Name: Southern Gothic in the Contemporary South
Start: 2025-06-13T15:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-13T15:45:00-0400

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.

Friday June 13, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT

Glen 2 & 3

Southern Gothic literature is undeniably drenched in the south’s dark past. How have sub-genres like Southern Gothic changed in relation to the current social and socioeconomic issues in that region of the United States, and how are contemporary writers using horror to represent them?

Moderators

Jessi Ann York

Jessi Ann York’s stories have been featured at several professional rate horror markets, including PseudoPod, Vastarien, Cemetery Gates Media, Love Letters to Poe, and more. Her first two stories, “Phases of the Shadow” and “Women of the Mere,” were mentioned as standouts... Read More →

Speakers

Rhonda Jackson Garcia AKA RJ Joseph

academic and creative writer/editor/professor, RJ Joseph, Writer/Speaker

Rhonda Jackson Garcia, AKA RJ Joseph, is a Stoker Award™ and Shirley Jackson Award nominated, Texas based academic and creative writer/professor whose writing regularly focuses on the intersections of gender and race in the horror and romance genres and popular culture. She has... Read More →

Crystal O’Leary-Davidson (C. O. Davidson)

Writer and Teacher

Crystal’s work has appeared in Pseudopod, Vastarien, Cemetery Gates and in various horror anthologies. She co-edited MONSTERS OF FILM, FICTION, AND FABLE and is a founding member of the Atlanta chapter of the HWA. She teaches writing, the Gothic, and horror at Middle Georgia State... Read More →

Andy Davidson

Andy Davidson is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of In the Valley of the Sun, The Boatman's Daughter, and The Hollow Kind. His novels have been listed among NPR's Best Books, the New York Public Library's Best Adult Books of the Year, and Esquire’s Best Horror of the Year... Read More →

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... Read More →

Clare Castleberry

Clare Castleberry is an author, artist, and narrator from Louisiana. She began her career writing adult content for online zines, then moved on to erotic horror shorts such as Hungry for Control (which also appeared in Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume I) and Toxic Femininity. Several... Read More →

Friday June 13, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Glen 2 & 3

Convention Event, Livestreamed Session

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