HamLit

08/09/2025

In honor of National Lazy Day, this features Kim Bogren Owen’s trash-karma short “Detritus”. Visit our Monsoon Season bio 🔗 to confront your own long-range, lazy habits 💨🗑️
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Kim Bogren Owen (she/her), as a child, became inspired by The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy to write. Armed with a BA in Anthropology, she started her career out of college as a preschool teacher, where she began to tell stories again, but it was years before she would think of publishing her stories and years more before she would begin that process. Currently, Kim works teaching Early Childhood educators and writes in her free time. In addition to short stories, she’s working on her first novel and has published two children’s picture books.
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08/08/2025

Weekend Writing Challenge:

Blur. the. lines.
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☠️Special Issue ‘25 After Dark submissions open 8.15☠️
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08/02/2025

As we usher in a new August, today’s features Spencer Jewell’s Mother Earth serenade “Chamomile From Stormwater”. Visit our Monsoon Season bio 🔗 to return to the salt and sea and storm of your own past 🌎✨
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Spencer Jewell (she/her) is currently a student and creative nonfiction editor in Bellingham, Washington. She has self published six poetry books, lived in seven states, and considers herself to be an almond croissant connoisseur. Right now, she’s probably hosting a tea party or praying for rain from her kitchen window.
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08/01/2025

transgressive
adj.

violating or challenging socially accepted standards of behavior, belief, morality, or taste: Transgressive fiction focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free in unusual ways.

See: *Last Exit to Brooklyn* by Hubert Selby Jr., *The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories* by Angela Carter, and *Wound from the Mouth of a Wound* by poet torrin a. greathouse
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☠️Special Issue ‘25 After Dark submissions open 8.15☠️
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07/26/2025

Welcome to the beautiful PNW summer weekend—so much to be grateful for tress🌲☀️🌻

Today’s features Joseph Evergreen ‘s past-meets-future short “Box”. Visit our Monsoon Season bio 🔗 to test your own resolve against the allure of the box ⚙️🧠
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Joseph Evergreen is a novelist primarily writing science fiction and speculative fiction for both children and adults. His stories have appeared in Idle Ink, Piker Press, and Underside Stories.
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07/25/2025

More of you joined us in exploring the weird, wrecked, and wayward by submitting to Special Issue ‘24 than any seasonal issue previously released… and it got us JAZZED👐

For this year’s After Dark, we hope you’ll dig in again and get even more literarily extreme with your wrath, your wretch, your wicked wicked ways. Once a year HamLit commits to championing alt genre, so this is your chance to fully embrace your (secret) wild, wanton side!

We hope this forthcoming collection of images (a la artists) helps you reach into a dark inner corner within and find horns 🖤💜
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☠️Special Issue ‘25 After Dark submissions open 8.15☠️
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07/19/2025

Oh, happy day! A fresh series is upon us and ready to whisk you—dear reader—into a deeper familiarity with our Issue 09 masters🌊🧠

To begin the downpour, we feature Sam Lindsey’s reality-within-reality short “One More Time”. Visit our Monsoon Season bio 🔗 to uncover your own life crippling memories ⏰🧊
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Sam Lindsey is a Seattle-based writer and photographer.
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07/03/2025

Look around. We are outside of ourselves. This home is unfamiliar. New rules, less sense. A crushing command beats down and forces us to remember the last authority respected. 

It was water wasn’t it? The last power you bowed to. Standing small before the ocean; a near-fall into that river raging. Maybe it was in the way a rainy day takes over — the pour, an excuse to push out the mad-making world.

Our banks have been overrun, the edges of a world known so well drowned by the recollection of life before this very moment. We’ve been flooded. And still, here we are.
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Check out our Monsoon Season collection 🔗⬆️
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07/02/2025

In the Pacific Northwest, we do not experience monsoon extremes. Yet, it is full, vibrant weather in other parts of our Earth. What a curious idea: significant truths exist beyond our own ponds. Brutal seasons, elsewhere, abound.

Like one shore from another, we’re disconnected. Thankfully, this collection of works reminds us that — similar to a country in decline and a warring globe — there are storms that bridge, remake, and pull us together, surge us back to self 💜
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Brava 👏👏👏 to our Issue 09 contributors: Jasmin Nyack, Kim Bogren Owen, Spencer Jewell, Joseph Evergreen, Abs Evans, Sam Lindsey, Linea Jantz, Scott Taylor, Sonya Wohletz, Ellie Pierson, and Ali P. Welker
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Monsoon Season: Flood Memory is NOW AVAILABLE! Click the bio 🔗 to read more.
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07/01/2025

Issue 09 Monsoon Season: Flood Memory is LIVE!
*🔗 above*
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Sending our fearless contributors a life-raft of gratitude and praise: Jasmin Nyack, Kim Bogren Owen, Spencer Jewell, Joseph Evergreen, Abs Evans, Sam Lindsey, Linea Jantz, Scott Taylor, Sonya Wohletz, Ellie Pierson, and Ali P. Welker 💙💜
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Look around. We are outside of ourselves. This home is unfamiliar. New rules, less sense. A crushing command beats down and forces us to remember the last authority respected. 

06/30/2025

Just as the summer sun begins to beat back the PWN drizzle so too will the memories flood back 🌦️🌈

Issue 09 Monsoon Season hits TOMORROW💜
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🏳️‍🌈Happiest Pride 2025 Hammies🏳️‍🌈
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06/28/2025

Issue 09 Monsoon Season publishes JULY FIRST 🌊🧠
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Tail Piece for Chapter LIII from “Lorna Doone” c. 1889 William Henry Drake (American, 1856–1926) America pen and ink
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