2014 Bram Stoker Award® banquet site is now live!

2014 Bram Stoker Award® banquet site is now live!

Our new website promoting the Bram Stoker Award® Banquet at World Horror Convention in Portland next May is now live. No word yet from the organizers about when banquet tickets will go on sale. Thanks go to our Platinum Sponsor, Samhain Horror (renewing for a third year and allowing us to once again webcast the event) and Supporting Sponsor JournalStone: www.stokers2014.org

Jeff Strand to Emcee Bram Stoker Awards Banquet 2013

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce Jeff Strand will emcee the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards Banquet and also act as Toastmaster at the World Horror Convention 2013. Both of these events are part of the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 June 2013. Jeff has emceed four of the past five Bram Stoker Awards banquets (he couldn’t make it to Brighton, dammit!), and is thrilled to be back for a fifth time. His books include Pressure (which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award but did not win), Dweller (which was…

Ramsey Campbell First Guest of Honor at Bram Stoker Awards Weekend 2013

The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”. He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention and the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild. The Horror Writers Association is proud to announce Ramsey Campbell as our first Guest of Honor for the Bram Stoker Awards™ Weekend 2013, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 June 2013. HWA President said, “Ramsey is a truly a…

First Sponsor for the Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend 2013

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce JournalStone as a Supporting Sponsor for the Bram Stoker Awards™ Weekend 2013. The Weekend Convention will be held at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, Louisiana from 13-16 June 2013: http://www.stokers2013.org/ . Christopher C. Payne, President of JournalStone (http://journalstone.com/) said, “It is both an honor and a pleasure to support the HWA. The members and Board have been instrumental in supporting JournalStone‘s fledging endeavor as a new publishing company. I can only hope that we as a publisher continue to live up to the expectations of the HWA and all of…

John Joseph Adams is 2013 World Horror Con’s Editor Guest of Honor

The Horror Writers Association is proud to announce prolific anthologist John Joseph Adams as the Editor Guest of Honor for the World Horror Convention (WHC) 2013. In 2013 the HWA is hosting WHC as part of the Bram Stoker Awards™ Weekend in New Orleans from 13-16 June. John Joseph Adams is the bestselling editor of the horror anthologies The Living Dead, The Living Dead 2, By Blood We Live, and Wastelands. He is also the editor of the new horror magazine Nightmare. His other anthologies include Other Worlds Than These, Armored, Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom,…

Caitlín R. Kiernan named Author Guest of Honor for World Horror Con 2013

The Horror Writers Association is proud to announce dark fantasy author Caitlín R. Kiernan as the Author Guest of Honor for the World Horror Convention (WHC) 2013. In 2013 the HWA is hosting WHC as part of the Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend in New Orleans from 13-16 June. The New York Times recently called Caitlín R. Kiernan, “one of our essential writers of dark fiction.” She is the author of various dark-fantasy novels, beginning with Silk and followed by Threshold, Low Red Moon, The Five of Cups, Murder of Angels, Daughter of Hounds, and The Red Tree. Her ninth novel,…

HWA Officially Appears at American Library Association Mid-Winter Meeting

As part of a burgeoning relationship with the American Library Association (ALA) the Horror Writers Association (HWA) will have a major presence at the ALA's 2013 Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington. The event will run from January 25 to January 28, at the Seattle Center. This official presence includes a booth at the exhibition center and the presentation by the HWA of five panels on horror. The topics for these panels are The HWA & Libraries, The EBook Revolution, Small Press Horror, Graphic Novels, and YA Horror. The ALA event offers a unique opportunity to promote adult and youth reading,…

Amber Benson is coming to Bram Stoker Awards Weekend 2013!

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce Amber Benson as Media Guest of Honor for the Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend 2013, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 June 2013. Amber Benson is multi-talented – she is a writer, director and actor. She currently writes the Calliope Reaper-Jones series for Ace/Roc and her middle grade book ‘Among The Ghosts’ came out in paperback this past fall from Simon and Schuster. She co-directed the Slamdance feature Drones’ and (co-wrote) and directed the BBC animated series ‘The Ghosts Of Albion’. Her acting work includes the Steven Soderbergh film ‘King…

HWA Sponsoring 5 Members to Attend Mort Castle’s Workshop at 2012 World Horror Convention

Mort Castle, editor of the acclaimed On Writing Horror, will be conducting writing workshops at the 2012 World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City , March 29 - April 1, 2012. The cost of the four-hour workshop is $50.00. The HWA Board is giving away five of these workshops at our cost. If you are interested, and we get more than five applications, they will given away in a random drawing. To qualify, you need to have registered for the WHC before 29 February, and of course, you need to be a member of the HWA. To register your interest…