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Friday, June 5
 

9:00am EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
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Speakers
avatar for Rachel Dempsey

Rachel Dempsey

Author
Rachel Dempsey is a writer of horror, mystery and thrillers living in Denver. Her short fiction has been published by Shacklebound Books, Brigids Gate Press, Timber Ghost Press and Twenty Bellows (Pushcart nominated, 2023). She holds a BFA in Drama and English from NYU'S Tisch, a... Read More →
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Christopher Hawkins

Co-chair, Chicagoland Chapter
Christopher Hawkins (he/him) is the multi-award-winning author of Downpour and Suburban Monsters. His latest novel is I Contain Multitudes.
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Peter OKeefe

Peter O'Keefe is a writer and filmmaker, born and raised in Detroit, now living in Racine, Wisconsin. His first novel Counted With the Dead—a reimagining of Frankenstein set in late-90s Detroit—was released by Grendel Press in 2024. Peter's second novel White Flight was relea... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
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  Author Readings

10:00am EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
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Speakers
avatar for Ann Fraistat

Ann Fraistat

Author
Ann Fraistat is an author, playwright, and narrative designer. Her debut novel, What We Harvest, is a 2022 Bram Stoker finalist, a 2026 HWA Summer Scares selection, and an ABA Indies Introduce and Kids' Indie Next Pick. A Place For Vanishing, her second book, is a 2024 Bram Stok... Read More →
avatar for Russ Colchamiro
avatar for Craig Brownlie
Friday June 5, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
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  Author Readings

11:00am EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
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Speakers
avatar for Hildy Silverman
avatar for Ann Dávila Cardinal

Ann Dávila Cardinal

Author
Ann Dávila Cardinal is a Nuyorican poly-genre author. Her young adult horror novels include Five Midnights (winner of an International Latino Book Award and a Bram Stoker finalist), Category Five, Breakup from Hell, and You’ve Awoken Her. Ann lives in a little house in Vermon... Read More →
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Shane Hawk

Writer-Editor, PRH-Counterpoint
Shane Hawk (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) is a horror writer and editor. As a contributing editor at Counterpoint Press, he exclusively works with North American Indigenous writers. In 2020, he released his debut short story collection ANOKA. Hawk is the coeditor of the... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
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  Author Readings

12:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Speakers
avatar for Stephanie M. Wytovich
avatar for Cynthia Pelayo

Cynthia Pelayo

Cynthia Pelayo is an International Latino Book Award winning poet and author.

She is the author of Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, Poems of My Night, Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Children of Chicago, Crime Scene, The Shoemaker’s Magician, as well as dozens of sta... Read More →
avatar for Francesca Maria

Francesca Maria

SF Bay Area HWA Co-Chair, Black Cat Publishing
Francesca Maria writes dark fiction surrounded by cats near the Pacific Ocean. She is the award-winning, bestselling author of They Hide: Short Stories to Tell in the Dark from Brigids Gate Press, the co-editor of Black Cat Tales: An Anthology of Black Cats which debuted as a... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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  Author Readings

1:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Speakers
AW

A.C. Wise

A.C. Wise's fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, and several Year's Best anthologies, among other places. Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as twice being a finalist for the Sunburst Award, twice being a finalist... Read More →
avatar for Christi Nogle

Christi Nogle

Author of BEULAH and three short fiction collections
Christi Nogle is the author of the Bram Stoker Award® winning and Shirley Jackson Award nominated novel Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media, 2022) and the Bram Stoker Award® nominated short story collection The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future.

She is co-editor with Willow Daw... Read More →
avatar for Chelsea Conradt

Chelsea Conradt

Chelsea Conradt is the USA Today bestselling author of The Farmhouse and The Secret Attic. She writes twisty speculative thrillers and psychological horror. Her short fiction has been featured in The Sunday Morning Transport and the Fractured Reveries anthology. Her stories are packed with both murder and kindness because we can be more than one thing. When not writing stories that make you question what’s real, she is likely watching a baking show or a true-crime documentary. She is nothing if not on brand. Chelsea lives in... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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  Author Readings

2:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Speakers
avatar for Douglas Gwilym

Douglas Gwilym

Bram Stoker Award nominated short story author, querying novelist, editor of NOVUS MONSTRUM

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Nicole Willson

Stoker-nominated author of TIDEPOOL (2021), THE SHADOW DANCERS OF BRIXTON HILL (2023) and THE KEEPER OF THE KEY (2024). Find out more about me at http://www.nicolewillson.com
avatar for Dave V. Riser

Dave V. Riser

Writer & Researcher

Friday June 5, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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  Author Readings

3:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Speakers
avatar for Brittany Cekus (B.S. Miller)
avatar for Leticia A Urieta

Leticia A Urieta


Leticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin, TX. She works as a teaching artist and freelance writer and editor. She is the author of Las Criaturas, published in 2021 by Flowersong Press and was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fic... Read More →
avatar for Valerie Williams

Valerie Williams

Writer, reader, dog lover.

Valerie B. Williams' short fiction has been published by Flame Tree Press, Dark Recesses Press, and Crystal Lake Publishing, among others. Her debut novel, "The Vanishing Twin" was released by Crossroad Press in October 2024.Her first collection of dark tales, "Penfold's Menu of Ma... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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  Author Readings

4:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Speakers
avatar for Jessi Ann York

Jessi Ann York

Debut Author
Jessi Ann York’s debut novel, TALONS AND NIGHTSHADE, is forthcoming March 2027 from Wednesday Books, an imprint of Macmillan. Her first two published short stories, “Phases of the Shadow” and “Women of the Mere,” were mentioned as standouts in the Summation section of The... Read More →
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Emma Murray

Author of Crushing Snails, When the Devil, and Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day
avatar for Grace R. Reynolds

Grace R. Reynolds

Author
GRACE R. REYNOLDS is an American speculative fiction writer. She was raised in New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University. Having lived in seven states, she currently calls Maryland “home,” where she writes dark fiction and poetry. In addition to her short fiction, she is... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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