Name: Meet Your HWA Chapter Chairs
Start: 2026-06-04T16:00:00-0400
End: 2026-06-04T16:50:00-0400

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

Curious about local chapters? Find out about existing chapters in your area by meeting chairs and secretaries. From critique groups and author events to mentorship and networking, chapters offer a way to make the most of your HWA membershi

Moderators

Douglas Ford

Oh, god, another writer. This one has written a body of work that contains several short stories, including "The Boy in the Closet," which appeared as a selection in Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 17. More recent stuff includes a novel, The Bloody Bucket, and a... Read More →

Speakers

James Chambers

Trustee; Co-Chair, StokerCon Governing Committee; Chair, Horror University, Horror Writers Association

James Chambers is the Bram Stoker Award® and Scribe Award-winning editor and author of A Bright and Beautiful Eternal World, On the Night Border, On the Hierophant Road, the graphic novel, Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe, and editor of Under Twin... Read More →

Sarah Faxon

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KC (Kristina) Grifant

Author, Editor, San Diego HWA co-chair

A previous StokerCon chair, KC Grifant is an award-winning writer based in Southern California who creates internationally published horror, fantasy, science fiction, and weird west stories. Dozens of her short stories have appeared in podcasts, magazines, games, and Stoker-nominated... Read More →

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 →

Crystal O’Leary-Davidson (C. O. Davidson)

Writer and Teacher

C. O. Davidson’s work has appeared in PseudoPod, Vastarien, Cemetery Gates and in various horror anthologies. She co-edited Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable and is a founding member of the Atlanta chapter of the Horror Writers Association. She teaches writing, the Gothic, and... Read More →