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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.
Venue: Grand Ballroom 2-3 clear filter
Friday, June 13
 

3:00pm EDT

Joyce Carol Oates Reading
Friday June 13, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom 2-3
Join Guest of Honor Joyce Carol Oates for a reading from her work followed by a question-and-answer session.
Speakers
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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of 58 novels and many novellas, plays, short stories, and other work. She is a recipient of the National Book Award, two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize and a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Among Oates... Read More →
Friday June 13, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom 2-3
  Convention Event

8:00pm EDT

Final Frame Short Film Competition
Friday June 13, 2025 8:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom 2-3
Do you like scary movies? Yes? Then join us to watch some of the best short horror films during our annual Final Frame Short Film Competition!

Jonathan Lees will once again curate and moderate this stellar film competition. Our judges this year are Aaron Dries, Lisa Morton, Jamal Hodge, Lisa Wood, Jamie Flanagan, and producer and former head of SHUDDER, Craig Engler!
Moderators
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Jonathan Lees

Jonathan Lees has spent over twenty years championing filmmakers through his programming work with the New York Underground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, TromaDance, and currently at the Final Frame Horror Short Film Competition at StokerCon.
Speakers
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Craig Engler

Craig Engler is the co-creator of the TV series Z Nation and executive producer of the Netflix spin-off, Black Summer. He worked at the Syfy Channel and Chiller TV before becoming the head of Shudder at AMC Networks from 2018-2022. He's currently at work on several horror screenplays... Read More →
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Lisa Morton

Author of four novels and over 200 short stories, screenwriter, Halloween and paranormal expert, past President of the Horror Writers Association.
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Jamal Hodge

CEO, Hodge Cinema
JAMAL HODGE is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and writer from Queens NYC who has won over 80 awards with screenings at Tribeca Film Festival, Sundance, Cannes, and others. He directed the first season of Investigation Discovery Channel’s ‘Primal Instinct’ and is a Producer... Read More →
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Lisa Wood

Vice President, Horror Writers Association
L. Marie Wood is an award-winning psychological horror author and screenwriter.  She won the Golden Stake Award for her novel The Promise Keeper.  Her screenplays have won Best Horror, Best Afrofuturism/Horror/Sci-Fi, and Best Short Screenplay awards at several film festivals.  Wood’s... Read More →
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Jamie Flanagan

Jamie Flanagan writes television shows. Credits include The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, The Fall of the House of Usher. Theatre nerd. Avid gamer (tabletop and video).
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Aaron Dries

Aaron Dries is a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award nominated, and Ditmar, Australian Shadows and Aurealis Award-winning author based in Canberra, Australia. His novels include HOUSE OF SIGHS, THE FALLEN BOYS, A PLACE FOR SINNERS, WHERE THE DEAD GO TO DIE (with Mark Allan Gunnells... Read More →
Friday June 13, 2025 8:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom 2-3
  Convention Event
 
Saturday, June 14
 

12:00pm EDT

Pitch Sessions
Saturday June 14, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom 2-3
Pitch Sessions!

You have to have preregistered for this event.
Moderators
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Brian Matthews

Trustee; Co-Chair, StokerCon Governing Committee; Bram Stoker Awards® Show Coordinator; Pitch Session Coordinator, Horror Writers Association
Author, financial planner, former psychologist, husband, and father. Trustee for the Horror Writers Association, as well a National Co-Chair for StokerCon. I also run the Pitch Sessions and act as the Bram Stoker Awards Show Coordinator. That pretty much sums it up.
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Speakers
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Alec Shane

Writers House
Writers House is one of the largest literary agencies in the world and prides itself on providing an extraordinary amount of individual client attention combined with the full service benefits of foreign and sub rights departments, as well as a full accounting and royalty staff.I... Read More →
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Arley Sorg

assoc agent, co-Editor-in-Chief, senior editor, kt literary agency, Fantasy Magazine, Locus Magazine
associate agent at kt literary; co-Editor-in-Chief at Fantasy Magazine; senior editor at Locus Magazine; and some other stuff - Blue Sky is: ‪@arleysorg.bsky.social‬  and website is https://arleysorg.com/
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Becky LeJeune

Agent, Bond Literary Agency
Becky LeJeune is an agent at Bond Literary Agency, a Denver-based agency run by Sandra Bond. Prior to joining the agency, Becky spent time working as a bookseller, a freelance cookbook editor, and an acquisitions editor for a small, regional press. She is a graduate of the Denver... Read More →
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Cherry Weiner

Cherry Weiner grew up in Australia, lived in Europe for three and a half years and moved to American when she married her husband, Jack in1972.  She has been agenting since 1977, when she left the Robert P. Mills AgencyMills’ famous clients (she will not any drop further names... Read More →
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Michael Dolan

Editorial Director, Winding Road Stories
Michael Dolan is a writer and editor with over 25 years of experience at the highest levels of publishing. In addition to being the author of several books, he has served as executive editor for many publishing companies, including Condé Nast. As the founder of Winding Road Stories... Read More →
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Christoph Paul

Christoph Paul is the singer/songwriter of Goth Rock band The Dionysus Effect, he is the EIC of CLASH Books, and an award-winning author represented by Inkwell.
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Rachel Glimer

Editor, Sourcebooks
I acquire for both the Poisoned Pen Press and Casablanca imprints at Sourcebooks, and my books are primarily in Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Romance, and Contemporary Fantasy. I especially enjoy character-driven projects and am eagerly looking for diverse voices and stories.
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Emma Cole

Editor, Harlequin
Editor @Harlequin, acquiring for Intrigue as well as for our Harlequin Trade Publishing imprint Hanover Square Press, which publishes horror, mystery, speculative fiction and nonfiction.
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Bradley Englert

Executive Editor, Run For It / Orbit Books
Bradley Englert is an Executive Editor at Run For It, the new horror imprint from Orbit Books. He’s worked with horror authors Craig DiLouie, Andy Marino, and Nicholas Pullen. He is now looking forward to building Run For It into a premiere destination for diehard horror readers... Read More →
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Saturday June 14, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom 2-3
  Convention Event

7:00pm EDT

Bram Stoker Awards® Banquet
Saturday June 14, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
Grand Ballroom 2-3
Come join us for the annual Bram Stoker Awards Banquet!

This is a ticketed event. Separate purchase necessary.
Saturday June 14, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
Grand Ballroom 2-3
  HWA Event

8:00pm EDT

Bram Stoker Awards® Presentation
Saturday June 14, 2025 8:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom 2-3
The annual Bram Stoker Awards Show with emcee Kevin Wetmore, Jr. Come help celebrate this year's winners!
Speakers
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Kevin Wetmore Jr.

Volunteer Coordinator, HWA LA
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is the author, editor or co-editor of thirty books, including Bram Stoker Award nominees Uncovering Stranger Things, The Streaming of Hill House, Devil’s Advocates: The Conjuring, and Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters. He is also... Read More →
Saturday June 14, 2025 8:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom 2-3
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