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Women in Horror Month – Interview with Nancy Etchemendy

• February 2, 2017
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February is Women in Horror Month! The HWA is celebrating by posting interviews with award-winning authors. Following is an interview with Nancy Etchemendy, who won the Bram Stoker Award for… Read more

Women in Horror Month – Interview with Mercedes M. Yardley

• February 1, 2017
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February is Women in Horror Month! The HWA is celebrating by posting daily interviews with award-winning authors. Starting off the month is an interview with Mercedes M. Yardley, who won… Read more

Peekaboo with the Devil: Strategies for Hiding and Revealing Your Antagonist

• January 30, 2017
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Just like any relationship, the special bond between a horror protagonist and her antagonist benefits from a little bit of mystery. In this case, the hero is a proxy for… Read more

First Recipients of the Young Adult Write Now Endowment Announced

• January 23, 2017
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First Recipients of the Young Adult Write Now Endowment: The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy and home of the… Read more

The CreEpy Catalog: On the Day I Died

• January 22, 2017
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In order to write great children’s horror, you must READ great children’s horror. To help you out with this, we’ve invited our very own middle school librarian to take you… Read more

The 2016 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot Announced

• January 20, 2017
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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce the Preliminary Ballots for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards®. The HWA (see www.horror.org ) is the premier writers organization in the… Read more

January 2017 The Seers Table and changes to Diverse Works Inclusion Committee

• January 20, 2017
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Before we dive into this month’s column, we’re pleased to announce that Andrew Wolter, Lauren Candia and Michael Gonzales recently joined the Diverse Works Inclusion Committee. We’d also like to… Read more

2016 Bram Stoker Awards Timeline

• January 16, 2017
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The Bram Stoker Awards®


Please note the Preliminary Ballot for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards will be announced on January 20, 2017. The main timeline is as follows: January 15:… Read more

2016 Lifetime Achievement Award Committee Appointed

• December 29, 2016
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In accordance with the rules regarding the Lifetime Achievement Award (LAA) process, HWA President Lisa Morton has appointed the 2016 LAA Committee: Ramsey Campbell Erinn Kemper Monica Kuebler John Little… Read more

The Seers Table – December 2016

• December 2, 2016
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The Seers Table!

Kate Jonez, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community As we brace ourselves to face the approaching cold season we need to support and celebrate diverse authors… Read more

HWA Announces Contents of Its Next Anthology, HALLOWS’ EVE

• November 27, 2016
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An exciting line-up of bestselling and critically-acclaimed authors will share the table of contents with some of the horror genre’s best new voices in the Horror Writers Association’s next anthology,… Read more

The Seers’ Table November 2016

• November 1, 2016
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The Seers Table!

Janet Holden, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community Autumn is upon us and the nights are growing darker. All the more reason to crack open a… Read more

Happy Halloween from HWA!

• October 31, 2016
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Happy Halloween from the Horror Writers Association (HWA)! As horror writers, of course we treasure Halloween, but we also understand the concerns of some educators in regards to the holiday.… Read more

Halloween Haunts: A Condemned Man, A Halloween Memory by Steve Rasnic Tem

• October 31, 2016
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Back then, for me, it was all about masks. For Halloween, sure, but I’m also talking about day-to-day.  This all started with the perception that people seldom said what they… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween Defines Fall, At Least for Me By John F.D. Taff

• October 30, 2016
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I have found, in 25 years of fiction writing now, that the surest way to a feeling of verisimilitude in a story is to process the experiences in my life… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Emotional Realism in Extreme Horror Fiction by Nicole Cushing

• October 29, 2016
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  First things first: let’s acknowledge the elephant in the room. Extreme horror fiction hasn’t always enjoyed the best reputation. Despite the commercial success of books like Bret Easton Ellis’… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Exorcism for Fun and Profit by Loren Rhoads

• October 28, 2016
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I read The Exorcist early in high school.  My mom was a school librarian and didn’t place any limits on what I read, figuring that if it was too mature… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Real Creeps, or How to Create Horror Non-fiction Shorts by Lisa Morton

• October 27, 2016
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One of my favorite pieces of advice for new writers looking to make more sales is to consider trying some non-fiction. As an author who is known for both fiction… Read more

Halloween Haunts: It’s Not a Season, It’s a Lifestyle by Greg Chapman

• October 26, 2016
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You all know my tale of woe. I am forced to live without the true spirit of Halloween because I live on the other side of the world. 🙁 But… Read more

Halloween Haunts: It Was a Different Time by JG Faherty

• October 25, 2016
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Recently, I had the opportunity to go on a vacation with a group of friends. Five couples, and 2 of them had their daughters with them, ages 17 and 19,… Read more