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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning author Ann H. Gabhart as a Spotlighted Guest! With 39 published books, Ann wraps her stories around Kentucky historical times and settings. She’s written about Shakers, found stories in the Appalachian Mountains, mined family history for ideas, and more! Among Ann’s many awards and recognitions, These Healing Hills won The Faith Hope Love Readers Choice Award in Women’s Fiction, and a Grace Award. River to Redemption was awarded the Selah Historical Romance Book of 2019. When the Meadow Blooms was a Selah Award Finalist, a Carol Award Semi-Finalist, and the Faith, Hope and Love Readers Choice Awards Historical Novel Winner! WeRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes author, poet, and publisher Paul Stansbury as a Spotlighted Guest! Over one hundred of Paul’s works have been published, and his speculative fiction stories have appeared in a number of print anthologies, as well as a variety of online publications. His poetry has appeared in The Rising Phoenix Review, Young Ravens Literary Review, Strange Poetry, Fairy Tale Magazine, and Kentucky Monthly, among other publications. Paul is also the Scheduling Coordinator for The Jeanne Penn Lane Celebration of Kentucky Writers, and he is the owner of Sheppard Press. We are honored to have Paul join us for our 11th year, taking place JulyRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 is proud to announce the first five Official Selections in this summer’s film festival! Selections will continue to be announced throughout May, with a portion of screening slots left open for consideration of entries on our May 31st Late Deadline. The following five Official Selections will be screened at Imaginarium 2024 and juried for the determination of Film Festival Awards. Broken Innocence Feature Film Director: Chase Dudley Ariel Short Film Director: C. A. MacFinn Fisherman’s Song Music Video Director: Frank Joseph Mourn Music Video Director: Herschel Zahnd CYA Music Video Director: Alice The G00n For those wishing to enter projects during our LateRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 is proud to announce the addition of two new Workshops and three new Panels 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 Workshop Additions: Blood, Guts, Sex, and Violence: Presenter – Tim Waggoner. Join Bram Stoker Award-Winning Author, Tim Waggoner as he discusses the craft of writing extreme Horror. Don’t forget, many of these elements can be usedRead More →

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A big thank you to Wendee Mullikin, our latest Imaginarium 2024 Individual Patron! The support of our Individual Patrons help us to develop and expand the Imaginarium Convention, and bring even more content and opportunities to creative individuals of all genres! If you would like support our mission and join our group of Imaginarium 2024 Individual Patrons, please visit: Become an Imaginarium 2024 Individual Patron!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning author Tim Waggoner as a Spotlighted Guest! Tim is the author of over 50 novels and seven collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins. Tim has written tie-in fiction based on Supernatural, Grimm, The X-Files, Alien, Doctor Who, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Transformers, among others, and he’s written novelizations for films such as Halloween Kills, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and Kingsman: The Golden Circle. His articles on writing have appeared in Writer’s Digest, The Writer, The Writer’s Chronicle, and he is the author of the acclaimed horror-writing guideRead More →

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A big thank you to Julia Alldredge and Abigail Christine Cahoe, our latest Imaginarium 2024 Individual Patrons! The support of our Individual Patrons help us to develop and expand the Imaginarium Convention, and bring even more content and opportunities to creative individuals of all genres! If you would like support our mission and join our group of Imaginarium 2024 Individual Patrons, please visit: Become an Imaginarium 2024 Individual Patron!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2024 is proud to announce the addition of four 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 Workshop Additions: The Business End of Publishing: Presenter – Lynda Rees. Authors and Creative Business Owners, You are completing a story or creating your product. Now, you must take your author hat off and don your CEO hat. You areRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes author, editor, and collections acquisition specialist for public libraries LJ Mack as an Official Panelist! As a Panelist, LJ will 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 LJ’s guest page, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banner below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes 3-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author and screenwriter Sarah Langan as Guest of Honor! Her most recent novels are A BETTER WORLD (April, 2024), which the LA Times called, “A cautionary tale of a family’s sacrifice gone wrong and a high-water mark in the career of a novelist who’s already won three Bram Stoker Awards,” and GOOD NEIGHBORS (February, 2021), which Gabino Iglesias at NPR called, “One of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American suburbia I’ve ever read.” Sarah was also one of the judges for the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award and is currently on its Board of Directors. She hasRead More →