Kenton Erwin

Kenton Erwin joined SFW in Spring 2024. He has had nine short stories published, including 'The Egg' in Amazing Stories and 'Vbad Vblood' in the horror literary journal Suburban Witchcraft. He won First Place in the inaugural Speckled Spectrum Awards, and was one of several winners of Punk Noir’s “A Good Death” 2024 writing competition with his story ‘Killing House.’  He constantly writes short stories, and is working on several novels. Kenton lives in Ridgefield WA USA. He is a retired corporate attorney, a certified Master Organic Gardener, and researches grapes (having recently published, on the ‘dark side’ (non-fiction) a 4th edition of his book ‘Modern Grapes for Cool Climates’). Kenton is also an award-winning commercial winemaker under the brand Epona.
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Pen Names: Veils and Masks

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How many writers use pen names, and why? Our Speculative Fiction Writers Association member directory shows about FORTY members who do, or about thirty-four percent! Member Examples One of our members (“Q2”) doesn’t want the readers of their fiction stories to stumble across the videos that Q2 produces in their …

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Creative Writing: What does ‘creative’ mean?

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What we writers do is called ‘creative’ writing. But what is that, really? What do we have to do, to be ‘creative’ in our writing? The definition of ‘creative (adjective)’ is ‘involving original ideas in producing an artistic work.’ So, to be ‘creative’ writers, we must make original ideas. Ideas not heretofore conceived …