We’re back! And there’s been some ch-ch-changes…

Followers of After Happy Hour may have noticed our conspicuous silence over the past few months. The truth is, as we passed our 10-issue mark, we realized it was time to think carefully about our future as a journal. The After Happy Hour Review was founded as a labor of love by members of the Hour After Happy Hour workshop.…

Mike Lambert and Charlie Brown emcee

Scenes and Sounds from Glitterbox Theater

Listen to words from our Fall Release Party at Glitter Box Theater. Check out photograpy from the event (generously donated by Mindy Mastruserio/Aether Erebus Photography) !

Life After Lit Mag: Interview with former Bartleby Snopes Editor Nathaniel Tower

What is the best indie lit mag? If you said Bartleby Snopes for the past 6 years, few would object. From its humble beginnings in 2010, editor Nathaniel Tower built a new kind of journal that responded quickly, interacted personally, and gave voice to a new breed of writing outside of the literary mainstream. But last year, Tower retired from…

Cover of Gay Zoo Day by Mike McClelland

New Twist on an Old Genre – Mike McClelland’s “Gay Zoo Day”

Gay Zoo Day: Tales of Seeking and Discovery. By Mike McClelland, Beautiful Dreamer Press, 2017. It must be said that Mike McClelland’s debut novel “Gay Zoo Day” features some more “typical” literary fiction. In the opening story, a protagonist settles down in South Africa for a summer, and takes in the baggage of that country’s history. In the titular story…

In Search of Chuck Strangward, and the Best Flash Fiction Story You’ve Never Read

By Jason Peck My favorite work of flash fiction comes from a former postal worker in Georgia that no one’s heard of, who skipped his MFA and has more online writing credits regarding agricultural than he does for his fiction. Chuck Strangward is not famous, but not in the sense that we should be ashamed of his anonymity. He is…