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Imaginarium 2025 is proud to announce the addition of four new workshops to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 12th year, so make sure to check back regularly on our official site to see all new additions! The titles, presenters, and descriptions for these new programming additions are as follows: Being Creative During Times of Grief & Trauma: Presenter – Tim Bischoff. Making progress on your writing during times of Grief or Trauma does not look the same for everyone. It’s ok that writers deal with difficult times in different ways. As the old saying goes “When itRead More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes award-winning author and musician Vonn McKee as a Spotlighted Guest! Vonn is a Western Writers of America Spur winner and two-time finalist for short fiction. Now based in Nashville, she won the 2024 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award. Vonn is also an accomplished singer and musician, and recorded for MCA and toured nationally for several years, including two Grand Ole Opry guest appearances. We are honored to have Vonn participate with us for our 12th year, taking place July 18-20, 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky! For further information on the Imaginarium Convention, please visit www.entertheimaginarium.comRead More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes author and publisher Kelly Brakenhoff and podcaster Shelly Grant as Official Panelists! As Panelists, Kelly and Shelly will be participating in our extensive panel and workshop programming during our 12th year, July 18-20, 2025, in Louisville, Kentucky! We invite you to explore their individual guest pages, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banners below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes author and podcaster P.E. Craven and author B.A. Richards as Official Panelists! As Panelists, P.E. and B.A. will be participating in our extensive panel and workshop programming during our 12th year, July 18-20, 2025, in Louisville, Kentucky! We invite you to explore their individual guest pages, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banners below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes award-winning author R.G. Yoho as an Imaginator Guest! A proud member of the Western Writers of America and 2022 Spur Award finalist, he’s author of the five-book Kellen Malone Western series as well as books of historical fiction and nonfiction. R.G. also received the 2024 Branding Iron Award for outstanding service to the WWA as the Spur Awards Chair! Yoho is also America’s foremost authority on the life of Baldwin-Felts Agent and notorious coal mine spy, Charles E. Lively, who he profiled in the biography, “Charles E. Lively. The Deadliest Man in the West Virginia-Colorado Coal Mine Wars.” We are honoredRead More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes nine-time Silver Spur Award-winning author Johnny D. Boggs as a Guest of Honor! Booklist has called Johnny D. Boggs “among the best western writers at work today.” In addition to his nine Silver Spur Awards, Johnny’s novel Spark on the Prairie won the Western Heritage Wrangler Award. In 2020, Boggs received the Owen Wister Award for lifetime contributions and was inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame. A prolific writer of short nonfiction, Boggs has written about all aspects of the American West: travel stories, environmental issues, fashion news, apparel industry trends, history articles, reviews and celebrity Q&As and profiles (includingRead More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes author and screenwriter W.W. Mitchell and author, actor, and speaker Kimberly Hoffman as Official Panelists! As Panelists, W.W. and Kimberly will be participating in our extensive panel and workshop programming during our 12th year, July 18-20, 2025, in Louisville, Kentucky! We invite you to explore their individual guest pages, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banners below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes author, editor, publisher, journalist, and actor Paul J. Hoffman, and author and editor Lori Briley Fairchild, as Official Panelists! As Panelists, Paul and Lori will be participating in our extensive panel and workshop programming during our 12th year, July 18-20, 2025, in Louisville, Kentucky! We invite you to explore their individual guest pages, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banners below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2025 is proud to announce the addition of three new workshops to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 12th year, so make sure to check back regularly on our official site to see all new additions! The titles, presenters, and descriptions for these new programming additions are as follows: The Art of Writing Weapons: Presenter – B.A. Richards. Join B.A Richards as he describes the main types of weapons, show how to turn everyday objects we carry into weapons, and discuss how to make your own sci-fi and magical weapons — and how to break them. HeRead More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes author, editor, screenwriter, journalist, and graphic designer Anthony Taylor as a Spotlighted Guest! Anthony was a regular contributor and editor for the British magazine Sci-Fi & Fantasy Models International, and columnist for Toy Shop Magazine for 12 years. His articles have appeared in Retro Fan, SFX, Video WatcH*Dog, Fangoria, Screem, Horror Hound, Famous Monsters of Filmland, FilmFax, Amazing Figure Modeler, and many other magazines. Anthony is the author of Classic Monsters, Modern Art – 20th Century Horror in 21st Century Illustration, Arctic Adventure!, an official Thunderbirds™ novel based on the iconic British television series by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, and The FutureRead More →