Hal Duncan

Hal Duncan was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire,https://indielight.co.uk/2018/12/18/author-interview-hal-duncan/ Interview with Hal Duncan where he talked about growing up in Kilwinning in 1971 and grew up "in small town Ayrshire" before relocating to Glasgow, where he graduated from Glasgow University and where he still resides.{{cite web|url=http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/halduncan.html#Author |title=About The Author |author= |publisher=Tangled Web UK |date=7 February 2007 |accessdate=28 October 2010}} Before becoming a full-time writer he used to work as a computer programmer,{{cite web|url=http://www.sfsite.com/06a/hd225.htm |title=An Interview with Hal Duncan |author=Jakob Schmidt |publisher=The SF Site |year=2006 |accessdate=28 October 2010}} a job that he quit in 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.sffworld.com/interview/249p0.html |title=Interview with Hal Duncan |author=Rob Queen |publisher=SFFworld.com |date=14 November 2007 |accessdate=22 March 2011}}

He is openly gay and terms himself a "Sodomite".{{cite web |url=http://gestaltmash.com/author/hal-duncan/ |title=Hal Duncan |author= |publisher=Gestalt Mash |date= |access-date=28 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101029153816/http://gestaltmash.com/author/hal-duncan/ |archive-date=29 October 2010 |df=dmy-all }}{{cite web |url=http://www.bscreview.com/2009/10/notes-from-new-sodom-to-the-water-fountains/ |title=To the Water-Fountains |author=Hal Duncan |publisher=BSCreview |date=1 October 2009 |accessdate=28 October 2010 |archive-date=26 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110126114524/http://www.bscreview.com/2009/10/notes-from-new-sodom-to-the-water-fountains/ |url-status=dead }} Occasionally he fashions himself as "THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan" (sic) after receiving hate mail defining him by this expression, as reported on his personal weblog.{{cite web|url=http://notesfromthegeekshow.blogspot.com/2008/03/sodomite-hal-duncan.html |title=THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan |author=Hal Duncan |publisher=Hal Duncan (BlogSpot) |date=31 March 2008 |accessdate=20 April 2011}}

He is also very outspoken politically{{cite web|url=https://frombartobar.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/from-bar-to-bar-interviews-hal-duncan/ |title=From Bar to Bar interviews Hal Duncan |author=Delfim Martins/Romeu Martins |publisher=From Bar to Bar |date=7 September 2010 |accessdate=22 March 2011}} and considers himself an "anarcho-socialist who recognizes that democracy's the least of all possible evils" but also "a little bit liberal."{{cite web |url=http://www.bscreview.com/2010/05/notes-from-new-sodom-calling-a-spade-a-spade/ |title=Calling a Spade a Spade/Of Polls and Poles |author=Hal Duncan |publisher=BSCreview |date=5 May 2010 |accessdate=22 March 2011 |archive-date=25 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225163042/http://www.bscreview.com/2010/05/notes-from-new-sodom-calling-a-spade-a-spade/ |url-status=dead }}

He is an active member of the Glasgow Science Fiction Writers Circle{{cite web|url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intmchdgg.htm |title=An Interview with Michael Cobley, Gary Gibson and Hal Duncan |author=Neil Williamson |publisher=Infinity Plus |date=30 July 2005 |accessdate=27 October 2010}} and he took part in the spoken word performance group Word Dogs, organised by some of the members of the Circle.{{cite web|url=http://underword.co.uk/programme/2009/worddogs.html |title=Word Dogs |author= |publisher=UnderWord |date=1 August 2009 |accessdate=27 October 2010}}

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Hal Duncan listed amongst his inspirations and influences such diverse authors as James Joyce, William S. Burroughs, Alfred Bester, H. P. Lovecraft, Neal Stephenson, Michael de Larrabeiti, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Samuel R. Delany, Wallace Stevens, William Blake, Michael Moorcock, Harold Pinter and Jorge Luis Borges.{{cite web |url=http://thenewgay.net/2010/08/hal-duncan.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100827082811/http://thenewgay.net/2010/08/hal-duncan.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 August 2010 |title=TNG Interview: Hal Duncan |author=Craig Laurance Gidney |publisher=The New Gay |date=20 August 2010 |access-date=28 October 2010 }}

His first novel, Vellum – The Book of All Hours, was released by Pan Macmillan in August 2005.Hal Duncan (2005), Vellum – The Book of All Hours, Pan-Macmillan, August 2005, {{ISBN|978-1-4050-5208-5}} – US edition: Del Rey, April 2006, {{ISBN|978-0-345-48731-5}} It was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Locus Award, and won the Spectrum and the Tähtivaeltaja Awards. It is about a war between Heaven and Hell fought in a reality of which Earth is only a fragment; in this reality, called Vellum, live the Unkin (Angels and Demons). The events in the novel are described in a non-linear order, with several skips ahead and back in time. The story of the characters is linked to the Sumerian myth of Inanna and her descent to the underworld and to Aeschylus's tragedy Prometheus Bound.{{cite web|url=http://writerunboxed.com/2006/07/14/author-interview-hal-duncan-part-1/ |title=Author Interview: Hal Duncan |author= |publisher=Writer Unboxed |date=14 July 2006 |accessdate=28 October 2010}} It is divided in two parts dedicated to the seasons of summer (entitled ""The Lost Deus of Sumer") and fall (entitled "Evenfall Leaves").{{cite web|url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/vellum.htm |title=Vellum: The Book of All Hours Part 1 |author=Lawrence Osborn |publisher=Infinity Plus |date=10 December 2005 |accessdate=28 October 2010}}

Vellum has been translated amongst others into German (by Hannes Riffel),Hal Duncan transl. by Hannes Riffel (2008), Vellum, Heyne Verlag, {{ISBN|978-3-453-52254-1}} Finnish (by Nina Saikkonen),Hal Duncan transl. by Nina Saikkonen (2009), Vellum: Kaikkeuden kirja 1, Like, {{ISBN|952-01-0327-9}} French (by Florence Dolisi),Hal Duncan transl. by Florence Dolisi (2008), Le livre de toutes les heures, Tome 1 : Vélum, Denoël, {{ISBN|978-2-207-25880-4}} Spanish (by Luis Gallego Tevar),Hal Duncan transl. by Luis Gallego Tevar (2008), Vellum, La Factoria de Ideas, {{ISBN|978-84-9800-376-5}} Italian (by Stefania Di Natale)Hal Duncan transl. by Stefania Di Natale (2007), Cronache perdute dal mondo dei diavoli: Vellum, Newton Compton, Roma, {{ISBN|978-88-541-0910-0}} and Polish (by Anna Reszka).Hal Duncan transl. by Anna Reszka (2006), Welin: Księga wszystkich godzin, Mag, {{ISBN|83-7480-032-1}}

Its sequel, Ink – The Book of All Hours 2, was published in February 2007.Hal Duncan (2007), Ink – The Book of All Hours 2, Pan-Macmillan, February 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-330-43838-4}} – US edition: Del Rey, February 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-345-48733-9}} Its two parts are linked to the two remaining seasons, winter (entitled "Hinter's Knights") and spring ("Eastern Mourning"), and it continues the narrative (and the style) of the first instalment.{{cite web|url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/ink.htm |title=Ink: The Book of All Hours 2 |author=Jakob Schmidt |publisher=Infinity Plus |date=25 August 2007 |accessdate=28 October 2010}} The ancient works here referred to are Euripides's The Bacchae and the Old Testament.{{cite web|url=http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-345-48733-9.html |title=Review: Ink |author=Russ Allbery |publisher= |date=5 November 2007 |accessdate=28 October 2010}} Ink has been shortlisted for the 2011 Tähtivaeltaja Awards.{{cite web |url=http://babeknabel.fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1558&Itemid=58 |title=Tähtivaeltaja-palkinnon ehdokkaat julkistettu! (in Finnish) |author= |publisher=Babek Nabel |date=29 March 2011 |access-date=6 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208022319/http://babeknabel.fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1558&Itemid=58 |archive-date=8 December 2011 |df=dmy-all }}{{cite web |url=http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=4046 |title=Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominees |author= |publisher=Science Fiction Awards Watch |date=30 March 2011 |accessdate=6 April 2011 |archive-date=20 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520210210/http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=4046 |url-status=dead }}

Ink has been translated into German by Hannes Riffel,Hal Duncan transl. by Hannes Riffel (2010), Signum, Golkonda Verlag, {{ISBN|978-3-942396-00-4}} Finnish by Nina Saikkonen,Hal Duncan transl. by Nina Saikkonen (2010), Muste: Kaikkeuden kirja 2, Like, {{ISBN|978-952-01-0449-8}} French by Florence Dolisi,Hal Duncan transl. by Florence Dolisi (2009), Le livre de toutes les heures, Tome 2 : Encre, Denoël, {{ISBN|978-2-207-25881-1}} Spanish by Luis Gallego TévarHal Duncan transl. by Luis Gallego Tévar (2009), Tinta, La Factoria de Ideas, {{ISBN|978-84-9800-458-8}} and Polish by Anna Reszka.Hal Duncan transl. by Anna Reszka (2009), Atrament – Księga wszystkich godzin 2, Mag, {{ISBN|978-83-7480-059-4}}

In 2008 he published for Monkeybrain Escape from Hell!,Hal Duncan (2008), Escape from Hell!, Monkeybrain, Austin (TX), {{ISBN|978-1-932265-25-5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.monkeybrainbooks.com/Escape_from_Hell.html |title=Escape from Hell! |author= |publisher=MonkeyBrain Books |date= |accessdate=28 October 2010}} a novella inspired by the 1981 movie Escape from New York and the 1990 movie Jacob's Ladder in which four characters ("a hitman, a hooker, a hobo and a homo") try to flee from Hell, here represented as a dystopian version of Manhattan in which all the damned see their punishment continuously televised.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/17/escape-from-hell-hal-duncan |title=Escape From Hell |author=Keith Brooke |work=The Guardian |date=17 January 2009 |accessdate=28 October 2010}}{{cite web|url=https://nekoplz.com/hal-duncan-interview/ |title= Hal Duncan in His Own (Ten Thousand) Words – Interview |author=Jay Tomio |publisher=Nekoplz |date=26 November 2008 |accessdate=22 March 2011}} Duncan has declared that he is planning two sequels for it, Assault! On Heaven! and Battle! For the Planet! Of the Dead!.{{cite web|url=http://www.creative-writing-now.com/fiction-writing-topics.html |title=A Conversation with Hal Duncan |author=William Victor |publisher=Creative Writing Now |year=2009 |accessdate=29 October 2010}}

It has been translated into French by Florence Dolisi as Evadés de l'Enfer!, being published by Éditions Gallimard in October 2010,Hal Duncan transl. by Florence Dolisi (28 October 2010), Evadés de l'Enfer!, Gallimard, Paris, {{ISBN|978-2-07-043825-9}} and in Finnish by Einari Aaltonen.Hal Duncan transl. by Einari Aaltonen (2011), Pako Helvetistä!, Like, {{ISBN|978-952-01-0664-5}}

In May 2011 Duncan announced the publication of An A–Z of the Fantastic City, a "chapbook" for Small Beer Press,{{cite web|url=http://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2011/05/19/in-which-we-announce-a-hal-duncan-chapbook/ |title=In which we announce a Hal Duncan chapbook! |author= |publisher=Small Beer Press |date=19 May 2011 |accessdate=25 April 2012}} initially due to be released in February 2012. The volume, illustrated by Eric Schaller, deals with twenty-six cities, both real (Dublin, Guernica, Jerusalem, London, Washington) and imaginary (Erewhon, Camelot, R'lyeh, Tir-na-Nog, Urville).{{cite web |url=http://smallbeerpress.com/forthcoming/2011/05/13/an-a%E2%80%93z-of-the-fantastic-city/#ltd |title=An A–Z of the Fantastic City (Preorder) |author= |publisher=Small Beer Press |year=2011 |accessdate=20 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111109103806/http://smallbeerpress.com/forthcoming/2011/05/13/an-a%E2%80%93z-of-the-fantastic-city/#ltd |archive-date=9 November 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://notesfromthegeekshow.blogspot.com/2011/05/a-z-of-fantastic-city.html |title=An A–Z of the Fantastic City) |author=Hal Duncan |publisher=Hal Duncan |date=19 May 2011 |accessdate=7 September 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://blog.readrawltd.co.uk/#post20 |title=Hal Duncan's Guide to Fantastic Cities |author= |publisher=Read Raw |date=22 May 2011 |accessdate=7 September 2011}} After some delays,{{cite web|url=http://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2012/04/04/hal-duncan-a-z-update/ |title=Hal Duncan, A-Z update |author= |publisher=Small Beer Press |date=4 April 2012 |accessdate=25 April 2012}} it was published in April 2012 in three formats: a limited edition, numbered and signed hardcover format (89 copies{{cite web|url=http://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2012/04/12/an-a-z-of-the-fantastic-city-is-here/ |title=An A-Z of the Fantastic City is here . . . |author= |publisher=Small Beer Press |date=12 April 2012 |accessdate=25 April 2012}}), trade paperback and e-book.{{cite web|url=http://smallbeerpress.com/books/2012/04/12/an-a%E2%80%93z-of-the-fantastic-city/ |title=An A–Z of the Fantastic City |author= |publisher=Small Beer Press |date= 12 April 2012|accessdate=25 April 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2012/02/07/hal-duncans-a-z/ |title=Hal Duncan's A-Z |author= |publisher=Small Beer Press |date=7 February 2012 |accessdate=25 April 2012}}

In 2017 he published for Lethe Press the Delaneyesque novella Susurrus On Mars, set in a far future terraformed Mars. A love story patterned after ancient Greece is interspersed with sections on botany and the mythical origins of plants.

Amongst the short stories he published are The Angel of Gamblers in Eidolon I, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy G. Byrne (2006),{{cite web |url=http://eidolon.net/?book=eidoloni&pagetitle=Eidolon+I |title=Eidolon I |author= |publisher=Eidolon |date= |accessdate=28 October 2010 |archive-date=29 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229182905/http://eidolon.net/?book=eidoloni&pagetitle=Eidolon+I |url-status=dead }} The Last Straw in Glorifying Terrorism, edited by Farah Mendlesohn (2007),{{cite web |url=http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2007/04/glorifying_terr.shtml |title=Glorifying Terrorism, edited by Farah Mendlesohn |author=Dan Hartland |publisher=Strange Horizons |date=9 April 2007 |access-date=9 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525170310/http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2007/04/glorifying_terr.shtml |archive-date=25 May 2011 |df=dmy-all }} and The Tower of Morning's Bones in Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ekaterina Sedia (2008).{{cite web|url=http://www.sensesfive.com/publications/paper-cities/ |title=Paper Cities, An Anthology of Urban Fantasy |author= |publisher=Senses Five |date= |accessdate=28 October 2010}} The Tower of Morning's Bones is one of the four previously published stories collected in Errata. He also participated in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's Last Drink Bird Head (2009), an experiment in which 70 writers were asked the same question ("Who or what is Last Drink Bird Head?"), published by Ministry of Whimsy with the profits donated to the ProLiteracy Worldwide Organization.{{cite web |url=http://www.wyrmpublishing.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=20 |title=Last Drink Bird Head ed. by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |author= |publisher=Wyrm Press |date=23 September 2009 |accessdate=13 July 2011 |archive-date=18 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718124626/http://wyrmpublishing.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=20 |url-status=dead }}Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (ed.), 2009-11-01, Last Drink Bird Head, Ministry of Whimsy (an imprint of Wyrm), Stirling (NJ), {{ISBN|978-1-890464-12-7}}

Three short story collections in Duncan's 'scruffian' sequence, a queer take on the Borribles, have been published: Fabbles: 1 (sic), Scruffians!, and A Scruffian Survival Guide. (Fabbles: 1 collects three previously e-published pieces, including The Taking of the Stamp. Scruffians! collects mostly previously published pieces.)

Besides the two poetry collections Sonnets for Orpheus and The Lucifer Cantos published in very limited, handbound editions (26 and 24 copies) by Papaveria Press in 2006 and 2010 respectively,{{cite web |url=http://www.papaveria.com/sonnets-for-orpheus/ |title=Sonnets for Orpheus |author= |publisher=Papaveria press |date=1 August 2006 |accessdate=28 October 2010 |archive-date=16 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216092832/http://www.papaveria.com/sonnets-for-orpheus/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.papaveria.com/the-lucifer-cantos/ |title=The Lucifer Cantos |author= |publisher=Papaveria press |date=1 October 2010 |accessdate=29 October 2010 |archive-date=15 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215033543/http://www.papaveria.com/the-lucifer-cantos/ |url-status=dead }} he has made most of his poetry publicly available through his blog, convinced that "there's no money in poetry. If I wanted to be read, I'm just as happy to post online and let people read it there."

In July 2011 Papaveria Press published Songs for the Devil and Death,{{cite web |url=http://www.papaveria.com/forthcoming-titles/ |title=Forthcoming titles |author= |publisher=Papaveria Press |date=10 September 2010 |accessdate=17 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727063727/http://www.papaveria.com/forthcoming-titles/ |archive-date=27 July 2011 |url-status=dead }} which includes the poems originally published in Sonnets for Orpheus and The Lucifer Cantos with the addition of several others.

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.chemikal.co.uk/ballads/ |title=Ballads of the Book |author= |publisher=Chemikal Underground Records |date= |accessdate=28 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626162705/http://www.chemikal.co.uk/ballads/ |archive-date=26 June 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.chemikal.co.uk/news.htm|title=Label News|author=|publisher=Chemikal Underground Records|date=|access-date=28 October 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915022213/http://www.chemikal.co.uk/news.htm|archive-date=15 September 2010|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ballads-Book-Various-Artists/dp/B000MMLMTE |title=Ballads of the Book |author= |publisher=Amazon.co.uk |date= |accessdate=28 October 2010}}

He also wrote a musical, Nowhere Town, that he defines a "punk rock opera" and a "gay punk Orpheus".{{cite web|url=http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/left-turn-clyde.html |title=Left Turn, Clyde |author=Hal Duncan |publisher=Charles Stross |date=9 April 2010 |accessdate=28 October 2010}} It has been premiered in June 2010 in Chicago by the University theatre group, directed by Beth Walker.{{cite web |url=http://event.uchicago.edu/maincampus/detail.php?guid=CAL-402882f8-27490d1b-0127-497de604-000000c6eventscalendar@uchicago.edu&recurrenceId=20100605T010000Z |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718142441/http://event.uchicago.edu/maincampus/detail.php?guid=CAL-402882f8-27490d1b-0127-497de604-000000c6eventscalendar@uchicago.edu&recurrenceId=20100605T010000Z |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 July 2012 |title=UT/TAPS: Nowhere Town |author= |publisher=University of Chicago |year=2010 |accessdate=28 October 2010 }} He made the libretto and the vocal tracks available for download through his blog.{{cite web|url=http://notesfromthegeekshow.blogspot.com/2010/02/nowhere-town-libretto-and-soundtrack.html |title=Nowhere Town: Libretto and Soundtrack |author=Hal Duncan |publisher=Hal Duncan |date=10 February 2010 |accessdate=25 July 2011}}

He writes a monthly column on BSCreview entitled Notes from New Sodom,{{cite web |url=http://www.bscreview.com/author/hal-duncan/ |title=Notes from New Sodom |author= |publisher=BSCreview |date= |accessdate=28 October 2010 |archive-date=28 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100928130149/http://www.bscreview.com/author/hal-duncan/ |url-status=dead }} keeps a blog called Notes from the Geek Show and is active on Twitter.

He contributed to Dan Savage's It Gets Better project.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpiWXBDgS9k |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528085316/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpiWXBDgS9k |archive-date=2012-05-28 |url-status=dead|title=It Gets Better: Hal Duncan, Glasgow, Scotland |author=Hal Duncan |publisher=YouTube |date=13 November 2010 |accessdate=11 August 2011}}

He wrote essays related to myth and literature, some of which are available online.{{cite web |url=http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/rrTombWomb.html |title=The Tomb and the Womb: Death and Rebirth in World Myth and Mythic Fiction |author=Hal Duncan |publisher= |year=2006 |access-date=29 October 2010 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231942/http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/rrTombWomb.html |archive-date=20 November 2010 |df=dmy-all }}

He made recordings of some of his readings publicly available through his blog; some can be freely downloaded{{cite web|url=http://notesfromthegeekshow.blogspot.com/2010/02/sonnets-for-orpheus-audio-downloads.html |title=Sonnets for Orpheus Audio Downloads |author=Hal Duncan |publisher=Hal Duncan |date=11 February 2010 |accessdate=25 July 2011}} while others are being sold for a fee.{{cite web|url=http://notesfromthegeekshow.blogspot.com/2010/02/gigging-for-groats.html |title=Gigging for Groats |author=Hal Duncan |publisher=Hal Duncan |date=17 February 2010 |accessdate=25 July 2011}}

For his activity as a blogger he has been nominated for the 2009/2010 Last Drink Bird Head Award in the field of "Gentle Advocacy" ("In recognition of individuals willing to enter into blunt discourse about controversial issues"),{{cite web|url=http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2010/09/20/last-drink-bird-head-award-finalists-2009-2010/ |title=Last Drink Bird Head Award Finalists (2009–2010) |author=Jeff VanderMeer |publisher=Ecstatic Days |date=20 September 2010 |accessdate=28 October 2010}} but lost the award to Ay-leen the Peacemaker from Beyond Victoriana.{{cite web|url=http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2010/10/24/2010-last-drink-bird-head-award-winners/ |title=2010 Last Drink Bird Head Award Winners |author=Jeff VanderMeer |publisher=Ecstatic Days |date=24 October 2010 |accessdate=13 July 2011}} In 2009 he was nominated for the same award but in the category "Expanding Our Vocabulary" ("In recognition of writers whose fiction or nonfiction exposes readers to new words and, often, new ideas").{{cite web|url=http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/10/04/the-first-annual-last-drink-bird-head-award-finalists/ |title=The First Annual Last Drink Bird Head Award Finalists |author=Jeff VanderMeer |work=Jeff VanderMeer |publisher=Ecstatic Days |date=4 October 2009 |accessdate=13 July 2011}} The award went to John Clute.{{cite web|url=http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/11/01/last-drink-bird-head-award-winners/ |title=Last Drink Bird Head Award Winners! |author=Jeff VanderMeer |publisher=Ecstatic Days |date=1 November 2009 |accessdate=13 July 2011}}

On 6 September 2011 Hal Duncan took part in a "Literary Death Match" in Edinburgh.{{cite web|url=http://notesfromthegeekshow.blogspot.com/2011/08/literary-death-match.html#links |title=Literary Death Match |author=Hal Duncan |publisher=Hal Duncan |date=26 August 2011 |accessdate=7 September 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=18&id=208&Itemid=122#208 |title=Literary Death Match(es), Edinburgh and Glasgow |author=Paul F. Cockburn |publisher=Scottish Review of Books |date=9 September 2011 |accessdate=9 September 2011}} In the event, organised and hosted by Literary Death Match co-creator Todd Zuniga, he was pitted against Doug Johnstone, Sophie Cooke and Katerina Vasiliou. Duncan was declared the winner after a "shootout" against Vasiliou.{{cite web|url=http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/edinburgh-ep-3.html |title=Edinburgh, Ep. 3 |author= |publisher=Literary Death Match |date=6 September 2011 |accessdate=7 September 2011}}

Duncan was one of the five judges for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishfantasysociety.co.uk/news/judges-announced-for-2012-british-fantasy-awards/ |title=Judges announced for 2012 British Fantasy Awards |author= |publisher=The British Fantasy Society |date=28 February 2012 |accessdate=29 February 2012}}

• Vellum. London (UK), Pan Macmillan, 2005. {{ISBN|978-1-4050-5208-5}}
• Ink. London (UK), Pan Macmillan, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-330-43838-4}}

• Testament (2015)

• Escape from Hell!. Austin (TX, USA), MonkeyBrain Books, 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-932265-25-5}}
• The Taking of the Stamp. Los Angeles (CA, USA), LA CASE Books, 2013. {{ISBN|978-8-868700-07-2}}
• Susurrus On Mars. Maple Shade (NJ, USA), Lethe Press, 2017. {{ISBN|978-1-59021-683-5}}

• An A-Z of the Fantastic City. Easthampton (MA, USA), Small Beer Press, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1-61873-020-6}}
• Errata. New Sodom Press, 2013. {{ISBN|978-1-300820-47-5}}
• Fabbles: 1. New Sodom Press, 2013. {{ISBN|978-1-291-64329-9}}
• Scruffians!. Maple Shade (NJ, USA), Lethe Press, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1-59021-394-0}}
• A Scruffian Survival Guide. New Sodom Press, 2017. {{ISBN|978-0-244-01599-2}}

• Sonnets for Orpheus. Wakefield (UK), Papaveria Press, 2006. No ISBN (limited edition of 26 copies)
• The Lucifer Cantos. Wakefield (UK), Papaveria Press, 2010. No ISBN (limited edition of 24 copies)
• Songs for the Devil and Death. Wakefield (UK), Papaveria Press, 2011. {{ISBN|978-1-907881-04-6}}

• Caledonia Dreamin' - Strange Fiction of Scottish Descent.

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