Yesterday @astrolabe.ooo materialized a little further out into the darkness with eight amazing new pieces of prose, poetry, and art. It's our eleventh time around, which is pretty amazing to reflect on... and it'll be three years come this winter!

Thrilled to have a new little prose poem floating around over at @astrolabe.ooo (and they *happen* to be open for submissions)!

With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning. Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker. astrolabe.ooo

My book got its first blurb in. My first ever blurb! All those kind words on the cover of my book? Just wild. Floating on this new kind of joy.

It's August, which means release month for FEAST, my horror adventure novel about a kaiju Hobbes' Leviathan, the sea-stranded devoured souls surviving inside its belly and their rebellion against the beast + the cult that feeds it to sustain an astral Atlantis eveninghousebooks.com/product/feas...

Summer 2025 is here. We have 12 amazing pieces for you to read, share, and enjoy! https:/www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twentyfour

Grateful for this today: the girls, covered in dust, leading me on another small adventure in another beautiful place.

PRE-ORDERS OPEN NOW! Excited as all hell my debut collection is finally coming out! I hope you get it!

Each day this week, I’m sharing why I loved one of the pieces we published last week on @astrolabe.ooo as part of the Retrograde.

Once again @astrolabe.ooo gets wider and weirder and more beautiful. Grateful for everyone who's read, submitted, and published with us, or sent us little messages to say they like what we're doing and to keep going; we're going to keep going.

These are bad days. If you have anything that will help us through them, please send it along. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

I'm excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book! Thanks to @blacklawrence.bsky.social and the Zoe Norvell for the cover design and Brooke Sauer for the cover art. You can pre-order now! blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-ea...

Since I offered some free query edits recently, I figured I should take a moment and talk about what I suggest and why! "I'm delighted to present you with my novel [TITLE], a [WORD COUNT] [GENRE] which will appeal to fans of [BOOK ONE] for [THESE REASONS] and [BOOK TWO] for [THESE REASONS]."

Having spent many hours working on @astrolabe.ooo over the weekend (reading; building proofs; building a v2 that's gonna be sweet), news like this makes it all worthwhile & then some. Congratulations, Joshua!

IKYMI: I had a micro in Ghost Parachute about what happens when the doctors can't figure out what's wrong with you. ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...

A year ago today @havehashad.com published my verbless fairy tale "The Papermoon" and it remains one of the pieces I'm most-most-most proud of. Fairy tale is form is forever. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

Story #3 in FF#25 is "Mouth, Wormhole, Window" by @joelhans.com. It's a gorgeous and inventively written story about the fear that's part and parcel of parenthood.

I have a new short story up today in @fusionfragment.bsky.social‬ #25! Daughters and childhood games and a hole that stirs at the back of the woods, which swallows up a nest of pyrrhuloxias and maybe a whole lot more. And just look at this cover+TOC!! www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/

So excited to be in Fusion Fragment again with this amazing group of writers! Get yer free weird fiction and scifi (or hey, if you can, maybe pay a lil bit too) right hereeee 👇

We're shimmering at the sight of two Astrolabe stories on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2025 Longlist—congrats to @shakieranthem.bsky.social and Amelia K., whose work both live within the Errants asterism!

I have a new short story up today in @fusionfragment.bsky.social‬ #25! Daughters and childhood games and a hole that stirs at the back of the woods, which swallows up a nest of pyrrhuloxias and maybe a whole lot more. And just look at this cover+TOC!! www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/

Day 3 Archive Challenge! @smokelong.bsky.social . Read this beautifully layered and tender story by @joelhans.com in @gonelawn.bsky.social! Striking artwork by Kathleen Frank. gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

I've learned just today that my Story story was listed as notable in Best American Short Stories 2024?!? What a truly unexpected joy.

I've learned just today that my Story story was listed as notable in Best American Short Stories 2024?!? What a truly unexpected joy.

"...how surprised we are to find that when tossed into the air, you fall just as we do. You are full of falling. You fall like you are filled with the opposite of hummingbirds. We love how you fall, how you bleed: down as do our wounds." Some mornings, you stumble into profundity like this.

To get you started with ideas for our theme of 10, we've gathered links to some previous #NFFR stories. Read #flashfiction with numbers or counting from @joelhans.com @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social @christinamilletti.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/call-for-sub...

Wrote yet another query letter for yet another book today. Terrified because I still don't know what I'm doing with these or if this new book is turning into anything decent. Happy because I have found myself still trying.

I'm the one who's honored to be a part of the amazing work @hexliterary.bsky.social is putting into the world. 🥰🌋

it's an honor to collaborate with founding editor Kate Bernheimer on the next issue of Fairy Tale Review. Submissions will be accepted until July 15. Learn more here: www.fairytalereview.com/submit/

“It’s kind of exhausting maintaining everything I have going on, which isn’t that much, but even without ambitions you still have to go and be whoever it is you’ve been for however long you’ve been alive.” So excited to have this new #flashfiction in Variant Lit. variantlit.com/sparrows-wor...

Delighted to see my slightly silly, slightly cynical, slightly off-the-wall micro in the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flood! Please join me in becoming Horatio... 🙂🙃

NFFD NZ Festival of Flash reading! Featuring authors from the 2024 Best Small Fictions anthology! Avitus B. Carle Claudia Monpere Gillian O’Shaughnessy Joel Hans Loren Maria Guay Mikki Aronoff Robert Scotellero - read by Jeff Friedman Will Musgrove Hosted by me!

For Father's Day, my story in @flashfrog.bsky.social about my daughter's bedtime routine gone strange and off-worldly but no less beloved, a story in which I tried to sum up what fatherhood means to me so far: flash-frog.com/2023/12/25/t...

Alright because of @writesloud.bsky.social I'm thinking of running a new generative horror writing class in the next few months. Is there interest? Would try to keep costs low (maybe 50$ for the class and $100 if you want in-depth feedback on what you write in it?)

For Father's Day, my story in @flashfrog.bsky.social about my daughter's bedtime routine gone strange and off-worldly but no less beloved, a story in which I tried to sum up what fatherhood means to me so far: flash-frog.com/2023/12/25/t...

Issue 21 is here! ✨️ variantlit.com/issue-twenty...

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Had the rare treat of joining an amazing group of authors this morning for a reading of our Best Small Fictions 2024 stories. I really enjoyed reconnecting with this story despite how much I genuinely struggled through all the weird contractions and mixed-up time logic.

Your officially official FF#25 TOC, coming soon: Phoebe Billups, @jaqevans.com, Anna Ziegelhof, @tonydunnell.bsky.social, @joelhans.com, @suchnadine.bsky.social, @czwrites.bsky.social, @davidcleden.bsky.social, and @marisca.bsky.social, with art by @almosthomefree.bsky.social!

took mabel on a bike ride this morning / even just after 9am it was already too hot / oh no summer really is here

I have a new speculative, climate story and interview in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. I hope you check it out! As always, thank you also to @smokelong.bsky.social for being my ride-or-die. And thank you to @lunchontuesday.bsky.social who discombobulated my brain enough to shake this story loose!

Ridiculous how much I wish I had something finished to send in for this. But hopefully you do!!

Congratulations, @joelhans.com!🎉💙📚

Claire and I have found a word we now use all the time in our conversations because we find it equally relevant to our hobbies, gardening in and writing about the desert, respectively: desiccate.

the time needed Franz Kafka, 'The Next Village', tr Willa and Edwin Muir

Just hit halfway through this second draft of novel attempt number... well, I've forgotten how many of these milestones have come and gone, but glad they still come and go at all.

so glad to be back in Lost Balloon. this mag feels like home 🛸

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write.

Built myself a new and simpler website that screams THERE'S A BOOK HERE EH? Plus a refreshed list of the stories I've published, which always, much to my delight, is more than I remember having published. joelhans.com