Posted inAmbulations

AWP14 Seattle

Last weekend, I attended the 2014 Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference (aka AWP14) at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. The AWP website boasts that with over 12,000 attendees and 650 exhibits it is "now the largest literary conference in North America" -- and it certainly was the largest I've been to in my life, with a shopping-mall sized number of tables (featuring colleges, writing programs, presses and publishers) at the bookfair and plenty of superhuman writers as guests (Sherman Alexie and Ursula LeGuin gave readings, for example). Seton Hill University had a table for our MFA…
March 8, 2014Posted inAmbulations
Posted inArnzen News

Anthology Updates

I've finally gotten around to adding an Anthology page to the bibliography here on gorelets.com, and though it's still rudimentary I plan to update it with links and images and more. In the mean time, I wanted to share a few updates about recent anthology appearances, in case you missed the news from the latest issue of The Goreletter. One of the books coming out this month is Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books from Minor Arcana Press. I'm really excited to be in this one, as it features a number of really impressive poets to write about…
February 16, 2014Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

Kindle Countdown: PLAY DEAD – this week only!

KINDLE COUNTDOWN | Feb 10th-15th | PLAY DEAD One Week Discount on Play Dead for Amazon Kindle Act fast and get the PLAY DEAD ebook cheap from Feb 10th-15th PLAY DEAD publisher Raw Dog Screaming Press is running a "Kindle Countdown" special offer next week! Kicking off on Monday, February 10th, you can get the Amazon Kindle version of my second novel for just .99 cents. It will go up a dollar a day afterward, until returning to its regular price on the 15th. So don't hesitate! Not only will you get a great deal if you act quick, your…
February 9, 2014Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

“Limber” – A Lost Audiovile Track – Discovered and Remixed

In 2014, I am planning to return to recording and to produce my first audiobook for Mastication Publications. So in early December, I started getting set up... and I stumbled upon an old recording of my short story, "Limber" hidden in the old master tapes for my 2007 CD from Raw Dog Screaming Press, Audiovile. I'd completely forgotten I'd even recorded it! As I listened, the only reason I could guess that I abandoned it was that it didn't quite "fit" into Audiovile...but now I like the "Pink Floyd" styled guitar that backed the vocals, and the storytelling still stands…
January 2, 2014Posted inArnzen News
Posted inInstigation

The Resolution

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Above you have The Resolution -- selected as the "Best Storyline" in the writing contest featured in the latest issue of The Goreletter. Kudos to my "co-authors": Gary Blankenship, Mike Brendan, AK Drees, Brian J. Harrold, Dale Herring & Terrie Leigh Relf, along with Matt Duvall and Steph Ellis, all of whom made this a lot of fun. This story started with the opening sentence, offered online as an Instigation "prompt" for a New Year's Eve writing contest ... and authors "replied" to it using tweets and AuthorBee functions to build a narrative that went in many…
December 31, 2013Posted inInstigation