Welcome to Barnstorm.

We are a literary journal.
We publish written and visual artwork that is playful, takes risks, and harnesses energy.

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Volume 17: The November Issue

Featuring writing by: Jamie Harrison, Cary Kinross-Wright, and Theodora Ziolkowski

And art by: Edward Michael Supranowicz, Jean Wolff, Jamie Harrison, and Sean Ewing

Read Vol. 17 Here

Featured artwork: “Bad Hair Day” by Sean Ewing

“All summer long, the atmosphere pulses with the sense that anything, at any point, can happen. I love the island for this reason.”

—Theodora Ziolkowski, “Galveston”

Volume 17, Issue 2

Featured artwork: “Twister” by Jean Wolff

“Perhaps I have a faulty circuit in my brain, but suddenly the most urgent thing was to explore, to find an adventure; something that would allow me to ignore the state of my marriage.”

— Cary Kinross-Wright, “Finding Alice”
Volume 17, Issue 2

Featured artwork: “As Close to Living as I Could Suffer” by Jamie Harrison

“Give me swill, give me

dirt between my follicles, give me sand

from your eye”

—Jamie Harrison, “Fatherhood”

Volume 17, Issue 2