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Bizarro Books as Resistance: Caleb Wilson

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Contributor’s Note: Once again, Andrew here. Last week, I wondered whether or not other cities would follow the uprising in Los Angeles, and they did almost immediately, standing in solidarity with Los Angeles as they also worked nonstop to protect their own communities. The militant resistance taking place across the […]

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Bizarro Books as Resistance: Rios de la Luz

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Contributor’s Note: Andrew here. I was born in LA and have lived in this city for all my life. With this series focusing on resistance, I wanted to take a brief moment to highlight the resistance taking place in the streets of Los Angeles as I type this. Last Friday […]

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The Sky is Still There, She Isn’t: We’ll Never Be Fragile Again by Thomas Moore

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by Ben Arzate How can anything make sense once it feels so big? I’m barely in control of myself. How can the sky be anything but a huge, beautiful fluke? Whatever it is, I’ll take it. The unnamed narrator of Thomas Moore’s We’ll Never Be Fragile Again spends the one […]

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Bizarro Books as Resistance: John Baltisberger

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Welcome back to another week of Bizarro Books as Resistance. For the third installment, I was lucky enough to interview John Baltisberger. John is the author of the Wonderland Award winning book All I Want is to Take Shrooms and Listen to the Color of Nazi Screams, among numerous others. He […]

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Kill the Commercials in Your Head: Welcome to Your Dreamtime by Norman Spinrad

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by Ben Arzate Norman Spinrad’s new, surreal novel is written in the form of a series of documents related tothe DREAMMASTER, a machine which allows its user to control their dreams like choosing afilm to watch. It consists of advertisements, manuals, records of dreams, and online dispatches.Through these, a narrative […]

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Flash Fiction Fridays: Hellbound Goddess

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Luciana Centeno does work that is really hard to categorize, even for Bizarro. It seems on the surface like it’s dark fantasy until you look at the transgressive elements and the meditations on queer selfhood at the core of it. This piece and the novel whose world it comes from […]

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Bizarro Books as Resistance: Katy Michelle Quinn

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Welcome back to Bizarro Books as Resistance! For the second installment of this series, I’m pleased to present this conversation with Katy Michelle Quinn. I first met Katy back in 2013 while attending university in Seattle. We went to the same school and met through a classmate. We would often […]

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Flash Fiction Fridays: The Game Closet

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Shelly Lyons comes out of screenwriting. It’s a specific, draconian, and hard-to-develop skillset that can sometimes hamper writers trying their hand at fiction. Shelly has no such issue. She takes the scenemaking skills and the eyes of a screenwriter and brings that to fiction. Shelly is an impressive voice, and […]

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Bizarro Books As Resistance: Andrew J. Stone

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I often think about resistance literature. Ideas for bizarro books of resistance frequently swirl around my mind. But when I brought this topic up on the bizarro discord a few months ago, the group could only list a handful of bizarro books that could be categorized as resistance literature. I […]

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Flash Fiction Fridays: Making Memories More Fun

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I have been working with Madeleine Swann for years. She has a gift for combining wonder, horror, and beauty into some of the most distinctive and unusual fiction you have ever read. A new piece from Madeleine is always a pleasure and one I am grateful to share. Making Memories […]

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Flash Fiction Friday: How to Be Boring

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Garrett Cook here. I have known Michael Allen Rose since BizarroCon 2 where we found each other to be staunch defenders of each other’s pitches in the pitch workshop, which is notable because mine was otherwise universally disliked. He is now President of the Bizarro Writer’s Association as well as […]

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Flash Fiction Friday: False Hopes

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Garrett Cook here. Yeah, that’s two fish people in a row. To quote Marge Simpson, “I just think they’re neat”. Matthew Gleason is also neat. Matthew has a gleeful nihilism, a strong hustle, and a passion for everything grotesque that makes them one to watch. False Hopes by Matthew J. […]

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Flash Fiction Friday: This Household Believes in Science

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Garrett Cook here. Writer, editor, Wonderland winner, Bizarro Showdown winner. Longtime Bizarro. Proud to be here, taking the reigns of Flash Fiction Friday. In the coming months, you’ll see handpicked stories from Bizarros old and new and weird folks in the periphery of the community. First up is an author […]

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Ragnarökin’ in the Free World: Twilight of the Gods by Kurt Baumeister

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by Ben Arzate The gods have been on the back foot since their ill-fated alliance with Adolf Hitler during WWII.Loki, the narrator of the novel, has been content living a hedonistic life in America. Odin, on theother hand, has a plan to bring the gods back into ascendance. He recruits […]

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Ghoulish Books Membership 2025

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Subscribing to a Ghoulish Books Membership allows you to pre-order the 2025 publication line-up at a 10% discount from retail prices. They have three subscription options available this year: ULTIMATE GHOUL, TRUE GHOUL and DIGITAL GHOUL. Here’s what you get: DIGITAL GHOUL MEMBERSHIPS (EBOOKS) $30 TRUE GHOUL MEMBERSHIPS (PAPERBACKS + […]

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Three Very Bizarre Silent Films

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By Madeleine Swann I’ve written about strange silent films before, including A Page of Madness by art collective Shinkankakuha (School of New Perceptions) and The Seashell and the Clergymen by Germaine Dulac (technically the first surrealist film no matter how much Dalí insisted his was). However, I’d like to show […]

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Madeleine Swann’s Tiny Weirds

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Self-proclaimed psychedelic flapper who writes weird things. Hailing from Essex in England, Madeleine is a Wonderland Award-nominated author of such works as Fortune Box and Reality But More Fun. She’ll give you a hit of dopamine and put a smile on your face in 30 seconds or less. Or, if […]

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Wonderland Award Winners 2024

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Astoria, Oregon was the scene of this year’s Bizarro Con. Organized and hosted by Cameron Pierce and Kirsten Alene, the majority of events took place in the Lovell Showroom at Fort George Brewery. We would like to thank all of the businesses in Astoria who opened their doors to our […]

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The Wonderland Book Awards – Final Ballot 2024

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The Wonderland Book Awards are a recognition presented annually at BizarroCon for superior achievement in bizarro fiction writing. The 2024 awards, for books published in 2023, will be presented at BizarroCon 2024. Preliminary voting has ended and the final ballot has been determined. Here are the nominations for this year’s Wonderland Book Awards: NOVEL […]

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Wonderland Award Winners 2023

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This year saw the long-awaited return of Bizarro Con to its full glory. Bizarros from all corners made the trek to Portland, Oregon to attend workshops and panels, perform readings, make merry, form bonds, and crush the competition during the Ultimate Bizarro Showdown. Most of all, to celebrate the best […]

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The Wonderland Book Awards – Final Ballot 2023

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Preliminary voting has ended and the final ballot has been determined. Here are the nominations for this year’s Wonderland Book Awards: NOVEL One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve by M. Shaw (Tenebrous Press)God’s Leftovers by Grant Wamack (Bizarro Pulp Press)The Girl with the Barbed Wire Hair by Carlton […]

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The Wonderland Book Awards Preliminary Ballot

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The Wonderland Book Awards are a recognition presented annually at BizarroCon for superior achievement in bizarro fiction writing. The 2023 awards, for books published in 2022, will be presented at BizarroCon on November 18th. Voting for the Wonderland Book Award preliminary ballot begins now for the Best Bizarro Novel and […]

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CLASH Books: Delicious Dishes for You and Your Dog

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Delicious Dishes for You and Your Dog brings you over 40 recipes carefully crafted to omit dog-toxic ingredients while maximizing flavor to satisfy all your taste buds. Shake up mealtime by making something special for the whole family – including your canine loved ones!  Lisa Goddard, along with the help of her […]

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Soft Targets Book Release Party

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“I already knew Carson Winter was one of the best newer writers of the Weird, but with SOFT TARGETS my admiration and expectations of his work have skyrocketed. Read this book.” Jon Padgett, author of The Secret of Ventriloquism Join New Weird Horror publisher Tenebrous Press and author Carson Winter […]

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The Slow Poisoner Show Episode 1: Tentacle Spectacles

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Tentacle Wrestling! Fuzzy Robots! Giant Flowers! Haunted Books! It’s all in the first episode of The Slow Poisoner Show, a fifteen-minute free streaming video that combines the creepiness of a late-night horror host with the kookiness of an early-morning kids’ show, plus a twist of anti-budget public access weirdness. “Tentacle […]