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Boardroom 10:00am - 10:00pm

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Dealers Room 3:00pm - 8:00pm

Opening Ceremony 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Author Readings 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Author Readings 3:00pm - 3:50pm

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Open Mic Poetry Reading 4:00pm - 5:30pm

How to Get the Best Out of StokerCon 4:00pm - 4:50pm

No One Wants to Publish Mr. Hyde: Professional Etique... 5:00pm - 5:50pm

Boardroom 7:00am - 10:00pm

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Welcome to the Darkive 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Something in the Water: Aquatic Horror 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Demystifying the Stoker Awards 5:00pm - 5:50pm

Registration 12:00pm - 7:00pm

HU: Medusa's Children Writing Horror from the Bones of Myth and Fairy Tale 3:00pm - 4:50pm

Don’t Forget to Like and Subscribe: How to Work with... 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Meet Your HWA Chapter Chairs 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Monster Evolutions 5:00pm - 5:50pm

A Decade of StokerCon 10:00pm - 10:50pm

Monster Mash 11:00pm - 11:59pm

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Final Frame Reception 10:00pm - 11:45pm

Dealers Room 10:00am - 7:00pm

Final Frame Film Competition 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Special Screening of "Mourning Meal" 11:00pm - 11:50pm

Author Readings 9:00am - 9:50am

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Panel A: Conspicuous Consumption 8:15am - 9:30am

Panel B: "Strangely are Our Souls Constructed": On Frankenstein 9:45am - 11:00am

Panel C: "Hell with the Lid Taken Off": Steeltown and the USA 12:30pm - 1:45pm

Panel D: Worlds of Horror 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Panel E: Gendered Tensions and Feminist Rebellions 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Are We Rehearsing for the Fall of Civilization? 9:00am - 9:50am

Pitch Session Panel 10:00am - 10:50am

Working with Big 5 Publishers 11:00am - 11:50am

Publishing and Promoting on a Shoestring Budget 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Hooked on Horror (Again): Middle Grade Books 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Artificial Intelligence: How to Identify Who's Using... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Creative Resilience: Overcoming Disappointment 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Navigating the Horror of the Parasocial 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Boardroom 7:00am - 10:00pm

Author Readings 10:00am - 10:50am

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Welcome To Librarians' Day! 8:00am - 8:25am

Brains! Brains! Brainstorming Ways to Engage Your Com... 8:30am - 9:20am

How to Feature Horror at Your Library 9:30am - 10:20am

Buzzing About Horror Books 10:30am - 11:20am

What Horror Means to Me 1:00pm - 1:50pm

The Past is Undead: Exploring an American Vampire Can... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Summer Scares: A Thrilling Summer Reading Program 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Adolescent Terrors: Writing Young Adult Horror 9:00am - 9:50am

Better the Devil You Know: A Panel on the Value of Qu... 10:00am - 10:50am

Bloodsplatters: Art, Storytelling, and Horror 11:00am - 11:50am

Female Asian Gothic: Fury and Metamorphosis 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Sell Your Books! Tips and Tricks for Hand-Selling Boo... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Digital Campfires: How Internet Built a New Generatio... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Making Modern Spaces Scary 3:00pm - 3:50pm

The Ghost in the Margins: Queerness in Gothic Horror 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Registration 8:00am - 6:00pm

HU: Understanding Tone and Word Placement in Poetry 9:00am - 10:50am

HU: The Human Touch: Outwriting AI 11:00am - 12:50pm

HU: Little Monsters: Writing the Unsettling Child in Horror 1:00pm - 2:50pm

HU: The Five Senses of Dread 3:00pm - 4:50pm

Out of the Shadows: the Evolution of Horror into Ever... 9:00am - 9:50am

Nevertheless We Persist: Resilient Souls Share Their... 10:00am - 10:50am

Guest of Honor Spotlight: Speculative Musings: the in... 11:00am - 11:50am

Lifetime Achievement Award Spotlight: Creating and De... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Bizarro Fiction: The Wrecking Ball of Weird vs. the B... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Guest of Honor Spotlight: The Writing Life and Buildi... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Editing as an Art Form 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Guest of Honor Spotlight: John Shirley, The Nature of... 4:00pm - 4:50pm

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The HWA Diversity Grant Raffle D... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Bram Stoker Awards Cocktail Reception 6:00pm - 6:45pm

Dealers Room 10:00am - 6:00pm

Pitch Sessions 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Bram Stoker Awards Banquet 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Bram Stoker Awards Ceremony 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Bram Stoker Awards Afterparty 10:00pm - 11:50pm

Author Readings 9:00am - 9:50am

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Survival Guide for Horror Writers in an Age of Censor... 9:00am - 9:50am

Marketing Nightmares: Can Horror Become Too Commercia... 10:00am - 10:50am

One of the Greats: the Folk Horror of Florence + the... 11:00am - 11:50am

Lend Me Your Ears! (Not Literally): Horror Podcasting 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Be a Dear: Trad Wife Horror 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Adaptable Terrors: writing for page and screen 2:00pm - 2:50pm

The Politics of Pink Horror 3:00pm - 3:50pm

The Calls Are Coming from Inside the Spaceship! When... 4:00pm - 4:50pm

From Grimms to Goosebumps: Horror for Young People 9:00am - 9:50am

Researching and Writing Horror Nonfiction 10:00am - 10:50am

Fatal Foliage: Botanical and Ecological Horror 11:00am - 11:50am

Bookhouse of Leaves: Authors and the Library 12:00pm - 12:50pm

The Library Eats You Last: Why (Dark) Academia Makes... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Horror Writing as Resistance 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Author to Editor and Back Again 3:00pm - 3:50pm

The Hounds of Hell: Dogs in Horror 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Boardroom 7:00am - 10:00pm

Author Readings 9:00am - 9:50am

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HWA Open Member Board Meeting 9:00am - 9:50am

The Legacy of Dell Abyss 10:00am - 10:50am

The Black Gothic in America 11:00am - 11:50am

The Roots of Dark Poetry 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Mary Shelley's Monster: the Legacy of Frankenstein 1:00pm - 1:50pm

We are all Sinners: Southern Horror from the Mississi... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Nonbinary Authors in Horror 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Why Graphic Horror Matters: Horror Comics from E.C. C... 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Registration 8:00am - 5:00pm

HU: Terror by Design: Building Setpieces that Haunt the Reader 9:00am - 10:50am

HU: Pitch and Sell Your Work 11:00am - 12:50pm

HU: The Spine of a Story: East Meets West in Structure 1:00pm - 2:50pm

HU: Reading What You Wrote! 3:00pm - 4:50pm

Uncanny Educators: Learning Horror, Writing Horror 9:00am - 9:50am

Guest of Honor Spotlight: Rachel Harrison's Character... 10:00am - 10:50am

Lifetime Achievement Award Spotlight: The Devil's in... 11:00am - 11:50am

Guest of Honor Spotlight: From Sexual Decadence to Di... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

When Horror Crosses the Line: the Rise of Genre-Blend... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Guest of Honor Spotlight: Herding Three-Eyed Cats: ed... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Hopeful Nihilism: How Cosmic Horror Can Inspire 3:00pm - 3:50pm

The Past is Now: Modern Folk and Gothic Horror 4:00pm - 4:50pm

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Dealers Room 10:00am - 1:00pm

Author Readings 10:00am - 10:50am

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Dark Designs: Let's Make a Horror Game! 11:00am - 11:50am

Boardroom 7:00am - 5:00pm

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We've Always Been Here: Transgender Imagery and Chara... 10:00am - 10:50am

A Psychotropic Medium: Reanimating the Horror Novella 11:00am - 11:50am

Little Bookshop of Horrors: Working with Indie Bookse... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

HU: Vending 101; or, How to Successfully Vend at a Convention 11:00am - 12:50pm

Abridge to Terror: The Horror Short Story 10:00am - 10:50am

Sludging Through Doom: Heavy Metal and Horror History 11:00am - 11:50am

You Can't Get There From Here: Tales of Weird Pittsbu... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

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