Barrelhouse

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Barrelhouse is a literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, essays, reviews, and other work with a pop-cultural and offbeat sensibility.

Response time info: about six months

Read the full guidelines at barrelhousemag.com↗

Submission calls

nonfictionLiteraryPays: Unpaid

Book reviews are open on an ongoing basis for books that fit Barrelhouse's sensibility. Submissions are accepted through Submittable; book reviews are unpaid.

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Original personal essays under 1,000 words on a pop-cultural obsession are currently open for the monthly newsletter. Submissions are accepted through Submittable.

fictionLiterary

Online issue submissions are not currently open. Online issues have their own guidelines; general guidelines state there is no maximum length, although Barrelhouse tends to publish work shorter than 8,000 words, and contributors receive $50 and two contributor copies.

fictionLiterary

Print issue submissions are not currently open. General guidelines state there is no maximum length, although Barrelhouse tends to publish work shorter than 8,000 words; print and online contributors receive $50 and two contributor copies.

nonfictionLiterary

Online issue submissions are not currently open. Online issues have their own guidelines; general guidelines state there is no maximum length, although Barrelhouse tends to publish work shorter than 8,000 words, and contributors receive $50 and two contributor copies.

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Print issue submissions are not currently open. General guidelines state there is no maximum length, although Barrelhouse tends to publish work shorter than 8,000 words; print and online contributors receive $50 and two contributor copies.

poetryLiterary

Online issue submissions are not currently open. Online issues have their own guidelines; up to five poems may be submitted in a single document, and contributors receive $50 and two contributor copies.

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Print issue submissions are not currently open. Up to five poems may be submitted in a single document; print and online contributors receive $50 and two contributor copies.

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