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My Zombie Haiku: All Halloween Day and Night Long

  Happy official Halloween day.  I have a lot of work to do this afternoon.  But I'm going to personally challenge myself to write at least one horror haiku poem an hour (at minimum) and post it on my twitter page all day long...till midnight. I'm giving them all a zombie theme, partially inspired by the recent release of the sequel to Ryan Mecum's great Zombie Haiku book from a few years ago:  Dawn of Zombie Haiku and all the great #zombiehaiku he's been publishing on twitter himself over the past few days. To read the zombie haiku, you can…
October 31, 2011Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
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Podcast Interview with Author Magazine Online

Heidi Ruby Miller and I had a lot of fun in this chatty and informative 1/2 hour podcast interview for Author Magazine about our non-fiction book for authors, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction. The interview was conducted by Jeff Ayers, who also interviewed us for The Big Thrill journal last month. [Cross-posted from the Social Network]
July 25, 2011Posted inArnzen News1 Comment
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Kurt Newton reads “The 39 Steps” – audio from the Sea of Alone book launch at 2011 Stoker Weekend

[audio:KurtNewton-The39Steps-SeaOfAloneLaunch-NYJune2011.mp3|titles=KurtNewton-The39Steps-SeaOfAloneLaunch-NYJune2011] Kurt Newton reads his poem, "The 39 Steps," at the book launch event for A Sea of Alone: Poems for Alfred Hitchcock (Ed. Christopher Conlon, Dark Scribe Press, June 2011).  Recorded live at the 2011 Stoker Weekend in NY on June 18th.  Watch Dark Scribe for news about ordering this excellent anthology.
June 21, 2011Posted inWeblog Exclusive
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Making Readers Squirm: Sensory Immersion Podcast

Last June, I went on a Summer Teaching Tour at various writer's workshops, and one of the highlights was my return as guest lecturer to the Odyssey, The Fantasy Workshop, run by Jeanne Cavelos annually at St Anselm College, in New Hampshire. My guest lecture topic at Odyssey was "Making the Reader Squirm: Sensory Immersion," which they have just released as a podcast on the Odyssey Podcast page (it is also available through iTunes). In this lecture, I discuss ways that science fiction/fantasy and horror writers appeal to the reader's "sensorium" to generate a visceral effect. The class analyzed examples…
April 2, 2011Posted inArnzen News2 Comments
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Halloween Episode of Horrors at Crimewav.com

There's a bonus treat wiggling around in the filthy bottom of your Halloween candy sack....some hot brass! Crimewav.com -- an excellent podcast of noir crime fiction -- is featuring three of my music-enhanced horror stories in a special Halloween Episode of Horrors in a surprise Halloween release tonight.  It's a great way to get a free sampler from my cd,  Audiovile, and you can also hear the new track, "Attack of the Bleu Man Group," if you didn't check it out on gorelets.com earlier this week.  Check it out, and sample some of the other writers on the site, or…
October 31, 2010Posted inArnzen News