After Happy Hour Review
Literary Magazine
We push beyond our boundaries, geographically and literarily, while staying true to our roots as a writing group and community, priding ourselves on our personal touch and often working with our contributors to improve work we really, really like into work we love.
Highlights
- Vibe:We're just chilling here
- Response time: 6 weeks*/Editor reported data22 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: 2% */Editor reported data10.17%*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Work acquired through solicitation: 0%
Payssee Genres section for details
Find more details in the Genres section
FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
From the editors
The author must retain all rights. We're also unlikely to reprint something published online in the last 2 years, and are most interested in giving a new home to works published in journals of any format that have since gone defunct, or print journals and anthologies with a small circulation.
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
From the editors
4
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction
Max words: 1001
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: All / surprise us
Payment: $15-50
Fiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
Sub Genres: Literary
Payment: $ 15
Nonfiction
Max words: 1001
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: , , , ,
Payment: $15-50
Nonfiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
Payment: $ 15
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
Payment: $ 15
Hybrid
Payment: $15-50
Art
Max pieces: 5
Payment: $ 15
Comics
Max pieces: 5
Payment: $15-50
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
We read blind so please remove all identifying information from your submission.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Use standard manuscript format (12-point Serif font, standard margins and spacing). It’s not like we’ll reject you for a bad font (probably) but it makes it easier to read, and that makes us happy. Exceptions are experimental prose or poetry that uses non-standard formatting for stylistic reasons. Straightforward prose writers have no excuse.
Author's rights
After Happy Hour requests first-publication rights on acceptance. You can do whatever you like after that, however we do also ask for permission to potentially re-print your work again in the future and to use it in an audiobook format. Of course, we will let you know if we do.
Additional info
Tracker statistics
118
Total submissions tracked
22 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
1 days
Fastest response time
63 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 1038 days, 451 days
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Submission calls
AHH Contest #4
TBD
Entry for the contest is $10. Winners and honorable mentions receive a percentage of the entry fees and p
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Reprints from defunct journals only
This online issue will be entirely devoted to work published in journals that no longer exist.
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About
The Hour After Happy Hour was founded in October 2013 by a group of creative writers who met in the basement of the Big Idea Bookstore every other week to encourage each other’s craft. We would read each other’s work and then head to a nearby bar to commiserate and chat about writing, TV, and other ...
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2013
Country
US
Masthead
Jess Simms
Editor-in-Chief
Nathan Kukulski
Editor
Shawn Maddey
Poetry Editor
Liz Abeling
Nonfiction Editor
Daniel Parme
Fiction Editor