HOOT - a {mini} literary magazine on a postcard - flash fiction, poetry, memoir, non-fiction, book reviews

Drop by and see us at the Rosemont College Book Festival

Janie — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:13:50 +0000

If you attend Rosemont, or live near the area, you should come drop by the College Book Festival and give us a visit. We’ll entertain you with grand tales of adventures and our most recent issues of HOOT.

Come say hello!

Your letters delight us

Janie — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:58:03 +0000

Since we run a postcard magazine it should come as no surprise that we love mail. The kookier the better (or the more avant garde the better). We recently received this mailed submission (we think it was a mailed submission?) and while we couldn’t accept the enclosed poem for the online or print issue, we did love it enough that we thought it warranted an update on here.

The envelope alone was an absolute blockbuster of a sending apparatus

Whoever sent us this we truly adored it.

We didn’t even know that this was an option in the postal world

And you should know that the associate editor, Janie, keeps this framed and hung at her desk for creative inspiration. Keep on keeping on, sender of this submission, you’ve inspired us.

For anyone else that wants to blow our minds with creative mischievousness please feel free; we’d be delighted to be on the receiving end.

We came, we saw, we had you throw a giant die

Janie — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:37:56 +0000

Oh hey! We have returned triumphant from Boston and AWP. It was delightful making so many new friends; so many people partook in our giant die game and we hope you had as much fun as we did.

That was our table!

To all of our new subscribers: hello! To everyone that supported us by stopping by, signing up for our email updates, bought shirts or last year’s issues, and subscribed: thank you!

We had a blast in Boston and it was mainly because of all of the clever chaps and lasses that came over to face their doom, challenged us to draw them a five second owl masterpiece, or sent an owl-a-gram

This was our favorite owl-a-gram

Feel free to drop us a line and remind us of the shenanigans of AWP!

Happy writing, all!

A blog! A blog! We have an, occasionally updated, blog (we’ll only put the coolest stuff on here, promise)!

Janie — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:56:17 +0000

Hello HOOT followers,

It might surprise you that at HOOT we are comprised of real humans that help create, develop, and mail out your monthly postcard and put up the online edition. We’re alive!

We come from all different creative and educational backgrounds, which is a big help in how we pick such diverse literature to mail to your door every month.

So, this blog is a way to get to know more about a few things:

Who our writers and artists are; we’ll have Barbara Walters like interviews with them so you can see into their deep inner psyche (okay, maybe not that intense; but they’ll definitely be fun).
Fun things about micro fiction
Updates about where we will be a-movin’ and a-shakin’ (if we are coming to a literary convention near you)
Fun, crafty, literary things you can do to get motivated on your writing

But it’s also a blog for you to share with us. We’ll post pictures of where you’ve snuck your HOOT in plain sight; have writing prompts and picture prompts; and it can serve as a forum for you to update us about your favorite micro fiction trends. Because like PBS before us, we would be nothing without viewers like you.

one of our favorite shared HOOTs, from Shawn at www.scribbledstories.com

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admin — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:02:36 +0000

this is just a test. exciting announcement coming tomorrow!

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admin — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:16:03 +0000

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“Brevity is the soul of wit.” And of other things, too.

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:51:58 +0000

HOOT is a magazine on a postcard. Authors from around the world submit their microfiction (very short stories), nonfiction, and poetry to us. Every month, we select one piece to be published on the front of a 4″ x 6″ postcard. We then design a visual element to match the writing, and mail the issue to subscribers!

The idea is that current, quality literature should be accessible to everyone—something you can participate in and share! Our postcards are short (<150 words), and small enough to be hung as art on fridges or passed to friends. We also try to hide HOOT‘s around cities in creative ways (think “guerilla literature”), and run free writing workshops (online and in person).

“Brevity is the soul of wit.” And of other things, too.

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:41:40 +0000

HOOT Print Issue 3 – December 2011

“Circus Life” - nonfiction by William Henderson.

To purchase copies of this issue (which can be used as postcards), please go here and specify “Issue #3″ at checkout.

Read our current online issue, too, here!

Will Henderson can be found in Boston, tooling around with his children, updating his blog (hendersonhouseofcards.wordpress.com), tweeting (@avesdad), practicing yoga, and looking for a fortuneteller willing to clue him in on his ever-after ending.

This will be the last print issue that we’ll be putting online for a while, now…so if you’ve enjoyed looking at them and reading them, please subscribe!

“Brevity is the soul of wit.” And of other things too.

Editors — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:01:52 +0000

HOOT Print Issue 2 – November 2011

To purchase copies of this issue (which can be used as postcards), please go here and specify “Issue #2″ at checkout.

“Poem” – poetry by John Steen.

John Steen returned to Atlanta last year to complete a PhD in Comparative Literature at Emory University. He rides a teal Peugeot bike and always wears a helmet.

25 copies – $17

“Brevity is the soul of wit.” And of other things too.

Editors — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:53:13 +0000

HOOT Print Issue 1 – October 2011

“Are We the Dining Dead?” – fiction by J. Bradley.

To purchase copies of this issue (which can be used as postcards), please go here and specify “Issue #1″ at checkout.

J. Bradley is a contributing writer to Specter Magazine and the Interviews Editor of PANK Magazine. He lives at iheartfailure.net.

Welcome to our first issue of HOOT!

We over here are very excited. It was a pleasure reading all the submissions we received, and it was a pleasure trying to figure out just how to create the perfect visual element to go with the story we chose, for the cover.

This first issue will give you clue as to what HOOT will be like in future issues. You can expect something energetic and fresh-feeling. This first issue is also a clue as to what NOT to expect: we will try to keep it a little different every month–

There is also more work on our website: check out the two pieces of flash fiction and two poems that we have published in our online issue!