Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Pacific literature is often labeled “new” or “emerging,” but these terms—as well as the idea that SFF is contemporary to the region—couldn’t be more wrong.
It was in portal fantasy that I found a sub-genre that put into words some of my complex feelings of being an immigrant. Much like
I spent a long time living with a self-imposed fallacy that I had to somehow pick one creative pursuit and that was the Only Thing.
It is a journey to realms, places, and cultures I could barely imagine nearly a decade ago, one where I’ve met memorable characters and immersed
First, he’d blithely explain how my great-grandfather saved the family’s cows from that blasphemous witch by lifting her up against the wall and choking her
It’s fantastical, illogical, ambitious, somewhat irreal, even unsettling—you may have read the literary strange in all its jarring, but just didn’t know it by name
