AHH! - About After Happy Hour

The Hour After Happy Hour was founded in October 2013 by a group of creative writers who met in the basement of the Big Idea Bookstore every other week to encourage each other’s craft. We would read each other’s work and then head to a nearby bar to commiserate and chat about writing, TV, and other nonsense. Soon the group grew in ranks from three to five, to often over twenty attendees. As our group grew, the idea occurred to us that we’d like to publish some pieces from our workshop alongside local and national writers. Out of our humble writing community, the After Happy Hour Review was born.

In the summer of 2019, after four years and 11 issues, the journal separated from the Hour After Happy Hour workshop. The new editors are mostly members of the Rahnd Table workshop, which has been meeting for some 7 years in the same Pittsburgh neighborhood as the Hour After Happy Hour, sporadically hosting readings and other events around the city.

The journal was re-launched in October 2019 with the shortened name After Happy Hour. We continue to push beyond our boundaries, geographically and literarily, while staying true to our roots as a writing group and community, priding ourselves on our personal touch and often working with our contributors to improve work we really, really like into work we absolutely love.

a freelance ghostwriter and fiction writer. Their short fiction has been published most recently in The Arcanist Monster Flash Fiction Anthology, Geek Out! II, and HOOT!. A musician in a former life, they hold a B.M. in saxophone performance from BGSU and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Chatham University. They write speculative fiction with a literary bent, and have weirdly strong opinions about genre.

the author of Hungry—a novel of sex, drugs, and cannibalism—and Post, a dystopian novella published by Running Wild Press. He holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh @ Johnstown, and has been in the food service industry entirely too long.