For April’s installment of Galactic Terrors, HWA-NY is doing a special collaboration with scf-fi and fantasy conventions, HELIOsphere and FilKONtario! Join us online at 8 P.M. EDT for a fantastic program featuring readings from Ryan Aussie Smith, Randee Dawn, Teel James Glenn, and Amy Grech! After the reading, our guests will join up for a group Q&A, where viewers are encouraged to chat and ask questions!
For April’s installment of Galactic Terrors, HWA-NY is doing a special collaboration with scf-fi and fantasy conventions, HELIOsphere and FilKONtario! Join us online at 8 P.M. EDT for a fantastic program featuring readings from Ryan Aussie Smith, Randee Dawn, Teel James Glenn, and Amy Grech! After the reading, our guests will join up for a group Q&A, where viewers are encouraged to chat and ask questions!
From Marc L. Abbott and Steven Van Patten, news on the release of the second book in the Raise Some Hell series, HELL AT BROOKLYN TEA: Marc Abbott and Steven Van Patten have done it again! And this time, they brought their fellow Beef, Wine & Shenanigans podcast mate (and sword and sorcery maven), Kirk Johnson, into hell with them. HELL AT BROOKLYN TEA, the sequel to the double African-American Literary Award winner, HELL AT THE WAY STATION, has finally been released. Taking place shortly after the events of the last book, Marc and Steven confront demons, make with the snark, and tell great side-stories in a literal barrage of versatility. But even with Kirk’s help, one of our heroes may very well find himself consumed by the very darkness the trio is fighting against…
In addition, both Abbott and Van Patten have stories featured in the new anthology, HELL’S MALL. [For more on HELL’S MALL and SVP, keep reading…]
Dan Bianchi announces that in its 18th year, his critically acclaimed Radiotheater has released eight audio collections of live performances from Radiotheater’s New York City stage adaptations, including: The Edgar Allan Poe Festival, Volumes 1 & 2; Lovecraft Festival, Volumes 1 & 2; The Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Playhouse; Fright Night!; Children Of The Night, and Ghosts Of Christmas Past. These collections feature hours of classic tales of terror, complete with great casts, original orchestral music, and award winning sound design. Just bring your imagination! “Phantasmic.” –The New York Times
Find all the available recordings at https://www.radiotheatrenyc.com!
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Oliver Baer read some poems for a New Year’s Day marathon reading and has become the subject of the song, “That Dude” by singer-songwriter Phoebe Kreutz, which appears on her new album, Leaky Canoe. “Shattered Mirror World,” a song based on one of Baer’s poems by the band Psych-O-Positive has made it to another Spotify playlist. Oliver Baer was also interviewed for the show, Books and Entertainment Tales From the Pages, on Blog Talk Radio. Baer’s poem, “#103,” and a piece of flash fiction, “Aulden’s Ancient Books,” appear in the new anthology, HELL’S MALL, edited by April Grey. [For more on HELL’S MALL, keep reading…]
Randee Dawn is delighted to have a new novelette, “Rough Beast, Slouching” featured in DIM SHORES PRESENTS VOLUME 2 anthology. The story is a mix of rock-and-roll and a particularly deadly hanger-on. The collection can be purchased at the link. For more, visit www.randeedawn.com.
FLASHES OF HOPE, which includes Amy’s story, “Perishables”, is available on Amazon. Proceeds from this charity anthology, curated by Theresa Derwin, will raise funds for food banks and people adversely affected by COVID-19 during lockdown.
HELL’S MALL, which contains Amy Grech’s poem, “Orange Julius”, is now available at Amazon and Smashwords. [For more on HELL’S MALL, keep reading…]
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April Grey is delighted to release the 7th anthology of the Hell’s series, HELL’S MALL, which features stories from more than a dozen excellent writers, including many members of HWA-NY: Marc L. Abbott, Oliver Baer, AJ Bartholomew, Alp Beck, Loretta H. Campbell, V Peter Collins, Teel James Glenn, Amy Grech, April Grey, Carol Gyzander, Rayne Hall, Pia Manning, Carole Ann Moleti, Nicolas C. Rossis, Phillip T. Stephens, Nikki Tait, Steven Van Patten and Jake TS Wryte. HELL’S MALL is available at Amazon and Smashwords.
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N.R. Lambert’s new story, “Charon Taxi & Limo Corp.” will be published in the forthcoming anthology, THE MODERN DEITY’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING HUMANITY. Preorder the Kickstarter edition today, or the trade paperback wherever books are sold. Earlier this year, Cast of Wonders selected Lambert’s story, “The Half-Life of a Broken Heart,” as a 2020 Staff Pick—listen at Cast of Wonders or on your preferred podcast app. Lambert is also delighted to be teaching a new slate of online workshops for young writers (ages 9-12) at The Center for Fiction, beginning April 2021.
Join the New York Chapter of the Horror Writers Association for our new monthly reading series, Galactic Terrors! Presented via YouTube, each Galactic Terrors event will feature live readings by authors of horror, dark fantasy, science fiction, and more!
Galactic Terrors will be broadcast monthly on the second Thursday of the month, 8 p.m. EST and episodes will be archived on YouTube for future viewing.
Watch December’s Galactic Terrors, featuring Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Carol Gyzander, Rick Poldark, and Jeff Strand on YouTube.
James Chambers‘ story, “The Ever Green,” appears in Dark Regions Press’ new anthology, CHRISTMAS HORROR, Volume 3, alongside stories by Richard Chizmar, Lisa Morton, Norman Partridge, John Palisano, Jeff Strand, Simon Stranzas, Stephanie M. Wytovich, and many other wonderful authors.
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Teel James Glenn‘s new film, Stuporhero, is now available to watch on Amazon Prime!
Join the New York Chapter of the Horror Writers Association for our new monthly reading series, Galactic Terrors! Presented via YouTube, each Galactic Terrors event will feature live readings by authors of horror, dark fantasy, science fiction, and more!
Galactic Terrors will be broadcast monthly on the second Thursday of the month, 8 p.m. EST and episodes will be archived on YouTube for future viewing.
Our third GalacticTerrors reading will take place on Thursday, November 12, at 8 p.m. EST, featuring Randee Dawn, Chris Marrs, Lou Rera, and Craig DiLouie! Click here for the link and to set a reminder.
Songs based on Oliver Baer‘s poems are available on on bandcamp, thanks to local band, Psych-O-Positive. Listen to “Night Comes” and “Fire,” both performed live during Psych-O-Positive’s debut on Baer’s poetry and music show, A Conclave of Baer, as well as Psych-O-Positive’s new recording, “Shattered Mirror World,” also based on Baer’s poetry. For more music inspired by Baer’s work, check out the A Conclave of Baer page on bandcamp!
Teel James Glenn has signed a contract for The Skullmask Chronicles with Bold Venture Press for release in 2021. In October, Glenn also published two stories in the annual Sherlock Holmes Issue of Mystery Weekly Magazine, and his story, “Edge of Time,” appeared in Mystery Men & Women Vol. 6 from Airship27.
Join the New York Chapter of the Horror Writers Association for our new monthly reading series, Galactic Terrors! Presented via YouTube, each Galactic Terrors event will feature live readings by authors of horror, dark fantasy, science fiction, and more!
The inaugural installment of Galactic Terrors kicks off on Monday, September 14th at 8 p.m. EDT, with Marc Abbott, Teel James Glenn, Amy Grech, and Lisa Morton! Following this specially scheduled premiere episode, Galactic Terrors will be broadcast monthly on the second Thursday of the month, beginning on October 8th, with episodes archived on YouTube for future viewing.
Galactic Terrors
Join us at 8 p.m. EDT on September 14 for the inaugural installment of Galactic Terrors, featuring live readings and Q&A with Marc Abbott, Teel James Glenn, Amy Grech, and Lisa Morton! Presented via YouTube by the Horror Writers Association New York Chapter, Galactic Terrors features live readings by authors of horror, dark fantasy, science fiction, and more. Following our specially scheduled premiere episode, Galactic Terrors will be broadcast monthly on the second Thursday of the month, starting on October 8, with episodes archived on YouTube for future viewing.
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“Page 11” is a song based on a poem in Oliver Baer‘s book of poetry and photographs, Baer Soul. It is on Jay Ackley’s new album Songs My Friends Wrote, Vol. 2, the cover of which also includes an artistic rendition of Baer. Baer, with his true face on, read his H. P. Lovecraft-inspired poems as part of his Facebook Live reading around Lovecraft’s birthday in August.
Before an emergency appendectomy interrupted his usual flow, NY chapter’s Steven Van Patten‘s short horror story, “Pink Lake,” landed in the Nightlight Podcast, curated by horror maven Tonia Thompson. Additionally, “The Retiree,” a SVP short about an elderly monster killer having one final go at it, will be included in Nicole Givens Kurtz’s much-anticipated anthology Slay: Stories Of The Vampire Noire, which releases on October 13th. And SVP’s latest animated piece, this one about the famous Harlem Hellfighters of World War I, is set to premier to Extra Credits‘ 2.42 million subscribers on YouTube on September 10th. (As for the appendectomy, we hear he is recovering just fine, but will happily accept red wine and dark chocolate as get well gifts.)
[Editor’s note: 5 out of 5 doctors agree buying an author’s books improves surgical recovery!]
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HWA-NY Members, submit your news and events using the following forms:
Member News(for new publications, interviews, awards, etc.)
Member Events(for book launches, readings, signings, convention appearances, etc.)
Deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on the 7th of every month.
Several HWA-NY members have stories in the latest issue of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, including Teel James Glenn, Amy Grech, and Steven Van Patten.
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Teel James Glenn’s short mystery “Reindeer Games” will appear in the anthology Whodunnit NJ, his poem, “They Slumber” will be published in the forthcoming HWA Poetry anthology, and his short story, “Screen Shot,” appears in the July issue of Mystery Weekly.
Jonathan Lees‘ story, “Persistence,” has been announced for acceptance in Chiral Mad 5, edited by Michael Bailey.
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HWA-NY READINGS: Due to the global pandemic and related shutdowns/restrictions, HWA-NY’s planned readings (Night Terrors and Summer Dark) are shifting into a new, terrifying form. Ignore any howling and keep an eye out for updates here, on Facebook, and on Twitter.
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HWA-NY Members, submit your news and events using the following forms:
Member News(for new publications, interviews, awards, etc.)
Member Events(for book launches, readings, signings, convention appearances, etc.)
Deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on the 7th of every month.
JG Faherty is super-excited to announce he’ll be part of a line up that includes Hal Bodner, Victor LaValle, Ramsey Campbell, Nancy Kilpatrick, H.P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Bloch, Robert W. Chambers, August W. Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, among other giants of the genre, in Flame Tree’s upcoming anthology of Lovecraftian short stories, Lovecraft Mythos: New & Classic Collection. Coming in October 2020 – the perfect Halloween gift!
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Teel James Glenn’s short mystery “Reindeer Games” will appear in the anthology Whodunnit NJ, his poem, ‘They Slumber’ will be published in the forthcoming HWA Poetry anthology, and his short story, “Screen Shot,” appears in the July issue of Mystery Weekly.
In light of the recent political unrest brought on by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many other unarmed African-Americans, Steven Van Patten was recently asked to bring some Black History to the Extra Credits YouTube channel. His first piece for the series focuses on the Tulsa Race Riot, “The Burning of Black Wall Street,” and will be followed by at least five more written by Van Patten.
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HWA-NY READINGS: Due to the global pandemic and related shutdowns/restrictions, HWA-NY’s planned readings (Night Terrors and Summer Dark) are shifting into a new, terrifying form. Ignore any howling and keep an eye out for updates here, on Facebook, and on Twitter.
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HWA-NY Members, submit your news and events using the following forms:
Member News(for new publications, interviews, awards, etc.)
Member Events(for book launches, readings, signings, convention appearances, etc.)
Deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on the 7th of every month.
Even though the world has been at a standstill for the past few months, our members kept busy writing and publishing exciting new work!
Here’s the latest from HWA-NY members…
Marc Abbott and Steven Van Patten explore the black-hand side of nerd culture with co-host, Kirk Johnson, in their new podcast Beef, Wine, & Shenanigans. From their Facebook page:
“Award-winning horror writers Marc Abbott and Steven Van Patten, along with fantasy maven Kirk Johnson, explore and break down the horror, science fiction and comic book culture in all its written, small and big screen forms, in a hilarious one-hour bull session.”
Listen to new and previous episodes on SoundCloud!
Oliver Baer‘s poem “Untitled #50” is in the Spring/Summer 2020 issue of Infernal Ink Magazine. One of his poems is the basis for a new song, “Shattered Mirror World” by the band Psych-O-Positive, which can be found on Spotify. The band also created a video to go with the song on YouTube. In April, Baer featured live readings of his poetry for National Poetry Month on his Facebook page, where the recordings are still available for your enjoyment.
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James Chambers is pleased to announce the return to print of the third volume in his Corpse Fauna novella series, The Dead in Their Masses, with the all-new bonus short story, “Passengers,” from eSpec Books.
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JG Faherty is happy to announce that he’s just signed a contract with Flame Tree Press for his next novel, tentatively titled The Awakening, which involves demonic possession and poltergeists in a small New York town. This will be his third novel with Flame Tree Press (Sins of the Father comes out this summer) and his 8th novel overall.
Also, for the duration of the COVID-19 shutdowns, Faherty’s new novel, The Changeling, is available for only $0.99 on Kindle. This sci-fi superhero thriller, with cover art by Lynne Hansen, was released to give people something exciting, but inexpensive, to read while stuck at home.
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Teel James Glenn is proud to announce the publication of his novel, Gaslight Magick, available now from Wild Wolf Publishing. A thrilling adventure in the world of the Pendragon Empire, Gaslight Magick asks, Would you go to hell to save the one you love?
Glenn also has a bounty of short fiction news! He has two stories–both dark fantasies of love and sacrifice–in the new anthologies, Hearts’ Enchantment and No Greater Love: Martyrs of Earth and Elsewhere. Also, be on the lookout for “The Phantom Fear” in The Magic of Murder anthology, and “The Occurrence of the Kali Curse,” in Pulp Adventures Magazine, Issue #35.
Looking ahead, Glenn’s collection, Semper Occultus, is forthcoming from Pro Se Productions and his novel The Last Escape will be published by Airship 27.
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Hungry? Check out Amy Grech’s “Perishables” on Medium.com!
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N.R. Lambert‘s new story, “Do Not Write to Wrong,” is included in Atthis Arts’ latest anthology, Community of Magic Pens, available wherever books are sold. Her story, “The Half-Life of a Broken Heart,” originally published by Factor Four Magazine, was featured in a new episode of Cast of Wonders, a speculative fiction podcast.
Lambert’s recently published ghost story, “The Words I Starved For,” is now available to read for free at Fireside Fiction. “It’s powerful, and wrenching, and beautiful.” —Charles Payseur, Quick Sip Reviews
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Steven Van Patten penned “BANDMATES” for an episode of Viral Vignettes, starring Maxwell Gail Jr. and John Schneider. The Viral Vignettes series is raising money for The Actor’s Fund. SVP has also been writing scripts for the animated series, Extra Credits, check out Patten’s episode, “The Rusalka,” and all the series episodes, on YouTube.
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HWA-NY READINGS: Due to the global pandemic and related shutdowns/restrictions, HWA-NY’s planned readings (Night Terrors and Summer Dark) are shifting into a new, terrifying form. Ignore any howling and keep an eye out for updates here, on Facebook, and on Twitter.
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HWA-NY Members, submit your news and events using the following forms:
Member News(for new publications, interviews, awards, etc.)
Member Events(for book launches, readings, signings, convention appearances, etc.)
Deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on the 7th of every month.
On February 12, 2020, the New York Chapter of the Horror Writers Association hosted an evening of dark fiction and horror readings in celebration of Women in Horror Month. Emceed by Carol Gyzander and James Chambers, the evening featured readings from (in order) N.R. Lambert, Amy Grech, K.E. Scheiner, Carol Gyzander, Randee Dawn, and Barbara Krasnoff.
HWA-NY’s WiHM readers, left to right: Barbara Krasnoff, K.E. Scheiner, Randee Dawn, Carol Gyzander, N.R. Lambert, and Amy Grech. Photo credit: Jim Freund.
Carol Gyzander reading an excerpt from “Deal with the Devil” and sporting a shirt by artist Cat Scully. Photo credit: Jim Freund.
Randee Dawn read “Cat Person,” a short story from the forthcoming anthology, Horror for the Throne: One-Sitting Reads, edited by James D. Macdonald, Judith K. Dial, and Tom Easton, which will be published by Fantastic Books later this year.
Randee Dawn reading “Cat Person.” Photo credit: Jim Freund.
Barbara Krasnoff closed out the evening with a haunting story, “Rosemary, That’s For Remembrance,” which originally appeared in Clockwork Phoenix 2 (edited by Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium Books), and is also included in her recent mosaic novel, The History of Soul 2065 (Mythic Delirium Books), which Publishers Weeklyrecently praised in a starred review: “Powerful and dreamlike, this intergenerational meditation on family, mortality, and hope is far more than the sum of its parts.”
Barbara Krasnoff reading “Rosemary, That’s For Remembrance.” Photo credit: Jim Freund.
Special thanks the sound team, Gordon Linzer and Vincent Collins who both recorded the reading. When selections from this reading are made available online, we’ll be sure to post an update here.
Gordon Linzner (r.) recorded the sessions, as did Vincent Collins (l). Photo credit: James Chambers.
A huge thanks to the KGB Bar team, to Teel James Glenn (who manned the door and the raffle sales), and to artist Kristine Scheiner, who sketched all the readers (and our emcees) during the event. (Be sure to check out Kristine’s shop on etsy.)
Horror Writers Association--New York Chapter 