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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.
He also wrote a musical, Nowhere Town, that he defines a "punk rock opera" and a "gay punk Orpheus". It has been premiered in June 2010 in Chicago by the University theatre group, directed by Beth Walker. He made the libretto and the vocal tracks available for download through his blog.
He 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. He also regularly uploads on YouTube video blog entries under the username SodomiteHalDuncan.
He contributed to Dan Savage's It Gets Better project.
He wrote essays related to myth and literature, some of which are available online.
He 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.
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"), but lost the award to Ay-leen the Peacemaker from Beyond Victoriana. 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"). The award went to John Clute.
On September 6 2011 Hal Duncan took part in a "Literary Death Match" in Edinburgh. 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.
Duncan will be one of the five judges for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards.
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