15 Facts About Hal Duncan

Hal Duncan's works have been listed in the New Weird genre, but he prefers not to ascribe his writings to any genre.

Hal Duncan was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, in 1971 and grew up "in small town Ayrshire" before relocating to Glasgow, where he graduated from Glasgow University and where he still resides.

Hal Duncan is openly gay and terms himself a "Sodomite".

Hal Duncan is an active member of the Glasgow Science Fiction Writers Circle and he took part in the spoken word performance group Word Dogs, organised by some of the members of the Circle.

Hal Duncan participated in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's Last Drink Bird Head, an experiment in which 70 writers were asked the same question, published by Ministry of Whimsy with the profits donated to the ProLiteracy Worldwide Organization.

Hal Duncan participated in the album Ballads of the Book with a poem, "If You Love Me You'd Destroy Me", put in music by Aereogramme.

Hal Duncan wrote a musical, Nowhere Town, that he defines a "punk rock opera" and a "gay punk Orpheus".

Hal Duncan made the libretto and the vocal tracks available for download through his blog.

Hal Duncan writes a monthly column on BSCreview entitled Notes from New Sodom, keeps a blog called Notes from the Geek Show and is active on Twitter.

Hal Duncan contributed to Dan Savage's It Gets Better project.

Hal Duncan wrote essays related to myth and literature, some of which are available online.

Hal Duncan made recordings of some of his readings publicly available through his blog; some can be freely downloaded while others are being sold for a fee.

On 6 September 2011 Hal Duncan took part in a "Literary Death Match" in Edinburgh.

Hal Duncan was declared the winner after a "shootout" against Vasiliou.

Hal Duncan was one of the five judges for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards.