"The Bizarro literary movement is the ultimate in outsider lit."
- 3AM Magazine
"[Bizarro is] universally intriguing, thoughtful, intelligent and, most importantly, a hell of a lot of fun."
- The Pedestal Magazine
WHAT IS BIZARRO?
1. Bizarro, simply put, is the genre of
the weird.
2. Bizarro is literature's equivalent to
the cult section at the video store.
3. Like cult movies, Bizarro
is sometimes surreal, sometimes avant-garde, sometimes goofy, sometimes bloody, sometimes borderline pornographic, and almost
always completely out there.
4. Bizarro strives not only to be strange, but
fascinating, thought-provoking, and, above all, fun to read.
5. Bizarro often contains a certain
cartoon logic that, when applied to the real world, creates an unstable universe where the bizarre becomes the norm and absurdities
are made flesh.
6. Bizarro was created by a group of small press publishers
in response to the increasing demand for (good) weird fiction and the increasing number of authors who specialize in it.
7. Bizarro is like:
Franz Kafka meets John Waters
Dr.
Suess of the post-apocalypse
Takashi Miike meets William S. Burroughs
Alice in Wonderland for adults
Japanese animation directed by David Lynch
Even though the Bizarros are underground cult outsiders,
they still have gained an incredible amount of respect in the publishing industry. Having been praised by the likes of Chuck
Palahniuk, Christopher Moore, William Gibson, Piers Anthony, Michael Moorcock, and Charles de Lint, to name a few, as well
as the publications Asimov's Science-fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-fiction, Cemetery Dance, Publishers
Weekly, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Face, among many others. They have also been finalists for the Philip K
Dick Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Pushcart Prize.
Bizarro isn't just weird fiction,
it is DAMN GOOD weird fiction. And it grows exponentially every single day, so, love it or hate it, you'll be seeing a
lot more of it in the years to come.
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