself. Maybe you think of it all the time. Maybe you try to forget it."
Today, we're happy to unveil THE SOMETHING ISSUE. Give it a read.
In This Issue The Fisherman's Folly , by Jim Ruland Other Girls , by Caroljean Gavin Portrait of my Mother as Disembodied Feet Washing up on the Shores of Western Canada, as Reported by CNN , by Sarah Shotland Skin Palace , by Justin Greene I fall asleep waiting for a call from the tribuna
Hey AWP People! New Barrelhouse KEEP IT WEIRD tees will be available at at booth 2027 this year! And of course we'll have our classic, original, accept-no-f*ck'n-lame-ass pl*giariz'n substitutes FU***NG POETS, MAN shirts along with last year's quickly sold-out plucky blowfish UNRELIABLE NARRATOR shirts. Booth 2027. Oh, and we'll also have a sh*tload of alien figures. And some books probably.
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Missing #awp22 already? Join us next month for Conversations and Connections: a one-day, online way to stay connected with the writing community, get some practical writing advice, and even meet one-on-one with an editor. Seventy bucks gets you workshops, two free books, incentives from small presses, and a virtual happy hour. Comfy shoes not required. Writersconnectconference.com