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StokerCon Update

• March 23, 2022
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Hello! Fifty days until StokerCon begins and we have another update. Rooms in our reservation block at the Curtis Hotel, where we will hold the convention, are filling up. No… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Jessica McHugh

• March 23, 2022
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Jessica McHugh is a novelist, poet, and internationally-produced playwright running amok in the fields of horror, sci-fi, young adult, and wherever else her peculiar mind leads. She’s had twenty-five books… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Gwendolyn Kiste

• March 22, 2022
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Gwendolyn Kiste is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, Boneset & Feathers, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, Pretty Marys All in a Row,… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Brianna Malotke

• March 21, 2022
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Brianna Malotke is a freelance writer and member of the Horror Writers Association. Some of her most recent work can be found online at The Crypt, Witch House Amateur Magazine, … Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Linda D. Addison

• March 21, 2022
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Linda D. Addison, the author of five award-winning collections, including The Place of Broken Things written with Alessandro Manzetti, & How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, recipient… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Bridget Nelson

• March 20, 2022
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Once an operating room registered nurse, Bridgett Nelson so enjoyed playing with human organs, she decided to turn her macabre interest into a horror writing career. She loves bubble baths… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Candice Nola

• March 19, 2022
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Candace Nola is a Pittsburgh author with 3 published novels currently on Amazon. Breach was her debut novel, published in November 2019, followed by Beyond the Breach, published December 22,… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Mercedes M. Yardley

• March 18, 2022
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Mercedes M. Yardley is a dark fantasist who wears red lipstick and poisonous flowers in her hair. She is the author of Beautiful Sorrows, the Stabby Award-winning Apocalyptic Montessa and… Read more

The “13 Books on the 13th” Raffle

• March 18, 2022
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During the Mass Author Signing and Ice Cream Social on Friday, May 13th, the HWA will hold its “13 Books on the 13th” raffle. You will be able to purchase… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Cynthia Pelayo

• March 17, 2022
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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo is an International Latino Book Award-winning and two-time Bram Stoker Awards® nominated poet and author. She is the author of LOTERIA, SANTA MUERTE, THE MISSING, and POEMS… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Ellen Datlow

• March 16, 2022
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Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for four decades. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Rhonda Jackson Garcia

• March 15, 2022
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Rhonda Jackson Garcia, AKA RJ Joseph, is a Stoker Award™ nominated, Texas based academic and creative writer/professor whose writing regularly focuses on the intersections of gender and race in the… Read more

StokerCon® 2022 Update

• March 14, 2022
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Hello! We are roughly sixty days out from StokerCon. The entire con committee is working hard to produce a convention experience we hope everyone will enjoy. Three eventful years have… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Angela Yuriko Smith

• March 14, 2022
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Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Uchinanchu-American and an award-winning poet, author, and publisher with over 20 years of experience in newspaper journalism. Publisher of Space & Time magazine (est.… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Patricia Gomes

• March 13, 2022
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Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 2014 to 2021, author and playwright Patricia Gomes is published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including the New England Horror Writers Anthologies, … Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Carina Bissett

• March 12, 2022
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Carina Bissett is a writer, poet, and educator working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in multiple journals and… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Alexandrea Weis

• March 11, 2022
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Alexandrea Weis, RN-CS, PhD, is a multi-award-winning author, screenwriter, advanced practice registered nurse, and historian who was born and raised in the French Quarter of New Orleans. She has taught… Read more

HWA Please Welcome!

• March 10, 2022
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Please Welcome Michelle Lane and Tina Pavlik to the HWA Social Media Team We are very proud to announce the latest members to join our Social Media Team, Michelle Renee… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Donna Lynch

• March 10, 2022
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Donna Lynch is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated dark fiction writer, designer, spoken word artist, and the singer and co-founder—along with her husband, artist and musician Steven Archer—of the dark… Read more

Women in Horror: Interview with Sara Tantlinger

• March 9, 2022
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Sara Tantlinger is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes, and the Stoker-nominated works To Be Devoured, Cradleland of Parasites, and Not… Read more