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Welcome to the premiere horror literary convention presented by the Horror Writers Association. Registration for StokerCon 2025 is now available! This year the convention is being hosted by the city of Stamford, Connecticut, at the Hilton Stamford Hotel and Executive Meeting Center. We’re taking over from June 12th through the 15th, 2025.
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Saturday, June 14
 

9:00am EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 09 Aspen
Saturday June 14, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Aspen 2
Speakers
avatar for ROYCE BUCKINGHAM

ROYCE BUCKINGHAM

Author--Penguin/Random House (Blanvalet)
Royce is an author of 14 novels with Penguin/Random House (Blanvalet) in Germany and with Putnam's and St. Martin's Press in North America. He is a member of the HWA and WGAw. Royce grew up with Stephen King and D&D and has been publishing horror and fantasy as a grown-up since 2006... Read More →
avatar for Stacie Herrington

Stacie Herrington

Stacie writes funny-scary-feminist horror fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Recent work appears in HWA Poetry Showcase XI (2024) and Defenestration (December 2024). Pieces forthcoming in Last Girls Club (Summer 2025) and Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers (fall 2025 from... Read More →
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Carina Stopenski

Teen Librarian, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Carina Stopenski (they/them) is a librarian, author, and scholar based in Pittsburgh, PA. In their day to day, Carina works as a teen librarian at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, as a freelance humanities educator for teens, and as the director of the Pittsburgh Mobile Cartoon... Read More →
Saturday June 14, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Aspen 2
  Convention Event

10:00am EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 10 Aspen
Saturday June 14, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Aspen 2
Speakers
avatar for Jonathan Fortin

Jonathan Fortin

Jonathan Fortin is a neurodivergent author and voice actor from Oakland, California. His debut novel LILITU: THE MEMOIRS OF A SUCCUBUS was published in 2020 by Crystal Lake Publishing, and his short fiction has been published by such markets as Dark Recesses Press, Mocha Memoirs Press... Read More →
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Lisa Kröger

Trustee, Horror Writers Association
Horror writer. Author of MONSTER, SHE WROTE and TOIL AND TROUBLE. Cohost of the Know Fear Cast and The Monster, She Wrote podcast.
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Stevie Morley

Fossil Preparator, La Brea Tar Pits & Museum
Stevie Morley worked as a dedicated conservator and preparator of Late Pleistocene asphaltic fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum from 2017 until 2024. During their tenure, Stevie has conducted research into the effects of various solvents on asphaltic bone and their efficacy... Read More →
Saturday June 14, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Aspen 2
  Convention Event

11:00am EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 11 Aspen
Saturday June 14, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Aspen 2
Speakers
avatar for Gaby Triana

Gaby Triana

GABY TRIANA is the Cuban-American author of 24 books for adults and teens, including Dark and Dangerous Things, Moon Child, Island of Bones, River of Ghosts, City of Spells, Wake the Hollow, Cubanita, and Summer of Yesterday. Her short stories have appeared in Classic Monsters Unleashed... Read More →
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Cynthia Pelayo

Cynthia Pelayo is an International Latino Book Award winning poet and author.She is the author of Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, Poems of My Night, Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Children of Chicago, Crime Scene, The Shoemaker’s Magician, as well as dozens of standalone... Read More →
avatar for Gevera Bert Piedmont

Gevera Bert Piedmont

Editor/Author, Transformations by Obsidian Butterfly
STOKERCON VENDOR COORDINATORNeurodivergent cyborg author/editor of weird and horror fiction@bybertabird | Linktree
Saturday June 14, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Aspen 2
  Convention Event

12:00pm EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 12 Aspen
Saturday June 14, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Aspen 2
Speakers
avatar for Stephanie Feldman

Stephanie Feldman

Stephanie Feldman is the author of the novels Saturnalia, a Locus Award finalist, and The Angel of Losses, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, winner of the Crawford Fantasy Award, and finalist for the Mythopoeic Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in... Read More →
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Hailey Piper

Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, No Gods for Drowning, The Worm and His Kings, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Benny Rose the Cannibal King, and Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, with... Read More →
avatar for Paul Tremblay

Paul Tremblay

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of Horror Movie, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, the crime novels The Little Sleep... Read More →
Saturday June 14, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Aspen 2
  Convention Event

1:00pm EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 01 Aspen
Saturday June 14, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
Aspen 2
Speakers
avatar for Victoria Navarra

Victoria Navarra

Victoria Navarra lives half in Atlanta, GA and half in Richmond, VA. Her fiction has been published in Analog, ParSec, and Andromeda Spaceways, and her first horror story is forthcoming in F&SF. She was a 2023 AnLab finalist, and recently she won the Emerson First Chapter Prize for... Read More →
avatar for Sofia Ajram

Sofia Ajram

Queer novelist, editor & metalsmith. I am a 2024 Bram Stoker Award finalist in the Long Fiction and Anthology categories. Writer of “Coup De Grâce” (Titan Books, 2024). Editor of “Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror” (Ghoulish Books, 2024).
avatar for N.J. Gallegos

N.J. Gallegos

ER Doc and writer who loves all things horror. She is a cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. She has two novels, The Broken Heart and The Fatal Mind, with Winding Road Stories. N.J. Gallegos has three novellas available: Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires and It’s Me, Hi, I’m the... Read More →
Saturday June 14, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
Aspen 2
  Convention Event

2:00pm EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 02 Aspen
Saturday June 14, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Aspen 2
Speakers
avatar for Sam Rebelein

Sam Rebelein

Sam Rebelein holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, with a focus in horror and memoir. Sam's work has recently appeared in Bourbon Penn, Coffin Bell Journal, Press Pause Press, Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. HarperCollins' horror and crime... Read More →
avatar for Lauren Elise (L. E.) Daniels

Lauren Elise (L. E.) Daniels

Editor, Author, Poet, HWA Wellness Committee, Brisbane Writers Workshop
A Bram Stoker Awards® finalist, co-chair for the HWA Mental Health Initiative with Mark Matthews, and Rhode Islander living in Australia, Lauren Elise (L. E.) Daniels has worked in publishing since '92. An Emerson College MFA grad, she's edited over 140+ titles, including the Aurealis... Read More →
avatar for Marc Abbott

Marc Abbott

Author/Teacher/Storyteller/Treasurer, Horror Writers Association
I’m the author of the horror anthologies Hell at the Way Station (Winner of the African Literary award for Best Anthology)and Hell at Brooklyn Tea. My works have been featured in Blackened Roots, The Chaos Clock, Under Twin Suns, Even in the Grave, New York State of Fright and Hells... Read More →
Saturday June 14, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Aspen 2
  Convention Event

3:00pm EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 03 Aspen
Saturday June 14, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Aspen 2
Speakers
avatar for Maria Alexander

Maria Alexander

Maria Alexander is a produced screenwriter, games writer, virtual world designer, award-winning copywriter, prolific fiction writer, and poet. Since 1999, her stories have appeared in acclaimed publications and anthologies.Her debut novel, Mr. Wicker, won the 2014 Bram Stoker Aw... Read More →
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David Boop

Owner, Longshot Productions
David Boop is an award-winning Denver-based speculative fiction author & editor. He’s also an award-winning essayist, and screenwriter. Before turning to fiction, David worked as a DJ, film critic, journalist, and actor. As Editor-in-Chief at IntraDenver.net, David’s team was... Read More →
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Robbie Dorman

Robbie Dorman believes in horror. He has published seventeen novels. His newest is WORDS OF CHRIST IN RED. When he's not writing, he's walking his dog, mixing cocktails, or watching pro wrestling.
Saturday June 14, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Aspen 2
  Convention Event

4:00pm EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 04 Aspen
Saturday June 14, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Aspen 2
Speakers
avatar for Caitlin Starling

Caitlin Starling

Author of The Luminous Dead, The Death of Jane Lawrence, and The Staving Saints. Genre hopping horror! Toxic lesbians! Too much medical detail!
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Jason Dry

I put together my first literary gem, an I Dream of Genie picture book, when I was four years old. It was made with jumbo-size crayons and a Big Chief tablet. My works have been finalists in the following screenwriting competitions: ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship, Filmmakers... Read More →
Saturday June 14, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Aspen 2
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