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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes award-winning author, screenwriter, and poet L. Marie Wood as a Spotlighted Guest! Wood is a Golden Stake Award and two-time Bookfest Award-winning, Ignyte Award and two-time Bram Stoker Award® nominated author. Wood is the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association, founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English/Creative Writing professor, and a horror scholar. We are honored to have to have L. Marie Wood join 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 award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and comic creator Devin Hylton as a Spotlighted Guest! Among his many accolades, Devin’s script for his story, “Career Day,” has placed in Oscar-qualifying film festivals including Cinequest, Hollyshorts and Flickers. His first feature film, The Repairman, won won numerous awards internationally and screened on multiple continents. Devin has also published several graphic novels from companies as diverse as Markosia Enterprises and Arcana Studio! In addition, some properties of his have been optioned for feature film development by production companies such as Platinum Studios, who were affiliated with the Hollywood movies Men In Black and Cowboys & Aliens.Read More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes author/editor/journalist/playwright James R. Lawrence and author Riley Hunt as Official Panelists! As Panelists, James and Riley 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 KB Carlisle and author Lindsey Goddard as Official Panelists! As Panelists, KB and Lindsey 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, artist, poet, editor, publisher, and graphic designer Jill Baker as a Spotlighted Guest! Jill has exhibited her collages and oil paintings throughout the world in major venues in Paris (Palais des Congres), Florence (Palazzo Strozzi), Seoul, South Korea (U.S. Embassy), New York (Goethe Haus, among others) and elsewhere. Jill has written feature articles for newspapers and popular magazines, including articles on art, religion, the Olympics, homemaking topics and the military, among other topics, in addition to a novel, short travel book, and a book of poetry! An illustrator of several books, she has also done numerous illustrations for publishing housesRead More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes author Molly Daniels and author Dave Weller as Official Panelists! As Panelists, Molly and Dave 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, podcaster, cosplayer, musician, artist, and magician John B. Pyka as a Spotlighted Guest! John is the the current producer and host of the Back of the Cereal Box pop culture podcast, with over 300 episodes and counting! John is also the author of four books on magic, including the industry best-seller Theatrical Magic, and he has a retropunk sci-fi series, Tales of the Decoverse John also appears as the Gen X character Johnny Beyond, performing magic and stories in theaters, dinner theaters, comic cons, and festivals around the country! He is a three-time Champion of Magic, two-time Entertainer ofRead More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes author/editor/artist Lawrence Weill and author Stephanie K. Clemens as Official Panelists! As Panelists, Lawrence and Stephanie 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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We would like to extend a big thank you to Carol Preflatish for becoming our latest Imaginarium 2025 Individual Patron! Our Individual Patrons help us to develop, grow, and make new additions to the Imaginarium Convention, and help us advance our mission “to foster and inspire imagination, one creative at a time. Create and make your world everything you imagine it to be.” If you would like support our mission and join our group of Imaginarium 2025 Individual Patrons, please visit: https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/become-an-imaginarium-2025-individual-patron/Read More →

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Imaginarium 2025 Proudly Welcomes Fabled Forest Books & Gifts as an Official Sponsor! Fabled Forest is an independent bookstore located in Georgetown, Kentucky that is a great supporter of the writing community! We are honored to have them as an Official Sponsor for our 12th year! Here is a little more about Fabled Forest in their own words: “We opened August 11, 2023 and started with the simple idea of bringing stories to life, from our shelves to your home, but wanted to have that magical feeling begin the moment you walked in. From our founder to each of our booksellers, we put lots ofRead More →