Jack Finn Biography
Jack Finn is a folk horror author and 20-year Navy veteran living in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. He is a lifelong believer that the Tooth… Read more
Andrea L. Rogers is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but currently attends The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville where she is a doctoral… Read more
HWA Calls For 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Nominations
The Horror Writers Association calls for suggestions and nominations from the membership for the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Lifetime Achievement Award… Read more
Erika T. Wurth’s novel White Horse is a New York Times editors pick, a Good Morning America buzz pick, and an Indie Next, Target book of the Month, and… Read more
Thomas A. Bradley Biography
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I live in Drexel Hill, PA with my wife, Linda, and our rescue German shepherd, Bullet. I served with the Army Medical… Read more
Mark Allen Biography
Born in Jacksonville, Texas, 1961. I can remember when LBJ was President. U.S. Navy, retired 1980-2001. I was a U.S. Navy Independent Duty Hospital Corpsman (HM-8425) and… Read more
By Shane Hawk
The captivity narrative. The Indian burial ground. The noble savage. The magical Native. Do any of these sound familiar? They’re just a small sampling of negative tropes… Read more
The Horror Writers Association (HWA), in partnership with United for Libraries, Book Riot, Booklist, and NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), is proud to announce the fifth annual… Read more
By Tom Joyce
While working as a ghost tour guide in Edinburgh, Jan-Andrew Henderson found a spot with all the makings of a real-life horror story – an eerie graveyard,… Read more
Submissions will open next month for the newest HWA members-only anthology!
SCARING AND DARING ADVENTURES will be an anthology of original fiction stories that draw from the rich tradition of… Read more
Ashley Dioses is a writer of dark poetry and fiction from southern California. She is the author of Diary of a Sorceress, a collection of dark fantasy and horror poetry,… Read more
Leticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin, TX. She is a teaching artist in the greater Austin community and the Program Director of Austin Bat Cave, a literary… Read more
Michael Paul Gonzalez is the author of the novels BENEATH THE SALTON SEA, ANGEL FALLS, and MISS MASSACRE’S GUIDE TO MURDER AND VENGEANCE and creator of the serial horror audio… Read more
HWA Election Results 2023
Los Angeles CA September 29, 2023
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) held its annual election in September. We had a number of amazing candidates for the… Read more
Fernanda Castro is a Brazilian writer from Recife, also a freelance translator and copyeditor. Her work has appeared before in Strange Horizons and The Dark Magazine. You can find her… Read more
The time has come again. The HWA is going to be running the month-long Veterans in Horror Spotlight this November, coordinated by David Rose and Chance Fortune. We’re talking books… Read more
Originally from South Texas, Lisa M. Bradley now lives in Iowa, the traditional homeland of the Iowa, Meskwaki, and Sauk Nations, among others. Her work has been featured on… Read more
John C. Mannone has poems in Windhover, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry South, Baltimore Review, and others. He won the SFPA Dwarf Stars Award (2020), was awarded an HWA Scholarship (2017)… Read more
Javier Loustaunau (1979, Los Mochis, Mexico) is an author and game designer whose work has been featured in several anthologies and programs, most notably The Nosleep Podcast which is… Read more
Samaire Wynne is a Puerto Rican author of over 20 novels in various genres, including horror and urban fantasy. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Black Raven Books. A longtime… Read more