Join Guest of Honor James Tynion, Clay McLeod Chapman, Hailey Piper, and moderator Erika T. Wurth for a discussion of the writing life, balancing creative and commercial goals, how to connect with readers, and build a successful writing career while realizing your creative visions. Explore how to market your work, protect your copyrights and intellectual properties, and build strong collaborative relationships.
Erika T. Wurth is the author of WHITE HORSE and THE HAUNTING OF ROOM 904. She's a New York Times editors pick, a Good Morning America buzz pick, and an Indie Next, Target book of the Month, and BOTM Pick. She’s both a Kenyon and Sewanee fellow, has published in The Kenyon Revi... Read More →
James Tynion IV started his career at DC Comics, spending 10 years honing his craft on Batman comics before breaking out on his own creating the most celebrated, bestselling horror comics of the last decade, which have earned him five Eisner Awards -- The most prestigious award in... Read More →
Author of Devil Inside, Bodies of Work, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, Acquired Taste, Shiny Happy People, Kill Your Darling, Stay on the Line, What Kind of Mother, Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and others.
Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, A Game in Yellow, A Light Most Hateful, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Worm and His Kings, and other books of horror. She is also the author of over 120 short stories appearing in Weird Tales, Pseudopod... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT Westmoreland
