RSVP to join us in celebration on May 8th at 7PM (PDT) for an online reading event. Recommended donation is $5 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Alissa Hattman will be joined by TJ Acena, Chalaundrai Grant, Hannah Pass, Lucie Bonvalet, Chrys Tobey and lark pien

Elevator Pitch: Love letters as postcards to people, spaces, and objects.

The Details: "POST" is an epistolary collection of postcards written by Alissa Hattman during the American Short Fiction Constellation Challenge. This was a month-long writing experiment that took place in November 2020. In the collection, Alissa explores distance from loved ones, spaces, and objects with intense depth and nuance. She offers poignant observations about our relationship to the passage of time, memories, and ideas.

The first line: Dear Victory Bar, I miss your glasses of amber flecked with ginger.

Praise for POST: We write to connect.  We read to connect.  And, in this pandemic, this time of loss and aloneness, this connection is crucial.  Alissa Hattman deftly captures this in Post, a collection of playful and poignant postcards to friends, a bar, a desk, a future nephew, a governor, a janitor, and many more surprising humans and objects. Post has a skillful combination of humor, wisdom, grief, and heartbreak, but really, Hattman’s collection is an ode to life – it brims with gratitude, gratitude for people here and gone, places and things, gratitude for this planet.  I am grateful for Alissa Hattman’s writing.  I am grateful for this beautiful collection that makes me feel less alone. - Chrys Tobey, author of A Woman is a Woman is a Woman is a Woman

POST Reading & Launch Party