HWA Colorado presents the virtual Q&A panel The Mortality Report: Medical Professionals on Medicine in Horror. Did you know that when someone gets shot, they vomit? Join this virtual Q&A event on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, from 7 to 8:30 Mountain time with medical professionals to discuss the representation of medicine in horror media and … Continue reading The Mortality Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HWA CO Announces Summer Virtual Workshops Golden, Colorado—Horror Writers Association, Colorado (HWA CO) will host two virtual workshops free to HWA CO chapter members and the public in July and August of 2023. These virtual workshops will be held via Zoom with a run time of 90 minutes each. The workshops are … Continue reading HWA CO Announces Summer Virtual Workshops
HWA Colorado presents an Entry Level Workshop for the 2023 summer virtual workshop series. Plumbing the Depths to Find Your Story: An Entry Level Workshop for Writing Short Horror Stories So, you want to write horror fiction in the short form. But maybe you've wrestled with the idea of what makes a horror story or … Continue reading Plumbing the Depths to Find Your Story
[HWA Colorado] What’s your favorite thing about writing horror? [Carina Bissett] I have a strange relationship with horror. I grew up reading Stephen King and Clive Barker. Later, I found Anne Rice. And even though I enjoyed reading these books, I primarily spent most of my time in the realm of fantasy. Dark fantasy, but … Continue reading HWA CO Chapter Member Interview: Carina Bissett
HWA Colorado presents an Advanced Horror Studies for the 2023 summer virtual workshop series. The Dreadful Company We Keep: An Ethics of Horror Fiction Even if we may consume horror fiction as a primarily aesthetic pursuit, are we never allowed to be upset by works in the horror genre that, by nature, are "dreadful"? Likewise, are … Continue reading The Dreadful Company We Keep
April is National Poetry Month, and HWA CO is celebrating with a horror poetry workshop followed by a horror poetry reading at Mutiny Information Café on Friday, April 28. Kill Your Darlings: a Horror Poetry Workshop from 5 to 6:30 pmShall I compare thee to … a chainsaw massacre? Poetry and horror might seem like … Continue reading Horror Poetry Workshop & Reading
by Jeamus Wilkes — “Welcome to My Nightmare” Inspired to Scare (ItS) is a bimonthly column by writer, artist, and actor Jeamus Wilkes. ItS is designed to help horror and dark fiction writers plant the seeds of inspiration and nurture its resulting creativity. *** Welcome to the inaugural entry for this Inspired to Scare (ItS) … Continue reading Inspired to Scare: Welcome to My Nightmare
HWA, Colorado is looking for volunteer contributors to help expand the HWA CO blog. Gain experience in journalism and writing for the web while strengthening our chapter website. We are looking for people to: Interview chapter members and Interview authors with new or upcoming releases or Write a column on any of the following: writing … Continue reading Call for Blog Contributors
In 2019, the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (RMFW) put out a submission call for a then unnamed anthology focusing on the theme WILD. The editors, Natasha Watts and Rachel Craft, accepted all genres—realistic or speculative, contemporary or historical, literary or commercial. The only caveat was that the stories needed to be short fiction (1,500-6,500 words), … Continue reading Writing for a Themed Anthology
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