HamLit

10/14/2025

Special Issue ‘25 submission deliberation is complete! A deeply depraved thank you to every writer who plumbed their dark depths🖤
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☠️Our sophomore After Dark issue is officially COMING SOON☠️
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10/10/2025

☠️Come celebrate the release of our 2nd After Dark issue with us!☠️

WHAT: HamLit Special Issue ‘25 Reading Event
WHEN: Sunday, November 2, 6-7:30PM
WHERE: Brandywine Kitchen Mezzanine, Bellingham

Featured authors will read excerpts from After Dark, food and beverage will be available for purchase, and creative community will be shared. Authors, poets, friends, spicy/spooky/strange lovers, and beyond are welcome. Due to the content shared, pleased note that this is an 18+ event.

See 🔗 for RSVP!
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10/04/2025

Today’s comes on a warm October breeze to feature Linea Jantz’s sea-crossed poem “The Orphaned Mermaid”. Visit our Monsoon Season bio 🔗 to find or deny your own air 🪸💨
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Linea Jantz (she/her) has worked in roles including waste management, social services, and teacher. Among other adventures, she taught Business English in Ukraine (pre-invasion), worked as a bike law paralegal, and helped film a short documentary about women entrepreneurs in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Her writing is featured in publications including Palette Poetry, Heavy Feather Review, Beaver Magazine, and EcoTheo Review. She is a reader for ONLY POEMS and volunteers in her community supporting youth writers.
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10/03/2025

HamLit’s role as a local platform for writers as they step forward into the intimidating world of publishing extends to all the crooked, sensual, horrific bends in the genre road. We love when you hang out with us after dark!

To those who felt the jagged nail along their spine, heard the slippery whisper, “submit,” and obeyed, thank you! To all folks who tune in to our social media, blog, donation opportunities, and newsletter, Cheers, Hammies☕️☕️ You each make all things HamLit a reality!
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09/30/2025

09/26/2025

< 5️⃣ days left to submit 💀🪦
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09/23/2025

“With myth as a vivid backdrop, Beaumier captures the light and dark of vital personhood by revealing how we mortals actually think, behave, harm, and heal. The journey through these stories reiterates again and again that we are all made up of stars and earth.”

Check out our book review for beloved HamLit editor David Beaumier’s debut short story collection *The Mourning Fields* at The HamLit Blog bio link and then hit up your local bookshop to grab a copy today 📕🤗

Wanna celebrate the release with us? See you this coming Friday at 6PM 💜
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09/20/2025

After Dark submissions close in 🔟 days 🙌
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09/13/2025

Today’s almost-fall features Ellie Pierson’s family legacy short “The Force of the Flood”. Visit our Monsoon Season bio 🔗 to remember the lengths you’d go for truth, for freedom, for home ⚒️🌊
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Ellie Pierson (she/her) is the 2025 Outstanding Graduate of Western Washington University’s Creative Writing program. She has been published before in Jeopardy Magazine — Issue 59, with her creative nonfiction piece “Self Portrait as a Child of Flight“. Ellie looks forward to a life full of writing and telling stories that need to be told.
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09/12/2025

It’s dark times out here, folks. Hope you’re taking care of your heart, mind, and body💜

“And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.” —Stephen King
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☠️After Dark submissions close September 30☠️
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