Ken Anderson

Island of Wak-Wak (a Swedish publisher) just released Ken Anderson’s The Ward at Twilight: Goth Poems and has submitted it to the Bram Stoker Awards. Red Ogre Review Books and Liquid Raven Media recently released his The Goose Liver Anthology (Mother Goose meets Spoon River Anthology). His first poetry book was The Intense Lover. Coffin Bell Journal nominated his poem “Blood Quartet” for the 2024 Best of the Net anthology. He was a finalist in the 2021 Saints and Sinners poetry contest. His poetry manuscript A Sweet Oblivious Antidote was a Semifinalist for the 2024 Washington Prize. His novel Sea Change: An Example of the Pleasure Principle was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award and an Independent Publisher Editor’s Choice. His novel Someone Bought the House on the Island was a finalist in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. A stage adaptation won the Saints and Sinners Playwriting Contest and premiered May 2, 2008, at the Marigny Theater in New Orleans. An operatic version premiered June 16, 2009, at the First Existentialist Congregation in Atlanta. A screenplay version was Winner of Best First-Time Screenwriter (Feature Script) at Script Awards Los Angeles. His other books are The Statue of Pan and Hasty Hearts, an Independent Publisher finalist. The Statue of Pan (screenplay) was an Official Selection at the LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival. Mattie Cushman: A Psychodrama won First Place in Drama and Grand Prize in the Louisiana College Writers. “Harness Bells” won the Louisiana College Writers fiction contest. “Oppidum Obscurum” won LSU’s Caffee Medal for prose. He studied under Miller Williams at LSU and has a Master’s Degree in Twentieth-Century American and British Literature from Indiana University.