AllAccessCon
Creating events in the arts space for those who cannot attend traditional conferences, workshops, and more. Founded in 2019 by John Lawson.
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StokerCon 2025: How to Perform a Seance
Moderator: Frances Lu Pai Ippolito; Panelists: Lisa Morton, Jonathan Gensler, Rebecca Cuthbert, and Sarah Walker.
StokerCon 2025: The United States of Horror
Patrick Barb (moderator), Cynthia Pelayo, John Langan, Christa Carmen, Elizabeth Broadbent, Wendy Dalrymple, Philip Fracassi
StokerCon 2025: Writing Quality at Speed
Charles Barouch (mod), Teel James Glenn, Carl Paolino, David Avallone, and B.E. Miller
StokerCon 2025: Understanding Historical Horror
Philip Fracassi, John Kachuba, Alma Katsu, John Langan
StokerCon 2025: The Halloween Librarians and You: A Not so Scary Partnership
Konrad Stump, Becky Spratford, Yaika Sabat, Chloe Waryan, and Sadie Hartmann
StokerCon 2025: Booksellers & Bookstores and Their Support of Horror
Marguerite "Peg" Turley, Lisa Doblow, Jenny Kiefer, Clay McLeod Chapman
StokerCon 2025: Venomous & Voracious: Fabulous Female Villains & What They Mean to Women Writers in the Horror Genre
Gwendolyn Kiste, Candace Nola, May Walker, Sara Tantlinger, J.A.W. McCarthy, vcastro
StokerCon 2025: Non-Traditional Gothic
Marianne Kirby, Carl Engle-Laird, Sofia Ajram, Caitlin Starling
StokerCon 2025: Hello, And Welcome To... A Celebration of Horror Lit's Most Vocal Advocates - Our Podcasters
Neil McRobert - Talking Scared; Robb Olson - The ARC Party; Anna Dupre - Anna Rose Reads; Trevor Williamson - Sley House Presents
StokerCon 2025: Pathways to Horror
Joshua Ginsberg, Marie Still, Lee Murray, Jose Cruz, Kurt Fawver, J.W. Ocker
StokerCon 2025: Sinners: Afrosurrealism, Horror and Vampires, Oh My!
Zin Rocklyn, Steven Van Patten, Donyae Coles, Denise Tapscott, Sumiko Saulson
StokerCon 2025: Radio play “The Devil’s Saint”
Performers: Charles Barouch, Teel James Glenn, and Carol Gyzander; Sound engineering: Steven Van Patten
StokerCon 2025: Love Bites: Where Horror and Romance Make Out
Michaela Rae, Jonathan Reddoch, Brianna Malotke, Elizabeth Suggs
StokerCon 2025: Transcending Horror Tropes
Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar, Lisa Wood, Carlos A. González, Stefan Sonntagbauer, Andrew Najberg
StokerCon 2025: Bubblegum Horror
Ryan LaSala, Kelly Andrew, De Elizabeth, Angela Sylvaine, Wendy Dalrymple
StokerCon 2025: Crossroads: Choosing and Succeeding Among Different Horror-Publishing Paths
Dan Franklin, Steven James, Alan Lastufka, Erin Macnair, Premee Mohamed, Janine Cross
StokerCon 2025: It Came From the Depths of the Archives!: Writing Nonfiction
L. Marie Wood, W. Scott Poole, Heidi Honeycutt
StokerCon 2025: There's No Such Thing As Self-Publishing
Mark Matthews, Chad Lutzke, Candace Nola, Peter Rosch, Kat Silva
StokerCon 2025: Plotting Your Publishing Journey
Daniel Barnett, Wendy Dalrymple, Angela Sylvaine, Jenny Kiefer
StokerCon 2025: Vampires: Why they Endure and Continue to Fascinate Us
Hailey Piper, S. Faxon, Liz Kerin, Heather Hein
StokerCon 2025: Taking Risks: Tackling Taboo Subjects in Horror
Robbie Dorman, Tamika Thompson, Jamie Flanagan, Clay McLeod Chapman, Christina Persaud, Douglas Ford
StokerCon 2025: Unmarked Graves and Tortured Roots: Defining Folk Horror from the Perspective of the Asian Diaspora
Geneve Flynn, J.A.W. McCarthy, Ayida Shonibar, Gabriela Lee, Kanishk Tantia
StokerCon 2025: Neurodiversity in Horror
Tee Wood, Rick Claypool, Steven Belanger, Lara Frater, Ricardo D. Rebelo, L. E. Daniels
StokerCon 2025: We are Coming for the Children: The Scary Truth About Middle Grade Horror
Becky Spratford, Derick Chow, Fleur Bradley, Eden Royce, Graham Annable, Maxwell I Gold, and Julia Smith
StokerCon 2025: Ghost Stories: From the Classics to the Modern
Lisa Morton, KC Grifant, Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, Michael Arnzen, Eric J. Guignard
StokerCon 2025: Mascot Horror: Cute, Cuddly, Creepy
Patrick Barb, Grace Daly, Brian McAuley, P.L. McMillan, Sam Rebelein
StokerCon 2025: Working with Editors
Lisa Kastner, Cecilia Kennedy, Henry Herz, and Kate Maruyama
StokerCon 2025: Women of the Horrific Weird West
KC Grifant, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Tiffany Morris, Christine Morgan, Cynthia Pelayo, Stephanie Rabig, Rebecca Rowland
StokerCon 2025: First Person Dead
CC Adams, Gemma Amor, John Langan, Gordon B. White, Jason A. Wyckoff
StokerCon 2025: Modern Young Adult Horror
Taylor Grothe, Robert Ottone, Maria Alexander, Joey Powell, Wendy Dalrymple
StokerCon 2025: Mind Killer or Manna?: Tapping into childhood fears to create exceptional modern monsters
Ann Dávila Cardinal, Dawn Kurtagich, Kat Ellis, Kiersten White, Rob Costello, Gretchen McNeil, Joshua Winning
Your Work is all Intellectual Property: Finding the Media Potential of your Fiction
Tananarive Due, LP Kindred, Ai Jiang, Kate Maruyama
StokerCon 2025: Adapting Horror
Tim Waggoner (adaptations of Halloween Kills, Terrifier, Pearl, Supernatural) V. Castro (adaptations of Aliens: Vasquez, Rebel Moon) Josh Millican (adaptations of Chopping Mall, Circus of the Dead) Tim Lebbon (adaptations of Star Wars, Alien, Hellboy) Moderators Jeff C. Carter (Host of the WE BLEED ORANGE & BLACK podcast) Paxton Holley (I READ MOVIES podcast, CULT FILM CLUB podcast)
Writing Horror as Resistance
Del Sandeen, Maxwell Ian Gold, Pedro Iniguez, Sonora Taylor, Steven Van Patten, Tatiana Schlotte-Bonne, Vincent Tirado, and Stacie Herrington
Author Reading: Ari Loeb
Author Reading: Casey Masterson
Author Reading: Ef Deal
Author Reading: Geneve Flynn
Author Reading: Jean Marie Ward
Author Reading: Joe Baldwin
Author Reading: Kristi Petersen Schoonover
Author Reading: Lisa Acerbo
Author Reading: Lisa Morton
Author Reading: L.C. Marino
Author Reading: Mark Matthews
Author Reading: Melissa Bobe
Author Reading: Mercedes M. Yardley
Author Reading: Ricardo Rebelo
Author Reading: Robin Knabel
Author Reading: Sèphera Girón
StokerCon 2024: Paul Tremblay Interviewed by Dennis Crosby
StokerCon 2024: Interview: Jonathan Maberry Interviewed by Scott Sigler
StokerCon 2024: Purrfect Terrors: Cats in Horror
StokerCon 2024: Interview: Rob Savage Interviewed by Philip Fracassi
StokerCon 2024: Nisi Shawl Interviewed by Eric Guignard
StokerCon 2024: Breaking In and Breaking Out: Navigating Traditional Publishing
StokerCon 2024: Interview: Justina Ireland Interviewed by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
StokerCon 2024: Don't Sign Away Your Soul: Publishing Contracts
StokerCon 2024: Haunted by the Trope: Reimagining Ghost Stories
StokerCon 2024: Ask an Agent
StokerCon 2024: Screaming in SoCal
StokerCon 2024: Short Story Success: Submission to Publication
StokerCon 2024: It's Not Witchcraft: Practical Methods of Marketing Your Book
StokerCon 2024: Scripting Fear: The Alchemy of Adapting Horror for the Screen
StokerCon 2024: Stop the Killer Presents Sudden Acts of Horror
StokerCon 2024: Silver Screams: The Business of Adapting Books for the Big and Small Screens
StokerCon 2024: HWA Open Member Board Meeting
StokerCon 2024: Fear on the Frontier - Western Horror
StokerCon 2024: Curating Inclusive Horror Anthologies
StokerCon 2024: The Heart of Horror: Getting the Most Out of the HWA
StokerCon 2024: Exploring Queerness as "Otherness" in Horror
StokerCon 2024: Author Branding Roadmap
StokerCon 2024: High-Heeled Horror: Feminism and Womanhood in the Horror Genre
StokerCon 2024: Horror at the PTA
StokerCon 2024: Horror RPG -- James A. Moore's Dangerous Toys
StokerCon 2024: Ancestry as Source: Writing with Deep Authenticity
StokerCon 2024: Stage Fright: Writing Horror for Theater
StokerCon 2024: Sensitivity Reads: Writing Outside of Your Identity
StokerCon 2024: Short Story Writing: The Craft
StokerCon 2024: Scream Queens
StokerCon 2024: Author Life Productivity Tips & Tools
StokerCon 2024: Self-Care for Horror Writers
StokerCon 2024: Collaborative Writing
StokerCon 2024: How to Connect With Your Library Through Summer Scares
StokerCon 2024: To Hell and Back: Poetry
StokerCon 2024: Choosing the Best Setting for Your Story
StokerCon 2024: Dark Fantasy - A Discussion on Horror with Fantasy Elements
StokerCon 2024: Divination and Darkness: The Use of Divination for Generative Writing and Editing
StokerCon 2024: Fear Becomes Words Becomes Poetry
StokerCon 2024: Flipping the Lid on Mental Illness in Horror
StokerCon 2024: Short, Sweet, and Saleable
StokerCon 2024: Southwest Horror
StokerCon 2024: Latin American Folklore: Exploring our Identities Through Horror
StokerCon 2024: Short and Not So Sweet- Composing a Horror Short Story Collection
StokerCon 2024: The Ins and Outs of Horror Comics
StokerCon 2024: What We Can Learn from Grief in Horror
StokerCon 2024: Epistolary Horror
StokerCon 2024: Modern Cosmic: The More We Change, The More We Stay the Same
StokerCon 2023: Queer Horror Canon
StokerCon 2023: Asian Narratives in Horror
StokerCon 2023: Dread and Desire
StokerCon 2023: Cryptids
StokerCon 2023: Anomalous Architecture
StokerCon 2023: Decades of Black Women in Horror
StokerCon 2023: Adaptations and Retellings
StokerCon 2023: Avoid Medical Mistakes in Writing
StokerCon 2023: Crafting Point of View
StokerCon 2023: Guest of Honor Spotlight
StokerCon 2023: Self-Care for Horror Writers
StokerCon 2023: Revamping Classic Monsters
StokerCon 2023: Remembering Peter Straub
StokerCon 2023: Podcasting Audio Books
StokerCon 2023: Lifecycle of a Book
StokerCon 2023: Tales of Weird Pittsburgh
StokerCon 2023: Ancestry as Source
StokerCon 2023: Antipodean Gothic
StokerCon 2023: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Asian Narratives in Horror and Speculative Fiction
StokerCon 2023: Monstrous Metaphors: Horror Movies and Cultural Commentary
StokerCon 2023: All These Pages Bleed: Horror In Libraries
StokerCon 2023: Bound in the Flesh: Crafting the Anthology
StokerCon 2023: Rising Terrors: Exciting Voices in Horror
StokerCon 2023: Canadian Horror
StokerCon 2023: Horror through a Southern Gothic Len
StokerCon 2023: Keeping the Artificial Out of Art: AI, Bots, and ChatGPT
StokerCon 2023: Sense & Sensitivity: Modern Approaches to Mental Health
StokerCon 2023: Something Old, Something New: The Power of Horror Retellings
StokerCon 2023: Short Stories, Novellas, and Long Fiction, Oh My!
StokerCon 2023: Sisters of Foreboding
StokerCon 2023: Transformation in Horror
StokerCon 2023: Using Mystery Conventions in Your Horror
StokerCon 2022: Horror in Comics and Graphic Novels
StokerCon 2022: Finding Your Scooby Gang: Networking in Horror
StokerCon 2022: Epistolary Fiction and Found Footage
StokerCon 2022: Digging Up Graves: Horror Non-Fiction
StokerCon 2022: Banned Books: The Rising Threat of Censorship
StokerCon 2022: Whatever Possessed You? Traditions of Possession
StokerCon 2022: What Makes Cosmic Horror Cosmic
StokerCon 2022: The Tell-Tale Kidney: Medical Accuracy in Horror
StokerCon 2022: The Rules of Horror Guest of Honor Panel
StokerCon 2022: The Gothic in Horror and Dark Fantasy
StokerCon 2022: Stronger Than the Sum of Its Parts Authors and Editors
StokerCon 2022: Stalking Halloween in Less than 12 Parsecs: Blending Horror and Science Fiction
StokerCon 2022: Resurrecting the Past: Historical Horror
StokerCon 2022: Red Flags: When an Editor or Publisher is Not Right for You
StokerCon 2022: Pushing the Envelope with Dark Poems
StokerCon 2022: Psychology of YA and Middle Grade Characters
StokerCon 2022: Psychological Horror: When Humans are the Monsters
StokerCon 2022: Pitch Panel Pitch Session Advice
StokerCon 2022: Other Terrors
StokerCon 2022: Nancy Holder Lifetime Achievement Award Interview
StokerCon 2022: Monster Mash
StokerCon 2022: Kolchak the Night Stalker 50th Anniversary Discussion
StokerCon 2022: How to Get Reviews and Communicate with Reviewers
StokerCon 2022: Horrormance: Blending Horror and Romance
StokerCon 2022: Horror Noire: Black Americans in Horror
StokerCon 2022: Horror in the 21st Century Genre-Defining Books
StokerCon 2022: Horror Hits Close to Home: Personal Experience in Horror
StokerCon 2022: Horror and Hope: Writing in the Age of Covid
StokerCon 2022: Have You Seen the Yellow Sign: The King in Yellow
StokerCon 2022: Hardcore Horror: Body, Splatterpunk, and Other Extreme Horror
StokerCon 2022: Ghost Stories: They Haunt Your Dreams
StokerCon 2022: From Bloody Page to Big Screen: Writing and Pitching a Script
StokerCon 2022: Folk Horror Revival: When the Old Superstitions Are New Again
StokerCon 2022: Summer Scares YA Author Panel
StokerCon 2022: Summer Scares Middle Grade Author Panel
StokerCon 2022: Summer Scares Adult Author Panel
StokerCon 2022: Objects of Fear
StokerCon 2022 Horror Crime and Suspense
StokerCon 2022: Writing Workshops
StokerCon 2022: Meet the 2022 Diversity Grant Winners
Stokercon 2022: The Nature of Evil
StokerCon 2022: Origins of Monsters
StokerCon 2022: Haunted and Abandoned Places
StokerCon 2022: Mental Health and Horror
StokerCon 2022: How to Curate Anthologies
StokerCon 2022: Gothic Fiction Panel
StokerCon 2022: From Prose to Silver Screen
StokerCon 2022: Classic Monsters Reimagined
