6m66s — My New Podcast
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6m66s — My New Podcast

Commute to hell each week in this gleefully deranged podcast by Bram Stoker Award-winning horror writer Michael Arnzen (gorelets.com). Often unscripted, always unhinged, 6:66 features the author's twisted thinkpieces, poetic little "gorelets," strange sounds and more in precisely 6 minutes and 66 seconds. My new podcast launched on National Dark Poetry Day -- October 7th, 2024! Bookmark https://6m66s.com/ and get ready to tune in from your favorite podcast platform (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube etc.). 6:66 will be the next evolution of my newsletter, The Goreletter, and I hope you'll listen in and subscribe. If you like it, please spread the…
October 7, 2024Posted inArnzen News
Sportuary FREE all Super Bowl Weekend!
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Sportuary FREE all Super Bowl Weekend!

rah rah rahwe're number oneraw raw rawthe end's begun Starting Friday, Feb 11th, 2022 (at Midnight, Pacific time) through Superbowl Sunday the 13th, you can download a copy of my ebook, Sportuary, absolutely free exclusively on amazon.com. Spread the word! Just head to my author page on amazon.com, look for Sportuary (it’s listed in the “Kindle” category), and download your free copy. Enjoy the “pentagramathlon of pain” and please do post a review on Amazon, Goodreads, your Facebook page, or anywhere you like. (Amazon usually ends these promotions at midnight pacific, fyi; better snatch it quick)! You can read Kindle…
February 9, 2022Posted inArnzen News
ricochet of fear poem
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NaPoWriMo 2021

I always enjoy National Poetry Month (and its sibling, National Poetry Writing Month -- NaPoWriMo) in April each year. I try to acquire new poetry books, read more classics, host poetry workshops and teach contemporary poets in my classes at SHU, and write poetry more often than I usually do. In the past, I've treated NaPoWriMo as a kind of obsessive challenge; this year, I'm just taking it easy and sharing my poems old and new alike on various platforms when the mood strikes me. In this blog post, I'll keep track of poetic things I've shared or published in…
April 5, 2021Posted inArnzen News
Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

Filing Jointly — a tax crime poem for 30 Days of The 5-2

Filing Jointly No matter what the Fed says, we always put the tax deadline in the calendar on the 14th so it sounds like a Valentine's Day date to review our year in April. This year is special because I am doing it alone, remembering him, accounting for his actions, and mine, itemizing all the entries. It's an emotional audit. I tear up as I write off the axe I'd hit him with, along with all the other tools I used afterward as "business expenses"; and I smile when I enter the checks I received from his life insurance --…
April 14, 2019Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Posted inArnzen News Instigation

HWA Poetry Showcase V

[NOTE: Submissions are now closed and the book is being edited now published in Fall 2018!  Preview the TOC. Read my Goodreads review. ] April is National Poetry (& Poetry Writing) Month -- and the Horror Writers Association is celebrating with a call for submissions of poetry to their next anthology, the HWA Poetry Showcase V! Deadline is end of April 2018. Guidelines appear down below. I'm on the jury vetting the entries alongside Mercedes Yardley and editor Stephanie Wytovich. You do need to be member of the HWA to be accepted, sure -- but...If you're a pro horror writer,…
April 7, 2018Posted inArnzen News, Instigation