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Summer Teaching Tour

I apologize for not posting here a lot lately -- I've been very busy teaching this past year, and I'll be busy teaching all over again in the month to come, for a number of genre fiction-focused writing workshops. I'll be running my "Atmosphere in Horror and Fantasy" course in the MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University next week, followed by a fun guest lecture on "Making the Reader Squirm" at the acclaimed Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop the week after that, then running some workshops on writing uncanny scenes at Alpha: The SF/F/H Writing Workshop for…
June 15, 2010Posted inArnzen News2 Comments
Posted inWeblog Exclusive

TWEET AT THE DEVIL

He's the geek screaming lonely in the night 'Cuz he can't reload the pa-ay-age He's the tear in your eye When you lose your Wi-Fi He's the hash in your tag He's faved And he's the fantasy wife That's wasting your life And spamming you to the ground But on the pages of Twitter We'll type and deliver Be short. And waste time... Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet at the Devil! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet at the Devil! He's the follower you hate And you won't reciprocate But he will not be ignore-or-ored He follows you to the grave When you…
June 12, 2010Posted inWeblog Exclusive1 Comment
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microcosm twitterzine

Check out editor Stephen M. Wilson's new twitterzine for poetry, called microcosms. I have a poem in the latest "issue" ("twissue"?) released today and more to come soon. If you don't know what a "twitterzine" is, then read this article.
May 20, 2010Posted inArnzen News4 Comments
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scrawling

I've added a new area to the gorelets.com gallery, called "scrawl", to share visual texts and art work that doesn't quite fit anywhere. Drop on by.
April 11, 2010Posted inData+Errata
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2009 Stoker Award Winning Books

The 2009 Bram Stoker Award winners were announced by the Horror Writer's Association at World Horror Convention in Brighton, England, last weekend. I read almost all of these titles and I can vouch that they are superlative reads. (In fact, I lauded Lucy Snyder's poetry-winning book here in The Goreletter). See the HWA's announcement for a complete list...congratulations to all the winners! I contributed work to two of the books (though the editors, not me, rightfully get the awards!). These are pretty amazing books to be a part of, so I want to celebrate them here (and share some breaking…
April 3, 2010Posted inArnzen News1 Comment