Barrelhouse

3 people standing in front of a booth and smiling

Day 1 of #AWP26 was great! Thank you to everyone who stopped by, and we look forward to new and familiar faces tomorrow.

Outdoor staircase

Flyer with mostly the same details as the post

Our barely offsite reading at AWP tomorrow is right here, on Pratt Street across from Pratt Ale House. Noon! Featuring @patrickcrerand.bsky.social & @mariannelchan.bsky.social

Outdoor staircase

Flyer with mostly the same details as the post

Our barely offsite reading at AWP tomorrow is right here, on Pratt Street across from Pratt Ale House. Noon! Featuring @patrickcrerand.bsky.social & @mariannelchan.bsky.social

Barrelhouse booth at awp

We are here to sell you books and shirts and more, table 1185 by the snack stand

Barrelhouse booth at awp

We are here to sell you books and shirts and more, table 1185 by the snack stand

BH editors setting up a whole thing

Should be easy to find @barrelhouse.bsky.social at AWP

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fake barrelhouse university "MFA degrees" to use as prizes at the Barrelhouse AWP conference booth

At @barrelhouse.bsky.social University we care about education, and that's why we will be conferring these MFA degrees next week to lucky wheel-spinning degree-seeking participants at Booth 1185 at the AWP Bookfair. The children are our future, even the poets.

So far, the 5 items drawing the most clicks:

* @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social’s “cheat sheet” for submitting to #litmags;
* @barrelhouse.bsky.social's current call;
* Brilliant Flash Fiction contest;
* Ox-Bow’s summer residency program;
* and my own re-upped post about PEN America.

Photo of Rose Metal Press books It All Felt Impossible and Fit Into Me as well as their 2026 catalog and new tote bags and sticky note booklets.

Come see us at the AWP Baltimore book fair next week at Table 639! We'll have ALL our books on sale, as well as new swag and tote bags! Check out all our author signings and panels here: icont.ac/51ev4

One week from today I’ll be here

Barrelhouse tshirts including Unreliable Narrator in black, Keep it Weird in green, and Fucking Poets, Man in black.

Writer nerds we have re-upped the @barrelhouse.bsky.social shirt supply for AWP, including the original, accept no substitutes FUCKING POETS MAN, the back in black UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, including kids sizes b/c kids are liars, and the foxbird/birdfox KEEP IT WEIRD. See you at Booth 1185 next week!

Woman with curly dark hair reclined in bed taking a selfie. Her tight black t-shirt reads, “Fucking Poets, Man.”

AWP in 2017, a hotel room in whatever city it was in, wish I hadn’t lost track of the shirt ❤️‍🔥

The shirt will almost certainly outlive all of our literary output

Excited to clothe a new generation of self-loathing poets

Black t with blowfish & text "unreliable narrator", green "keep it weird" shirt with fox bird thing, and the classic, never to be imitated "fucking poets, man"

New supply of shirts has arrived just in time for AWP

AWP OFFSITE READING w/ Luna Honey | Metro Baltimore – Metro Baltimore Metro Baltimore - Independent Live Music Venue - Baltimore, MD

Baltimore/AWP Offsite Reading

Saturday, March 7, 5:00 PM
The Metro / 1700 North Charles Street

Readings from:
Joe Sacksteder
David Leo Rice
Rachel Zavecz
Suzanne Gold
Tracy Dimond
Robert Kloss
Whitney Koo
MC Hyland
Erica Stern
Kate Wyer
Jen Dary

w/performance by Luna Honey

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1. Looking forward to the new issue.

2. Per the Barrelhouse newsletter I just read, wanted to note that my AWP Group Chat right now is mostly about plans to get to the aquarium.

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026! - SmokeLong Quarterly The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey) is now an annual competition that celebrates and compensates excellence in flash. Our first grand prize winner in 2018 was “Whale Fall” by ...

We're reading for the 2026 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. Prize pot: $4700. Be sure to read the previous years' issues before you enter. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

[opening my cover letter for my latest lit mag submission]

Issue 26 cover, by Michael Bargamian. Classy couple having a nice meal in front of a wildfire. It looks very cool.

Issue 26 table of contents and I'm sorry I'm not going to type all the names here, please just click the pre-order link for a full listing of all contributors

Issue 26 is available for pre-order! We'll have it in hand *just* in time for AWP, we think, and you can get your orders in now. Look at this lineup!
www.barrelhousemag.com/shop/p/pre-o...

beautiful, not remotely cluttered, flyer of laser cat highlighting our various things. Booth 1185 Wednesday, reading with some other presses at the United Methodist Church on Mt. Vernon Place, 7-10 Friday, Erica Stern book signing at 10 AM & Barely offsite reading at noon Saturday, Reading at Metro Gallery, 5-7

Hey here's all our essential AWP info. Come out and find us!

my #AWP itinerary:
* Thursday 10:35am: moderating “Is My Book Too Much? Publishing and Marketing Queasy Literature”
* hawking my book at the @sfwp.bsky.social table
* hawking other people’s books at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social table
* crab Cakes?
* reading at Sunday Salon on Friday at 6

This graphic is my best crack at capturing the @barrelhouse.bsky.social AWP booth energy. We will have an 8 ft banner with that rainbow eye cat, our signature spinning wheel, the original accept no substitutes Fucking Poets Man shirts, aliens, mothmen, cryptids, books, the new issue, and more.

beautiful, not remotely cluttered, flyer of laser cat highlighting our various things. Booth 1185 Wednesday, reading with some other presses at the United Methodist Church on Mt. Vernon Place, 7-10 Friday, Erica Stern book signing at 10 AM & Barely offsite reading at noon Saturday, Reading at Metro Gallery, 5-7

Hey here's all our essential AWP info. Come out and find us!

Barrelhouse table runner with Dirty Dancing "the lift" image.

Rolling out some upgrades to the @barrelhouse.bsky.social AWP booth experience this year.

Flyer promoting event with list of readers + the key info, Friday March 6 at noon on the convention center steps at 187 Pratt in Baltimore

Hey AWP pals come find us right outside the convention center (weather permitting) for a Barely Offsite reading featuring some of my very talented Rutgers-Camden MFA students + @patrickcrerand.bsky.social & @mariannelchan.bsky.social, in partnership w/ @barrelhouse.bsky.social

Book Tour for Spring 2026 - A pink graphic with dates and times for six upcoming events in Baltimore, Washington, DC, Charlottesville, Alexandria, VA, and at the Gaithersburg Book Festival and the Pittsburgh Book Festival.

I hope to see your beautiful face at one of my spring events!

first reading since 2021 & it's a big one, buddies. see you there?