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After Happy Hour Contest Issue #4
Paperback
Publisher Price: $13.00
Publisher: After Happy Hour
Published: May 31 2025
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
For the 4th annual contest, After Happy Hour asked contributors to bring us a feast of words--and they delivered! This issue contains the winners and honorable mentions from the contest, along with some of our other top choices from among the contest entries, for a total of 4 stories, 3 essays, and 9 poems that all take their own unique take on Food.
The works published in this issue include this year's prize winners:
Contest #4 Poetry Winner: Nana and the Squirrels by Christine Potter
Contest #4 Prose Winner: The Pickle Factory by Delaney Phelps
Contest #4 Honorable Mentions:
- We Ate Sand for Dinner by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah
- Confessions of a Vegetarian Ranchwife by Michelle Nicolaysen
- Mexican Heaven by Ren Koppel Torres
...along with some other fantastic poetry and prose submitted during the contest reading period:
Here We Go Again by Ashleigh Adams
Caught by Camille Capasso
I'm Craving Crunchwraps by Ariel Hemloch
The Little Dog with the Stick by Charles Huysman
The Pretzel Problem by Justin Kolber
Don't Blow Up This Spot by Parker Logan
Would you believe I love the way by Christine C. Rivero-Guisinga
Dream Where I Intervene in Climate Change by VA Smith
Tamalero by Ren Koppel Torres
Seed dispersal of fleshy-fruited invasive plants by humans by CX Wang
Reistomate by John Wojtowicz
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