HOOT POSTCARD 151, MAY 2024

Frog by Mehreen Ahmed   Mehreen Ahmed is a multiple contest winner for short fiction. Her works have appeared in Litro Magazine, HOOT Review, EllipsisZine, MadSwirl, Alien Buddha and others. Her works have been Pushcart, James Tait, and botN nominated.

HOOT POSTCARD 136, MARCH 2023

worst by Pat Foran    Pat Foran is the worst. His work was selected for the Best Small Fictions 2021 and Best Microfiction 2021 anthologies. He also received the 2021 Mythic Picnic Prize in Fiction. Find him at neutralspaces.co/patforan/.

HOOT POSTCARD 132, NOVEMBER 2022

POEM FOR NEW YORK CITY by Kyle Seamus Brosnihan art by Bernadette Johnson Kyle Seamus Brosnihan is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, and currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at Brooklyn College. He is the Arts Editor for the Brooklyn Review. His poem ‘Martha’ was voted Poem of the Year by the Brooklyn Poets in 2020.

HOOT POSTCARD 99, DECEMBER 2019

The Fourth Little Pig Explains His House  by Abigail Cloud   Abigail Cloud is editor-in-chief of Mid-American Review and teaches at Bowling Green State University. Her collection Sylph (Pleiades Press, 2014) is a Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize winner.  

HOOT POSTCARD 74, NOVEMBER 2017

The Matter of Confusion by M.J. Smith M.J. Smith teaches composition, literature, mythology, and assorted arcane disciplines at the City College of San Francisco. He lives windward of Mount Diablo, California and considers this very important.

HOOT POSTCARD 68, MAY 2017

And Now by Diana Roffman Diana Roffman is a poet and middle school teacher in NYC. She has an MFA from The University of Montana. Diana loves sending and receiving postcards, and is honored to be part of HOOT! (and HOOT is honored to publish her <3 )

HOOT POSTCARD 61, OCTOBER 2016

Cup of Moon by Andrea Farber-De Zubiria   Andrea Farber-De Zubiria’s poems have been published in Cargo, Smoky Blue, Foliate Oak and The San Joaquin Literary Review.  She lives in Fresno, CA  with her husband, daughters and a fat flock of chickens who prefer Haiku.

HOOT POSTCARD 52, JANUARY 2016

The Kudu Bull by Evan Nicholls Art by Anil Sooknanan Evan Nicholls is a high school student and musician from Fauquier County, Virginia. He attends Highland School (2016) in Warrenton, VA. He reads Breece D’J Pancake, listens to Damien Rice, and sings likes he swears; often. Anil Sooknanan is an illustrator and graphic designer. His work can […]

They say it’s your birthday. It’s my birthday too, yeah.

Four! It’s a magic number. Yes it is. It’s a magic number. Because it’s our fourth birthday today. It doesn’t seem entirely fathomable that we’ve been doling out zest-infused literary postcards to you for four whole years. If HOOT was a person it would have already mastered the beginnings of language acquisition (and then on […]