Doing our best to figure out how Christmas works without my mother-in-law. She wrapped presents in secret until 2 am while watching White Christmas. I just yelled “NOBODY BOTHER ME” and descended to the basement with wrapping paper, bourbon, and a murder podcast. We’ll get there.

Every teenager feels like an alien. Some are – THE GREYS - New Release from Becky Barnard Becky Barnard, Dave Housley @housleydave & Pandamoon Publishing Pandamoon Publishing – #syfy #AlienInvasion #ComingOfAge #humor -#BookTwitter - amazon.com/dp/B09QY23DKW/

And, of course, a bargain-rate $700 for the gold pendant.

I plan to spend AWP on a 4-day darkness retreat, not hydrating and eating $15 generic conference center sandwiches as I weigh re-upping as whatever I am at Barrelhouse vs quarterbacking for Green Bay. All hail the triangle. 🔼

March 1 is the application deadline for Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships for academic year 2023-2024. Poetry & Fiction. 40k, health insurance, and a wonderful, supportive CW community at UW–Madison! ❤️ wicw.submittable.com/submit

All true! Barrelhouse puts on a great, unpretentious gathering--great for connecting with others and getting new angles on your writing.

Applications are open for Barrelhouse Writer Camp, a short writing retreat in central PA! Designed for all genres and experience levels, #writercamp is a mini-vacation with meals, campfires, creeks, and conversation included. Learn more and apply at writer-camp.com.

It's only the greatest, most convenient, chillest, friendliest, most productive, most Swayze-intensive writing retreat east of the mississippi

Fun fact: There's at least one person who's attended Barrelhouse Writer Camp at every single write-in, and often more! Drop by, ask all the questions. (Maybe write, too?) Fridays at 3pm Eastern, Sundays at 1pm Eastern. Full write-in details: barrelhousemag.com/writeins

"the heart of the ship, the heart of the ship, You are working in the heart of the ship." Read the whole beautiful thing: barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/yel…

I had such a great conversation with an editor Barrelhouse Writer Camp that revived my novel PLUS there’s fireworks. 🎇 And a crescent roll treat made over the fire by the proprietor you won’t want to miss. Also you get to say “I carried a watermelon” and then DANCE.

I got to preview this issue while loading it on the website and folks: there was an inordinate amount of impressed cussing and staring off into middle distance while I did so. Fantastic editing, @kbcarle!

Mind = blown by this talk on using design thinking in your drafting. Sh*t like this is why Barrelhouse #CCDC23 is the best!

Reckon there’s two days left to sign up for this. If you’ve got something you’ve hit a wall on, or are just plain sick of hitting walls—we’re gonna give you dynamite.