After Happy Hour Review will celebrate its forthcoming issue at Glitter Box Theater on May 3!
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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) !
2018 Pushcart Nominations
After Happy Hour review nominates six pieces for the 2018 Pushcart Prize
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 […]
Best of Net 2017 Nominations
After Happy Hour Review nominates fiction, nonfiction and poetry for Sundress’s 2017 Best of Net anthology.
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 […]
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 […]
Interview: Sherrie Flick on Flash Fiction
Jason Peck interviews author Sherrie Flick about crafting and defining flash fiction.
From The Archives: An Interview With Bill Wolak
Open any issue of After Happy Hour Review; odds are you’ll stumble across at least one piece by Bill Wolak. For today’s From the Archives, Bill shares his thoughts – along with several never-before-published collages. AHHR: So tell us about your background. How did you get started as an artist? Bill Wolak: I started out […]
Review: Josh Barkan’s “Mexico: Stories” – Hardboiled and Human
Jason Peck reviews Josh Barkan’s newest short story collection, Mexico, published by Hogarth/Crown. Describes it as memorable and believable.
