Always Crashing, Barrelhouse + Meekling Press Present:

AWP OFFSITE READING

Saturday, March 7, 2026

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

21+

Join Always Crashing, Barrelhouse, and Meekling Press for an AWP Offsite Reading, featuring
a special performance by the experimental dark rock trio Luna Honey.

Always Crashing:

Always Crashing is a magazine of fiction, poetry, and nameless things around and in-between. They are headquartered in Chicago and Durham, NC.

Barrelhouse:

Barrelhouse is a biannual print journal featuring fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays about music, art, and the detritus of popular culture. Barrelhouse is also a web site that regularly posts new short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, book reviews, and other literary things.

Barrelhouse is also a small press that puts out roughly two books a year.

Meekling Press:

Meekling Press is a small press, based in Chicago, Illinois. They specialize in small, hand-made editions of books by authors they adore.

Luna Honey:

Luna Honey is an experimental dark rock trio consisting of the core of Maura Pond, Benjamin Schurr, and Levi Flack. Recording and mixing mostly in their homes, the trio has total freedom in the studio, often trading instruments and experimenting with unconventional instruments such as pitch shifted harmonica, marxophone, prepared piano, kazoo, and unloved vintage drum machines

Readers:

Joe Sacksteder

David Leo Rice

Rachel Zavecz

Tracy Dimond

Daisuke Shen

Whitney Koo

MC Hyland

Erika Stern

Kate Wyer

Jen Dary