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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
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One week from today I’ll be here
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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!
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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 ❤️🔥
24.02.2026 23:27 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The shirt will almost certainly outlive all of our literary output
25.02.2026 03:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excited to clothe a new generation of self-loathing poets
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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
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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.
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...
19.02.2026 18:40 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0[opening my cover letter for my latest lit mag submission]
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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!
21.02.2026 16:12 — 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2
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.
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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!
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Barrelhouse table runner with Dirty Dancing "the lift" image.
Rolling out some upgrades to the @barrelhouse.bsky.social AWP booth experience this year.
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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
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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!
17.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0first reading since 2021 & it's a big one, buddies. see you there?
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Writer Camp is open for applications! This year we'll be camping June 25-28 and Aug 5-Aug 9. Affordable, fun, supportive gathering for people who want to write and hang with other writers, and maybe watch some movies at night &maybe play laser tag if it's raining
www.barrelhousemag.com/writer-camp
New call for submissions from @barrelhouse.bsky.social: The Aftermath. We're looking for fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art about what happens AFTER the big story is over and life goes back to "normal" (or whatever counts as "normal"). More details here:
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Barrelhouse Online @barrelhouse.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
16.02.2026 20:40 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0New online issue is open for subs. A lot going on here these days.
16.02.2026 16:47 — 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0Applications are open for @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writer Camp, the greatest place on earth. No schedule or pressure, just writing and hanging out and movies and campfires and creek beers and hammock naps. Maybe throw in a dance party and a bus full of baby goats. www.barrelhousemag.com/writer-camp
16.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Also, there is a goat bus, which is actually more or less what you'd expect it to be
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Writer Camp is open for applications! This year we'll be camping June 25-28 and Aug 5-Aug 9. Affordable, fun, supportive gathering for people who want to write and hang with other writers, and maybe watch some movies at night &maybe play laser tag if it's raining
www.barrelhousemag.com/writer-camp
oh yeah, I loved the Nine Lives of Augustus Gloop, best book I've ever read about making candy
13.02.2026 15:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Another good tip is to get good at lying to Sam, specifically
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