Joel Hans
@joelhans.com
Author of THE BEDTIME EMPTYING OF OUR WORLD (Feb 2026, Moon City Press + Short Fiction Award)
Forever writing fairy tales in speculative/weird/SFesque disguises.
Dad-ing.
Materializing @astrolabe.ooo.
https://joelhans.com
Forever writing fairy tales in speculative/weird/SFesque disguises.
Dad-ing.
Materializing @astrolabe.ooo.
https://joelhans.com
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My debut collection of speculative short stories, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Short Fiction Award, is now available for preorder and, well, I hope you'll want one when it releases this time next month.
Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
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Looking forward to it!
My debut collection of speculative short stories, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Short Fiction Award, is now available for preorder and, well, I hope you'll want one when it releases this time next month.
Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
January 12, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Looking forward to it!
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My debut collection of speculative short stories, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Short Fiction Award, is now available for preorder and, well, I hope you'll want one when it releases this time next month.
Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
My debut collection of speculative short stories, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Short Fiction Award, is now available for preorder and, well, I hope you'll want one when it releases this time next month.
Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
My debut collection of speculative short stories, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Short Fiction Award, is now available for preorder and, well, I hope you'll want one when it releases this time next month.
Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
My debut collection of speculative short stories, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Short Fiction Award, is now available for preorder and, well, I hope you'll want one when it releases this time next month.
Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
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Who wants something entirely wonderful for a Monday? This month I've handed over my monthly craft article to a dazzle of other writers who've provided tips and prompts for writing effective flash:
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/tips-and-p...
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/tips-and-p...
Tips and Prompts for the New Writing Year
January feels a little too early in the year to be fully engaging my brain.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Who wants something entirely wonderful for a Monday? This month I've handed over my monthly craft article to a dazzle of other writers who've provided tips and prompts for writing effective flash:
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/tips-and-p...
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/tips-and-p...
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So thrilled to see Veronica Tucker's “The Waiting Room At The End of the Universe” selected for the 2026 edition of Best Microfiction! You can read the story, part of the Whale asterism we published this fall, here:
www.astrolabe.ooo/tucker-the-w...
www.astrolabe.ooo/tucker-the-w...
January 7, 2026 at 8:16 PM
So thrilled to see Veronica Tucker's “The Waiting Room At The End of the Universe” selected for the 2026 edition of Best Microfiction! You can read the story, part of the Whale asterism we published this fall, here:
www.astrolabe.ooo/tucker-the-w...
www.astrolabe.ooo/tucker-the-w...
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27. Eek I forgot to mention the excellent "Mouth, Wormhole, Window" by @joelhans.com, which I love for a lot of reasons unrelated to this but, as a lesson: If there's an interdimensional void in the backyard, I don't need any infodumping as to how it got here.
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
Issue #25
“Breathing Under Ice” by Phoebe Billups: sisterhood / inheriting the volcano / what lies beneath”Dear New Tenant” by Jaq Evans: respawning sisters / sign the lease / going t…
www.fusionfragment.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
27. Eek I forgot to mention the excellent "Mouth, Wormhole, Window" by @joelhans.com, which I love for a lot of reasons unrelated to this but, as a lesson: If there's an interdimensional void in the backyard, I don't need any infodumping as to how it got here.
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
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Barnes and Noble is having its preorder sale (25% off pre-orders), so it's the perfect time to preorder a very cool and good book called Every Galaxy a Circle
Every Galaxy a Circle|Paperback
An Intriguing Journey through the Cosmos of Human ExperienceIn Every Galaxy a Circle, Chloe N. Clark masterfully intertwines memories, ghosts, and the future, presenting a collection that spans folklo...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Barnes and Noble is having its preorder sale (25% off pre-orders), so it's the perfect time to preorder a very cool and good book called Every Galaxy a Circle
Took the girls on the loveliest, golden-est of hikes today.
December 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Took the girls on the loveliest, golden-est of hikes today.
Today I started writing a new short story for the first time in many, many months. It's such a welcome change.
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Today I started writing a new short story for the first time in many, many months. It's such a welcome change.
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The Clepsydra is live! As the year runs out, we hope you'll thieve away some time to spend with this wonderful group of prose, poetry, and artwork.
astrolabe.ooo
featuring...
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
@binhdaur.bsky.social
@susanllin.bsky.social
Nnadi Samuel
Lisa Dailey
Didem Arslanoglu
astrolabe.ooo
featuring...
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
@binhdaur.bsky.social
@susanllin.bsky.social
Nnadi Samuel
Lisa Dailey
Didem Arslanoglu
December 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Clepsydra is live! As the year runs out, we hope you'll thieve away some time to spend with this wonderful group of prose, poetry, and artwork.
astrolabe.ooo
featuring...
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
@binhdaur.bsky.social
@susanllin.bsky.social
Nnadi Samuel
Lisa Dailey
Didem Arslanoglu
astrolabe.ooo
featuring...
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
@binhdaur.bsky.social
@susanllin.bsky.social
Nnadi Samuel
Lisa Dailey
Didem Arslanoglu
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A Monday reminder I put out two small press books of fiction this year: a dark fantasy adventure about escaping the guts of Hobbes’ Leviathan and destroying Atlantis
&
a short story collection with memory drugs, a werewolf hell house, small town fight club, theme park wax mannequins & more
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a short story collection with memory drugs, a werewolf hell house, small town fight club, theme park wax mannequins & more
December 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A Monday reminder I put out two small press books of fiction this year: a dark fantasy adventure about escaping the guts of Hobbes’ Leviathan and destroying Atlantis
&
a short story collection with memory drugs, a werewolf hell house, small town fight club, theme park wax mannequins & more
&
a short story collection with memory drugs, a werewolf hell house, small town fight club, theme park wax mannequins & more
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Well if @lollardfish.bsky.social says so then I will! You can now preorder Every Galaxy a Circle. It's a collection of speculative short stories about space and monsters and memories and ghosts. I think it is pretty good and there is a loving description of pie in it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Well if @lollardfish.bsky.social says so then I will! You can now preorder Every Galaxy a Circle. It's a collection of speculative short stories about space and monsters and memories and ghosts. I think it is pretty good and there is a loving description of pie in it.
The collection's cover is here! And a newer release date! I’m in love with this design—the watercolor texture, the way it expresses how deeply this collection inhabits the Sonoran Desert and how collage-like these stories are in their styles and sizes. Can’t wait to share the book with everyone.
Cover reveal! Introducing The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by @joelhans.com, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award. Set to release February 3, 2026: Preorder link coming soon.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The collection's cover is here! And a newer release date! I’m in love with this design—the watercolor texture, the way it expresses how deeply this collection inhabits the Sonoran Desert and how collage-like these stories are in their styles and sizes. Can’t wait to share the book with everyone.
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Cover reveal! Introducing The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by @joelhans.com, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award. Set to release February 3, 2026: Preorder link coming soon.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Cover reveal! Introducing The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by @joelhans.com, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award. Set to release February 3, 2026: Preorder link coming soon.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
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!
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
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
September 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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!
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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
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
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Thrilled to have a new little prose poem floating around over at @astrolabe.ooo (and they *happen* to be open for submissions)!
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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
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
September 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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
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.
August 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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.
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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
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Feast of the Pale Leviathan (Signed Copies) - Evening House Books
A man falls asleep on a river raft tube and drifts out to sea, where he is found and devoured by a titan of unbelievable size. But rather than death, what Owen finds inside is a community of fellow su...
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August 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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...
eveninghousebooks.com/product/feas...
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Summer 2025 is here. We have 12 amazing pieces for you to read, share, and enjoy!
https:/www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twentyfour
https:/www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twentyfour
twenty-four — Tiny Molecules
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August 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Summer 2025 is here. We have 12 amazing pieces for you to read, share, and enjoy!
https:/www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twentyfour
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.
August 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Grateful for this today: the girls, covered in dust, leading me on another small adventure in another beautiful place.
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PRE-ORDERS OPEN NOW! Excited as all hell my debut collection is finally coming out! I hope you get it!
Pardon Me for Moonwalking
Check out Pardon Me for Moonwalking - Slide into the bittersweet, beautifully peculiar world of Patricia Q. Bidar's Pardon Me for Moonwalking</em>, a collection of short stories that illuminate the of...
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August 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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.
July 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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.
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.
A touch late, but never forgotten, the Retrograde has arrived! With it comes signs of yellowing and desiccation, omens from the sun, but also some things Exceptional and worth gathering around.
As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo
As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo
July 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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.
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.
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These are bad days.
If you have anything that will help us through them, please send it along.
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If you have anything that will help us through them, please send it along.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
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July 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
These are bad days.
If you have anything that will help us through them, please send it along.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
If you have anything that will help us through them, please send it along.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...