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Who We Are

HAM is an online and in-print literary magazine that publishes short fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and comics/art. We like it when people push limits and boundaries.

If you would like to submit your work, please see our submission guidelines.

Subscribe to HAM →

We now offer subscriptions. You get four issues of HAM, free shipping, and our editor will also throw in a mixtape or a postcard, or even a book, when he sends out your issues!

irunfrombears:

I forgot to post this earlier but this is one of the proofs for HAM.

Our managing editor shares the first issue of HAM with the world.

HAM Literature: Issue 1

Details of our first issue can be found here. You can pre-order a copy here.

Issue 1 Contributors: Betsy Birdsall, Chanel Dubofsky, Craig Reishus, Forrest Roth, Howie Good, J. Bradley, Jack Waters, Ken Taylor, mike Mahar, Sandy Day, Sarah Green, Travis Kurowski, and William Kenderson

WE LIKE TO say how things are, perhaps because we hope that’s how they might actually be. We attempt to name, identify, and define the most mysterious of matters: sex, love, marriage, monogamy, infidelity, death, loss, grief. We want these things to have an order, an internal logic, and we also want them to be connected to one another. We want it to be true that if we cheat on our spouse, it means we no longer want to be married to him or her. We want it to be true that if someone we love dies, we simply have to pass through a series of phases, like an emotional obstacle course from which we will emerge happy and content, unharmed and unchanged.

Cheryl Strayed (via georgesjune)

pshares:

Joy Rides

In passing with my mind
on nothing in the world

but the right of way
I enjoy on the road by

virtue of the law…

––William Carlos Williams, Spring and All, XI

There are no more…

Call for Submissions! →

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Our Reader Interview →

Everyone interviews authors, but we’d like to get to know our readers too. Take our set of interview questions and we’ll follow up via e-mail with more questions.

Heads up!

We’re going to give our Tumblr and Twitter users a heads up on some exciting news. HAM is going to “officially” announce two upcoming theme issues; Women and GLBTQ. If you’re a female writer or a member of the GLBTQ community, head over to our website and read our submission guidelines and submit your work. You can submit for these issues now even though we haven’t officially announced these yet. Just put which theme issue you’re submitting for in your cover letter.

One Book - Non-fiction →

irunfrombears:

tetw:

The Shortlist

After a second round of nominations, the five finalists in Tumblr’s One Book - Non-fiction poll are:

Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

To choose a winner, which will be read and discussed by the group, reblog this post, tag your own posts #onebooknonfiction or contact us via our ‘ask’ page.

My vote is with The Chronology of Water.

Our editor loves The Chronology of Water so we’re voting for that! Related to the previous.

Lidia Yuknavitch The Chronology of Water.mp4 (by bookbroads)

Lily Hoang writes a letter to Lidia Yuknavitch on her birthday.