2015 Souvenir Book Editor announced
We are pleased to announce HWA member Eric J. Guignard as Editor of the 2015 BSAW/WHC Souvenir Book.
Eric J. Guignard writes and edits dark fiction from the outskirts of Los Angeles. His stories and articles may be found in magazines, journals, anthologies, and any other media that will print him. Besides the Horror Writer’s Association, he’s also a member of the International Thriller Writers and is the Horror Genre Correspondent for Men’s Confidence Magazine. Recent magazine publications include Buzzy Magazine, Beware the Dark, and Stupefying Stories TM. As editor, he created the Bram Stoker Award® nominated anthologies Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations and After Death…
Read his novella, Baggage of Eternal Night, and watch for many more forthcoming books, including Chestnut ’Bo (TBP 2015). Visit Eric at: www.ericjguignard.com or at his blog: www.ericjguignard.blogspot.com.
The Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend & 25th Anniversary World Horror Convention 2015 2014-03-18 12:13:21
We just added yet another incredible Guest of Honor: Tom Piccirilli!
World Horror Convention 2015
Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend & 25th Anniversary World Horror Convention to be held in Atlanta 7-10 May 2015.
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce our centrepiece event for 2015 – the Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend & 25th Anniversary World Horror Convention. As in 2013 the HWA has been awarded hosting rights for the World Horror Convention (WHC). Combined with our biennial Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend this will be the premier horror and dark fantasy convention of 2015.
The Convention will take place at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel from May 7-10, 2015, with the iconic Bram Stoker Awards ceremony on Saturdayevening, May 9. A website has been established at www.whc2015.org.
Initial guests are best-selling authors Lisa Tuttle, Chris Golden, John Farris and Kami Garcia. Best-seller Jonathan Maberry will act as Toastmaster. Further guests will be announced shortly.
Registration will be available shortly. Don’t miss the early bird discount, which expires on May 18.
Atlanta is a major airline hub, providing low cost transportation for attendees, both domestic and international – additionally, there is a MARTA station in the same complex as the hotel, offering one way transport to the airport for $2.50. Atlanta is also within comfortable driving distance of a significant portion of the US population and is serviced by Amtrak.
We have negotiated an excellent room rate for a Deluxe Single or a Deluxe Double at $129/night plus applicable taxes (currently 16%) and spanning any nights in the period of 6-10 May inclusive. Hotel registration will open in May.
There will be a special celebration of the 25th Anniversary World Horror Convention, with specialized WHC programming throughout the weekend.Friday will be declared ‘Celebrate World Horror Convention’s 25th Anniversary Day’ and will feature a retrospective panel on the first 25 years of WHC. After the Mass Signing on Friday we will hold the World Horror Convention 25th Anniversary Ball – there’ll be free entry to Convention members and partners (many people travel with partners who do not become Con members), cash bar and prizes for best costumes. The previous WHC guests in attendance will be called up to the stage and celebrated.
Other programming highlights include: Welcome Cocktails, the WHC Art Show, the Dealers Room, the traditional Mass Signing on the Friday evening, the Artists Wine & Cheese Reception, Kaffeeklatches, Readings, Panels and of course the Bram Stoker Awards Banquet on the Saturday evening.
For the first time there will be a cash prize for the best piece of Art (as voted by Convention members) in the Art Show. The Convention book will be themed to celebrate the WHC 25th Anniversary – as well as current guests we will seek stories from previous WHC guests/grandmasters.
In addition to the traditional WHC Grandmaster we will hold a poll of convention members that will award a ‘Grandmaster of Grandmasters’ award. The poll will close 31 January 2015, providing time to invite that person to attend the Convention as a further WHC Guest, if available.
A Facebook group has been established at https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/375336315942423/
It’s Alive!
The website for the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend and 25th World Horror Convention 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia is now live! Our Guests of Honor:
Our Toastmaster:
Our Bram Stoker Awards emcee:
…and we’re only just gettin’ warmed up!
World Horror Convention 2014 Art Show Seeking Dark Artists
The World Horror Convention 2014 Art Show is actively seeking dark artists who wish to exhibit their work for the horror industry’s top publishers, authors, editors and fans. Full details and information, as well as registration forms and fee payment options, are available at http://www.worldhorror2014.org/art-show/.
Tickets Now Available for the Bram Stoker Awards Banquet 2014
The 2014 World Horror Convention is proud to host the 2014 Bram Stoker Awards Banquet (honoring 2013 achievement in the horror genre) on the evening of Saturday, May 10th. Tickets are $50 each, and are available for advance purchase on our Registration Page.
There are only 300 tickets to this event, so DON’T WAIT.
About the Bram Stoker Awards
Each year, the Horror Writer’s Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula. The Bram Stoker Awards were instituted immediately after the organization’s incorporation in 1987.
To ameliorate the competitive nature of any award system, the Bram Stoker Awards are given “for superior achievement,” not for “best of the year,” and the rules are deliberately designed to make ties possible. The first awards were presented in 1988 (for works published in 1987) and they have been presented every year since. The award itself is an eight-inch replica of a fanciful haunted house, designed specifically for HWA by sculptor Steven Kirk. The door of the house opens to reveal a brass plaque engraved with the name of the winning work and its author.
Any work of Horror first published in the English language may be considered for an award during the year of its publication. The categories for which a Bram Stoker Award may be presented have varied over the years, reflecting the state of the publishing industry and the horror genre.
From 2011 the eleven Bram Stoker Award categories are: Novel, First Novel, Short Fiction, Long Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction Collection, Poetry Collection, Anthology, Screenplay, Graphic Novel and Non-Fiction.
There are two paths to a work becoming a Nominee for the Bram Stoker Award. In one, the HWA membership at large recommends worthy works for consideration. A preliminary ballot for each category is compiled using a formula based on these recommendations. In the second, a Jury for each category also compiles a preliminary ballot. Two rounds of voting by our Active members then determine first the Final Ballot (all those appearing on the Final Ballot are “Bram Stoker Nominees”), and then the Bram Stoker Award Winners. The Winners are announced and the Bram Stoker Awards presented at a gala banquet, normally during the period between March and June.
In addition, Lifetime Achievement Awards are occasionally presented to individuals whose entire body of work has substantially influenced Horror.
Special Guest Victoria Price Added to World Horror Convention 2014 Guests of Honor
Victoria Price brings her unique story to the national stage as a designer, art consultant, author and public speaker. Growing up in Hollywood as the daughter of actor and art collector Vincent Price and designer Mary Grant Price, Victoria developed her own vibrant contemporary design aesthetic, which she fuses with her extensive knowledge of the visual arts–seamlessly blending modern and historic, regional and international, ethnographic and urban styles to create unique living and working environments.
Price is also a popular public speaker on topics ranging from industrial design to art collecting to making peace with our past stories in order to expand our creative futures–as well as the life of her famous father. She has been privileged to speak all over the United States and Europe–at design conferences, colleges, conventions, and on behalf of private companies.
Her critically-acclaimed biography of her father, Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography, was published in 1999 by St Martin’s Press. She has also written for the New York Times, A&E’s Biography, and many other national, regional, and local magazines, newspapers and television programs. Price has appeared on Good Morning America, A&E Biography, NPR’s Fresh Air and many other national, regional and local TV and radio programs. Articles about Price and her work have appeared in such national and international publications as USA Today, People, Hello!, Travel & Leisure, Art & Auction, Sunset, Western Interiors, the Santa Fean, and Santa Fe Trend.
She has taught at the University of New Mexico and New Mexico Highlands University. Price earned her bachelor’s degree in art history and theatre from Williams College, which has one of the most prestigious art history programs in the country. And she completed the doctoral program in American Studies at the University of New Mexico.
Writers’ Workshop at WHC2014
The World Horror Convention 2014 Writers’ Workshop is pleased to accept short story and novel excerpt manuscript submissions from horror writers wishing to have their work critiqued by professional writers during the Convention. Our manuscript submission window runs from Friday, November 1st, 2013 until Friday, February 28th, 2014. Full details and information HERE.