Name: Author to Editor and Back Again
Start: 2026-06-06T15:00:00-0400
End: 2026-06-06T15:50:00-0400

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT

Many authors dream of editing their own anthology, but what does it actually take to cross the line from author to editor? What unique challenges arise from blurring these boundaries and wearing both hats? Join panelists as they discuss navigating the potential obstacles and social barriers of being both authors and editors.

Moderators

Douglas Gwilym

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

Douglas Gwilym has written a rock opera or two. He's also edited five anthologies of speculative fiction, including NOVUS MONSTRUM with Ken MacGregor, which features Jonathan Maberry, Gwendolyn Kiste, Ramsey Campbell, and other amazing authors, and Triangulation: Harmony & Dissonance... Read More →

Speakers

Shane Hawk

Writer-Editor, PRH-Counterpoint

Shane Hawk is a horror writer, editor, and creator of the Native Horror Index. He serves as a contributing editor at Counterpoint Press, where he exclusively acquires and edits works by Indigenous North American writers. His writing career began in 2020 with the release of his short... Read More →

Rebecca Rowland

Author, Editor

Rebecca Rowland is a Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-nominated author and editor; Cemetery Dance states that her work “reeks of The Twilight Zone in all the best ways.” Her cosmic horror novel Eminence Front (Clash Books) and third short fiction collection Unsettled Score... Read More →

Tom Deady

Geneve Flynn

Author, editor, poet. HWA Diverse Works Inclusion Committee

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 →