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-a magazine on a postcard! Mini poetry and micro prose - flash fiction, poetry, memoir, non-fiction, HOOT is a monthly literary magazine. On a postcard!

See our website to submit & subscribe!

-We publish current flash fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and book reviews (of independent/small press books), all fewer than 150 words.

-Postcards are small and ours are cool looking, so you can also stick it on your fridge, or in your husband/wife's briefcase, or leave it on a restaurant table for some random person to enjoy. Imagine, literature that you ca

n pass around! It's just like a page, except touchable!

-At fewer than 150 words an issue (that's shorter than two Twitter Tweets!) there's no excuse for you not to read it. We DO pay our authors. hootreview.com

30/09/2025

It was so difficult to pick our Best of the Net nominations this year. Here all our nominations, highly recommend giving them all a read. Each piece moved us closer to the moon 💚

23/05/2025

Tomorrow we’re hosting a writing workshop at in collaboration with from 1:00 - 3:00 PM. This is a generative workshop focusing on creating poems inspired by vintage postcards and writing poems intended for design on a postcard. All skill levels encouraged!

In the first half of the workshop, writers will respond to their choice of old postcards to draft poems inspired by the art, location, and age of the postcard. These poems can speak directly to the images, or what the sender might have written on the back. In the second half, writers will brainstorm and write a poem meant for display on a postcard as a shareable work of art. We’ll explore the poems’ images, senses, and emotions to see what unexpected visuals emerge to incorporate into a design.

In the end, we’ll discuss how ephemera is used to distribute poetry and as a promotional tool for people to sample your work. Writers can share their poems (only if you like!) and will have the opportunity to submit them for a special edition postcard included in the summer issue of Collide.

The workshop is a $10 donation and comes with a year of HOOT’s postcards, handouts on how to print your own postcard, and a list of places to submit that focus on single print issues. But please don’t let finances deter you, if you’d like to attend, just show up and HOOT will cover the cost.

Tl;dr: come write short poems about postcards AND write poems to be made into postcards.

18/04/2025

It’s National Poetry Month. Many years ago, while I was an intern at a fledgling HOOT Review (no pun intended) and just before I gave my cat, Easy Mac, a bath, the HOOT crewed marked off poetry month with a line from The Waste Land by Eliot on Easy’s side in eyeliner, April is the cruellest month being a subversion of the opening lines from Chaucer’s General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales.
(Easy Mac was safe with the eyeliner which was promptly washed away along with her grime during her needed cleaning).

HOOT Review, our postcard press, started October 2011 (13 years ago, going on 14) and a lot has changed since then: both for the editors personally and, like, basically everything else in the world. Keeping any indie / small lit (or art) project alive is challenging and HOOT hasn’t been without those challenges: spending pennies from low paying jobs to purchase the postcards / postage, setbacks and grief, COVID, family needs, demanding jobs, and never enough time to accomplish everything. Some months the best we can do is triage (it’s only 3 editors keeping this babe around). In fact, this post is comin’ at you live after the 2nd failed attempt in as many weeks to buy postcard stamps and the post office not having any.

But even with challenges and setbacks, keeping HOOT around is a joy and an honor. Lo-fi and tactile: sending poetry and prose to others is our form of connection, which is why we hand write every note. Plus, we love USPS. While a lot has happened in 13+ years, HOOT is still here and we’ll continue our postcard press for as long as possible. Easy Mac is still here, too. Adopted when she was 4 years old, she is now about to turn 17; Easy has been a constant for HOOT. As such, we decided to share a new Easy photo with a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay: celebrating spring but not in the old way.

Along with Easy, here is the villainous editor, Summerslam 1992, trying to eat our postcards, and some small sweet poems on postcards from HOOT authors (art by author) and Robert Estes (art by ).

This is an insanely long way of saying: Happy National Poetry Month. We hope your poems are poem’ing

29/03/2025

Last day, cutie pies, come swing by and see our tiny table for the AWP book fair and grab some poems and prose on postcards 💌

28/03/2025

New day, new postcards out at our table (T239). Swing by and say hi and grab some bite-sized lit. 🦉

27/03/2025

In a surprising turn of events, we arrived on time this year and have the table set up with a small sampling of back issues. If you’re looking for a poetry or prose snack in between panels at AWP, come check out our pretty little postcards over at T239.

(In loving memory of my adored cat, Dream Phone, who was the model for one our designs, and gets to join us for AWP every year in absentia. We love you, Dream Phone 📞 🩷)

26/03/2025

Celebrating a Girl’s Night with this poetry postcard by Lisa Allen before going to set up for AWP. Come visit this postcard and so many more at our table. We’ll have plenty of giveaways (though likely no more chocolate).

25/03/2025

Organizing just a sample of our monthly postcards from the last thirteen years for AWP. We’ll be at table T239 with plenty of poems and prose on postcards to give away. Would really love to see a friendly face.

09/02/2025

Celebrating this beautiful piece of flash for one of our latest postcard issues by Kat Martuccio in hopes that we are soon able to take flight.

20/11/2024

And trans adults.

This our current postcard.

03/10/2024

When the most preciously perfect Philly beer is also a poem that complements reading poetry postcards.

Sorting through a stack of beautiful back issues is even more delicious when having a sip (whatever…a gulp) of .ales’s Blue. Single word titles are so modern. Read well, drink well.

30/09/2024

Super psyched to nominate these pieces for best of the net 💖

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