HamLit

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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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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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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☀️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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