Seers’ Table

Kate Maruyama, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community Happy November! I love reading horror the most as Autumn turns to winter, and our Seers have some good reads lined up! Lauren Salerno recommends: Lauren kicks us off with a fantastic list of Latinx authors. These Hispanic Authors Will Make Your Halloween Extra Spooky Lauren also recommends: Aliya Whiteley was born in Devon, UK, in 1974. She writes novels, short stories, and nonfiction, and has been published in places such as The Guardian, Interzone, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Black Static, Strange Horizons, and anthologies such as Fox Spirit’s European Monsters and…

Linda Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community September is Self-Improvement Month, why not add new creative work to your life by exploring the following authors! Janet Holden recommends: Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer, and editor, and the co-publisher of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award-winning press, ChiZine Publications. Born in Estonia to an Estonian mother and Sri Lankan father, she now lives in Canada. She is the co-founder (with Helen Marshall) of the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium and the national Chiaroscuro Reading Series. Sandra’s work has appeared in various venues, including ON SPEC, Prairie Fire, several Tesseracts…

The Seers Table Janet Holden, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community We're heading for the dog days of summer! Time to relax with a good book. Here are our suggestions for this month: Janet Holden recommends: Angela Slatter is the author of the urban fantasy novels Vigil (2016) and Corpselight (2017), as well as eight short story collections, including The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories. She has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, and six Aurealis…

The Seers Table! Linda Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community July is National Anti-Boredom month. How better to add excitement than to check out work by the following creators! Ace Antonio-Hall recommends: Award-winning gospel singer Evie Rhodes is the author of the psychological horror novels Expired, Criss Cross, Out "A" Order. Ms. Rhodes is the recipient of The Esther Award bestowed upon her for her Outstanding Contribution to Literature from the organization Purpose Driven Sisters in New York City, founded by a reporter of the historic Amsterdam Newspaper. Her novel, Expired, is recognized as an important work in…

The Seers Table Linda Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community June contains the longest day of the year. Happy Summer Solstice! Why not use the extra time to read some new authors. Janet Holden recommends: Kate Moore is the author of more than fifteen books, including The Radium Girls, across the genres of gift, humour, biography, history, and children’s brand publishing. A multiple Sunday Times bestselling author, her work has been published in national newspapers, translated into more than twelve languages, used in national advertising campaigns and performed at the South Bank Centre, London. The Radium Girls. The…

The Seers Table! Linda Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community May is Creative Beginnings month. Why not begin with checking out work by the following creators! Ace Antonio-Hall recommends: Dicey Grenor, the author of the Narcoleptic Vampire Series, explores dark, sexy stories of vampires and werewolves with her tough-as-nails protagonist, Sleepy Holly—much in the vein of Laurell K. Hamilton’s vampire/zombie novels featuring her Anita Blake character and sensual themes. The stories center around the settings of supernatural fetish clubs. The first book in her series has a 4.4 star rating on Amazon with 60 reviews. Recommended Work: Narcoleptic…

The Seers Table! Linda Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community April 27th is Tell a Story Day. Check out stories told by the following creators! Kate Maruyama recommends: Daughter to a U.S. Army father, K. Ceres Wright has lived in Anchorage, AK; Chicago, IL; Baltimore, MD; Frankfurt, Oberursel, and Munich, Germany; Seoul, Korea; and the Washington Metropolitan Area. She attended undergraduate school at the University of Maryland, College Park, with a double major in economics and finance, then worked for ten years as a credit and treasury analyst before deciding to change careers. Wright received her Master's degree…

The Seers Table! Janet Holden, Diverse Works Inclusion Community Member In many parts of the world, the snow is falling, the wind is blowing. Time to settle by a warm fire with a good book, and here are our suggestions for the month of March. Kate Maruyama recommends: Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press this year. She is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, Granta, Guernica, Electric Literature, The Paris Review, AGNI, NPR, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review…

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 bid a fond farewell to exiting committee members Tom Calen and Ari Drew - we thank them for their invaluable service, and we also extend gratitude to our newest DWIC members for stepping up. The Seers Table! Kate Maruyama, Diverse Works Inclusion Committee Member Happy New Year! One of my New Year’s resolutions is to step outside my reading comfort zones (I tend to go to the same authors over…

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 good book and read by the fire. Here are our suggestions for this month: Kate Maruyama recommends: Nisi Shawl is an African-American writer, editor, and journalist. She is best known as an author of science fiction and fantasy short stories, but her fantastic fiction enters that horror zone in the spirit of Octavia Butler and reflects real-world diversity of gender, sexual orientation, race, colonialism, physical ability, age, and other sociocultural…

The Seers Table! Linda Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community Happy October! Give yourself a treat by picking up books by writers you haven’t read before! We have an outstanding selection of authors this month to choose from. Linda Addison recommends: Steven Van Patten is a Brooklyn native, raised in Fort Greene. After graduating from Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus on a full scholarship, he pursued a career in television production. When he's not writing scary stories, he can be found stage managing various TV shows in the New York area. The storyline of his first novel was…

The Seers Table! Kate Maruyama, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community Happy September! Take advantage of that back-to-school feeling by picking up some books by writers you haven’t read before! We have a fantastic selection of authors this month to choose from. Linda Addison recommends: Paula D. Ashe is a writer of dark fiction, who only feels comfortable writing about herself in third person. Originally from Ohio, she resides in Indiana with her wife and too many animals. Paula works as an instructor of English at a community college. She is also a Ph.D. student in American Studies at…

The Seers Table! Kate Jonez, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Committee Welcome to the August 2016 installment of The Seers’ Table—the HWA’s hub for highlighting stimulating and diverse voices in horror and dark fantasy. This month we’d like to suggest an exciting group of authors whose work will enrich your summer reading. Ace Antonio Hall recommends: Alaya Dawn Johnson is a two-time Nebula winner, and multi-award-winning author of six novels. The Summer Prince (2013), Alaya’s debut YA novel, is a heart-stopping story of love, death, technology, and art set amid the tropics of a futuristic Brazil. Her Web site…

The Seers Table! Tom Calen, Diverse Works Inclusion Committee Chair Whew! How about that StokerCon 2016? I hear Vegas is considering the new nickname “Stoker City.” Congratulations to all the winners and the amazing coordinators who set the bar extremely high for future StokerCons! As June is traditionally celebrated as Pride Month, the Diverse Works Inclusion Committee has assembled a collection of writers from the LGBT community (and its allies). Some names you’ve likely come across before, while others will be new introductions. In both cases, these writers have substantial bodies of work and have made significant literary and advocacy…

Welcome to the third installment of The Seers Table—the HWA’s new hub for highlighting exciting and diverse voices in the horror/dark fantasy genre! This month we’ve an excellent collection of authors, poets, and screenwriters, including the first ever winner of HWA/StokerCon’s Scholarship from Hell! Tananarive Due Southern California resident, Tananarive Due is a former Cosby Chair in the Humanities at Spelman College (2012-2014), where she taught screenwriting, creative writing and journalism.  She also teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles. The American Book Award winner and NAACP Image Award recipient is the author of twelve…