The malarkey table is entirely writer-run. These guys loaded the books in, organized two readings, are running the table, promoting each others book’s and the books of the writers who can’t be at awp, and are keeping a spreadsheet so I can track everyone’s royalties. Amazing crew. Go visit them!
Deal of the century just dropped
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
It is the last day of the book fair and I hope everyone had/is having a great time and bought a lot of books, not just ours, but hopefully some of ours.
Test Literary Series Readings. Workshopping. Discussion. Next show 3/11 The Whistler 2421 N Milwaukee Ave Doors at 6, words at 6:30 Featuring: Chris Corlew Franklin Dandridge Thomas Holton
🌼 Test lineup for March! 🌼
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Malarkey Presents: Arepas With Prose 7pm Friday, March 6 AREPI Venezuelan Eats, 1616 Thames Street Featuring Alex Miller, Joey Hedger, Justin Bryant, Joshua Trent Brown, and Spencer Fleury. And delicious, delicious arepas.
Good morning #AWP! Need more details on tonight’s Malarkey Books event, Arepas With Prose? Well, here you go!
Anybody want a book
My book is out today. It’s nothing short of a dream come true. I hope you’ll read it.
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Free up your calendars on Friday for Arepas With Prose! 7 pm at AREPI Venezuelan Eats, featuring @joshuatrentbrown.com @alexmiller77.bsky.social @ossuary.bsky.social @spencerfleury.bsky.social @joeyhedger.bsky.social & @justinwriter.bsky.social!
I cut my LA work trip short in order to host this reading tonight. My flight landed at 5am this morning & I am a zombie. Please come to this reading and help give me life!
@lakemarkham.bsky.social / @ljabouttown.bsky.social / @martinezfjulian.bsky.social / @thecorlew.bsky.social
Friendly reminder I got laid off recently & want the bookstore to be my main job alongside Amanda. Spent the last week brainstorming how to make it happen.
Some cool things you could do to help:
-Buy books at @eveninghouse.bsky.social, in-person or online
-buy Boxcutters or Feast
-hype either
🍻🙏🫡
I wrote about on my favorite reading series in Chicago for Zona Motel, and, as a result, starting talking about the bustling literary scene in my city
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Books are set to arrive on @joshuatrentbrown.com’s doorstep next week. Just created shipping labels. The time is almost here. Big thanks to everyone who has preordered The Walls Are Closing In On Us. Big big thanks to everyone who is about to!
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I had the honor of doing my first class visit this week! The students had read my story "Biblical Errors." I'm grateful to have people engaging with it so deeply and thoughtfully three years after it was published. joylandpublishing.com/fiction/bibl...
Book marks with Malarkey Books written over a ton of books covers merged together
AWP folks: the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social table is gonna be #506. Come say hi, buy some books, meet some authors, grab one of these bookmarks I printed that has instructions on how to sign up for the 2026 book club!
AWP pricing activated on our website. What was $24 is on sale for $20, what $18 on sale for $15. Why not get on there and order, I don’t know, 50-100 books?
I've got a new story out in @variantlit.bsky.social called "The Gunshine State." It's kinda about hating your hometown from someone who kinda hates his hometown and kinda also loves it. Thanks so much to the editors for giving it a home!!! variantlit.com/the-gunshine...
Tonight!
Doors 👉 6
Words 👉 6:30
Jazz 👉 9
up now on @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I wrote about the New Masses call for working class writers
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Picture of Still Alive by LJ Pemberton, alongside a margin with the book and author title, plus the Dublin Literary Award logo of three parapets. Still Alive was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award in 2025 after being nominated by the DC Public Library System.
Happy Birthday, Still Alive!
Thank you, all you beautiful souls, who have helped this book find the right nightstand, book bag, and shelf to live in.
If you haven’t given the story of V a chance, get it today from @eveninghouse.bsky.social, @powells.bsky.social, or bookshop.org!
New newsletter out in the world. Kind of do hope it gets read at least a little bit.
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Title: Sick Sad Queer Author: Ly Faulk A plant goes through four stages of growth, with its bud a human face that grows bigger in each stage until it is full grown and crying, watering itself with its tears.
Preorder @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s book and you will also get a poetry EP by @lyfaulk.bsky.social.
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Engvall update.
Great day to order books from Malarkey (about to drop a lot of $$$ to get books to awp).
Hey that's me! If you haven't heard on any of my podcasts lately, I'll be reading my short story at Test next week. If you're in Chicago you should drop by!
I have been invited to read at the @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social / @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and friends AWP off-site reading. I'm absolutely honored. If you are free on Thursday March 5, 2026 at 7pm, come see this absolutely knockout roster of readers (and me) at Golden West Cafe
Received seven bookstore returns today, six copies of Backmask and one copy of It Came from the Swamp. All in good shape and now all on sale for just $13.
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
Test Literary Series Readings. Workshopping. Discussion. Next show 2/11 The Whistler 2421 N Milwaukee Ave Doors at 6, words at 6:30 Featuring: Ruby Ann Robison Adam Kaz Nora Blake
🌹 Test lineup for February! 🌹
whistlerchicago.com/events/test-...
The Worm Hole
Colchester, IL
About to spend a lot of money sending books to Baltimore for AWP and at the same time need to be able to front a print run for our next title. Every dollar that comes in is so so sweet.
Very happy to say that this year we’ll publishing poetry EPs (micro-collections, if you will) by Rachel King, Lotte Mitchell Reford, and Stephan Antoine Viau, @paulwrites7.bsky.social and @lyfaulk.bsky.social.
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