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Know a Nominee Part Five: Usman T. Malik

April 26, 2015
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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 Usman T. Malik, nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in Short Fiction for The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family.

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.

UTM: I was en route to Seattle to attend …

Know a Nominee Part Three: Patrick Freivald

April 24, 2015
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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 Patrick Freivald, nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in a Novel, for Jade Sky.

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.

PF: Jade Sky is an outgrowth of an idea I had …

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

April 23, 2015
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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

April 21, 2015
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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 …

In March: “Found Poetry” with Terrie Leigh Relf & HWA Poetry Showcase Announcement

March 6, 2014
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Poet Terrie Leigh Relf talks about “Found Poetry” and shares a little bit of herself and her own work this month. Personally, before reading this article, I’d never heard of “Found Poetry” and it’s a fascinating literary field. Special thanks to Terrie for pulling back the curtain a little on a lesser known form of poetry.

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What Is Found Poetry and Where-Oh-Where Can It Be?
by Terrie Leigh Relf

While on staff at Alban Lake Publishing, one of our regular contributors and a writer friend, Lauren McBride, asked me about found poetry. When she requested an article on this …

Women in Horror: Part Eighteen

March 3, 2014
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It may be March but I’m still rolling with WiHM!

Today, my dear friends, is the final article. Yes…it’s true. Please do not weep, do not lose hope, we will meet again. For now we can explore a great viewpoint on the whole concept of Women in Horror from editor, author, anthologist & all-round great friend…Joe Myndhardt…

Female authors, characters and inspirations… and those who have a problem with them.

by Joe Mynhardt

I learned something over the last few days; I learned that there is still a lot prejudice when it comes to the work of female authors. …

February in Poetry: “Women in Horror” & Introduction by Peter Adam Salomon, Editor

January 31, 2014
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‘Strangulation’ by Marge Simon

In the ‘November in Poetry’ column, poet Wendy Rathbone touched on an eternal truth that is so vital that I wanted to follow up on it. Wendy spoke of the ‘earliest and best known darker tales’ being poems:

“Beowulf,” “The Iliad,” “The Odyssey.” Dark poetry continues throughout known history from Dante’s “Inferno” to Milton’s “Paradise Lost” to William Blake to Poe.

This month, I’d like to go back even further in time, to show just how important the darkness has been, not just to poetry, but to all literature.

One of the oldest surviving works of …

Scary Out There! A Blog on Horror in Young Adult Fiction: A Chat with Rachel Caine

September 11, 2013
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Welcome back to SCARY OUT THERE, the Horror Writers Association’s new blog on scary fiction for teens. This week I sit down for a chat with Rachel Caine the #1 internationally bestselling author of more than forty novels, including the bestselling Morganville Vampires series, the Weather Warden series, the Outcast Season series, and the new upcoming Revivalist series. She was born at White Sands Missile Range, which people who know her say explains a lot. She has been an accountant, a professional musician, and an insurance investigator, and until very recently continued to carry on a secret identity in the …

July in Poetry: Dorr, Deininger, Faherty, Bilof

July 7, 2013
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This time we have the poetry of Keith Deininger, J G Faherty and Vincenzo Bilof. We also are including an archived Blood & Spades column by James Dorr.

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Art copyright Sandy DeLuca 2013

“Memento of Truth”

by Vincenzo Bilof

You can die this way, cry this way,

hide this day, burn this

fate.

Nobody has to unravel the mystery

behind my eyes, the natural

and super-mystical way I carve

into your thighs.

Slightly,

(one gash)

a sordid, artistically-placed

em-dash.

Is that a tear I see fall

from those bright white orbs?

(Can’t you see)

this …

Scary Out There: A Blog on Horror in Young Adult Fiction: A Chat with Kendare Blake

June 12, 2013
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Welcome back to SCARY OUT THERE, the Horror Writers Association’s new blog on scary fiction for teens.

My guest this week is Kendare Blake, author of the critically acclaimed ANN DRESSED IN BLOOD. Kendare lives and writes in Lynnwood, Washington. She writes books, enjoys scary movies, digs trying new food, goes hiking and plays (she insists) really bad tennis.

JONATHAN MABERRY: Welcome aboard, Kendare. Let’s jump right to the big question upon which Scary Out There is built. What scares you?

KENDARE BLAKE: Uncertainty scares me. The unknown.

JONATHAN MABERRY: How so–?

KENDARE BLAKE: It’s a fairly universal human fear, …

Halloween Haunts: The House on Brookhaven Road by Hugh Sterbakov

October 31, 2012
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The following is a true story… even the names haven’t been changed.

It was the last week of autumn in West Philadelphia, and the wet, warm smell of falling leaves had just given way to the numbing chill of winter. The year was 1990, and my friends and I had just begun our senior year at Robert E. Lamberton, the same school most of us had attended since Kindergarten. We’d grown up together, and this was our last hurrah. Next year we’d be at distant colleges, carving pumpkins with new families of friends.

My mother went away for Halloween weekend …

Halloween Haunts: Stonehenge–Up Close and Personal by Thomas Morrissey

October 31, 2012
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My favorite Halloween (so far) was the one I spent in England.

I was researching a novel, and my research took me all over the United Kingdom, including to Northern Ireland. My itinerary had me doing half car, half BritRail pass along this circuit, and once I’d crossed back over from Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead in Wales, I was driving to get to Stonehenge for Halloween.

The maps weren’t always precise, and I quickly learned ‘A’ or ‘M’ plus one number was a major highway, ‘A’ with two numbers after it was a pretty good-sized street, ‘A’ with three number …

Tag archive: HWA Archives - Page 2 of 7 - Horror Writers Association [ 73 ]

Know a Nominee Part Five: Usman T. Malik

Know a Nominee Part Three: Patrick Freivald

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

Know a Nominee Part One: Leslie Klinger

In March: “Found Poetry” with Terrie Leigh Relf & HWA Poetry Showcase Announcement

Women in Horror: Part Eighteen

February in Poetry: “Women in Horror” & Introduction by Peter Adam Salomon, Editor

Scary Out There! A Blog on Horror in Young Adult Fiction: A Chat with Rachel Caine

July in Poetry: Dorr, Deininger, Faherty, Bilof

Scary Out There: A Blog on Horror in Young Adult Fiction: A Chat with Kendare Blake

Halloween Haunts: The House on Brookhaven Road by Hugh Sterbakov

Halloween Haunts: Stonehenge–Up Close and Personal by Thomas Morrissey

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