Know a Nominee Part Four: Corrine De Winter

Know a Nominee Part Four: Corrine De Winter

Welcome back to 'Know a Nominee', the interview series that climbs inside the minds of some of the most talented authors and editors working in horror today: the 2014 Bram Stoker Awards nominees. Today's edition features poet Corrine De Winter, nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection, along with co-author Alessandro Manzetti, for Venus Intervention.   DM: Please describe the genesis for the idea that eventually became the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated. What attracted you most to the project? If nominated in multiple categories, please touch briefly on each. CDW: This was my first…
Know a Nominee Part Two: John F.D. Taff

Know a Nominee Part Two: John F.D. Taff

  Welcome back to 'Know a Nominee', the interview series that puts you squarely between the ears of this year's Bram Stoker Award nominees. Today's nominee is the King of Pain, John F.D. Taff, nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection for The End in All Beginnings.   DM: Please describe the genesis for the idea that eventually became the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated. What attracted you most to the project? If nominated in multiple categories, please touch briefly on each. JFDT: I attended my first HWA/WHC two years ago in New Orleans and…
Know a Nominee Part One: Leslie Klinger

Know a Nominee Part One: Leslie Klinger

Hello, and welcome to ‘Know a Nominee’, the interview series that gives you daily peeks inside the skulls of some of the most talented horror writers and editors working today: this year's Bram Stoker Award Nominees.   Each day, through to the day of the Bram Stoker Awards ceremony, we aim to bring you at least one Q&A featuring (you guessed it!) one of this year’s nominees.   First off, I'd like to send a huge thank you to all of our participants. Through the generous gifts of your time and candor, we have a great line-up of interviews—and I…
HWA 2014 Specialty Press Award Goes to ChiZine

HWA 2014 Specialty Press Award Goes to ChiZine

HWA 2014 Specialty Press Award Goes to ChiZine The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy, today announced the recipient for the association’s 2014 Specialty Press Award. ChiZine Publications, founded and run by Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, will be presented with the award on May 9 during the Bram Stoker Awards® Banquet in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of the World Horror Convention. The annual Specialty Press Award recognizes a publisher outside the mainstream New York City publishing community that specializes in dark-themed fiction. Winners are typically “small presses” specializing…
Doug Murano, Tom Calen, and Brock Cooper to Receive Richard Laymon President’s Award for Service

Doug Murano, Tom Calen, and Brock Cooper to Receive Richard Laymon President’s Award for Service

Doug Murano, Tom Calen, and Brock Cooper to Receive Richard Laymon President’s Award for Service Los Angeles—Mar. 4, 2015. The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy, today announced the recipients of the association’s Richard Laymon President’s Award for Service. HWA’s President Lisa Morton has chosen the publicity team of Doug Murano, Tom Calen, and Brock Cooper to receive the 2014 Richard Laymon Award. Murano, Calen, and Cooper will receive the award at the Bram Stoker Awards® Banquet in Atlanta on May 9th, 2015, held as part of the World Horror…
Bigger & Bolder at BookExpo 2015

Bigger & Bolder at BookExpo 2015

For the 7th consecutive year, the Horror Writers Association will participate in North America’s largest publishing event: BookExpo America at the Jacob J. Javits Convention Center in New York City. This year, the HWA has pledged to make its presence bigger and bolder! Not only have we doubled—that’s right, DOUBLED—our booth size, we’ve also secured a corner position in one of the most trafficked intersections! Maybe you’ve heard of some of our neighbors: Simon & Schuster, the Mystery Writers of America, and the Romance Writers of America. Our booth—constructed by the event’s official contractor, Freeman—will feature: Secure cabinetry/shelving to better…
Halloween Haunts: The Betamax Horror by Tom Calen

Halloween Haunts: The Betamax Horror by Tom Calen

I got my first real taste of fear when I was four or five years old. It was the early 1980s in Brooklyn, New York, and the night, quite fittingly, was Halloween. My family had joined with three others for the annual door-to-door plea for candy, otherwise known as Trick-or-Treating[*]. All combined, there were eight children in our pack: a quartet of ten year-olds, a trio aged eight, and me--the youngest by four years and the only boy. I don’t remember much about the trick-or-treating itself, which likely means I ended the route with a healthy bag of soon-to-be cavities…
Halloween Haunts: Homemade Halloween By Doug Murano

Halloween Haunts: Homemade Halloween By Doug Murano

I always feel a mix of giddy excitement and sadness when grocery stores and department stores switch over their wares for the Halloween season. Rows of rubbery fright masks. Aisles of candy branded to sell the latest movies and toy lines. Mass-produced orange banners and black fuzzy spiders stuck to windows with Scotch tape and suction cups. Today’s rampant commercialization of Halloween (every holiday, really) was already underway by the time the mid-80’s rolled around. But I still remember the real goodies—the ones I think back upon most fondly from my childhood. Those things were always homemade. In the lead-up…
Stephen King’s HorrorSelfie!

Stephen King’s HorrorSelfie!

Visit horrorselfies.com to upload your own Horror Selfie and to see selfies from Stephen King, Lisa Tuttle, Peter Straub, Ellen Datlow, Aaron Sterns, and Ramsey Campbell among many others! And, you might win a prize if you submit in October!
Horror Selfies! We want your face.

Horror Selfies! We want your face.

Inspired by the popular “Say it with a Sign” meme—used by everyone from Ellen DeGeneres and Jon Bon Jovi, to David Beckham and Princes William and Harry—the HWA is utilizing the vast reach of social media to provide a platform through which people can tell the world why they love horror. The HWA invites authors and readers, actors and directors, fans and followers, to submit a selfie to www.HorrorSelfies.com in which they hold a sign encouraging others to read horror/dark fantasy, to watch horror movies, or to write horror. Additionally, the HWA is encouraging people to promote literacy and reading…
How the HWA Helped My Career: Jonathan Maberry

How the HWA Helped My Career: Jonathan Maberry

My name is Jonathan and I write horror. I know, it sounds like the kind of thing you’d admit to at a meeting. Or maybe after taking an oath in court. Or, maybe something you’d tell a priest as part of your dying confession. I write horror. I read horror. I like horror. Or, maybe it’s that I love it. Viewed from a distance, considered without more information, it’s easy to judge and to reach the wrong conclusion. Happens all the time. I’ve encountered it more times than I can count. People meet me and discover that I write horror…
Video Interview with James Dorr

Video Interview with James Dorr

Bram Stoker Award (R) nominee James Dorr talks about successes networking at World Horror Convention, the Horror Writers Association, being a poet, author and sculptor, and his work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4QhV-j9_QI James Dorr is a short story writer and poet with three primarily prose collections, STRANGE MISTRESSES: TALES OF WONDER AND ROMANCE and DARKER LOVES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND REGRET published by Dark Regions Press and THE TEARS OF ISIS from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, and an illustrated all-poetry collection, VAMPS (A RETROSPECTIVE), from Sam's Dot Publishing/White Cat Publications. He also has a novelette, THE GARDEN, available in electronic and print chapbook…
2015 Scholarships for Members

2015 Scholarships for Members

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce two annual scholarships – the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship; and The Horror Writers Association Scholarship, each worth $2500. Submissions for 2015 are closed. We'll take applications for 2016 soon. The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship will be open to female writers who are members of the HWA. The Horror Writers Association Scholarship will be open to all members of the HWA. The first Scholarships were awarded in 2014. Thereafter, the Scholarships are given annually. Both Scholarships are designed to assist in the professional development of our members. HWA President Rocky Wood explained…
Video Interview with Lois Gresh

Video Interview with Lois Gresh

Author and editor Lois Gresh on writing from your heart, World Horror Conventions, the HWA, advice for new writers and her nugget of HWA wisdom! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L7lcM22nIs LOIS H. GRESH is the New York Times Best-Selling Author (6 times), Publishers Weekly Best-Selling Paperback Author, Publishers Weekly Best-Selling Paperback Children’s Author, and USA Today Best-Selling Author of 27 books and 55 short stories. She has 1 million books in print in 22 languages. Current books are DARK FUSIONS: WHERE MONSTERS LURK! (editor, PS Publishing, Nov 2013), dark story collection ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS (Chaosium 2011, BookViewCafe ebook 2012), and THE DIVERGENT COMPANION (St. Martin’s…
Video Interview with Lisa Manetti

Video Interview with Lisa Manetti

Lisa Mannetti on first con experiences, the value of networking and being an HWA member, learning and mentoring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoFzyVtFUbo Lisa Mannetti's debut novel, The Gentling Box, garnered a Bram Stoker Award. Her latest books include Deathwatch, a collection of two thematically linked novellas, including the Bram-Stoker nominated "Dissolution," and "The New Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn." She has authored a macabre gag book, 51 Fiendish Ways to Leave your Lover, as well as non-fiction books, and numerous articles and short stories in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. Recent and upcoming works (2010) include “Resurgam” in Dead Set: A Zombie…
Video Interview with Jason V Brock

Video Interview with Jason V Brock

Author, editor, publisher and filmmaker Jason V Brock on how to make the most out of conventions, networking, serving on panels, Awards, advice for writers, and the value of a thick skin! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x1TUjkJsSc Jason V Brock is an award-winning American author, artist, editor, and director. He is the CEO and co-founder (with his wife, Sunni) of JaSunni Productions, LLC, whose documentary films include the controversial Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man, The AckerMonster Chronicles!, and Image, Reflection, Shadow: Artists of the Fantastic. He is also the author of Totems and Taboos, a compilation of his poetry…
Video Interview with Eric J. Guignard

Video Interview with Eric J. Guignard

Eric J Guignard, Bram Stoker Award (R) Winner this year, talks about the value of writers' organisation such as the HWA, attending conventions and his work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ZpqoL-S-0 Eric J. Guignard writes dark and speculative fiction from the outskirts of Los Angeles. His stories and articles may be found in magazines, journals, anthologies, and any other media that will print him. He’s a member of the Horror Writer’s Association, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Of America, and the International Thriller Writers.
Video Interview with Kate Jonez

Video Interview with Kate Jonez

Kate Jonez, Bram Stoker Award nominee® talks conventions, her books, and why a new horror writer should join the Horror Writers Association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE9ljGmxOA8 Kate Jonez writes dark fantasy fiction. Ceremony of Flies published by DarkFuse is available in limited edition hard cover and ebook.Her Bram Stoker ® Award nominated novel Candy House is available at Amazon in print and ebook. She is also chief editor at Omnium Gatherum a small press dedicated to publishing unique dark fantasy, weird fiction or literary dark fiction in print and ebook. Three Omnium Gatherum books have been nominated for Shirley Jackson Awards.
Video Interview with Yvonne Navarro

Video Interview with Yvonne Navarro

Bram Stoker Award® winning author, Yvonne Navarro discusses the very first World Horror Convention, advice for first time nominees, the importance of networking, and the HWA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdFjbjQxKbY&app=desktop Yvonne Navarro is the author of Concrete Savior, Highborn, AfterAge, deadrush, Final Impact, Mirror Me and a bunch of other books, plus Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels and tie-in novels for Hellboy, Elektra, and others.
Horror.org on 101 Best Websites for Writers List

Horror.org on 101 Best Websites for Writers List

The HWA’s website, www.horror.org, has been selected as one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" by Writer's Digest magazine! This honor is announced in their May/June 2014 issue.