Be sure to meet us upstairs at Wonderland Ballroom tomorrow night for Barrelhouse Presents…Dzanc Books: A Reading by Jeff Parker and Dave Housley.

Our recently started a monthly reading series is coming out hot. The series showcases readers representing literary magazines and small presses we love, bringing new voices to the DC scene and introducing you to the best that indie lit has to offer.

Jeff Parker is the author of the story collection The Taste of Penny (Dzanc) and the novel Ovenman (Tin House). His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in American Short Fiction, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Walrus, and others. He co-edited Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (Tin House) and teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto.

Dave Housley is the author of Ryan Seacrest is Famous, a collection of short fiction that got called “hilarious” sometimes, and also “consistently engrossing, entertaining, and exciting,” and some other nice stuff. His work has been published in Columbia, Nerve, Sycamore Review, and some other places. His story “Pop Star Dead at 22″ was included in Dzanc’s Best of the Web 2010 anthology. He also happens to be an editor of Barrelhouse.

Our schedule through the fall is as follows:

July 22 – Dzanc Books

August 19 - Big Lucks

September 18 – Moon Milk Review (at the Black Squirrel)

October 14 – Artifice

November 11th - Rose Metal Press and Open Letters

December 11 - SUPERMACHINE

But there’s more! Way more! Next Monday at 7pm, Barrelhouse rolls into NYC for a reading at KGB Bar featuring Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz and Rebekah Sankey. Boom shaka-laka!

Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is a New York City-based poet and author. Founder and host of the three-time National Poetry Slam Championship venue, NYC-Urbana, Cristin is the author of five books of poetry, including Everything is Everything (Write Bloody Press, 2010).

Rebekah Sankey recently earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems appear in Barrelhouse Issue 8. She is a co-editor of Growler.

We’re not done yet. One week from today, at 7 pm on July 28th Barrelhouse will be in Chicago to team up with Rose Metal Press for a reading at Open Books.

James Tadd Adcox is the editor of Artifice Magazine. He has work published or forthcoming in Quick Fiction, Makeout Creek, The Literary Review, the delinquent, and Bateau. He lives in Chicago.

Mary Hamilton is a writer, teacher and optician living in Chicago where she is also the co-host and co-founder of the QUICKIES! Reading Series. Her work has been published by Smokelong, StoryGlossia, Pindeldyboz, Eclectica, and Thieves Jargon, among others, and has been included in the Best of the Web anthology. She blogs about inspirational sports movies at inspirationalsportsmovies.blogspot.comand her chapbook We Know What We Are will be released this month from Rose Metal Press.

Philip Jenks was born in North Carolina and grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia. He got his BA from Reed College, MA from Boston University, and PhD from University of Kentucky. He thoroughly enjoys writing collaborative poems with Simone Muench. They have written a chapbook of epistolary poems. Their work forthcoming in Canarium, Cannibal, Zoland, MoonLit, and elsewhere. Flood Editions published his first volume of poems in 2002, On the Cave You Live In and a second volume of poems, My First Painting will be The Accuser was published by Zephyr Press (2005). He has two chapbooks – The Elms Left Elm Street (Plane Bukt, 1994) and How Many of You Are You? (Dusie, 2006).

Tim Jones-Yelvington lives and writes in Chicago. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine, Sleepingfish, Annalemma, and many others. His short fiction chapbook, “Evan’s House and the Other Boys who Live There” is forthcoming in They Could No Longer Contain Themselves, a multi-author volume from Rose Metal Press.

Simone Muench is the author of The Air Lost in Breathing (Marianne Moore Poetry Prize; Helicon Nine, 2000), Lampblack & Ash (Kathryn A. Morton Prize; Sarabande, 2005), Orange Crush (Sarabande, 2010) and the forthcoming Disappearing Address, co-written with Philip Jenks (BlazeVOX, 2010). She directs Lewis University’s writing program where she teaches creative writing and film studies. She is an editor for Sharkforum and a 2009 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship recipient.