Tag archive: LGBTQ Archives - Horror Writers Association [ 59 ]

Point of Pride 2024: An Interview With Jill Baguchinsky

• June 9, 2024
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What has writing horror taught you about the world and yourself?

About myself? I really like scaring people, heh. I’ve had a few people tell me my work gave them nightmares, and I’m probably prouder of that than I should be. About the world? The world is full of scary things, but it’s possible to get through those things, to process them, to move past them. Sometimes it takes a lot of creativity, and maybe a dark sense of humor, but it can be done.

A Point of Pride: Interview with Robert Levy

• June 20, 2023
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ROBERT LEVY‘s novel The Glittering World was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award as well as the Lambda Literary Award, while shorter work has appeared in The Magazine of… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Mae Murray

• June 19, 2023
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Mae Murray is a writer and editor hailing from Arkansas, now living in eerie New England. She contributes essays and criticism to horror-centric websites, including Fangoria and Dread Central. She… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Lee Mandelo

• June 17, 2023
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Lee Mandelo (he/him) is a writer, critic, and occasional editor whose fields of interest include speculative and queer fiction, especially when the two coincide. His debut novel Summer Sons, featured… Read more

A Point of Pride: An Interview with Lor Gislason

• June 16, 2023
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Lor Gislason (they/he) is a non-binary homebody and the author of Inside Out. They are also the editor of Bound In Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror. Find them… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Andrew Robertson

• June 15, 2023
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Andrew Robertson is a queer horror writer and editor. He recently released a dual-author short story collection with Sèphera Girón, Dearly Departed, available from the Great Lakes Horror Company. The… Read more

A point of Pride: An Interview with Wendy N. Wagner

• June 14, 2023
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Wendy N. Wagner is a writer and Hugo award-winning editor. Her books include the forthcoming cosmic horror novel The Creek Girl (Tor Nightfire, 2025), The Deer Kings, The Secret Skin,… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Joe Koch

• June 13, 2023
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Joe Koch (He/They) writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Their books include The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Convulsive, and The Couvade, which received a Shirley Jackson Award nomination in 2019.… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Michael R. Collins

• June 12, 2023
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Michael R Collins was born at a very young age in the wilds of southern Idaho. After a few decades, he finally got his fill of all the sagebrush and… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Ruth Anna Evans

• June 11, 2023
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  Ruth Anna Evans is a writer, anthologizer, and cover designer who lives in the heart of all that is sinister: the American Midwest. She has been composing prose of… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Eboni J. Dunbar

• June 10, 2023
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Eboni J. Dunbar (She/her) is a queer, black woman who writes queer and black speculative fiction. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner. She received her… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with L. Stephenson

• June 9, 2023
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Out to his family and friends since he was sixteen, L. Stephenson’s short stories and poetry have been haunting horror anthologies and online magazines since 2018, the best of which… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Brent Lambert

• June 8, 2023
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Brent Lambert is a Black, queer man who heavily believes in the transformative power of speculative fiction across media formats. As a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine, he turned… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with James Lefebure

• June 7, 2023
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James Lefebure is a Scottish-born, Liverpool-living horror author. Splitting his time between watching horror, reading horror and writing horror, he can often be found arguing with people that Jason would… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Vince A. Liaguno

• June 5, 2023
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Vince A. Liaguno is an award-winning writer, anthologist, editor, and an occasional poet. He is the Bram Stoker Award®-winning editor of Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet (co-edited… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Corey Niles

• June 4, 2023
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Corey Niles was born and raised in the Rust Belt, where he garnered his love of horror. His debut horror novel, Blood & Dirt, was released from NineStar Press in… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Joshua Viola

• June 3, 2023
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Joshua Viola is a 2021 Splatterpunk Award nominee, Colorado Book Award winner, and editor of the StokerCon™ 2021 Souvenir Anthology. He is the co-author of the Denver Moon series with… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Gretchen Felker-Martin

• June 2, 2023
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Gretchen Felker-Martin is Massachusetts-based horror writer and film critic. Her debut novel, Manhunt, is out now from Tor Nightfire. You can follow her work @scumbelievable on Twitter. What inspired you… Read more

Point of Pride Intro: Always Keep Your Pride, Shatter the Closets by Maxwell I. Gold

• June 1, 2023
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By: Maxwell I. Gold A few weeks ago, men dressed in black and red clothes, carrying flags of an evil undeserving to be named. Their chants and slogans—there will be… Read more

Transgender Awareness Week: “Pronouns” by Pretty Frankenstein

• November 18, 2022
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Catching Up With Grey Star of Pretty Frankenstein

Pretty Frankenstein is a Queer alternative group from the San Francisco Bay Area/East Bay, fronted by trans activist/performer Grey Starr. Over the… Read more