Joel Hans
@joelhans.com
Author of THE BEDTIME EMPTYING OF OUR WORLD (late 2025, 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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Joel Hans
@joelhans.com
· May 27
Well.
It's still unreal to me—my DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION has WON the @mooncitypress.bsky.social Short Fiction Award and is coming LATER THIS YEAR!!!
22 stories, 12 years of my writing life. Thank you to everyone who's read my work or followed along for a part of this time. Thank you.
It's still unreal to me—my DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION has WON the @mooncitypress.bsky.social Short Fiction Award and is coming LATER THIS YEAR!!!
22 stories, 12 years of my writing life. Thank you to everyone who's read my work or followed along for a part of this time. Thank you.
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)!
Reposted by Joel Hans
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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eveninghousebooks.com/product/feas...
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...
eveninghousebooks.com
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
www.tinymolecules.com
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.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
If you have anything that will help us through them, please send it along.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
gonelawn.net
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_...
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I'm excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book! Thanks to @blacklawrence.bsky.social and the Zoe Norvell for the cover design and Brooke Sauer for the cover art.
You can pre-order now! blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-ea...
You can pre-order now! blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-ea...
July 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I'm excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book! Thanks to @blacklawrence.bsky.social and the Zoe Norvell for the cover design and Brooke Sauer for the cover art.
You can pre-order now! blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-ea...
You can pre-order now! blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-ea...
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Since I offered some free query edits recently, I figured I should take a moment and talk about what I suggest and why!
"I'm delighted to present you with my novel [TITLE], a [WORD COUNT] [GENRE] which will appeal to fans of [BOOK ONE] for [THESE REASONS] and [BOOK TWO] for [THESE REASONS]."
"I'm delighted to present you with my novel [TITLE], a [WORD COUNT] [GENRE] which will appeal to fans of [BOOK ONE] for [THESE REASONS] and [BOOK TWO] for [THESE REASONS]."
July 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Since I offered some free query edits recently, I figured I should take a moment and talk about what I suggest and why!
"I'm delighted to present you with my novel [TITLE], a [WORD COUNT] [GENRE] which will appeal to fans of [BOOK ONE] for [THESE REASONS] and [BOOK TWO] for [THESE REASONS]."
"I'm delighted to present you with my novel [TITLE], a [WORD COUNT] [GENRE] which will appeal to fans of [BOOK ONE] for [THESE REASONS] and [BOOK TWO] for [THESE REASONS]."
Having spent many hours working on @astrolabe.ooo over the weekend (reading; building proofs; building a v2 that's gonna be sweet), news like this makes it all worthwhile & then some. Congratulations, Joshua!
I’m so excited to be a part of this anthology with so many amazing writers. Many thanks to @astrolabe.ooo for originally publishing my story.
NEW BLOG POST ALERT! 🌱🍄
Violet Lichen Books and Apex Book Company are delighted to announce the finalists for the inaugural ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction! Thank you to everyone who submitted and nominated stories this year. Check the post or keep reading for the full table of contents!
Violet Lichen Books and Apex Book Company are delighted to announce the finalists for the inaugural ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction! Thank you to everyone who submitted and nominated stories this year. Check the post or keep reading for the full table of contents!
July 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Having spent many hours working on @astrolabe.ooo over the weekend (reading; building proofs; building a v2 that's gonna be sweet), news like this makes it all worthwhile & then some. Congratulations, Joshua!
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IKYMI: I had a micro in Ghost Parachute about what happens when the doctors can't figure out what's wrong with you.
ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...
ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...
Listen to Your Body — Ghost Parachute
The doctors couldn’t determine what was causing the thumping fluttering agony in my chest, the dread that haunted me and kept me awake nights. X-rays, MRIs, CTs had no answers. Finally, I told them to...
ghostparachute.com
July 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
IKYMI: I had a micro in Ghost Parachute about what happens when the doctors can't figure out what's wrong with you.
ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...
ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...
A year ago today @havehashad.com published my verbless fairy tale "The Papermoon" and it remains one of the pieces I'm most-most-most proud of. Fairy tale is form is forever.
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
July 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A year ago today @havehashad.com published my verbless fairy tale "The Papermoon" and it remains one of the pieces I'm most-most-most proud of. Fairy tale is form is forever.
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
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Story #3 in FF#25 is "Mouth, Wormhole, Window" by @joelhans.com. It's a gorgeous and inventively written story about the fear that's part and parcel of parenthood.
July 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Story #3 in FF#25 is "Mouth, Wormhole, Window" by @joelhans.com. It's a gorgeous and inventively written story about the fear that's part and parcel of parenthood.
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I have a new short story up today in @fusionfragment.bsky.social #25! Daughters and childhood games and a hole that stirs at the back of the woods, which swallows up a nest of pyrrhuloxias and maybe a whole lot more. And just look at this cover+TOC!!
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
June 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I have a new short story up today in @fusionfragment.bsky.social #25! Daughters and childhood games and a hole that stirs at the back of the woods, which swallows up a nest of pyrrhuloxias and maybe a whole lot more. And just look at this cover+TOC!!
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
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So excited to be in Fusion Fragment again with this amazing group of writers! Get yer free weird fiction and scifi (or hey, if you can, maybe pay a lil bit too) right hereeee 👇
FF#25 has arrived! Stories by Phoebe Billups, @jaqevans.com, Anna Ziegelhof, @tonydunnell.bsky.social, @joelhans.com, @suchnadine.bsky.social, @czwrites.bsky.social, @davidcleden.bsky.social, and @marisca.bsky.social!
Get yours (for free!) at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
Get yours (for free!) at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
June 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So excited to be in Fusion Fragment again with this amazing group of writers! Get yer free weird fiction and scifi (or hey, if you can, maybe pay a lil bit too) right hereeee 👇
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We're shimmering at the sight of two Astrolabe stories on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2025 Longlist—congrats to @shakieranthem.bsky.social and Amelia K., whose work both live within the Errants asterism!
June 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
We're shimmering at the sight of two Astrolabe stories on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2025 Longlist—congrats to @shakieranthem.bsky.social and Amelia K., whose work both live within the Errants asterism!
I have a new short story up today in @fusionfragment.bsky.social #25! Daughters and childhood games and a hole that stirs at the back of the woods, which swallows up a nest of pyrrhuloxias and maybe a whole lot more. And just look at this cover+TOC!!
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
June 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I have a new short story up today in @fusionfragment.bsky.social #25! Daughters and childhood games and a hole that stirs at the back of the woods, which swallows up a nest of pyrrhuloxias and maybe a whole lot more. And just look at this cover+TOC!!
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/
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Day 3 Archive Challenge! @smokelong.bsky.social . Read this beautifully layered and tender story by @joelhans.com in @gonelawn.bsky.social! Striking artwork by Kathleen Frank.
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 50 : Joel Hans
gonelawn.net
June 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Day 3 Archive Challenge! @smokelong.bsky.social . Read this beautifully layered and tender story by @joelhans.com in @gonelawn.bsky.social! Striking artwork by Kathleen Frank.
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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I've learned just today that my Story story was listed as notable in Best American Short Stories 2024?!? What a truly unexpected joy.
June 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I've learned just today that my Story story was listed as notable in Best American Short Stories 2024?!? What a truly unexpected joy.
I've learned just today that my Story story was listed as notable in Best American Short Stories 2024?!? What a truly unexpected joy.
June 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I've learned just today that my Story story was listed as notable in Best American Short Stories 2024?!? What a truly unexpected joy.
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"...how surprised we are to find that when tossed into the air, you fall just as we do. You are full of falling. You fall like you are filled with the opposite of hummingbirds. We love how you fall, how you bleed: down as do our wounds."
Some mornings, you stumble into profundity like this.
Some mornings, you stumble into profundity like this.
June 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"...how surprised we are to find that when tossed into the air, you fall just as we do. You are full of falling. You fall like you are filled with the opposite of hummingbirds. We love how you fall, how you bleed: down as do our wounds."
Some mornings, you stumble into profundity like this.
Some mornings, you stumble into profundity like this.