We're thrilled to announce that we are now a paying market! Starting with Issue 20, each contributor to our online issues will get $10 (consider it the editors buying yinz a round!). 

We're currently closed to submissions for Issue 20. We'll reopen for all categories from  July 1st-August 31st for Issue 21. Our goal is to reply to all Issue 20 submitters by the first week of June, so if you submitted and are waiting to hear back you shouldn't be in suspense too much longer!

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After Happy Hour is a free online literary journal that comes out twice a year online in fall/winter and summer, with a print contest issue in the spring. We're not limited to any particular genre, and publish poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art. Our headquarters are based in Pittsburgh, but the journal is not exclusive to Pittsburgh-based writers.

Be bold and take risks, make an impact and make it early. Don’t give us characters that mildly care, plots that kind of make the reader turn the page, or language that sort of places us in the heat of the story. AHH favors the audacious. If you want to get a sense of the type of work we publish, you can check out our past online issues free on our website. 

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.