A starred (starred!) review from Independent Book Review called my @mooncitypress.bsky.social collection "filled with wonder" and "strange without ever losing its emotional center" and some other very kind things. independentbookreview.com/2026/07/07/t...

I blurbed this book and it's awesome!

Joel Hans@joelhans.com · 4w ago

If you'd like a signed copy, they're $15 with shipping... or donate whatever you'd like with to a food bank of your choice and I'll send you one for free. DM me! Or, buy one: Direct from the press → www.uapress.com/product/bedt... On Amazon → www.amazon.com/Bedtime-Empt...

A starred (starred!) review from Independent Book Review called my @mooncitypress.bsky.social collection "filled with wonder" and "strange without ever losing its emotional center" and some other very kind things. independentbookreview.com/2026/07/07/t...

Happy National Arizona Day! 🌵🏜️🌵 Every year, June 21 celebrates Arizona’s places, history, people, and cultures, and I hope you'll support the work of wonderful Arizona writers (just to name a few)! Viva Arizona!

Amazing review of @mooncitypress.bsky.social's The Bedtime Emptying of Our World and interview with author @joelhans.com up at Story Magazine!

So grateful for this review and interview with Jaime Goh at @storymag.bsky.social. I never thought someone would put so much time and care and deep thought into my stories. And ask me such profound questions about them. Every part of this was a delight.

Story@storymag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just Posted: STORY Fiction Editor Jaime Goh’s review of THE BEDTIME EMPTYING OF OUR WORLD by @joelhans.com . Read it here: www.storymagazine.org/joel-hans-in...

My cache from last night’s Desert Grit reading series! Very excited to read books by @joelhans.com & @suburbanprairie.bsky.social & Oscar Mancinas! And a beautiful reading by @sudhab.bsky.social! Thank you to @stephanieaustin.bsky.social & @jonathanin2k.bsky.social for hosting such a cool event! 🌵🏜️

So excited to read from the book and ~~meet way more rad AZ writers~~! I'll be signing copies too, and you'll get the ultra-rare "Joel broke a finger on Sunday and can't hold a pen super well" signature.

Jonathan Danielson@jonathanin2k.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tomorrow! Rift Wine Bar + Tap House in Scottsdale! Oscar Mancinas! @sudhab.bsky.social! Cecilia Savala! Matt Flores! @joelhans.com! @suburbanprairie.bsky.social! Hosted by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social and me! Come have a drink, listen to great readers, and maybe buy a book (or two)!

My short fiction recs from Jan-March are now up! With stories from @clairejiawen.bsky.social @dracopoullos.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @russellnichols.bsky.social @rajivmote.bsky.social @amfisher.bsky.social @joelhans.com @jenniferhudak.bsky.social itsajumble.blogspot.com/2026/04/shor...

AZ is where it’s at! This week we got book launches and book festivals and next week come on out to the Desert Grit Reading Series, with: Matt Flores @sudhab.bsky.social Cecilia Savala Oscar Mancinas @joelhans.com @suburbanprairie.bsky.social Hosted by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social & me!

Sent out a few copies of the book today to folks who blurbed it, which was a special kind of joy. I have more I would be very happy to sign and send your way, too!

If you’re in Arizona next month, come to Rift Wine Bar + Taphouse for our next installment of the Desert Grit Reading Series! Featuring: Matt Flores @sudhab.bsky.social Cecilia Savala Oscar Mancinas @joelhans.com @suburbanprairie.bsky.social Hosted by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social & me!

send us something hallucinatory dream nightmare logic creepy beautiful weird sexy surreal prose please don't send lineated poetry that's a "no" from us just make it sick and cool and we can't wait to read what you've been cooking up 🙏

hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This Friday (March 20), at 12pm ET, the hex gates will open once more. We will have a cap of 200 submissions, so PLEASE only one submission per writer. hex recently celebrated our 4th (!!!) year of existence and we couldn't do it without all of you incredible folks! Thank you and C u soon! <3 😈

Want a creepy nostalgic story to start off your weekend? Your wish is my command (as long as your wish is this very specific wish for a creepy nostalgic story)

Sunday Stories: “We Buy Houses”

We Buy Housesby Chloe N. Clark My parents had been planning to move for as long as I could remember. They were always talking about picking everything up and speeding across the state, across the c…

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Gosh, this was just the *most fun story* to write. Took forever, yes, but it was a joy.

Electric Sheep@electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"The sister. The wish. The woods. The wait. The brother. The seizure. The grave." @joelhans.com in HAD

The origin story a world that spans two books (the new collection; a novel that's still in second draft-land), and a personal favorite of mine. Weather and hurt and phainopeplas and the promise of ~totality~.

Myna Chang@mynachang.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"We work together to build a garden resilient enough to survive the light from a star that keeps getting hotter." Another beautiful & heartfelt story from @joelhans.com! @theoffingmag.bsky.social

If you have not already read this beauty, take a moment to do so now. You won't be sorry. @joelhans.com in @flashfrog.bsky.social

Electric Sheep@electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"And like with lightning during the monsoons, we count the seconds until we hear her voice in return, the brief but enduring tremor she imparts on the bedtime emptying of our world." This is just so heartbreakingly beautiful. 💙 @joelhans.com in @flashfrog.bsky.social

So excited for this! And deeply grateful for all the work @mynachang.bsky.social does for writers and writing communities.

Electric Sheep@electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This week's guest is Joel Hans! We'll look at a few of Joel's stories, his new collection, and stories from his magazine, Astrolabe! @joelhans.com @astrolabe.ooo @mooncitypress.bsky.social

Excited to see that Independent Book Review reviewed Terrestrial 🌵 @malarkeybooks.bsky.social independentbookreview.com/2026/03/04/t...

Terrestrial by Suzy Eynon - Independent Book Review

TERRESTRIAL by Suzy Eynon (Malarkey Books) is a psychologically rich portrait of a teenage girl suspended between the rituals of 1990s girlhood and the otherworldly possibilities that beckon her.

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@kimmagowan.bsky.social @amymarques.bsky.social @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @joshdale.co @joelhans.com @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @thirtywestph.com @bullcitypress.com @mooncitypress.bsky.social @chestnutreview.bsky.social @weslpress.bsky.social @nicoletallman.bsky.social @bendinggenres.bsky.social

“I survived. It was the only thing I was really good at.” Oh, this beauty by @barlowadams.bsky.social! 🔥

Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"At my most hideous, she made me feel beautiful." + "wearing my baseball cap" @barlowadams.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/adams-3/

Thanks to Laura Black at @fictivedream.bsky.social for publishing my story, "Extra," today!

Extra

by Michael Czyzniejewski ‘What’s your hunting knife situation?’ is maybe not the thing to ask at this precise moment but I have this extra one on me and I like Lydia and she’s about to go home so I…

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This book is quite amazingly real! You can buy a copy at the @mooncitypress.bsky.social booth (775) right now and I’ll be signing copies there from 3:00-4:30 later today!

@joelhans.com will be signing his new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book, The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, at the AWP Bookfair today, 3-4:30 p.m. at Booth #775!

Okay, my #AWP26: Tonight: reading one or two of the short ones from the new book with the @mooncitypress.bsky.social crew. Section 771, 8pm, just look at that lineup. Tomorrow: hanging out at the MCP booth (#775) from 3-4:30pm to chat about the collection and sign some copies!

Oh, hello there.

Congrats!

Joel Hans@joelhans.com · 5mo ago

Oh, hello there.

Oh, hello there.

This is going to be such an amazing event!

Excited to be bringing four new @mooncitypress.bsky.social titles to the @awpwriter.org conference: a new issue of @mooncityreview.bsky.social and new books by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, @joelhans.com, and @kimmagowan.bsky.social.