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(1) SFPA POETRY CONTEST DEADLINE APPROACHING. Poets have until August 31 to submit entries to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association’s 2023 Speculative Poetry Contest. The contest is open to all poets, including non-SFPA-members. Prizes will be awarded for best unpublished poem in three categories: Dwarf (poems 1–10 lines [prose poems 0–100 words]) Short

‘Wyrmwood’ Director to Adapt Vampire Thriller From ‘Sandman Slim’ Author (Exclusive) Writer Richard Kadrey also plans to develop “Dark West” as a graphic novelBrian Welk | March 5, 2021 @ 9:15 AM Last Updated: March 5, 2021 @ 9:44 AM Richard Kadrey (left)/Courtesy of Winterlight Pictures Richard Kadrey, author of the fantasy book series “Sandman Slim,” has written an original screenplay called “Dark West” that will be adapted into a movie by “Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead” writer-director Kiah Roache-Turner. Chris Goldberg’s Winterlight Pictures has option...

Image: Houari B. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) There’s already a Sandman Slim movie in the works, but now author Richard Kadrey has another film on the way. The Wrap reports that his original screenplay Dark West has been optioned by Winterlight Pictures, to become a film directed by Kiah Roache-Turner ( Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead), who will also write another draft of the script. Kadrey also plans to turn  Dark West into a graphic novel. Dark West is described as being akin to classic ’80s horror films  Near Dark and  The Hitcher; The Wrap summarized it as “a vampire revenge thriller set on th...