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Bram Stoker Awards Lifetime Achievement Awards Announced Registration Now Open! Applications for the HWA’s annual Scholarship from Hell are now OPEN! Click here to learn more and apply. The Scholarship from Hell is open to HWA members and non-members. Horror University Winter 2024 Courses Registration open now. Member Health Insurance American members | Canadian members Recent Posts Asian Heritage in Horror: An Interview with Mike ChenMay 13, 2024No Comments What inspired you to start writing? I’ve always just loved creating stories. When I was a child, I would draw my own comics based on things I was a fan of – mostly science fiction shows and movies (shoutout to anyone who remembers the anime epic Robotech). As I got older, I learned to refine this skill in prose, and the creative writing class I took at UC Davis during my senior year was transformational. Asian Heritage in Horror Month: An Interview with Addie TsaiMay 12, 2024No Comments What inspired you to start writing? I’ve written poems since I was eight years old. In third grade, I won third place for a Mother’s Day contest. So, initially, I wrote poems for my mother and stepmother. But it wasn’t until I wrote a poem about childhood trauma for an English class assignment in high school that I connected to writing as a practice to make sense of the most troubling experiences I was facing. Asian Heritage in Horror Month: An Interview with Scott J. MosesMay 11, 2024No Comments What inspired you to start writing? I’ve written for as long as I can remember, but the instance that made me want to take it seriously was in middle school. We were assigned the task of writing a fictional short story. Any genre, theme, etc. I spent five hours on it and experienced flow state” for the first time. I read somewhere that whatever gets you there, in that state where the task at hand is all you can think about, where all else melts away for a while, should be something you take seriously. Something to give you purpose and a way to make sense of the world for yourself. Asian Heritage in Horror Month: An Interview with Eliane Boey SumMay 10, 2024No Comments What inspired you to start writing? I was always a reader and didn’t take the chance on my own writing until quite recently. Once I got started, I was hooked on creating worldsand imaginary friendsand I couldn’t stop. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage in Horror Month: An Interview with Vanessa LanangMay 9, 2024No Comments What inspired you to start writing? At a young age, I’ve always had a love for books—I was that kid who finished all their summer reading plus some. I even used to make my own books with several sheets of folded paper and a stapler. Over the years, I don’t think I’ve ever outgrown that love for storytelling. Asian Heritage in Horror Month: An Introduction by Ai JiangMay 8, 2024No Comments What does it mean to be API/AANHPI? I suppose I will take a more personal approach to this question, as it is definitely one that has persistently popped up throughout my life. For me, it has always been: what does it mean to be Asian, or more specifically in my case, Chinese? As a child, I was born and spent the early years of my life in China, and even after arriving in Canada, Six Places to Send Poems This WeekMay 5, 2024No Comments National Poetry Month may be done, but if you still have piles of verse flowing from your pen, here’s some places you can send it. Not all of these are speculative markets so read your submission guidelines and maybe hold your vampyre poems for a darker market… or ask and see if they will invite you across their threshold and onto the page. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage in Horror Month: An Interview with Victory WitherkeighMay 5, 2024No Comments What inspired you to start writing? I had multiple ideas of what I wanted to be as a child. I said I wanted to be a doctor, an author, and a fashion designer, and sometimes a scientist or witch....