Ai Jang reads from POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Ai Jang joins us today with a reading of her poem, "A Barrening Mother" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/TLvrj75_HIg Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer and an immigrant from Fujian. She is a member of HWA, SFWA, and Codex. Her work can be found in F&SF, The Dark, Uncanny, The Puritan, Prairie Fire, The Masters Review. Her debut novella Linghun (April 2023) is forthcoming with Dark Matter INK. Find her on Twitter (@AiJiang_) and online (http://aijiang.ca).

Leigh Hennig reads from POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Leigh Hennig joins us today with a reading of his poem, "The Interview" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/NmBVpTHxD58 R. Leigh Hennig is a writer, editor, and horror enthusiast living with his beautiful wife and three awesome kids in coastal New England. Previously he taught a series of classes on horror in literature with the King County Library System in Seattle, has written numerous essays on disability in speculative fiction (along with the usual slew of science…

Denise Dumars reads from POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Denise Dumars joins us today with a reading of her poem, "Cusp of Conjure" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/J0uYDTyL9bQ Denise Dumars is a widely published, award-winning poet, short fiction, and nonfiction writer. Her poetry collection Paranormal Romance: Poems Romancing the Paranormal, was nominated for the Elgin Award. Each October she participates in a vampire poetry performance troupe called Casketeria, with appearances in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Her column "Stealth SF: Finding Speculative Poetry in Non-Genre…

Colleen Anderson reads from POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Colleen Anderson joins us today with a reading of her poem, "Our Lady of Holy Death" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. Colleen Anderson is a multiple award nominee, with poetry widely published in many venues, including Andromeda Spaceways, Lucent Dreaming, Shadow Atlas and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. Colleen lives in Vancouver, BC and is a Canada Council and BC Arts Council grant recipient for writing and has performed her work before audiences in the US, UK and Canada.…

Hillary Dodge reads from POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Hillary Dodge joins us today with a reading of her poem, "Something to Know About the Wind At the Cliff House" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/KoIG_0nDVls Hillary Dodge is an award-winning editor and author of several speculative short fictions as well as three nonfiction books. She spends a good deal of time traveling, going places that are forbidden, and eating. She once had tea with a Roma in a cave in the mountains of Spain. Another…

Jamal Hodge reads as a Showcase 8 Alumni

Jamal Hodge joins us today with a reading of his poem, "The Silence of God" as a Poetry Showcase Alumni. If you haven't purchased your copy yet of the newest Poetry Showcase, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/j-GbMgeLxHU JAMAL HODGE is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and writer from Queens NYC who has won over 70 awards with screenings at Tribecca Film Festival, Sundance, and the Cannes Short Film Corner. He has directed the first season of Investigation Discovery Channel's Primal Instinct' and has come on as a Producer on…

Monica S. Kuebler reads from POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Monica S. Kuebler joins us today with a reading of her poem, "Blowtorch" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/UMO6Ar3GLMY Monica S. Kuebler is co-coordinator of the Ontario Chapter of the Horror Writers Association and has spent the last two decades wearing a variety of editorial hats at Rue Morgue magazine, for whom she penned Rue Morgue Library #3: Weird Stats and Morbid Facts. She also writes poetry and monster stories; her young adult vampire serial ‒ which…

Stephanie Ellis reads from POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Stephanie Ellis joins us today with a reading of her poem, "Revenant - The Ministrations of Lilith (an extract)" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/XUfERhOym6E Stephanie Ellis writes dark speculative prose and poetry and has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Her longer work includes the novel, The Five Turns of the Wheel and the novellas, Bottled and Paused. Her novels, Reborn and The Woodcutter, are due for release via Brigids Gate Press in…

Dan B. Fierce reads from POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Dan B. Fierce joins us today with a reading of his poem, "Strike A Match" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/sixYkBJlKiE Dan B. Fierce loves humor and horror alike, and many things in between. A long-time fan of authors like Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Edgar Alan Poe, he lets his darker side come out in the macabre “Revenge” demonstrates the tension caused by the corona virus with “Mistaken” and gives the reader a taste of dark…

Timothy P. Flynn reads from POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Timothy P. Flynn joins us today with a reading of his poem, "A Darker Dawn" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/FPa6lLDNOgo Timothy P. Flynn is a dark poet from Massachusetts. His previous poetry resides in Space and Time magazine, Anthocon’s book collections: Anthology Years 1-3, Wicked Tales, Wicked Creatures, Scifaikuest, haikuniverse, Haiku Journal and the HWA Poetry Showcase Vol 5 & Vol 6 His most recent work will appear in Wicked Sick in April 2023, and in…

Victoria Nations reads from POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Victoria Nations joins us today with a reading of her poem, "Reasons Why You Can’t Go Out to Play Alone" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/1gpE0n5GU6A Victoria Nations writes horror stories and poetry about creatures with emotional baggage. Her most recent work appears in IN SOMNIO: A Collection of Modern Gothic Horror, A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales, the Magpie Messenger literary magazine, and the upcoming Mother: Tales of Love and Terror. Victoria is a…

Naomi Simone Borwein reads from POETRY SHOWCASE XI

Naomi Simone Borwein joins us today with a reading of her poem, "The Koiy Factory" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/aDsnx-_wps4 Naomi Simone Borwein holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Newcastle. She is a research associate at Western University and teaches at the University of Windsor. Naomi has published numerous chapters and articles on elements of h/Horror in literature, film, and culture. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming across a spectrum of presses:…

Gary Robbe reads from Poetry Showcase IX

Gary Robbe joins us today with a reading of his poem, "Queen Rat in No Man's Land" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/8vXPfCLq7Ys Gary Robbe is an educator and writer currently living in Colorado. He has had numerous stories published in e-zines, magazines and anthologies. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and a founding member of the Denver Horror Collective. Gary is also an associate editor with Bewildering Stories.…

DONNA K. FITCH READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Donna K. Fitch entertains with a reading of her poem, "Steps in a Cemetery" from Poetry Showcase IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/EXDSYNNXJ6E Donna K. Fitch is the author of Second Death, The Source of Lightning, and The Color of Darkness and Other Stories. She holds a B.A. in art, a master’s in library service, a master’s in instructional design and technology, and a master’s certificate in web design and technology. She is employed as a content editor on the…
RONI STINGER READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

RONI STINGER READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Roni Stinger reads her chilling poem "Hide and Seek in Haunted Spaces," one of the poems in HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vodP5LvCUpg Roni Stinger lives in the Pacific Northwest, USA with her husband and two cats.. Her poetry has been published in Under Her Skin, Hypnos Magazine, and HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VII, among others. She’s a member of the HWA, SFWA, and SFPA. You can find her online at www.ronistinger.com and on Twitter @roni_stinger.
CASSONDRA WINDWALKER READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

CASSONDRA WINDWALKER READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Cassondra Windwalker reads a haunting poem "Conflagration," one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCRTL-yza1E Cassondra Windwalker is the author of the gothic horror HOLD MY PLACE, as well as the upcoming work of dark magical realism LOVE LIKE A CEPHALOPOD. Presently writing full-time from the coast of southern Alaska, she pretends at the poetry of small things and the languages of birds, beasts, and things with roots. She enjoys connecting with generally…
M LOPES da SILVA READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

M LOPES da SILVA READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

M Lopes da Silva reads a frighteningly approriate poem "there’s a haunted pornographic magazine in the woods," one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItTmiuF_OEw M Lopes da Silva (he/they/she) is a non-binary and bisexual author from Los Angeles. They write pulp and poetry, and sometimes the two get mixed up together. Their queer Californian horror fiction has been published or is forthcoming from In Somnio: A Collection of Modern Gothic Horror Fiction,…
MEGHAN ARCURI READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

MEGHAN ARCURI READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Meghan Arcuri reads her heartbreaking and poignant poem "How Do I Tell Her?," one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmiHfbxWuOo Meghan Arcuri is a Bram Stoker Award®-nominated author. Her work can be found in various anthologies, including Borderlands 7 (Borderlands Press), Madhouse (Dark Regions Press), Chiral Mad, and Chiral Mad 3 (Written Backwards). She is currently the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association. Prior to writing, she taught high school math,…
TEEL JAMES GLENN READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

TEEL JAMES GLENN READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

A chilling reading of "Homebound" by Teel James Glenn from the recently released HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/7MpD9nOg6Rw Teel James Glenn has killed hundreds and been killed more times--on stage and screen as he has traveled the world as a stuntman, swordmaster, storyteller, actor, and haunted house barker. His poetry and short stories have been printed in over two hundred publications including Weird Tales, Horror & Hope, A Woman Unbecoming, Space & Time, Mystery Weekly, Pulp…
GENEVE FLYNN READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

GENEVE FLYNN READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

Geneve Flynn gives a wonderful reading of her poem "spoon against bone," one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven't purchased your copy yet, it's just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome. https://youtu.be/860m9ak8fOk Geneve Flynn is an award-winning speculative fiction editor, author, and poet. She is the co-editor of Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (with Lee Murray). The anthology won the 2020 Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards and shortlisted for the British Fantasy, Aurealis, and Australian Shadows Awards. Geneve was assistant editor for Relics,…