StokerCon 2026

Using Ryan Coogler’s Oscar-winning film SINNERS as a spring board, this panel will explore themes of race, poverty, and religion. Moderated by a Delta native of mixed heritage who grew up four counties above the setting of the film, and featuring authors forged by the South and its landscapes, together they will explore the universal truths of a “post-colonial” society within stories entirely unique to the Deep South. We gather here for the ancestors.