Barrelhouse

Barrelhouse is a pop culture-obsessed literary magazine based in Washington, DC that publishes ficti

05/30/2025

Friends, our newest book, FRONTIER by Erica Stern launches next week! She has a few great events lined up in Chicago (at Volumes Book Cafe), New Orleans, and New York City. Swipe through for details on each.

FRONTIER is a genre-bending meditation on childbirth, which begins in the delivery room and then opens up into a parallel narrative of a Wild West ghost story. Frontier blends memoir, fiction, and research into the fraught history of birth—from midwives to Victorian-era sedation through the Natural Childbirth Movement and modern L&D suites—to explore the transformations of motherhood.

See the link in our bio to pre-order.

05/22/2025

We're opening subs for the next print issue soon. Fiction is capped at 500 and always fills up first, so make sure you're ready with it

05/20/2025

We have a fun new online issue out today, inspired by Justice Alito's incredible question about whether Pornhub features writing by authors like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley. We didn't know what this sub call would lead to, but we were pleasantly surprised and occasionally shocked by what we received. This issue features 12 safe for work texts to read alongside whatever you may have open in those other tabs. Swipe for previews of a few of the pieces (and the public domain art we love alongside them). Full issue at the link in our bio or via the main page on our site.

03/29/2025

Some pics from our AWP reading in partnership with . Thanks to everyone who joined us despite the VERY last minute location change. Wish we could have had the whole BH team out there but next year we will be in Baltimore in full force.

03/28/2025

Turns out you can't get to the stairs! Meet us out by the main entrance at noon for a reading tomorrow. See the helpful arrow pointing out a sign as a landmark. Also look for a big clump of weirdos.

03/27/2025

AWP pals-- there are extremely limited issues of Barrelhouse 25 + stickers available at table 461 and/or in 's bag somewhere in the book fair. Come and get them so we don't have to carry them home!

03/20/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out to last night for our Issue 25 launch party! It was our first issue launch party in a long time and it felt great to see so many friends, old and new, out there to celebrate the work and our readers. Thanks to .spy for hosting, and to our readers: .jones.m

Here are several pictures that all look basically the same, and one that proves there were people in attendance.

03/17/2025

We officially launch Issue 25 at Tattooed Mom on Wednesday! Join us for readings, pierogis, literary community, and a celebration of indie lit. All hosted by .spy, while we old guy editors recede into the dark corners of the bar and look for a comfortable place to sit

03/08/2025

Mid-Atlantic Writer types! We're more than two thirds sold out for the Barrelhouse conference in DC on 4/12/25! Sign up now to save your spot for what's going to be a great day talking writing, editing, publishing. Our program includes craft workshops and panel discussions on blackout poems, ending poems, working with a large cast of characters, speculative nonfiction, book proposals, genre fiction, writing as resistance, what editors love, and lots more. Just $85 makes us the cheapest conference around and that includes a book, a 10 minute 1-on-1 workshop w an editor, more lit swag from our partner presses/magazines. Hope you'll join us! https://www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

03/03/2025

Though we don't have a table at , we are still hosting a (just barely) offsite reading, in partnership with the Rutgers-Camden MFA program, also including BH 25 contributor Weston Morrow and featuring BH poet Tracy Dimond. Although we are famously averse to events featuring this many readers, we promise nobody will go over 3 minutes. When you need a breather from the bookfair on Friday March 28, Come on outside and join us on the convention center steps, and we promise to keep you entertained and enthralled.

02/17/2025

Issue 25 launch party next month! Come out and hear some readings from the new issue, celebrate how old we're getting, and maybe even do some conversing and connecting, who knows.

This is the first issue launch party we've done in a while, would love to see all of our Philly friends turn up

02/15/2025

Issue 25 is available for pre-order right now, and we've got some previews up on the site, and also we got a little wistful thinking about how we've been doing this for 20 years, so here are some semi-random pics of the various permutations of the BH family over the years.

Also! We're doing an issue launch party on 3/19 at Tattooed Mom in Philly. More detail on that soon.

Previewed texts in order:

Dear Reader, by all of us
"The Australian Job" by Steve Himmer (NF)
"My Fingers" by Meiko Ko (F)
"Burning Down the Waffle House" by Danny Caine (P)

See link in bio to read them all and pre-order

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