I guess I write 'New Weird'/Slipstream

Haha, same here. I write literary fiction-speculative fiction hybrids.

I first heard of New Weird a few years ago, but I've yet to read a cogent definition of what its defining attributes are. I get the sense that there are many people in the genre find the term annoying or just too vague. I would be careful about using it when talking to an editor or agent, because I think the moment when it was useful as a marketing term has already come and gone.

This is an interesting article about the subject, and the debate in the comments below the line is illuminating:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/jan/22/thenewworldofnewweird

I rarely even say outright that I am writing 'fantasy', so I wouldn't throw around odd terms like this one. But it is still good to have a name for it, if only for the sake of finding books like it.

I would hesitate to identify too strongly with New Weird. The movement had its heyday, but has lost cred as all the authors involved moved on to other things.

Labels aren't really that useful, in books. Write what you write, as if what you write is the fuse to ignite a genre that doesn't, yet, exist. Make your voice distinct.

^ agreed...i have only ever used labels to access very specific genres for the purpose of 1. enjoyment, and then 2. research into my own work...

I had someone tell me some of my stuff was New Weird. Looking at the various books by New Weird writers, I was like "cool", but I'm not really sure it's useful as a sub-genre label anymore.