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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It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com
We just closed submissions for this winter but we'll be back in the spring again!
Until then~~
astrolabe.ooo
Until then~~
astrolabe.ooo
Astrolabe
Astrolabe is a literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.
astrolabe.ooo
January 15, 2026 at 12:19 AM
We just closed submissions for this winter but we'll be back in the spring again!
Until then~~
astrolabe.ooo
Until then~~
astrolabe.ooo
I recently gave @astrolabe.ooo a visual overhaul I'm pretty proud of. I wanted to take nothing away from the universe viz but make it more grounded and better match the aesthetics of everything we've published over the last 3(!) years. And hopefully show we're in it for the long haul.
January 15, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I recently gave @astrolabe.ooo a visual overhaul I'm pretty proud of. I wanted to take nothing away from the universe viz but make it more grounded and better match the aesthetics of everything we've published over the last 3(!) years. And hopefully show we're in it for the long haul.
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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!
Also, I finished reading your book about 2 weeks ago and really loved it—so cool to see how this place, varied as it already is, inspired such a different approach to place.
January 12, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Also, I finished reading your book about 2 weeks ago and really loved it—so cool to see how this place, varied as it already is, inspired such a different approach to place.
Thanks so much! I love seeing so many AZ folks with books out recently or soon… the community is so strong right now.
January 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Thanks so much! I love seeing so many AZ folks with books out recently or soon… the community is so strong right now.
Thanks so much Scott! And congrats on the new gig! I hope we’ll find another time & place in the weird world of conferences to catch up
January 12, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Thanks so much Scott! And congrats on the new gig! I hope we’ll find another time & place in the weird world of conferences to catch up
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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...
And to give you just *one* reason to consider it for now, I had to include an incredibly kind blurb from Kate Bernheimer, who led me into a new understanding of fairy tales and what they mean for my writing, and so much else~~
January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
And to give you just *one* reason to consider it for now, I had to include an incredibly kind blurb from Kate Bernheimer, who led me into a new understanding of fairy tales and what they mean for my writing, and so much else~~
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.
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com
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...
Thanks so much for sharing this one again! The voids are indeed *much* fun when they're complete mysteries.
December 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Thanks so much for sharing this one again! The voids are indeed *much* fun when they're complete mysteries.
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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...
www.barnesandnoble.com
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.
💚 Unbelievably excited to tackle the rest of the process now that the cover is out the door!
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
💚 Unbelievably excited to tackle the rest of the process now that the cover is out the door!
So happy to hear that! And for the other message Mike beamed over to me this afternoon from you, thank you a million 💚
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
So happy to hear that! And for the other message Mike beamed over to me this afternoon from you, thank you a million 💚
Yes, Mike and I were just talking readings and whatnot! It'll be my first one in... 10 years??? And thank you so much!
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Yes, Mike and I were just talking readings and whatnot! It'll be my first one in... 10 years??? And thank you so much!
Thank you! So glad I found a good place within for the crows/time story you all published at Atlas + Alice!
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Thank you! So glad I found a good place within for the crows/time story you all published at Atlas + Alice!