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Prairie Gothic: Crafting Homegrown Modern Horror
Sunday August 18, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am MDT
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Horror doesn't have to be set in the pacific northwest, New England, or across the border at all. We're challenging the assumption that you can't sell Canadian creep. Prairies are scary! Endless sky and whispering grasslands, all set ominously in the shadow of the Rockies. Let's kick over the stones in our own backyard and see what terrors lurk beneath.
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avatar for Lareina Abbott

Lareina Abbott

Lareina Abbott pens Métis themed speculative fiction, essays and memoir. Her stories have a tie to the spiritual or natural world, and to ancestry. She received the Writers Guild of Alberta 2023 Howard O’Hagan award for her short story “Ma Soeur Marie” published in the Prairie... Read More →
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Rob Bose

Robert Bose grew up on a farm in southern Alberta spending every free moment reading whatever fiction he could get his hands on. He's the editor of a variety of books and anthologies for Coffin Hop Press and The Seventh Terrace, the author of myriad short stories including the fiendish... Read More →
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Sarah L. Pratt

Sarah L. Pratt is an editor, publisher, teacher, bookseller, and queer fictioneer living on Treaty 7 land in the foothills of Alberta. She is an AMPA finalist and the author of Suicide Stitch: Eleven Tales (EMP Publishing), and the dystopian thriller Infractus (Coffin Hop Press... Read More →
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Carolyne Topdjian

Carolyne Topdjian is author of The Black Moth and The Hitman's Daughter (Agora/Polis Books), a gothic thriller which Library Journal calls a “fast-paced, haunting novel of survival” (starred review). She has published short fiction in PRISM International, Dreamers Magazine, and Firewords Quarterly and was shortlisted for the Ghost Prize by Fractured Literary. Her creative endeavours gravitate toward fusions of gothic mystery, noir suspense, and surrealist f... Read More →
Sunday August 18, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am MDT
Kananaskis 1
  Panel Discussion, Horror

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