StokerCon 2026: Full Schedule

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2:00pm EDT

Author Readings

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Speakers

D.R. Forge (CJ Ruff)

D.R. Forge needed a pen name on the fly to submit her first entry to a zine, which, against the odds, was published, along with her hastily cobbled together bio. Thusly spawned her nom de plume. She did not think this through. So many years later, regularly struggles at introductions... Read More →

Curtis Schlak

Founder, Escribo Studio Writing Software

Curtis Schlak is an Author Accelerator certified Book Coach, as well as a novelist and screenwriter. He was recently shortlisted for the Writers Guild Foundation Veterans Mentorship. Jackson Ford (THE GIRL WHO COULD MOVE SH*T WITH HER MIND) has commented that Curtis’ debut novel... Read More →

Celina Thompson

Celina Thompson is basically a vampire. She is a best-selling dark romance author with multiple invisible illnesses which cause sunlight to be painful, require blood transfusions, and even make garlic off limits. This served as inspiration for her debut novel, Sanctuary (a #1 Best-seller... Read More →

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Author Readings

3:00pm EDT

Author Readings

Thursday June 4, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT

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Speakers

Tiffany Michelle Brown

Author of How Lovely to Be a Woman: Stories and Poems. Co-host of the Horror in the Margins podcast.

Sarah Faxon

Sydney Bollinger

Writer

Sydney Bollinger (she/her) is a queer writer of dark fiction and horror. She has an MS in Environmental Writing from the University of Montana, where her work focused on the intersection of faith and climate activism. Her writing has been published in Slate, Write or Die Magazine... Read More →

Thursday June 4, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Author Readings

4:00pm EDT

Author Readings

Thursday June 4, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT

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Speakers

Teel James Glenn

writer

Teel James Glenn has killed hundreds and been killed more times-- on stage and screen as he has traveled the world for forty plus years as a stuntman, fight choreographer, swordmaster, jouster, illustrator, storyteller, bodyguard, actor and haunted house barker.
His stories have... Read More →

D. Matthew Urban

Author

D. Matthew Urban hails from Texas and lives in Queens, NY, where he reads weird books, watches weird movies, and writes weird fiction. A collection of his stories, Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces, was published in 2025 by Cursed Morsels Press, and his work has appeared in such v... Read More →

Ananda Lima

Author

Ananda Lima is the author of the linked short story collection Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books, 2024) and the poetry collection Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Ke... Read More →

Thursday June 4, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Author Readings

5:00pm EDT

Author Readings

Thursday June 4, 2026 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT

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Speakers

Katrina Carruth

Luke Dumas

Author

Luke Dumas is the USA TODAY bestselling author of Nothing Tastes as Good, The Paleontologist, and A History of Fear. He is the winner of an ITW Thriller Award and his work has been optioned for film and TV. His debut middle grade horror novel, The Sweet Revenge of Bertrand Berry, is forthcoming from Random House Children's in fall 2027. Luke was born and raised in San Diego, California, where he works for a biomedical research institute... Read More →

Jaq Evans

I'm a speculative fiction and horror author based out of Richmond, VA. My debut novel, WHAT GROWS IN THE DARK, was published in 2024 by MIRA / HarperCollins, and my short fiction appears in Fusion Fragment, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and elsewhere. My pronouns are none/she/they.

Thursday June 4, 2026 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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