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Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with Carmen Baca

• September 17, 2023
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Carmen Baca taught high school and college English for thirty-six years before retiring in 2014. As a Chicana, a Norteña native to New Mexico, Carmen Baca keeps her culture’s traditions… Read more

Bisexual Awareness Week — B Stands for Bisexual by Angel Leigh McCoy

• September 16, 2023
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LGBTQ+ — B Stands for Bisexual

Our job as fiction writers requires us to step into the hearts, minds, and bodies of other people. For this reason, writers are some… Read more

Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with Sandra Becerril

• September 16, 2023
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Considered one of the most important writers of the horror genre in Latin America. Member of the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, Mexican writer and screenwriter, nominated for… Read more

Latinx Heritage in Horror: Introduction to Latinx Horror Month 2023 by Pedro Iniguez

• September 15, 2023
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  By Pedro Iniguez 2023 has been a monumental year in Latinx horror. As you may have noticed, recent Stoker Award® wins by Cynthia Pelayo and Gabino Iglesias, the first… Read more

HWA Scholarship Announcement

• September 13, 2023
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HWA Scholarship Announcement

The Horror Writer’s Association would like to thank everyone who applied for scholarships in 2023. The initiative of applicants makes it possible to provide these invaluable opportunities… Read more

HWA Announces Maxwell I. Gold as Executive Director

• September 12, 2023
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HWA ANNOUNCES MAXWELL I. GOLD AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR For Immediate Release: Columbus, Ohio — The Board of Trustees of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce that Maxwell… Read more

2023 Horror Writers Association Elections for Officers and Trustees

• September 7, 2023
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The HWA’s annual elections will soon be upon us. 

Up this year are four Trustee positions, as well as the offices of Vice President and Treasurer. 

Please read the statements… Read more

The Seers’ Table September 2023

• September 1, 2023
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Linda D. Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community You can see any of The Seers’ Table posts since inception (March 2016) by going to the HWA main page… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Tejaswi Priyadarshi

• August 28, 2023
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Tejaswi Priyadarshi is a splatter-noir author and an HWA Grant Conferee. His two books The Psychopath, The Cannibal, The Lover and Bhang Milkha Bhang have been pivotal in exploring the… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Alessandro Manzetti

• August 28, 2023
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Alessandro Manzetti (Rome, Italy) is a three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer, editor, scriptwriter and essayist of horror fiction and dark poetry. His work has been published extensively (more than 40… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Zachary Ashford

• August 26, 2023
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Zachary Ashford is the Aurealis-nominated author of When the Cicadas Stop Singing. His new book, The Morass: Servant of the Fly God is out through Crystal Lake on July 14.… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Marko Hautala

• August 25, 2023
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Marko Hautala is a Finnish horror writer whose novels and short stories have appeared in eight different languages. In 2020, his novelette “Pale Toes” (in Valancourt Book of World Horror… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Paolo Di Orazio

• August 24, 2023
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  Paolo Di Orazio has authored horror novels and comic books in Italian since 1987, and in English since 2015. He appeared in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Chinaza Eziaghighala

• August 23, 2023
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Chinaza Eziaghighala is a medical doctor and storyteller. She is a University of Iowa International Writing Program, Voodoonauts, and EbonyLife Creative Academy alum. Her works are in/forthcoming in British Science… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Kev Harrison

• August 22, 2023
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Kev Harrison is a writer of dark fiction and English language teacher from the UK, living and working in Lisbon, Portugal where he resides with his partner in crime Ana… Read more

HWA is proud to announce our next members-only anthology: Scaring and Daring Adventures

• August 21, 2023
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HWA is proud to announce our next members-only anthology: SCARING AND DARING ADVENTURES will be an anthology of original fiction stories that draw from the rich tradition of classic works… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Johann Thorsson

• August 21, 2023
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Johann Thorsson is an Icelandic author whose short stories have appeared in publications both in Icelandic and English, such as Fireside Fiction and The Apex Book of World SF series. … Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Marie O’Regan

• August 20, 2023
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Marie O’Regan is a multiple award-nominated author/editor based in Derbyshire. Her fiction has appeared in many genre magazines and anthologies, and she is the author of three collections (Mirror Mere,… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Tonya Liburd

• August 19, 2023
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Tonya Liburd is an Apex Magazine Reader’s Choice 2022 Fiction Winner, and is a 2017 and 2018 Rhysling Award nominee. Her fiction is used in Nisi Shawl’s Writing the Other… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Marty Young

• August 18, 2023
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  Marty Young is a Bram Stoker nominated and multiple Australian Shadows award-winning writer and editor, and sometimes ghost hunter. His fiction and anthologies have been nominated for and won… Read more