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Refrigerator Magnets & New
E-Book Take the Horror Out of Writer's Block
English professor, Humanities Division Chair and horror writer Michael Arnzen has made a specialty of horror poetry – in fact, he received one of his (4) Stoker awards for the horror poetry project “gorelets.” A popular past feature of his website, gorelets.com, was a virtual refrigerator covered with magnets – each containing a word from Arnzen’s poetry – that visitors could move around to create their own scary poems. That virtual fridge no longer exists, so Arnzen’s publisher and friends recently completed a successful Kickstarter project to fund “Michael A. Arnzen’s Fridge of the Damned Magnetic Word Kit.” Fun for all ages, it also provides a great way to get students writing (as does his new e-book “Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side.”) If you like poems in their entirety, Arnzen’s are now available in “The Gorelets Omnibus: Collected Poems, 2001-11.” You can follow Dr. Arnzen on Twitter at @arnzen.
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An online program supported by intensive on-campus writers' residencies.
This one-of-a-kind program teaches writers to create – and market – the fiction that sells. It is designed for those authors who wish to write within the popular fiction genres such as romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery in the adult, children’s or young adult markets.
Seton Hill has designed a flexible online/intensive-residency format that allows you to earn a master of fine arts degree while working full-time or caring for a family.
- One-on-one mentoring by established writers enables students to develop a novel-length writing project in a genre of their choice.
- Courses are taught by professors who have proven their knowledge of the fiction market by being active and successful writers themselves.
- Online contact with other participants ensures that students become part of a writing community, and that they receive varied commentary on their work-in-progress.
- Two week-long residencies per year inform and enliven the writing experience, bringing students together on Seton Hill’s campus to learn the basics and complexities of popular fiction.
 We Help You Get Published
Every residency, you will have the opportunity to meet with published authors (past guests of the program have included Orson Scott Card, Nancy Kress, David Morrell, Walter Sorrells, Shirley Hailstock, Tess Gerritsen, Jack Gantos, Octavia Butler, Bruce Hale, Catherine Asaro, Jonathan Maberry Christopher Paul Curtis) in addition to agents and editors.
Certificates in Writing Popular Fiction
- Current undergraduate students at Seton Hill can take advantage of the Genre Writing Certificate Program offered in conjunction with the Writing Popular Fiction Program.
Seton Hill's Writing Popular Fiction Program is a member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.
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