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Friday, June 5
 

10:00am EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Scott Edelman

Scott Edelman

Author
SCOTT EDELMAN has published 135+ short stories in magazines such as Lightspeed, Analog, Apex, and The Twilight Zone, and in anthologies such as Why New Yorkers Smoke, Crossroads: Southern Tales of the Fantastic, and MetaHorror. He began his professional writing career in the comics... Read More →
avatar for John Kachuba

John Kachuba

Author
Shapeshifters! Ghosts! Middle Grade horror! Author of 15 books, including the historical fantasy trilogy, “The Bottle Conjuror,” and the middle/grade novel, “Haycorn Smith and the Castle Ghost.”Several of my nonfiction books are about ghosts and the paranormal and I am a... Read More →
avatar for Jo Kaplan

Jo Kaplan

Author, HWA LA co-chair
Jo Kaplan is a Shirley Jackson Award nominated author whose work has been described as “immersive, chilling, and compelling” by Library Journal and “delightfully creepy” by Booklist. She is the author of It Will Just Be Us, When the Night Bells Ring, and The Midnight Muse... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

11:00am EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Tom Deady
avatar for Meg Ripley

Meg Ripley

Writer of horror and dark fantasy, designer, and drawer. Her debut novel, NECROLOGY, (Book #1 of the Dirty) is a Foreword INDIES Bronze Medalist in Fantasy (2024).

Book 2 of the Dirty, WOODFEAST, due Fall 2026, Creature Publishing.
avatar for Grace Daly

Grace Daly

Author
Grace Daly (she/her) is a disabled author with multiple invisible chronic illnesses. She lives near Chicago and spends most of her free time with her dog, who is a very good boy. Her debut horror comedy novel, “The Scald-Crow”, is currently available and her fantasy novella, “The... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

12:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Erika T. Wurth

Erika T. Wurth

Writer/Professor, Flatiron/Macmillan

avatar for Chloe Spencer

Chloe Spencer

Minnesota native Chloe Spencer is an award winning writer, indie gamedev, and filmmaker. She is the author of multiple sapphic horror novellas, novels, and short stories. In her spare time she enjoys playing video games, trying her best at Pilates, and cuddling with her cats. She... Read More →
avatar for Jamal Hodge

Jamal Hodge

Founder, Hodge Cinema
Jamal Hodge is a 2x Bram Stoker Award-nominated writer and an award-winning director. He has directed for Investigation Discovery’s Primal Instinct and PBS’s Southern Storytellers, while producing credits include the Academy Award–nominated documentary Armed Only With a Cam... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

1:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Ai Jiang

Ai Jiang

Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, Ignyte, Bram Stoker, and Nebula Award winner, and Hugo, Astounding, Locus, Aurora, and BFSA Award finalist from Changle, Fujian currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. Her work can be found in F&SF, The Dark, The Masters Review, among others... Read More →
avatar for Rebecca Cuthbert

Rebecca Cuthbert

Writer, Undertaker Books

avatar for Cynthia Gómez

Cynthia Gómez

Attendee
Cynthia Gómez writes horror and other types of speculative fiction. She has a particular love for themes of revenge, retribution, and resistance to oppression. The Nightmare Box and Other Stories, her first collection, was released from Cursed Morsels Press in July 2024. Her novella... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

2:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Ace Antonio-Hall

Ace Antonio-Hall

Omnium Gatherum

avatar for Amanda Headlee

Amanda Headlee

Amanda Headlee is the author of Till We Become Monsters, This is How a Villain is Made, Madness and Greatness Can Share the Same Face, and several short stories. A devoted connoisseur of cosmic and psychological horror, Amanda can often be found unraveling the universe’s darkest... Read More →
avatar for Dacia M Arnold

Dacia M Arnold

AMS/ AMG Marketing Account Manager, Liquid Mind Marketing, Dacia M Arnold LLC

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

3:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
DC
avatar for Barbara Cottrell

Barbara Cottrell

Vanishing Edge Press
Barbara Cottrell is a former professor who gave up her career to pursue her true passion: writing weird fiction. The first book in her series of supernatural thrillers, Darkness Below, won a gold medal at the Book Fest, was named best first novel by Indie Reader and was an editor... Read More →
avatar for Sawney Hatton

Sawney Hatton

Sawney Hatton is an author, editor, and screenwriter who has long loved taking trips to the dark side. Weaned on a steady diet of paranormal horror and creature features, he quickly developed an appetite for all things macabre. With early influences as tonally disparate as Stephen... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

4:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Meghan Arcuri
avatar for Scotty Milder
avatar for Sonora Taylor

Sonora Taylor

Author
Sonora Taylor (she/her) is the award-winning author of several books and short stories. Her books include Someone to Share My Nightmares: Stories, Seeing Things, Little Paranoias: Stories, Without Condition, The Crow’s Gift and Other Tales, and Wither and Other Stories.  She a... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Fayette
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