HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION PRESENTS: STOKER CON UK
Horror comes to Scarborough!
From Thursday 16th to Sunday 19th of April, 2020 StokerCon comes to the UK for the first time, and will incorporate such popular StokerCon programming as Horror University, the Final Frame Short Film Competition, the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, and the presentation of the iconic Bram Stoker Awards at a prestigious awards banquet on the Saturday evening of the convention. StokerCon UK will be welcoming an array of some of the world’s best dark fiction authors, publishers and speakers for a packed weekend of panels, readings, workshops, book launches and much more. Taking place over two hotels in the historic seaside town of Scarborough, hust down the coast from Whitby – the town that provided so much of the inspiration for Stoker’s iconic Dracula – this is an event not to be missed for writers and readers of horror fiction!
Who’ll be There?
Join Guests Kim Newman (Anno Dracula, Genevieve Undead, The Man from the Diogenes Club), Grady Hendrix (Paperbacks from Hell, My Best Friend’s Exorcism), Deputy Publisher of Gollancz Gillian Redfearn and our Mistress of Ceremonies author A.K. Benedict (The Beauty of Murder, The Evidence of Ghosts) for all this and more.
Among those also scheduled to attend and participate in the four-day event, are American horror writers Christopher Golden, Rena mason, James A. Moore, Thomas F. Monteleone, Lisa Morton, Alexandra Sokoloff, Tim Waggoner and F. Paul Wilson, UK authors Guy Adams, Ramsey Campbell, Mike (M.R.) Carey, Simon Clark, Adrian Cole, Barry Forshaw, Paul Kane, Des Lewis, Alison Littlewood, Adam Nevill, Sarah Pinborough, Laura Purcell, Tina Rath and Lisa Tuttle, and such international writers as Maura McHugh, Lee Murray, Angela Slatter and Cat Sparks.
Others to attend will be artists Les Edwards and Jim Pitts, anthology editors Peter Crowther, Paul Finch, Stephen Jones, Marie O’regan, and Charles Prepolec; agent Ian Drury, and Publishers Alchemy Press (UK), Black Shuck Books (UK), Borderlands Books (USA), Gollancz (UK), Hersham Horror Books (UK), Horrific Tales (UK), Jo Fletcher Books (UK), PS Publishing (UK) and Swan River Press (Ireland).
For more details, including how to purchase your membership (with discounts available for HWA members), visit the conventions website.
