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Peace officially in practice until January 🎄🕊️✌️•
12/12/2024

Peace officially in practice until January 🎄🕊️✌️
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Our final Autumnal Equinox features Monica Woelfel’s puzzle-master short “Tribe of the Shy”. Visit our Issue 08 bio 🔗 ...
12/07/2024

Our final Autumnal Equinox features Monica Woelfel’s puzzle-master short “Tribe of the Shy”. Visit our Issue 08 bio 🔗 to read and remember that hope is alive out there in the world, beyond you🧀✏️
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Monica Woelfel (she/her) has published a few pieces in literary magazines over the years, including Seattle Review, North American Review, and The Sun. Her novel manuscript Innocence is a finalist for this year’s Pacific Northwest Writers Association literary contest. An M.F.A. graduate from University of British Columbia, Monica lives in Bellingham where she works as a hospice nurse.
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Congratulations to our first ever award nominees 🥂 “Water Like Honey” by Alexandra M. Lucas. Published on March 19, 2024...
12/01/2024

Congratulations to our first ever award nominees 🥂

“Water Like Honey” by Alexandra M. Lucas. Published on March 19, 2024, Issue 07 Vernal Equinox

“Tribe of the Shy” by Monica Woelfel. Published on September 17, 2024, Issue 08 Autumnal Equinox

“Resolution” by Leslie Edens. Published on October 27, 2024, Special Issue ‘24 After Dark
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Today’s gratitude-filled features Linda Conroy’s routine-tipping poem “Opening”. Visit our Issue 08 bio 🔗 to find warm...
11/30/2024

Today’s gratitude-filled features Linda Conroy’s routine-tipping poem “Opening”. Visit our Issue 08 bio 🔗 to find warmth in new beginnings🔓🔥
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Linda Conroy (she/her) is an observer of people and finds they offer a rich abundance for the creation of poetry, which recognizes and records the complexity and simplicity of human nature. Her poems have appeared in many journals, and in her poetry collections, Ordinary Signs and Familiar Sky.
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A mantra as your 2024 NaNo efforts come to a close…I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities ...
11/27/2024

A mantra as your 2024 NaNo efforts come to a close…

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me preeminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature. —Ava Lovelace, English mathematician, writer, and the founder of scientific computing (10 December 1815 - 7 November 1852)
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As we enter the season of intentional celebration, Dustin Micheletti’s time-heals-wounds poem “Two stumps in a clearcut”...
11/24/2024

As we enter the season of intentional celebration, Dustin Micheletti’s time-heals-wounds poem “Two stumps in a clearcut” is the perfect feature for today’s . Visit our Issue 08 bio 🔗 to remember to think in terms of years not days 🌳🌳
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Dustin Micheletti (he/they) and poetry have been casting flirtatious glances at each other for decades. An avid friend to nature and the oppressed, sometimes artist and author, dedicated to his chosen family. Bellingham via Portland. Find his most recent work in Unevenground, Corridor, poetrywatch, and in this year’s Poetry Postcard Fest.
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HamLit editor Rochelle Robinson connects with beloved friend and contributor Tom Altreuter to chat about the experience ...
11/21/2024

HamLit editor Rochelle Robinson connects with beloved friend and contributor Tom Altreuter to chat about the experience of publishing with HamLit, current creative endeavors, and where he finds inspiration for hit gritty fiction. Check out their conversation at The HamLit Blog bio 🔗 , drop a comment, and revisit Tom’s seasonal and solstice-y shorts 🚬 ✈️🧀
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This rainy November Saturday’s features Kate Beck’s sticky and hindsight-fueled poem “Hopes for a different season”. V...
11/16/2024

This rainy November Saturday’s features Kate Beck’s sticky and hindsight-fueled poem “Hopes for a different season”. Visit our Issue 08 bio 🔗 to prepare to take your seat on the porch 🖼️
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Kate Beck spends most of each day sending emails and sleeping and talking to strangers and lovers and finding food and making food and eating food and walking around and driving and taking the bus and sometimes biking from place to place. In between these activities, Kate spends time noticing things and sometimes recording them.
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Now that we’re halfway through NaNoWriMo, your HamLit editors are wondering how the writing is going?However many words ...
11/15/2024

Now that we’re halfway through NaNoWriMo, your HamLit editors are wondering how the writing is going?

However many words you’ve penned, remember it’s the progress that counts. You got this✍🏽🎉😎
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After a long week, we could all use a bit of literary release. Perhaps for you that’s writing or listening. If it’s read...
11/09/2024

After a long week, we could all use a bit of literary release. Perhaps for you that’s writing or listening. If it’s reading, check out today’s , which features George Osol’s stark, Russian-return short “HOMECOMING”. Lots of remembering, lots of loss, lots of potential to turn a new page.

Visit our Issue 08 bio 🔗 to prepare to greet your mother 🍲🎄
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George Osol (he/him), a resident of Bellingham, WA, has authored over one hundred scientific articles, a textbook on human pregnancy, and a romantic thriller titled Caveat (2019) that was published by Onion River Press (VT) and is available on Amazon. He is currently working on a book of short stories and a second novel.
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Get a taste of Bellingham poetry (and beer) tomorrow, Saturday, November 9, as the Salish Sea Poetry Festival presents a...
11/08/2024

Get a taste of Bellingham poetry (and beer) tomorrow, Saturday, November 9, as the Salish Sea Poetry Festival presents a four-stop poetry/pub “crawl” in the Sunnyland neighborhood.

The Poetry Pop-Up Series is free. Here’s the schedule:

1:00pm Greene’s Corner | 2208 James Street – Meet & Greet
2:00pm Kulshan Brewing Sunnyland | 2238 James St – Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater
3:00pm Otherlands Beer | 2121 Humboldt St. – Red Wheelbarrow Writers
4:00pm El Sueñito Brewing Company | 1926 Humboldt St – SpeakEasy

See you there!

Author Alan Moore said it well: “Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a terrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-f...
10/29/2024

Author Alan Moore said it well: “Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a terrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel.” And yet, like many others, Mr. Moore publishes exclusively in genre. Such is the truth of modern fiction—it echoes our dreams and fears best when treated with specificity.

As genre Lovers—capital “L” intended—the HamLit editors agree that any opportunity to herald the minoritized genres must be taken. Thus, our Special Issue series was born. (Day jobs be damned! We wanted the frenzy of publishing three issues in 2024!)

Away from theme and into niche, this issue begs for your attention, your safety, your pulse. Content warnings are available, yet optional. A racing heart is requisite. Your genre feast awaits.
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Check out our Special Issue ‘24 collection 🔗⬆️
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Special Issue ‘24 is our inaugural leap into corners of story that are often overlooked by the mainstream. And where bet...
10/28/2024

Special Issue ‘24 is our inaugural leap into corners of story that are often overlooked by the mainstream. And where better to start than in the deep, dark of the literary night? The strange, the scary, the spooky, really, any work that led hearts, minds, and libedos into the belly of the beast was requested. And how beautiful was this growing community’s response. After Dark saw the largest number of overall submissions and features the most contributions of any issue to date.

With unending appreciate to our twelve After Dark contributors: Kami Westhoff, Delaney Peterson, John Raven, Tuscan Harper, Ashley Libey, and 🖤☠️
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Special Issue ‘24 After is NOW AVAILABLE! Click the bio 🔗 to read more.
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Special Issue ‘24 After Dark is LIVE! *🔗 above*•Sending our bold contributors a blood curdling scream of gratitude and p...
10/28/2024

Special Issue ‘24 After Dark is LIVE! *🔗 above*
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Sending our bold contributors a blood curdling scream of gratitude and praise: Brianna Malotke, Kami Westhoff, Delaney Peterson, John Raven, Tuscan Harper, Alexandra M. Lucas, Scott Taylor, Ashley Libey, Leslie Edens, Maddison Bray, Joseph Andre Thomas, and Kayden Vargas 🖤☠️
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The spooky, the sexy, the strange… Keep your 👀 peeled for our first ever special issue hitting the inter🕸️ TOMORROW afte...
10/26/2024

The spooky, the sexy, the strange… Keep your 👀 peeled for our first ever special issue hitting the inter🕸️ TOMORROW after dark 🖤☠️
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Celebrate the After Dark release with us tomorrow from 5:30-7:30PM at Brandywine Kitchen. See 🔗 for RSVP!
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The sun sets tonight at 6PM… Here comes the night☠️•Celebrate the After Dark release with us this Sunday, October 27, 5:...
10/25/2024

The sun sets tonight at 6PM… Here comes the night☠️
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Celebrate the After Dark release with us this Sunday, October 27, 5:30-7:30PM at Brandywine Kitchen. See 🔗 for RSVP!
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Special Issue ‘24 After Dark publishes in 🌑🌑🌑🌑 nights!•Celebrate the release with us!☠️WHAT: HamLit Special Issue '24 Re...
10/24/2024

Special Issue ‘24 After Dark publishes in 🌑🌑🌑🌑 nights!
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Celebrate the release with us!☠️

WHAT: HamLit Special Issue '24 Reading Event
WHEN: Sunday, October 27, 5:30-7:30PM
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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Today’s features Leslie Edens’ curiosity-filled, coming-of-magic short “The 7 Habits of Highly Magical People”. Visit ...
10/19/2024

Today’s features Leslie Edens’ curiosity-filled, coming-of-magic short “The 7 Habits of Highly Magical People”. Visit our Issue 08 bio 🔗 to meet your mentor ☕️🪄
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Leslie Edens (she/her) grew up in New Mexico and lives in Bellingham, Washington. Usual hobbies include drinking coffee, hobnobbing with other writers, playing D&D, and riding a tiny ebike really fast. She writes far too much supernatural comedy, fantasy, horror, and science fiction, many self-published on Amazon. She is a freelance editor of genre fiction when she is not delivering packages all over Whatcom County. She’s currently writing a supernatural sci-fi horror series she likes to call Stranger Things meets Twin Peaks, entitled Above & Beyond.
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