After Happy Hour @AHHjournal
A mostly online and now annual print lit journal with a taste for bold writing from all voices in all genres. afterhappyhourreview.com Pittsburgh, PA Joined September 2019-
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We've extended the deadline for our reprints issue until 2/28! If you have things published in now-dead journals and want to find them a new home, send 'em our way (and still 2 days to send food-themes unpublished work for our annual contest, too!)
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We're down to the final two weeks of the reading period for our 4th annual contest! Theme is food, deadline 1/31, full details on our website: afterhappyhourreview.com/Submissions.ht…
The new Summer 2024 issue of After Happy Hour is now out and free for your reading pleasure! Find it here: afterhappyhourreview.com/Issues.html
Contest issue #3 is officially launched! You can pick it up at the Greater Pittsburgh Book Fest today or on our website!
Congrats to this year's Best New Poet nominees, Rhiannon Briggs and Cory Henniges! You can check out their poems in Issue 21 and Issue 20 respectively (and hopefully in the future in the BPN anthology!)
Stoked to announce this year's contest results! Congrats to winners Abigail Rose and Isibéal Owens, and Honorable Mentions Allison Burris, Marcia Hurlow, and Danielle Sherman. Check out the full short list and pieces on our blog: thehourafterhappyhour.wordpress.com/2024/03/17/win…
3 days left to submit your animal-themed wordthings to this year's AHH contest! Prize pool's currently sitting pretty at around $725 and it'll only go up the more folks submit.
Saturday sale time at AWP! All AHH print issues are $5 today at table 1036 (or you can add one on free to any Scribble House or Last Picked purchase).
Ready for day 2 of AWP! Table T1036, we have free candy (also books, but we won't judge if you just come for the candy)
It's launch day for AHH Issue 21! You can check out the latest issue on our website (and there's some bonus readings and author/artist interviews to take a gander at, too!): afterhappyhourreview.com/Issues.html
It's that time of year again: Pushcart Prize nomination season! Congrats and good luck to David Coyle, @CoryHenniges, Morgan Musselman, @KaitQuinnPoetry, @KaseybWriter, and Jay Randall. You can see the nominated works on our blog: thehourafterhappyhour.wordpress.com/2023/11/25/202…
Best of the Net nominations are in! You can see the nominated works on our blog: thehourafterhappyhour.wordpress.com/2023/09/23/202… congrats and good luck to @lynn_bern, Caitlin Brady, @cbratbyrudd, Ian Powell-Palm, Gary Sokolow, @sasco2010, @guiseppegetto and @festivelobster!
Issue 20 Zoom launch reading starts in an hour-ish. Come hang aht if you'd like some lit to liven up your Tuesday night! Zoom room link is in the linked blog post thehourafterhappyhour.wordpress.com/2023/07/25/iss…
We're here bright and early at the Wildcat Lit Fest, stop by and say hey if you're also spending this rainy Saturday in Franklin PA!
Submissions are officially open again and we're stoked to read what yinz send us! Send your work by August 31 to have it considered for Issue 21 (fall/winter 2023). afterhappyhourreview.submittable.com/submit
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🖐️7 PM ET TONIGHT🖐️ AHH ISSUE 18 LAUNCH us02web.zoom.us/j/81288964481 feat. Bruce Barrow Laura Brun Guiseppe Getto Gunilla Kester Essie Martin facebook.com/events/1581277…
"OOPS! All Genre" contest submissions are now open. afterhappyhourreview.com/Submissions.ht…
us02web.zoom.us/j/5165783437 Join us online for our issue launch at 7pm, I know you're not doing anything that important, may as well hear some writing and lively conversation afterwards
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