My WHC Schedule – Readings, Panels, Gross Out, and the Stoker Awards

This will be a busy convention! I’ve been interviewed twice in the past week; once by the Daily Herald and the second by Horror World. I’ll post links to those interviews when they actually go live. In the mean time, here is where I will be at WHC 2008 next week in Salt Lake City:

Thursday
8:00pm – Poetry Reading (with various other poets including myself)

Friday
4:30pm – Fiction Reading ("Wild Card" from the forth coming IN LAYMON'S TERMS)
7:00pm – Panel: The Fine Art of the Gross-Out
8:00pm – Mass Autograph Signing (I will have copies of The Gossamer Eye and Excitable Boys on hand, plus post cards with the cover art from BARFODDER)
10:30pm – Annual Gross-Out Contest (Hostess)

Saturday
7:30pm – Stokers Banquet
9:00pm – Stoker Awards (co-presenting poetry)

Here is an announcement from WHC and HWA concerning the live broadcast of the Bram Stoker Awards for 2007, of which, I will be co-presenting the poetry award with Sarah Langan.

(begin quote):
The Horror Writers Association (HWA), World Horror Convention, and
iSCIFI.tv announce that the 2007 Bram Stoker Awards ceremony will be
broadcast live on the Internet on Saturday, March 29, 2008.

This is the first time that the Stokers have been broadcast as they
happen.

The awards ceremony is being held at the 2008 World Horror Convention
in Salt Lake City. Following a banquet, the awards ceremony will
begin at approximately 9:00 p.m. local time (11:00 p.m. eastern time).

To watch the awards, please click to http://www.iscifi.tv/live/ where
the podcast will be displayed in the center of your screen.

The Master of Ceremonies this year is Jeff Strand, and a series of
esteemed horror authors will present the Stokers in the categories of:

-Novel
-First Novel
-Long Fiction
-Short Fiction
-Collection
-Anthology
-Nonfiction
-Poetry

As well, several non-Stoker awards will be presented:

-The 2008 Grandmaster Award (presented by the World Horror
Society)
-The co-winners of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award
-The Richard Laymon Award (HWA President’s Award)

This is the 21st annual Stoker ceremony. The HWA is pleased to be
working with the World Horror Conference and iSCIFI.tv to broadcast
the event.

To view the live video, you will need to have Flash installed for
your web browser and your Internet speed needs to be at least 300
kbps (downstream / download). If your stream is slower, you may have
pausing in the video, or the audio will be out of sync. iSCIFI.tv
will be offering audio only and still images that are captured during
the podcast. Please visit the live stream page at http://
www.iscifi.tv/live for further information, troubleshooting, and
links to the audio and/or image captures.

(end quote)

For a full list of programming head over to the WHC2008 Website.

Labels: poetry, whc, writing

posted by Rain at 2:54 PM

WHC 2008 Updates

March is flying by…

I will be (as most of you know) attending WHC 2008 in Salt Lake City at the end of the month. Currently the computer with all the software that can update my website is still toast – so you’ll all have to make due with updates via blog.

I am, once again, The Hostess of the Grossest for this year's Annual Gross Out Contest. Of the possible 15 slots for readers, 8 of them are filled. Those contestants are (in no particular order):

Stephen Woodworth
Dan Nader
Kurt Dinan
Jeff Strand
Scott Browne
Nate Southard
Mike Meyers
Thomas Sippos

The judges this year are:

Kelly Laymon
John Skipp
Cullen Bunn (we just couldn’t let him compete anymore…not after that last win)

My Chief of Security is of course, Weston Ochse.

If you have signed up but don’t see your name on the list above, please contact me.

If you're going to be there Thursday evening, I'll be participating in the poetry reading that evening. Gross Out Contest is Friday night at 10:00pm-12:00am.

I'll post whatever panels, etc... as soon as I have the final list.

Labels: whc

posted by Rain at 1:22 PM