Joel Hans

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

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

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.

Excited to see that Independent Book Review reviewed Terrestrial 🌵 @malarkeybooks.bsky.social

independentbookreview.com/2026/03/04/t...

Thanks so much for grabbing a copy, Chelsea! I’m so sorry I couldn’t find a time to say hi, I was only at the bookfair for a day!

@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! 🔥

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…

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

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!

The last time I was at AWP was to run the Fairy Tale Review booth, and that was a decade ago, so this is all very new to me.

I fly out Friday, so tomorrow I'll be speed-wandering the bookfair and playing the "do we know each other from the internet" game. Would love to say hi to so many people.

Moon City Press AWP Reading Baltimore 2026 8-10pm at Section 771 504 Washington Blvd., Baltimore, MD Wednesday, March 4

AWP 2026 Joel Hans Author signing Baltimore, MD -- Moon City Press Booth #775 3:00-4:30PM Thursday, March 5, 2026

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!

Picture of a cardboard box partially opened to reveal a book with the title: The Bedtime Emptying of Our World

A person holding a book, in front of a background of yellow flowers, with the words: “The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, stories, Joel Hans”

A book on a lawn of grass, next to a penstemon with pink flowers, with the word “The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, stories, Joel Hans”

Oh, hello there.

Can I hire you as my publicist?!

Thanks Jonathan! Can’t wait to bring some copies up to PHX in April!!

Congrats!

!!! indeed! I would love to figure out how to mail you a copy! It turns out I have many of them kickin around all of a sudden!

I have to give endless thanks to @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social at @mooncitypress.bsky.social for believing so strongly in this book all the way through and Elisabeth Anderson for handcrafting such a gorgeous cover. I can't quite believe this will soon be landing in new homes soon, too.

Picture of a cardboard box partially opened to reveal a book with the title: The Bedtime Emptying of Our World

A person holding a book, in front of a background of yellow flowers, with the words: “The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, stories, Joel Hans”

A book on a lawn of grass, next to a penstemon with pink flowers, with the word “The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, stories, Joel Hans”

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.

So, You Think This Might Be a Fairy Tale: A Checklist by Laila Amado Your journey begins with… ☐ a stranger ☐ a damsel in distress ☐ a sticky situation demanding you skip town until it resolves itself ☐ all of the above Your transport of choice is… ☐ a tin on wheels ☐ ...

"Your journey begins with…

☐ a stranger

☐ a damsel in distress

☐ a sticky situation demanding you skip town until it resolves itself

☐ all of the above..."

New hex! @amadolaila.bsky.social leads us far from the land of Scantron. Please select choices carefully and let us know your results! 📝💯

tysm Dan! Means a ton.

Thank you! Now just dying to get the final artifact on my hands!

Book is off being printed for real-real, book is off to reviewers, what a newly exciting and scary moment.

Airable Consumption by Z. K. Abraham Can you tell us about your journey to start Airable Consumption? I like to share my journey to inspire others. In this age of unnatural living, we are farther removed from the earth than we have ev...

"Taste it, swallow it up, take in that geyser of purified air. Taste the electrolytes?... Now exhale in beat with the machine’s cycles.

It’s okay if we feel a little dizzy at first."

Horror meets the wellness industry in this astonishing new offering from @pegasusunder.bsky.social ! 😱💨😱

My best possible pitch for someone to ask me to join their reading 🙂

Author Interview * Patricia Quintana Bidar Patricia Quintana Bidar’s collection, Pardon Me for Moonwalking (2025 Unsolicited Press), is filled with quirky characters who, nevertheless, feel absolutely real. These are people living on the ed…

New author interview with the amazing Patricia Q. Bidar about PARDON ME FOR MOONWALKING!

@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social

Front cover of book is an abstract painting of ocean blue paint over white canvas. The title is in blocky font with pale navy blue letters. JENNY WONG LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA STORIES & SMALL FICTIONS

Back cover of book with the following blurbs: "Quiet, contemplative, transformative, Light Chemical Sea, will send you on a meditative journey through wavelengths of sound, of light, of love, of loss, on pathways of auroras, of highways, of elements, of life. Jenny Wong's singular voice will whisper, will call, will summon you to be present in the warp and weft of her words." -MELISSA LLANES BROWNLEE, AUTHOR OF BITTER OVER SWEET "Jenny Wong is an alchemist turning moments of being into illumination of character. Wong is drawn to those on the periphery, people who don't quite fit in. In small flashes of brilliance she highlights the elements of their lives as they find solace in nature or catch glimpses of their true selves." -DEBBIE ROBSON, AUTHOR OF A GLIMPSE AND THE HERMITAGE "The obscure and almost-absurd become visible and believable under the skillful care of writer Jenny Wong in the compelling Light Chemical Sea, a collection of stories and small fictions. In three parts, she delivers us into the essence of light, dips us full-bodied into the effervescent chemicals we are made of, and then returns us to the sea where life as we know it really begins. The words, beyond language-rich, flawlessly represent images we want to hold under a microscope to try to assess the ways she gives them voice. It's a magic only a few can master. Make no mistake, this is the work of a sterling storyteller who weaves mystery with mundane to concoct a world view that draws us not only into her personal reflections of such basic natural forces (light, chemical, and sea), but leads us, sometimes unknowingly, into a labyrinth of cues and clues towards to the majesty of life we all belong to." —KAREN PIERCE GONZALEZ, AUTHOR OF DOWN RIVER WITH LI PO

Description: Jenny Wong peeks into the lives of characters caught in lighthouses, subways, shorelines, Walmart aisles, and airports. With a talent for lingering and looking, with the elemental precision of a poet, her small mosaics imbue the quotidian with quiet wonder. The international traveler, the preteen chemistry student, and the perimenopausal millennial who spends her days in the sun are trail guides for landscapes saturated with solitude and vastness, the whispers of ancestors and the ironies of aging. Light Chemical Sea reports back from the transpacific diaspora, glimpsing into the liminal pause between what happened and what happens next.

✨LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA - Cover Reveal!✨

After years of writing tiny stories about small moments, I’m so excited to announce that my flash fiction chapbook LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA is forthcoming November 10, 2026 with @bullcitypress.com

Preorders are now available:
bullcitypress.com/product/ligh...

Author Interview * Joel Hans I’m looking forward to reading The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, a new collection from Joel Hans. The book will be released by Moon City Press in February. I loved the title story when it appeared…

some info about the book: www.uapress.com/product/bedt...

& an interview I did recently about this collection and its particular strangeness: mynachang.com/2026/01/20/a...

hey hey hey I have a short story collection coming out soon. I'd love to do more interviews and get copies out to reviewers. I’ll also be at AWP and have one reading lined up but open to more... 10 years ago did a reading of an apatosauruses story that made someone cry, if that helps.