The best hybrid magazines laugh in the face of established rules—mixing forms, resisting categorisation, embracing ambiguity, and making the literary world a beautifully stranger place. A Velvet Giant and Honey Literary queer and decolonise genre, while EDDA takes a cue from skaldic traditions that refuse neat labels. Cobra Milk and petrichor reshape the structure of a journal altogether. And each of these publications will shake up all you thought you knew about the possibilities of literature.