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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning stage and screen actor, producer, and writer Bill Oberst Jr. as an Imaginator Guest! Known for Daytime Emmy Award-winning “Take This Lollipop” and a ratings-winning role on CBS-TV’s “Criminal Minds,” Bill has appeared in a multitude of film, television, and stage productions. Bill’s staged theatrical reading “Ray Bradbury’s Pillar Of Fire” won an Ernest Kearney Platinum Award for its Los Angeles debut. In 2017, it won a United Solo Theatre Festival Award for its Off-Broadway debut on Theatre Row in New York City. Bill has won numerous individual awards, and Ron Chaney, great-grandson of Lon Chaney, presented him with theRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning author, poet, filmmaker, and playwright Lee Pennington as a Spotlighted Guest! Named Poet Laureate by the State of Kentucky, a lifetime appointment, Lee is the author of 23 books, has had nine plays produced, and over 1300 of his poems have been published in more than 300 magazines! A world-traveler, Lee also has produced 21 documentary films on a variety of subjects. In 2013, the University of Louisville opened the Lee and Joy Pennington Cultural Heritage Gallery, named after Lee and his late wife that will house all of Lee’s writings, films, and many artifacts he’s collected traveling around theRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly announces Steve Jackson, founder of Steve Jackson Games, as an Imaginator Guest! Elected to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame, Steve has received 12 Origins Awards, as well as numerous other honors, for game design. His company, Steve Jackson Games, is one of the most successful game publishers in the industry. His current mega-hit is the card game Munchkin, which has a Steam version available for online play, and current projects include various Munchkin follow-ups, a new edition of Car Wars, and the ongoing republication of his first RPG, The Fantasy Trip. We are thrilled and honored to have Steve join usRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning author, filmmaker, and screenwriter Amy Leigh McCorkle as a Spotlighted Guest! The winner of numerous film and writing awards, and 13 times an Amazon bestseller, Amy has been published 36 times as an author, has directed/produced over 40 film projects, and has written over 40 screenplays over the course of her career. Amy is also the host of the Recovery Unplugged Live Podcast, and she currently has four feature films in the pipeline, in various stages of development. We are excited to have Amy join us for our 11th year, taking place July 19-21, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky! For furtherRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning author Steven L. Shrewsbury as a Spotlighted Guest! Currently writing for a project of CONAN Properties, Steven has authored over twenty novels in the sword and sorcery, fantasy, and horror genres. Steven has also collaborated with highly acclaimed writers such as award-winning, bestselling author Brian Keene in the Saga of Rogan, and Peter Welmerink in Bedlam Unleashed! We are honored to have Steven join us for our 11th year, taking place July 19-21, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky! For further information on the Imaginarium Convention, please visit www.entertheimaginarium.comRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning author, editor, and journalist Elizabeth Donald as a Spotlighted Guest! Elizabeth’s work has received many accolades, including the Mimi Zanger Literary Award, three Darrell Awards, and runner-up for an Imadjinn Award in screenplay writing! With over 25 years in professional journalism, Elizabeth belongs to many writing and trade organizations. Elizabeth is also the founder of The Literary Underworld, a small-press author collective, and she teaches journalism and English composition at SIUE and St. Louis University. We are honored to have Elizabeth join us for our 11th year, taking place July 19-21, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky! For further information on theRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes Paul J. Hoffman, Kimberly Hoffman, Angie Andriot, and Lawrence Weill as Official Panelists! As Panelists, they will all be participating in our extensive panel and workshop programming during our 11th year next July 19-21 in Louisville, Kentucky! We invite you to explore their individual pages which can be accessed by clicking on their graphic banners below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2024 is proud to announce the addition of a new panel and six new workshops to our growing list of 2024 Panel and Workshop Programming! There will be over 130 panels and workshops hosted in our 11th year, so make sure to check back regularly on our official site to see all new additions! The titles, moderators, and descriptions for these new programming additions are as follows: New Panel Addition Defining Different Genres of Writing: Moderator TBA. We will discuss the difference between sword and sorcery versus high fantasy, urban fantasy/SciFi versus spec fiction, cyberpunk versus steampunk, the difference between a space opera andRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning author and poet Michael Williams as a Spotlighted Guest! One of the original authors in the bestselling DRAGONLANCE Series with the novels “Weasel’s Luck” and “Galen Beknighted,” Michael is also the author of “Arcady,” a novel singled out for praise by Locus and Asimov’s magazines. Michael’s most recent work includes the acclaimed mythic fiction City Quartet, an ambitious literary work that includes four volumes that may be read in any order, with four stories that intertwine! Michael has a Ph.D. in Humanities, and he taught until 2022 at the University of Louisville, where he focused on the Modern Fantastic inRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes Christina Barber, Theodora Bryant, William Bove, and Clayton Barnett as Official Panelists! As Panelists, they will all be participating in our extensive panel and workshop programming during our 11th year next July 19-21 in Louisville, Kentucky! We invite you to explore their individual pages which can be accessed by clicking on their graphic banners below!Read More →