HamLit

Here is your official call for our third and final Special Issue submissions, open through September.

See you in the dark🩸
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We are one week out from our HamLit Summer Hang❕💜❕

WHO: You! + your prose & poetry loving friends, neighbors, newbies, family, kiddos
WHAT: BBQ Potluck + Season Issues 01-10 Reading
WHEN: Sunday, August 2, 1-3PM
WHERE: Fairhaven Park, Bellingham

Let’s come together on a sunny summer Sunday for delicious burgers/hotdogs and veggie burgers (provided by HamLit) + other BBQ potluck goodies (brought by you) and celebrate HamLit‘s Seasons. We’ll gab, eat, and enjoy live readings from our 01-10 issue contributors.

This is an all ages event so please be welcomed! RSVP in the bio 🔗
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See you tomorrow, Hammies, at our absurdity + dark humor in fiction panel conversation Village Books and Paper Dreams❗️where we’ll dive into *St. Ulphia’s Dead* and the debut release experience with Scott Lambridis, then welcome authors Brittany Micka-Foos (*It’s No Fun Anymore* 2025 Apprentice House Press) and David Beaumier (*The Mourning Fields* 2025 Dark Forest Press LLC) to chat all things silly, brutal, and the universal language of comedic relief. Moderated by HamLit EIC, Rochelle Robinson.

Following the event, we’ll gather at Corner Taphouse for writerly gab and vibes💜 21+
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“From page one, Lambridis paints a vivid community that modern science cannot touch. In an effort to solve the unsolvable, hilarity, grotesquery, discomfort, and a massive bee-filled-bottle of the unbelievable (perhaps magical?!) ensues, showing that even the most unimaginable forms of relationships, harm, and identity can be well grappled with when we set down black versus white thinking in favor of the gray.”

Check out our book review for beloved HamLit contributor Scott Lambridis’ debut dark comedy *St. Ulphia’s Dead* at The HamLit Blog bio link and then hit up your local bookshop to grab a physical (or digital) copy today 📕🤗

Wanna celebrate the release with us and chat all things absurd? See you next Tuesday 7/14 @ 7PM in Seattle and on 7/25 at 4PM in Bellingham with & 💜➕ grab a drink with us after!
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Join HamLit’s Scott Lambridis, Western’s Brenda Miller, your 3️⃣ HL editors and many, many compelling creatives at next week’s Chuckanut Writers Conference!!

We will have a table right out front, so please stop by to grab a purple Jolly Rancher and let us know what you’re currently writing!

P.s. This editor is human and biased and must also plug her friend, CWC faculty, and powerful poet Sati Mookherjie. Be sure to check out her panels on Friday and Saturday😍
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Our fantastic final Issue 10 features Alex Phengsavath’s making>money poem “Overdrawn”. Visit our Harmattan Season bio 🔗 to redefine your own measure of accomplishment ✍🏽🙌🏾🏆
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Alex Phengsavath (he/him) recently finished his MFA at WWU in beautiful Bellingham, WA and was the 2023-2024 Managing Editor at Bellingham Review. He attended the University of Washington for his undergrad years and majored in German Studies and Comparative Literature. When he isn’t reading or writing, Alex loves to play TTRPGs and is an amateur calligrapher.
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Final task before the long weekend: bury your nose in a rose 🌹
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Today’s drizzly spring Issue 10 features Joe Pandolfi’s perspective-challenging short “Dirtworld”. Visit our Harmattan Season bio 🔗 to connect with the diverse lived experiences of our neighbors and community members ⛺️🌧️🌹
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Joe Pandolfi (he/him) considers writing both his purpose and his passion. In his downtime, he enjoys riding through Northwest forests, watching bummer films with his partner, and entertaining his kittens, Thelma and Louise. You can find his upcoming work in OSU’s Prism Magazine. 
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This complicated holiday weekend, our Issue 10 features Shoshana D. Kerewsky’s sweet-bitter-sweet poem “Three Years”. Visit our Harmattan Season bio 🔗 to remember the silver lining🍀
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Shoshana D. Kerewsky (she/her, ze/zer) writes poetry, fiction, lyrical nonfiction, memoir, essay, and haibun. Her work has appeared in fiction international, 96th of October, Sojourner, La Concha, Crab Creek Review, Northeast Journal, Little Patuxent Review, QUIX, Locust Shells Journal, Responsible Travel Guide Cambodia, Which Lilith? Feminist Writers Re-Create the World’s First Woman, Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Le***an Writers on Their Mothers, and elsewhere. Her books are the award-winning memoir Cancer, Kintsugi, Camino, 50 Days in May: Reflections Along the Camino de Santiago, and novel The Codex of Christian Surname. Shoshana teaches with Chuckanut Writers and Whatcom Community College.
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Today’s full moon cusping, Issue 10 features Jabez AB Richard’s deep-space, dry-spell short “The Sunken Frost Galaxy”. Visit our Harmattan Season bio 🔗 to find the inspiration to get out there and, you know, get some🪐🤩
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Jabez AB Richard (all pronouns) lives in Bellingham, Washington with his partner and two kiddos. His fiction and poetry, inspired by the cold, dark beauty that permeates the Pacific Northwest, have appeared in Jeopardy Magazine, Writers Corner Anthology, and Whatcom Writes. On those days when his literary muse is resting, he takes solace in spinning deep-cut funk records and cuddling puppies.
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