by J.L. Shioshita — Picture this: you're a wide-eyed child once more, and it's that spooky time of year when you and your brethren can dress up like cartoon princesses, colorful superheroes, and classic monsters of Hollywood yore. That one day of the year you're allowed to gorge yourself on candy like a heroin addict, … Continue reading Legend Tripping: Blue Star
Author Name: Lindsay King-Miller Name of Publication: The Z Word Where to find it: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739426/the-z-word-by-lindsay-king-miller/ Describe your work in 10 words or less for people who are just learning about it. Queer found family fighting zombies and corporate politics at Pride Can you talk a bit about your path to publication for this work? It … Continue reading HWA CO Author + Publication Spotlight: Lindsay King-Miller
HWA Colorado is pleased to introduce a free, virtual course on writing short horror stories, HWA CO Short Story Intensive, hosted by author Kari J. Wolfe. For each course, a class of seven students will read and deconstruct published short horror stories to see what makes them work, then workshop each other's stories. Spaces are … Continue reading HWA CO Short Story Intensive—May 2024
Join the Horror Writers Association, Colorado, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, from 7 to 8:30 pm Mountain time for Before We Begin, a lecture on the pros of prologues with author Thomas C. Mavroudis. A well-crafted prologue not only provides a tight, succinct back-story, but enhances the overall narrative it precedes. Through a variety of … Continue reading Before We Begin
April is National Poetry Month, and HWA CO is celebrating with a horror poetry workshop followed by a horror poetry open mic event at Denver Public Library: Sam Gary Branch Library on Saturday, April 13, 2024. Kill Your Darlings: Horror Poetry Workshop from 1:30 to 2:30 pmShall I compare thee to…a chainsaw massacre? Poetry and … Continue reading 2024 Horror Poetry Workshop & Reading
Denver Horror Collective is seeking short stories and flash fiction for its new anthology with a focus on horror in the American southwest, Frontiers of Fright: A Southwestern Horror Anthology. Whether people found themselves in ranches, small frontier towns, saloons, railways, or mines, the American Southwest was a harsh wilderness—a desolate and isolating landscape of deserts … Continue reading Submission call for DHC’s southwestern horror anthology
Author Name: Angela Sylvaine Name of Publication: Frost Bite Where to find it: https://linktr.ee/angelasylvaine Describe your work in 10 words or less for people who are just learning about it. Frost Bite is a wintery ‘90s sci-fi horror comedy akin to Stranger Things meets Fargo. Can you talk a bit about your path to publication … Continue reading HWA CO Author + Publication Spotlight: Angela Sylvaine
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