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 […]
The Wonderland Book Awards – Final Ballot 2024
Published on :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 […]
Wonderland Award Winners 2023
Published on :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 […]
The Wonderland Book Awards – Final Ballot 2023
Published on :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 […]
The Wonderland Book Awards Preliminary Ballot
Published on :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 […]
BizarroCon 2023 Registration Open
Published on :It’s almost time for the 15th Annual BizarroCon in Portland, OR November 16-19, 2023. If you are a creator or lover of bizarro fiction, here are a few reasons you should attend!
CLASH Books: Delicious Dishes for You and Your Dog
Published on :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 […]
Little Miss Apocalypse
Published on :With the help of her gothy best friend, a socially-awkward 80s movie-obsessed teenager hatches a plan to trick the most popular boy in school into being her prom date. The only problem is, she has a secret missile hidden inside her vagina, ready to detonate on the day she gets […]
New Release: Pest
Published on :Pest presents the bizarre events that lead a new, parallel life for a man named Chalo as a wild yak living in the Himalayas. Chalo the man is recruited by a latter-day prophet named Grant to design and build a campus on Catalina Island, where initiates will be trained to […]
Soft Targets Book Release Party
Published on :“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 […]
The Slow Poisoner Show Episode 1: Tentacle Spectacles
Published on :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 […]
Out Now: Proximity
Published on :A literary meditation on sex. Sam Heaps is a millennial Anaïs Nin, exploring their most intimate power struggles with a raw and artful voice. Each partner is a new mask through which the narrator discovers themselves, creating a song through each personal essay of desire and regret — a pop […]
New Release: Sad Sexy Catholic
Published on :In this intimate collection of poetry, spells are cast, hearts are broken, and prayers go unanswered. Sad Sexy Catholic follows the journey of a young twenty-something as she navigates the already difficult task of existing made even harder by trauma, body dysmorphia, a personality disorder, and leftover guilt from a […]
Available for Pre-Order: My Birth and Other Regrets
Published on :Welcome to a world where the irrational and unexpected is just a way of life, and normality is reserved to be nothing more than a perpetuation of victimization… A House in the sky – Existence amongst human statues – A decomposing corpse in a water-cubed desert – Mysterious conversations with […]
Out Now: Crab Lust
Published on :February just got a little hotter under the shell! Hunter returns to the LUST series after ruffling our feathers with all of them chickens. Now the CRABS are pinching. These hard-shell anti-poetry romps flip the sandcastles upside down and take you not just to the beach, but into the mind […]
New Release: Last 5 Minutes of the Human Race
Published on :I saw the last five minutes of the human race, and it was beautiful. In this apocalyptic alphabet primer, award-winning author Michael Allen Rose teams up with famed Bizarro artist Jim Agpalza to walk through the end of humanity one letter at a time. Beautifully illustrated and powerfully written, this […]
Wonderland Award Winners 2022
Published on :Once more the covid-19 pandemic has preempted the return of a full Bizarro Con. However, Bizarros cannot be deterred from a November pilgrimage to McMenamins Edgefield outside Portland, Oregon. Affectionately and unofficially dubbed “Bizarro Con Jr: Part 2” and “New Diet Bizarro Con,” this small gathering held the Wonderland Awards […]
Cody Goodfellow’s Perfect Union
Published on :SOMETHING IN THE WOODS IS CALLING YOU. IT WANTS TO CHANGE YOU…PERFECT YOU. PRAY IT KILLS YOU FIRST. Three brothers searching the wilderness for their mother instead find a utopian cult that seeks to reinvent society, family…humanity “PERFECT UNION is Cronenberg’s THE FLY on a grand scale: human/insect gene-spliced body […]
Out Now: Les Femmes Grotesques
Published on :In each of these stories, the reader is lured into a sinister shadow space, one both familiar and uncanny. Life is strange, beautiful, and terrible in the world of Victoria Dalpe’s debut short story collection. Her characters run the gamut from nosy neighbors to boomtown prostitutes, sentient moss to ghouls […]
New Release: The Logos
Published on :Jaded and adrift, a young painter in New York joins his fate to a mercurial titan of industry in the hopes of finding a new artistic form—and quite possibly a new life. Cutting-edge intoxicants, the vagaries of desire, and an obscure art magazine with unlimited ambitions collide on the ultimate […]
Garrett Cook’s Charcoal
Published on :Thomas Kemp, the Libertine, turned cruelty, torture, and humiliation into works of art. It was said that he had given his soul to something inhuman to be part of artistic immortality. It was said that his very ashes were used to make a set of charcoals still imbued with his […]
The Wonderland Book Awards – Final Ballot 2022
Published on :Preliminary voting has ended and the final ballot has been determined. Here are the nominations for this year’s Wonderland Book Awards: NOVEL JURASSICHRIST by Michael Allen Rose (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)GIRL IN THE WALLS by Katy Michelle Quinn (Clash Books)FULL METAL OCTOPUS by Carlton Mellick III (Eraserhead Press)SUBURBAN GOTHIC by […]
Out Now: Almanac of Useless Talents
Published on :Fence poetry editor and rising star Michael Chang’s Almanac of Useless Talents is a must-read for poetry lovers and newbies alike. This is a useless Almanac. There’s no seasonal data, only poems good for leaving the club in haute couture with mid-level poets, for ambiguous sex, mouthy seductions, shoulder-turns of […]
The Wonderland Book Awards Preliminary Ballot
Published on :Voting for the Wonderland Book Award preliminary ballot begins now for the Best Bizarro Novel and Best Bizarro Collection of 2022. Below is a list of all eligible titles released in the year 2021. Please send your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place votes in the Novel and Collection categories to […]
New Release: High School Romance
Published on :In his debut collection, Marston Hefner brings a unique voice and playful style to meditations on self-acceptance, the folly of youth, and how love can lead to actualization and destruction. Through moments of family intimacy, work presentations, vacations, doomed relationships, or businessmen chasing the ephemeral, Hefner shows we are lovable […]
Available for Preorder: Dad Jokes by Justin Hunter
Published on :A deviant kid tires of his absent father’s antics and summons a curse that will kill him the moment he tells one of his tired zingers. Little does he know that this time, his dad has left for good. The curse spreads. Dads are dying all over town and nobody […]
Anybody Home?
Published on :What came first, the home or the desire to invade? A seasoned invader with multiple home invasions under their belt recounts their dark victories while offering tutelage to a new generation of ambitious home invaders eager to make their mark on the annals of criminal history. From initial canvasing to home entry, […]
Out Now: Separation Anxiety
Published on :A complex and entangled text that explores inherited trauma, the presence of ghosts, interspecies communication, the dream world, grief, and human/animal separation. Weaving wisdom from her shamanic practice and the interstices of language and in the difficult moments anticipating the deaths of her beloved dog companions, Separation Anxiety marks the first collection […]
Available for Preorder: The Girl with the Barbed Wire Hair
Published on :From the author of Cannibals of Candyland and The Terrible Thing That Happens, comes a depraved love story inspired by Japanese cult horror films such as Ringu and Ju-on: the Grudge. The newest entry to the Carlton Mellick III canon is to release on October, 18th 2022. “Bizarre, twisted, and […]
Out Now: Selleck’s ‘Shache Is Missing
Published on :The newest release from Planet Bizarro is a glimpse into the mind of Charles Chadwick. Celebrated Hollywood star Tom Selleck has it all: talent, good looks, a winning personality, and a track record of television and movie hits, enjoyed by millions around the world. Until one day, while filming his […]
Out Now: Consume
Published on :First-time author Kourtnea Hogan delivers a stunning coming-of-age story with CONSUME. Tegan is a fragile teenager who feels invisible around her other classmates, until Rileigh walks into her life and quickly becomes the object of Tegan’s affections. Soon, affection becomes an obsession, and Tegan’s insecurities begin to manifest in unhealthy […]
Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror
Published on :Ghoulish Books, an imprint of Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, seeks submissions from transgender and non-binary identifying authors for their first anthology project. Hello, my name is Lor Gislason (they/them) and I will be the editor of BOUND IN FLESH. Body horror has been a part of my life for many […]
Trigger Warning Annual Anthology: Curses
Published on :Madness Heart Press is now seeking submissions for its fourth edition of Trigger Warning. The previous editions have covered Speaking Ill of the dead, extreme Body Horror, and Hallucinations. This time around they’re looking for the most unspeakable, gut-wrenching, mind-bending stories about curses writers can drag out of their nightmares. […]
New Release: Moonfellows
Published on :There seems to be nothing short of acclaim for Wonderland Award-winning author Danger Slater’s most recent novel, Moonfellows, from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. There’s no science to be found in this book, but I didn’t order a science book. I ordered a bizarro tale about the true-ish history of the […]
Masterclass Takes Notice
Published on :The good people at Masterclass have brought Bizarro to their audience with the article Bizarro Fiction Genre: 15 Bizarro Fiction Authors. Within, they take a quick look at what bizarro fiction is, what the core elements are, and call out fifteen notable authors. The fabulous fifteen are as follows: Andre […]