HamLit

05/23/2026

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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05/22/2026

Final task before the long weekend: bury your nose in a rose 🌹
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05/16/2026

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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05/09/2026

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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05/02/2026

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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04/25/2026

This glorious spring weekend Issue 10 features Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor’s anticipation drenched poem “Unrequited”. Visit our Harmattan Season bio 🔗 to be reminded that connection takes two open doors 🚪🗺️💔
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Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor’s (she/they) non-fiction, poetry, and short fiction have appeared in print and online in several journals and anthologies including Katipunan Literary Magazine, 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. She has been performing as a storyteller since 2006 and specializes in stories based on Filipino folktales and Filipino-American history.
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04/18/2026

☀️The sun is out so let’s get deliciously dark🌑

Today’s Issue 10 features Alexandra M. Lucas’ blood-calling short “Hemorrhage”. Visit our Harmattan Season bio 🔗 to consider all the ways you’ll come alive when parts of you are dead 🎂🩸
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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. Last October, Alexandra spoke at the Austin Film Festival on a panel entitled, “Inside the Making of Battlefield.”
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04/13/2026

04/11/2026

This rainy PNW weekend Issue 10 features Tom Moore’s color-testing poem “Desert Hues”. Visit our Harmattan Season bio 🔗 to peer ahead and discern your own living mirage🏜️
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Sundry works, both creative and analytical, have appeared in such journals as Literary/Theory/Interpretation, American Aesthetic, Tiferet, Rhino, St. Petersburg Review, Jeopardy, Nimrod, and College English. Tom Morre (all pronouns) teaches myth and folklore at Western Washington University.  
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04/10/2026

Weekend, here we come 🌼
(Don’t worry! Rain is coming so lawn care can wait. Stay inside read our latest issue, 🔗 in bio🫠)
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