HamLit

06/20/2025

Blessed Solstice ☾☼☀︎⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

Our final After Dark features Scott Taylor’s wet and wild short story “It Came From the Ocean, and It Was”. Visit our Special Issue bio 🔗 to discover your own penchant for creature cults 🔦🌊🙏
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Scott Taylor (he/him) is a short story and novel writer most interested in speculative and surreal fiction. He works as a fiction editor and lives in Bellingham, Washington with his family and a decisive black cat. With a fascination in the hidden wonders and terrors of the world, he explores multiple media of art, from prose to playwriting to music, finding that each medium feeds into the others.
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06/17/2025

💜Happy Publication Day 💜

HamLit editor Rochelle Robinson communes with OG HamLit contributor and debut collection extraordinaire Brittany Micka-Foos and chats all things writing & publishing It’s No Fun Anymore, available today!

Check out their conversation at The HamLit Blog bio 🔗 , drop a comment, and RSVP for the upcoming book launch + unconventional publishing Q&A event on July 3! PLUS join us afterward for a writerly gathering of joy, encouragement, and libations 🍻📚
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06/14/2025

What a welcome graduation weekend, folks🎓

This moment-in-time After Dark features Alexandra M. Lucas’ luminary short story “Glow”. Visit our Special Issue bio 🔗 to find your own expansive hope in all our galaxy may hold, if only we risk exploration 🐛💡
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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 she won 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.
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AfterDark

06/12/2025

💜 Lovely shout out for our Special Issue ‘24 After Dark from Darren 💜

Wanna read? 🔗 in bio
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06/06/2025

Happy Friday, friends! This After Dark features “Genesis 1:26”, Tuscan Harper’s design on the original ghost tale. Visit our Special Issue bio 🔗 to greet your own fire-light haunting 🧨🕷️
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Tuscan Harper (he/they) grew up on Whidbey and Fidalgo islands. Now he’s a student at Western Washington University studying music and computer science. When he has a bit of spare time he writes. When he has more time he wanders a nearby mountain. His poems are vague dreams carried along as much by thoughtful imagery as by their narratives.
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AfterDark

06/03/2025

Issue 09 submission deliberation is complete! A torrential thank you to every creator who proved unafraid of a little bit of wet💜
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05/22/2025

Today’s After Dark features the crowd-teasing short “First Date” by John Raven.

Looking for the trick? Visit our Special Issue bio 🔗 to experience the magic of meeting someone new, cut by bloody cut 🪄🩸👏
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John Raven (he/him) is a writer based in the Pacific Northwest who currently focuses on humor, existential themes, science fiction and magical surrealism. John currently studies Materials Engineering and Computer Science at WWU.
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05/17/2025

When the monsoon hit, where were you? After the rain stopped pouring, what never fully dried? Cold bones, floating hearts, growth oversaturated.

Our 2025 season issue asked PNW creatives to wade through a deluge of remembering how not to forget. Many of you set out to answer the distress call over the shout for joy at a land sighting. Some of you willingly paddled away from the distant clear sky, steering deeper into the pour.

Endless thank you to all who felt the drops turn to ocean and grabbed an oar; to each of you who considered this soaked theme, cruised around in it, willingly recalled, even if you ultimately decided not to dive in; and all folks who engage with our social media, blog, donation opportunities, and newsletter. Again and again, you make HamLit… HamLit💜
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05/15/2025