Joel Hans

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

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Travis Flatt
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Gorgeous in message, imagery, rhythm. "Once, You Were Asked to Count the Hummingbirds" @joelhans.com @nffr.bsky.social #31 "Pick the poor thing up and roll it around in the tips of your silvery hands." @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge newflashfiction.com/once-you-wer...

newflashfiction.comOnce, You Were Asked to Count the Hummingbirds by Joel Hans | Issue #31And now you should say goodbye to the ones you love. Loop a pair of clouded binoculars around your neck. Pack a peanut butter sandwich and a rusty apple and a bottomless bottle of water.
Joel Hans
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"The Bedtime Emptying of Our World is a cohesive, wildly inventive collection. Each time you think you understand the shape of the book, author Joel Hans pulls the rug out from under you to reveal a strange, beautiful, heartbreaking direction." Well. Isn't that lovely?

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Jonathan Danielson
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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!

Joel Hans
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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

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...

Joel Hans
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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

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)!

Joel Hans
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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!

Joel Hans
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I’ll even send you a copy that my daughter *has not* vandalized! (and maybe I’ll even throw in a sprig of creosote for the whole desert experience)

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Daniel Miller
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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

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 😈

Joel Hans
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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~.

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Joel Hans
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One of the Offing's editors said this is "masterful, ambitious cli fi—capturing the sense of an impossible future state," which is just an absurdly kind to say about a story of mine and something I keep aiming for with every new one.

Joel Hans
@joelhans.com

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

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

joelhans.comCollection: The Bedtime Emptying of Our WorldThe Bedtime Emptying of Our World, winner of the The 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award, is the debut short story collection from Joel Hans.

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

Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social

"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/

whaleroadreview.comMy New Doctor Asks Me If I’ve Ever Used Tobacco ProductsI lie because I don’t want my insurance rates to go up, because he has my family history right in front of him where it says both my parents died of lung cancer. Even if he’s too polite to say it, …
Joel Hans
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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!

Joel Hans
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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.

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hex
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"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! 📝💯

hexliterary.comSo, You Think This Might Be a Fairy Tale: A Checklist by Laila AmadoYour 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 ☐ ...

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hex
@hexliterary.bsky.social

"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 ! 😱💨😱

hexliterary.comAirable Consumption by Z. K. AbrahamCan 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...
Joel Hans
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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.

Joel Hans
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‪ After 8 years of working from home and trying to parent on all the random days the girls are home, today has been different. They've finished homework and played outside and drawn many things all on their own. It's a new bliss to just be doing our own things, calmly, in the same time and place.

Joel Hans
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I always wish I could do more with them, but I hope my presence matters to them now. I hope they remember it someday.

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Lindy Biller
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Literally would be impossible to be more hyped for a book 😍 So excited to read this collection by @joelhans.com!! (And I think this is a sign I need to get on socials more often, because I would've been so sad to miss the preorder!!) Order here: www.uapress.com/product/bedt...

uapress.comThe Bedtime Emptying of Our WorldShort Stories Joel Hans 978-0-913785-69-0 Paper February 2026
Joel Hans@joelhans.com

Like weirdness? Fairy tales and fabulism? Voids in the backyard? Gila monsters with uplifted intelligence? Oblations to the ocean? Bakers who speak toads and snakes? Beautiful things that fall apart? I have a short story collection with that & much more coming soon: www.uapress.com/product/bedt...

uapress.comThe Bedtime Emptying of Our WorldShort Stories Joel Hans 978-0-913785-69-0 Paper February 2026