My WHC Schedule
Here’s my schedule for those of you attending World Horror in Portland, including details on the Grand Master Award. Come say “Hi.”
THURSDAY
6:00 PM -7:00 PM
Opening Ceremonies: Toastmaster Alan M. Clark presents the World Horror Convention 2014 Guests of Honor: Nancy Holder, Jack Ketchum, Norman Partridge, Greg Staples, Paula Guran, John Shirley, Victoria Price, Brian Keene, Stephen Jones, John LaFleur
8:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Reading: Brian Keene & Mary Sangiovanni
10:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Panel: Horror From The Page To The Silver Screen (Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene, F. Paul Wilson, Lynne Hansen, Daniel Knauf, Aaron Sterns, Cullen Bunn). Authors who have done all sorts of time in and out of Hollyweird talk about getting a book optioned, into screenplay format, and how it did or did not get to the theater.
FRIDAY
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Panel: Being F*cked -Up And In Love (Weston Ochse, Yvonne Navarro,Brian Keene, Mary SanGiovanni, Jeff Strand, Lynne Hansen, Cameron Pierce, Kirsten Alene). Horror writers discuss the horrors and joys of pair-bonding with our own kind.
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Panel: Four Color Calamaties: Horror In Comic Books (Greg Staples, Cullen Bunn, Brian Keene, Daniel Knauf, Kari Yadro, Nick Mamatas). Creators from indie to mainstream in the graphic novel industry methods of getting your work out there and the challenges within the medium.
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Panel: Grand Master Award. Come meet Brian Keene, as the World Horror Society honors him with the Grand Master Award.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Mass Autograph Signing – All of your favorite writers are in one spot and are willing to sign books!
SATURDAY
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Panel: Life After ‘The Walking Dead’: Zombie Fiction Today (Joe McKinney, Steve Rasnic Tem, John Skipp, Dana Fredsti, Scott Edelman, Brian Keene, S.G. Browne). Zombie stories are a tough sell after WORLD WAR Z and WALKING DEAD. But for some reason, when done well, the form just doesn’t stay dead. Find out what makes great zombie fiction come to life.
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Panel: You’ll Never Get Out Alive! Advice To New Writers (Brian Keene, Jack Ketchum, Weston Ochse, Lois Gresh, F. Paul Wilson) Professional authors with decades of combined field experience tell the audience everything they wish they could tell their younger selves when they were starting out as writers.
10:00 PM – 11:30 PM
Gross Out Contest – Do you have what it takes to be crowned the grossest storyteller of the World Horror Convention? Ten authors will take the stage but only one will win the bragging rights and amazing prizes! WARNING: THIS EVENT CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT
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