The Seers’ Table October 2025

The Seers’ Table, August 2025   Kari J. Wolfe, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Committee You can see any of The Seers' Table posts since inception (March 2016) by going to the HWA main page and selecting the menu item “HWA Publications / Blogs / Seers’ Table”. Nicole D. Sconiers recommends: Lucy Rose is an author and award-winning writer/director with an interest in the gothic, girlhood, and horror. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Dread Central, Mslexia, and other publications. Rose’s films have visited BAFTA- and Oscar-qualifying film festivals internationally. She is also a Forbes 30 Under…

The Seers’ Table August 2025

Kari J. Wolfe, 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 and selecting the menu item “HWA Publications / Blogs / Seers’ Table”.   Kari J. Wolfe recommends:   Katherine Silva is an ace Maine horror author, a connoisseur of coffee, and victim of cat shenanigans. Her favorite flavors of the genre mix grief and existentialism which she combines with her love of the New England wilderness in her works. She is a three-time Maine Literary Award finalist for speculative…

The Seers’ Table July 2025

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 and selecting the menu item “HWA Publications / Blogs / Seers’ Table”.   Kate Maruyama recommends:   Catherine Kuo is an Asian American writer who lived and worked in Taiwan and Japan for several years before returning to the United States. She graduated from the University of California, Davis, where she was selected as one of the winners of the university’s 2010-2011 “Prized Writing” competition. She is an HWA member…

The Seers’ Table May 2025

May Seers’ Table, Kate Maruyama, Diverse Works Inclusion Committee   Geneve Flynn recommends:   Pauline Yates is the creative force behind the multi-award-winning science fiction novel, Memories Don’t Lie, recognized in awards including the 2024 BookFest Awards winner in three categories (YA – Science Fiction; Sci-fi Action Adventure; Sci-fi – Genetic Engineering), 2024 American Legacy Book Awards – Finalist (Science Fiction); 2023 Indies Today Awards – Semi-Finalist, among others. She’s also the author of the short horror read, Dream Job, the sci-fi/horror novella, Shattered, and the horror short story collection, The Connections We Keep. Her award-nominated short stories include “Blood Born”, Midnight Echo 18 (Aurealis Awards Best…

The Seers’ Table April 2025

Kate Maruyama Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Committee Linda Addison Recommends: Pedro Iniguez is a horror and science-fiction writer from Los Angeles, California. He is a Rhysling Award finalist and a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. His fiction and poetry has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Never Wake: An Anthology of Dream Horror, Shadows Over Main Street Volume 3, Qualia Nous Vol. 2, A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, Worlds of Possibility, Infinite Constellations, Tiny Nightmares, Shortwave Magazine, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Space and Time Magazine, and Savage Realms Monthly, among…

The Seers’ Table February 2025

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 and selecting the menu item “HWA Publications/Blogs/Seers’ Table.”   Geneve Flynn recommends: Author photo credit: Ayida Shonibar Ayida Shonibar (she/they) is an Indian-Bengali immigrant who grew up in Europe and currently works in North America. They write dark and wistful speculative fiction about misfits, monsters, mischief-makers. Spanning genres and age categories, Shonibar’s short stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in various publications. Their writing has been supported by a…

The Seers’ Table December 2024

  Kate Maruyama, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Committee.   We have some rich reading in time to buy gifts for friends, dig in! You can see any of “The Seers’ Table” posts since inception (March 2016) by going to the HWA main page and selecting the menu item “HWA Publications / Blogs / Seers’ Table.” Linda D. Addison recommends: Ao-Hui Lin enjoys finding terror in the day-to-day of domestic life, particularly in motherhood, which is why she doesn’t want her children reading her fiction. The truth was frightening enough. When she’s not at her day job, writing AI…

The Seers’ Table November 2024

The Seers Table! November 3, 2024 by HWAWeb Linda B. 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 and selecting the menu item “HWA Publications / Blogs / Seers’ Table.” Tish Jackson recommends: Sami Ellis is a queer horror writer from the Carolinas with a message. Her debut novel, Dead Girls Walking, can be considered a slasher novel but encompasses themes of coming of age, bullying, and problematic family dynamics. The main character is on a mission to find out…

The Seers’ Table October 2024

Kate Maruyama, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community Spooky season is here with a wonderful variety of flavors of horror! Dig into stirring poetry, creep through some short stories, sample some body horror of a debut novelist, and enter a slow burn of a thriller horror just as it gets hot.   Linda Addison recommends: Screenshot Corey Niles was born and raised in the Rust Belt. His debut novel, Blood & Dirt, was released in August 2022. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in over twenty publications, including Nightmare Magazine, Ghost Orchid Press, and Lycan Valley Press. He…

The Seers’ Table July 2024

Kate Maruyama, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community Linda D. Addison recommends: Bridget D. Brave hails from the dead center of the US of A. A lawyer by day, Bridget spends her remaining waking hours writing weird horror in short, long, and game formats and play-testing tabletop RPGs with the Wandering Monster Cast. I found her story, “Burlesque!” mesmerizing and chilling from the Shadows in the Stacks Anthology edited by Vincent V. Cava, James Sabata, and Jared Sage (Shortwave Publishing, 2024). This charity anthology benefits the Library Foundation SD. Recommended Reading: “Burlesque! Albanqua proudly presents Parsippany Phoenix and The…

The Seers’ Table June 2024

Linda D. Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community

Rebecca Cuthbert is a dark fiction and poetry writer living in Western New York. She loves ghost stories, folklore, witchy women, and anything that involves nature getting revenge.

The Seers’ Table May 2024

Pixie Bruner is a poet, writer, editor, and cancer survivor. She lives in Atlanta with her doppelgänger and some sketchy cats. Her poetry has been published or forthcoming in Space & Time Magazine, Crystal Lake Publishing, Star*Line, Punk Noir, Dreams and Nightmares, and more. The Body As Haunted (Authortunities Press) is her debut poetry collection. She wrote for White Wolf Gaming Studio. HWA and SFPA Member.

Recommended Reading: The Body as Haunted (Authortunities Press, April 2024)

The Seers’ Table April 2024

Claire Fitzpatrick is an award-winning editor and author of speculative fiction and nonfiction, specialising in body horror. She identifies as neurodiverse. Her self-published anthology, The Body Horror Book, which she compiled, co-wrote, and edited, won the 2017 Rocky Wood Award for Nonfiction and Criticism. Her debut collection, Metamorphosis, released by IFWG Publishing Australia in 2019, was hailed as “graphic and disturbing,” “engaging and darkly beautiful,” and “simply heroic.”

The Seers’ Table March 2024

Kate Maruyama, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community March is blooming with all kinds of marvelous reading! Here’s a delectable array of spooky stories for you to choose from! Linda Addison Recommends: From Carmen Baca: “A locked wooden box which held the secrets to the Brotherhood known as los Hermanos Penitentes inspired my debut novel, El Hermano. It published in 2017, and I haven’t stopped writing. Today, I have six books and over 80 short works published from poetry to prose in a variety of genres. I’m proud to say some are award winners. I’ve been recognized by a…

The Seers’ Table February 2024

Tracy Cross’ work has been featured in several podcasts, including “Nighty Night with Rabia Chaudry” (advocate and author of the New York Times bestselling book Adnan’s Story). Her work can be found in several anthologies, including Other Terrors, Don’t Break the Oath, Pandemics Unleashed, and 99 Tiny Terrors. Her first book, Rootwork, a folk horror homage to her late grandmother, was published in the fall of 2022. Tracy understands what it feels like to be the 21st Century invisible woman. She creates strong female characters to debunk the stereotype that women should be seen and not heard. Her protagonists are strong, Black women, that any reader can see and support.

The Seers’ Table January 2024

Linda D. Addison recommends: Jenny Kiefer is a Kentucky native and an avid rock climber. Together with her mother, she is the owner and manager of Butcher Cabin Books, an all-horror bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky. This Wretched Valley is her debut novel. She has short stories published in Pseudopod, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

The Seers’ Table December 2023

Ace Antonio-Hall recommends: Lisa Springer is a writer from Barbados currently living in New York with her family. She loves creating worlds readers can get lost in. Lisa is passionate about writing thriller and horror fiction for young people.

The Seers’ Table November 2023

Kate Maruyama, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community Kate Maruyama here. Spooky reading is a joy year ‘round for those of us at the Seers’ Table, but November, with its shortened days and gray skies, amps up the mood a bit. This month there is some poetry in the mix, along with some pizza and New Orleans. So, grab a cup of something warm, curl up, and dig in! Linda D. Addison recommends: Carol Edwards is a northern California native transplanted to southern Arizona. She lives and works in relative seclusion with her books, plants, and pets (two dogs,…

The Seers’ Table October 2023

Kate Maruyama, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community Linda Addison recommends: London native C.C. Adams is the horror/dark fiction author behind books such as But Worse Will Come, Misery And Other Lines, and Downwind, Alice. A member of the HWA, he still lives in the capital. This is where he lifts weights, cooks—and looks for the perfect quote to set off the next dark delicacy. Adams has a story in The Black Beacon Book of Horror anthology releasing Friday, October 13, 2023 (yes, you read that right, Friday the 13th). The anthology features dark and disturbing tales of psychological,…

The Seers’ Table September 2023

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 and selecting menu item “Our Blogs / Seers’ Table.” Linda D. Addison recommends: Candace Nola is an award-winning Pittsburgh author, editor, and reviewer. You can find her short stories in The Baker’s Dozen, Just A Girl, and The American Cannibal anthologies as well as multiple short stories on Godless. Her novels include Breach, Beyond the Breach, Hank Flynn, Bishop, and Bishop: Man vs Monster. She is the publisher and editor…