Join us for A Night of Malarkey! You will hear a plentitude of writers from the DMV and further afield reading short excerpts from their books published by Malarkey. We are featuring Joshua Trent Brown, whose novel The Walls Are Closing In On Us was just published. Come on over for this fiction festival!

Featured Malarkey Authors

Joshua Trent Brown is a writer from a small town in North Carolina that you've never heard of. His debut novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, was recently published by Malarkey Books. You can buy it from them, or pretty much anywhere else. He's working on another book too, if you like this first one. If you want to know more about him, visit joshuatrentbrown.com.

Austin Ross is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. He is the author of the novel Gloria Patri and is a senior editor with HarperCollins, where he acquires and develops a wide variety of both fiction and nonfiction titles. His fiction and essays have been featured in Publishers Weekly, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. He co-wrote the adaptation of his story "The Man for the Job," the short film version of which is currently making its way through the film festival circuit. He is a frequent speaker at writers' conferences around the country and is an alumnus of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Austin lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife and children.

Joey Hedger is author of the novel Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books) and the novella In the Line of a Hurricane, We Wait (Red Bird Chapbooks). He lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and his writing can be found at www.joeyhedger.com.

Benjamin Warner is the author of the novels Thirst (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Fearless (Malarkey Books, 2023). His textbook Speculative Fiction: A User's Guide and Anthology, written with Ron Tanner, was just released from Bloomsbury Academic. He's a Teaching Professor in Towson University's English Department.

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