The editors had a blast last weekend sharing our newest print issue with the world and meeting friends old and new! If you haven’t had a chance yet to pick up the “Animals” contest issue, you can head on over to our Square store to snag a copy (or you can get a bundle of all 3 contest issues so…
Best New Poet Nominations
Congratulations to After Happy Hour‘s nominees for this year’s Best New Poets anthology: Rhiannon Briggs for “what my mother does for a living” (Issue 21, Fall/Winter 2023) Cory Henniges for “A woman, whole” (Issue 20, Summer 2023) …good luck to both poets, the AHH editor crew is rooting for them to get included in the anthology! And if you haven’t…
Winners of the 2023 After Happy Hour contest
With all of the fantastic work submitted to us for this year’s contest, it was harder than usual to pick the prize winners! We got a lot of pieces the editors were excited about, and it took some spirited debate before we came to a consensus. Ultimately, we decided to have 2 top winners, one each in poetry and prose,…
Submissions Open Through 4/30 (and Transparency Stats from our Animals contest)
If you have something you think would be perfect for After Happy Hour, now’s your time to send it! Submissions are open now through April 30th for our Summer 2024 online issue. This issue is un-themed and open to work in any and all genres and styles. Head to our Submittable page to see genre guidelines and send your work.…
2023 Pushcart Prize Nominees
We love everything we publish in our issues of After Happy Hour (obviously–that’s why we publish it!) so it’s always hard to pick just 6 pieces to nominate for every year’s Pushcart Prize. After much deliberation and debate, though, we are thrilled to announce our nominees from 2023: From Issue 20 (summer 2023): “Memory of a Fish” by David Coyle“A…
Wishlists and Hard Sells for the Contest Reading Period
Submissions are now open for our 3rd annual After Happy Hour Contest! This year’s theme is “Animals” and it has the same percentage-based prize system as previous years. You can see the full details and send along your work on our Submittable page. Before you do, though, the editors thought it would be nice to give a bit more guidance…
Stats and Graphs from After Happy Hour’s Submittable
One of the neat backend features of Submittable is that it shows stats and graphs about the submissions we’ve gotten. I always like looking at these as an editor, and it occurred to me that they might be just as interesting for folks who are interested in the journal. To date, After Happy Hour has gotten more than 14,000 submissions…
2023 Best of the Net Nominations
It’s that time of year again: Prize nomination season! We love everything we publish and it’s always hard to pick just a handful to send along for consideration in the Best of the Net anthology. Our goal is always to choose the works we feel have the best chance of being picked (because winning is awesome and we’d love for…
Issue 20 Launch 8/8
It’s the second half of summer and that means a new issue of After Happy Hour will be coming your way soon! Issue 20 will launch Tuesday, August 8th, and as usual we’ll be having a Zoom reading to celebrate. Join us at 7pm Eastern time to hear readings from Issue 20 contributors, as well as those from our most…
Review: All We Could Have Been and More by Joshua Shaw
Sometimes, reading submissions for After Happy Hour, it takes a few passes through a story to decide if it’s a good fit for the journal. That wasn’t the case for Joshua Shaw’s “The Knight of Faith”. I knew that I wanted to publish it just about from the first page, and that feeling only intensified by the time I reached…
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