Barrelhouse

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

11/14/2025

Pushcart nominees!

10/24/2025

We are open for subs for a special online issue edited by and his class at . Go to our site and click submit for full details

10/03/2025

Mid-Atlantic writers, we are returning to on April 18, and we hope to see you there. Full lineup, registration, and other details soon. If you work with a small press and are interested in getting involved, let us know (maybe just let .housley know)

08/10/2025

Best of the Net nominees!

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

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