11/04/2025
It’s no secret that your HamLit editors champion genre, divisive as it may be in the literary community. What horror, erotica, transgressive, weird, bizarro, dark fantasy and sci fi, and noir writing offers is an end to the status quo. Alt-genre writing requires that we step outside our creature comforts. It shouts down your ear canal a new way of listening, skewing the pictures in your mind’s eye, recalibrating the schema applied to everyday life.
In a country currently hell bent on withholding basic, daily needs, why not embrace the ghoul, the gnat, the gentle stable hand? Escape and come back stronger. Route away from the easy work and get stirred up. That creative frenzy is needed on the front line. Make even as your heart gives out. Read until your eyes see through to planets beyond.
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