Editor Interview: Horror Sleaze Trash

HST is for the misfits.

Analog Submission Press, 48th Street Press, Holy & Intoxicated Publications, Paper and Ink Literary Zine, and Pyre Publishing are just a few of the small presses specializing in chapbooks featuring underdog poetry.

Matthew Licht, John D Robinson, Gary D Morton, Leah Mueller, Casey Renee Kiser, and Karina Bush are some of HST's most frequently published authors. As for visual art, the works of Apollonia Saintclair, Van Rjin, Ben Newman, Chas Ray Krider, and Marc Blackie are certainly not to be missed.

In addition to poetry and fiction, we also publish a wide variety of artists, photographers, models and musicians. Content-wise, there's not much we shy away from.

As with any publisher, my best advice would be to please familiarize yourself with our content and submissions guidelines prior to submission.

As long as it either gives you a laugh or a hard-on, it’s all gravy baby!

Often they will submit overlong pieces, or material that isn't well suited for our audience.

We are open to as little or as much biographical information as authors care to provide. There's no guarantee we'll read/use all of it, however.

It varies. Sometimes, you can tell right away whether or not a piece will be accepted. Other times, it doesn't click until the very end, or several reads later. If you're lucky, you'll just catch us on a day when we're in the mood for whatever you're writing.

There's really no accounting for taste.

Usually I will spend at least an hour or two each day, corresponding with authors and reading their submissions. There's often quite a bit to wade through, and often much of it isn't very good, but then when you find that gem, this makes it all worthwhile.

I provide whatever edits I feel to be needed, and then I go back to the author for their input.

No. Book awards are much like any other type of award, in that they are more like popularity contests than anything based on merit. To paraphrase Woody Allen, if you accept an award when they give it to you, you also have to accept it when they don't.