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Kurt Newton sold his first story, "The Promise of the Sea," in 1993. Since then he's had over 300 poems and 200 short stories published in a wide variety of magazines, anthologies and webzines in the U.S., Canada, England and Australia. To date, he has received sixteen honorable mentions from the editors of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and has been four times nominated for the Rhysling Award for his poetry.

Among his favorite authors are Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Flannery O'Conner, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard, Joyce Carol Oates, John Shirley, Lucius Shepard, Jonathan Carroll, Christopher Conlon and Paul Tremblay.

He is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

He lives in the northeast corner of Connecticut.


I had the pleasure this past weekend of attending the 2011 Stoker Weekend convention. One of the panels I sat on was one called Horror and Terror, Slashers and Stumps with Christopher Conlon, Lisa Morton and Norman Prentiss. Sound familiar? Yes, we were able to recreate to a degree the blog conversation the four of us had last year. Unfortunately, the original blog posts were virtually unseen....

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Average rating: 4.07 · 287 ratings · 56 reviews · 40 distinct works · Similar authors
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message 2: by Kurt (last edited Mar 14, 2012 08:02pm)

Kurt Newton Simon wrote: "Hey Kurt..."

Hey Simon...read any good books lately? :)


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