Waide Aaron Riddle |
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The August-September Featured Poet is Waide Aaron Riddle Please feel free to email Waide at: waideriddle@hotmail.com |
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DINNER TONIGHT…WITH FRIENDS The fly eats mud. A HAUNTING IN ARKANSAS Earthen colors crept over the Arkansas landscape. SOMETHING WICKED DWELLS Haunted this house is. Gravely old. |
Waide Aaron Riddle was born in Kingsville and raised in Houston, Texas. He moved to Hollywood in 1984 and has been there since. His teachers and educators had hoped he would pursue writing as a solid career, but, he decided to go into acting. As the old saying goes, "It's not where you start, it's where you finish...". After time, Waide learned that his teachers were right; his strength was in his writings and that's what he would focus on. Today, Mr. Riddle is the winner of seven national poetry awards. He has self- published three books, All- American Texan, The Chocolate Man: A Children's Horror Tale and Red River Country From Short Story To Screenplay, which are all available on Amazon. Waide is also an independent filmmaker. He has written, produced and directed three short films, Two Men Kissing, Washington Park and Lost Hills, California. Each film is based on his award- winning poetry and each film was a festival hit. Most recently he put the finishing touches on his latest short, Something Wicked Dwells, and is now submitting to film fests. Waide is very proud of the fact that twenty of his poems, including Something Wicked Dwells and A Haunting In Arkansas are archived in the UCLA Library of Special Collections. The Chocolate Man and Red River Country are also archived there. Aside from writing and filmmaking, Waide is also a DJ in dance clubs from L.A. to Austin. He describes his playlist as Today's Country, Classic Rock and Golden Oldies. He also teaches Country Two Step. Writers that have inspired and influenced him are Robert R. McCammon, Dean Koontz and W. A. Harbinson. He finds he writes best and thrives on rainy days and nights. Feel free to contact Waide at www.waideriddle.com or waideriddle@hotmail.com.
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