Panel: Writing Horror in a Post-Covid World [Video]
“I don’t think people really tend to think of it as a collection of horror stories, but it gets pretty dark at times.”
The Horror Writers Association and the Skeleton Hour feature a panel discussion about writing horror in a post-covid world.
Panelists include Richard Thomas (moderator), Sarah Langan, Usman T. Malik, Josh Malerman, A.C. Wise, and Lucy A. Snyder. Skeleton Hour is a one-hour horror literature webinar series produced by the HWA in collaboration with The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles.
Richard Thomas, the award-winning author of seven books, has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson, Thriller, and Audie awards. His more than 160 stories in print include The Best Horror of the Year (Volume Eleven), Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders (Bram Stoker Award winner), Cemetery Dance (twice), and Weird Fiction Review. https://whatdoesnotkillme.com
Sarah Langan is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Good Neighbors, The Keeper, The Missing, and Audrey's Door. Her short fiction has most recently appeared in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and Best Horror of the Year, Volume 12. She is a founding board member of the Shirley Jackson Award. https://sarahlangan.com
Usman T. Malik’s award-winning fiction has been reprinted in several best of the year anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series, and translated into several languages. Usman's fiction has won The Bram Stoker and the British Fantasy awards and has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy, the Million Writers, and twice for the Nebula awards. Usman is the co-founder of The Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction, which seeks to vet and nurture aspiring Pakistani writers of speculative fiction." https://www.usmanmalik.org
Josh Malerman is the New York Times best selling author of Bird Box and A House at the Bottom of a Lake, as well as member of Detroit rock band the High Strung, whose song “The Luck You Got” can be heard as the theme song to the Showtime show Shameless. https://joshmalerman.com
A.C. Wise’s fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, Uncanny, and several Year's Best anthologies, among other places. Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as twice more being a finalist for the Sunburst Award, twice being a finalist for the Nebula Award, and being a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. http://www.acwise.net
Lucy A. Snyder is the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated and five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of 15 books and more than 100 published short stories. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, and Best Horror of the Year. http://www.lucysnyder.com
About Skeleton Hour
Skeleton Hour is a one-hour horror literature webinar series produced by the HWA in collaboration with The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles. This event was also sponsored by UC Riverside Palm Desert's MFA program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts.
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