It's great to see that #BarnGothic, my upcoming memoir about the dairy industry (November 13th), is listed in @foodtank.bsky.social's Fall Recommended Reads!

foodtank.com/news/2025/10...

Two months left to enter the 2025 Best in Rural Writing Contest!

In partnership with @dailyyonder.bsky.social and judged by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social, the #writingcontest is accepting fiction and nonfiction under 7,000 words.

Deadline: September 15th

To enter: themilkhouse.org/contest

Recently we concluded our 10-day creatives retreat in Doolin, Ireland with 28 participants from the US and Canada. We had tracts in writing, art and photography.

And most of all, we had a good time.

DM me if interested in the Irish retreat for Summer 2026.

#writingretreat

The Milk House is excited to announce the 3rd annual #BestinRuralWriting Contest, judged by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social.

Fiction and nonfiction.

Deadline: Sept 15th, 2025.

Prize pool: $700.

Finalists published in the 2026 Best in Rural Writing print anthology.

To enter: themilkhouse.org/contest

After five years of sweat, tears and elbow grease, I'm happy to announce that my memoir, #BarnGothic, will be published by @islandpress.bsky.social on November 13th, 2025.

It's a book that I owed my family and other farmers like them.

Certainly a publisher worth supporting!

This week on The Milk House: Billie Pritchett explores the implications of growing among the rural poor.

Read his essay "Dirty Laundry."

www.themilkhouse.org/dirty-laundr...

It's this Sunday! Significantly improve your dialogue by learning these simple but essential edits.

Sunday, April 13th, 6pm GMT/ 1pm EST

Sign up here: www.themilkhouse.org/product/bett...

#writingclasses #writingdialogue #onlinewritingclasses

For adults and youth alike who have faltered on their paths to what they want, there's no better book as a companion than #solobook by @grainneobrien.bsky.social.

I hear there's still signed copies available: www.kennys.ie/shop/solo-gr...

The Beasts They Turned Away by @penofryandennis.bsky.social

‘A novel like no other…Half mad, wholly inspired and completely brilliant’

Available from your local bookshop, as ePub, audio or direct from us.

www.epoquepress.com/online-store...

#epoquepresstitles #epoquepressauthors

The postman just made my spring better.

Looking forward to tucking into Saltburn by @drewgum.bsky.social. Based on his other work, it's going to be a book like not other.

haywoodbooks.com/saltburn

The first 2-hour #writingseminar from @TheMilkHouse
in 2025 is announced:

The Ol' He Said, She Said: How to Write Stronger Dialogue

April 13th, 2025 6pm GMT/ 1pm EST

$15/€15 (free for WRITER or SUPPORTER subscribers)

More info/Register here: www.themilkhouse.org/product/bett...