A free publication attempting to showcase the best short-fiction, poetry, artwork and photography, by writers, artists and photographers that don't yet have developed careers. We are based in Peckham (from where we take our name), but the journal can be found in a number of independent bookshops, cafes, and pubs around the UK, or ordered online from our website.
The aim of The Ham is not only to provide a platform for writers and artists that are otherwise fairly under-represented, but also to distribute the journal in a way in which it will reach an audience not usually exposed to this type of work. The Ham will be left on public transport, and in public spaces in which you might not expect to find literary and arts journals. We aim to reach an audience that is not often targeted by literary and arts journals; teenagers on their way to school, commuters on their way to and from work, and day-time drinkers whiling away their time in pubs and social clubs up and down the country.
