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This After Dark features Alexandra M. Lucas’ grisly short “Hunger”. Visit our Special Issue ‘25 bio 🔗 to determine y...
12/19/2025

This After Dark features Alexandra M. Lucas’ grisly short “Hunger”. Visit our Special Issue ‘25 bio 🔗 to determine your own cooking point 🥩
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Alexandra M. Lucas (she/her) is a Game Writer II at Electronic Arts. She won the GDC Game Narrative Review Platinum Award twice and the 2022 Dark Sire Award for Psychological Realism for “In the Deep”, originally featured in HamLit‘s Spring Issue: Alter Ego. Her short stories have appeared in Coffin Bell Journal and Whatcom WRITES, and her poem, “Leftover,” won a 2020 Sue C. Boynton Poetry Merit Award. In 2023, she was named an IGDA Foundation Next Gen Leader, and her poem, “Water Like Honey,” was a 2025 Pushcart Prize nominee. In October, Alexandra spoke at the Austin Film Festival on a panel entitled, “Inside the Making of Battlefield.”
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Harmattan submissions NOW OPEN through January 31⏳💜•
12/15/2025

Harmattan submissions NOW OPEN through January 31⏳💜
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A weekend After Dark must extend the delight! Enter Shoshana D. Kerewsky’s French-form poem “Rondeau: I wore nothing”....
12/14/2025

A weekend After Dark must extend the delight! Enter Shoshana D. Kerewsky’s French-form poem “Rondeau: I wore nothing”. Visit our Special Issue ‘25 bio 🔗 to garland yourself in a lovers’ smoke 🚬
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Shoshana D. Kerewsky (she/her) writes poetry, fiction, lyrical nonfiction, memoir, essay, and haibun. Her work has appeared in fiction international, 96th of October, Sojourner, La Co**ha, 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 memoirs are the award-winning Cancer, Kintsugi, Camino and 50 Days in May: Reflections Along the Camino de Santiago. Her novel, The Codex of Christian Surname, is forthcoming. Shoshana teaches with Chuckanut Writers/Whatcom Community College.
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well [wel]adverbin a good or satisfactory manner; thoroughly, favorably, with reasonadjectivein good health; of sound bo...
12/13/2025

well [wel]

adverb
in a good or satisfactory manner; thoroughly, favorably, with reason

adjective
in good health; of sound body and mind

interjection
to express surprise

noun
a hole drilled or bored into the earth; an apparent reservoir or source of human feeling

verb
to rise, spring, or gush, as water, from the earth or some other source

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Harmattan submissions open Monday, Dec 15⏳💜
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Today’s salty After Dark features Shannon Laws’ fight-forward poem “You Were Never Really Here”. Visit our Special Iss...
12/12/2025

Today’s salty After Dark features Shannon Laws’ fight-forward poem “You Were Never Really Here”. Visit our Special Issue ‘25 bio 🔗 to locate your own hammer.
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Shannon Laws (she/her) is an award-winning poet, performer, and advocate for the arts. She has been recognized with two Mayor’s Arts Awards and the Dr. Asha Bhargava Memorial Award — Community Champion. Her work has been featured in numerous journals and anthologies, and she has captivated audiences at esteemed literary events. 
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Congratulations to this year’s award nominees 🫖 “The Force of the Flood” by Ellie Pierson. Published on July 1, 2025, in...
12/01/2025

Congratulations to this year’s award nominees 🫖

“The Force of the Flood” by Ellie Pierson. Published on July 1, 2025, in Issue 09 Monsoon Season

“Homunculus” by Siona Kalil. Published on November 2, 2025, in Special Issue ‘25 After Dark
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Today’s After Dark kick-off features Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor’s wandering phantom short “Driving Home”. Visit our Specia...
11/30/2025

Today’s After Dark kick-off features Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor’s wandering phantom short “Driving Home”. Visit our Special Issue ‘25 bio 🔗 to check your own soul for Kindness.
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Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor’s non-fiction, poetry, and short fiction have appeared in print and online in several journals and anthologies including Katipunan Literary Magazine, Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults, Kuwento: Small Things, and Beyond Lumpia, Pansit, and Seven Manangs Wild: An Anthology. Her poetry chapbook Pause Mid-Flight was released in 2010. She is also the co-editor of True Stories: The Narrative Project Vol. I-IV, and her poetry and essays have been collected in Dancing Between Bamboo Poles, released in 2019. Rebecca (she/they) has been performing as a storyteller since 2006 and specializes in stories based on Filipino folktales and Filipino-American history.
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With reflections on home, heritage, and human value hot on our minds, we’re grateful to announce HamLit’s 2026 season re...
11/29/2025

With reflections on home, heritage, and human value hot on our minds, we’re grateful to announce HamLit’s 2026 season release will be Harmattan Issue 10! Theme: Well Runs Dry🔅🔆🔅
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Submissions accepted Dec 15 through January 31⏳💜
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It’s no secret that your HamLit editors champion genre, divisive as it may be in the literary community. What horror, er...
11/04/2025

It’s no secret that your HamLit editors champion genre, divisive as it may be in the literary community. What horror, erotica, transgressive, weird, bizarro, dark fantasy and sci fi, and noir writing offers is an end to the status quo. Alt-genre writing requires that we step outside our creature comforts. It shouts down your ear canal a new way of listening, skewing the pictures in your mind’s eye, recalibrating the schema applied to everyday life.

In a country currently hell bent on withholding basic, daily needs, why not embrace the ghoul, the gnat, the gentle stable hand? Escape and come back stronger. Route away from the easy work and get stirred up. That creative frenzy is needed on the front line. Make even as your heart gives out. Read until your eyes see through to planets beyond.
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Check out our Special Issue ‘25 collection 🔗⬆️
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The thirteen stories and poems featured in Special Issue ‘25 promise to crawl under your skin and remove you from your o...
11/03/2025

The thirteen stories and poems featured in Special Issue ‘25 promise to crawl under your skin and remove you from your own reality. They are a present from our resilient contributors to stimulate a bystander cease and desist.

Hurry. Unwrap your gift. Normal is officially dead.

With unending appreciate to our After Dark art-makers: Paul Clinton, Shannon Laws, Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor, Camille Winter, Alex Phengsavath, Alexandra M. Lucas, Shoshana D. Kerewsky, Jabez AB Richard, Siona Kalil, Ali P. Welker, Jay D. Falcetti, Spencer Jewell, and Scott Taylor🖤☠️
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Special Issue ‘25 After Dark is NOW AVAILABLE! Click the bio 🔗 to read more.
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Special Issue ‘25 After Dark is LIVE! *🔗 above*•Sending our resilient contributors a consensual caress of gratitude and ...
11/03/2025

Special Issue ‘25 After Dark is LIVE! *🔗 above*
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Sending our resilient contributors a consensual caress of gratitude and praise: Paul Clinton, Shannon Laws, Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor, Camille Winter, Alex Phengsavath, Alexandra M. Lucas, Shoshana D. Kerewsky, Jabez AB Richard, Siona Kalil, Ali P. Welker, Jay D. Falcetti, Spencer Jewell, and Scott Taylor🖤☠️
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Special Issue ‘25 publishes tomorrow After Dark 🌑 •Reading Event RSVP in the 🔗☠️We can’t wait to see you there, Hammies☠...
11/01/2025

Special Issue ‘25 publishes tomorrow After Dark 🌑
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Reading Event RSVP in the 🔗
☠️We can’t wait to see you there, Hammies☠️
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