2022-10-30 08:01:47Meghan Arcuri reads her heartbreaking and poignant poem “How Do I Tell Her?,” one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better yet, collect the…
2022-10-29 13:00:06To an Asian Australian, Halloween is a delightful, albeit slightly bewildering, phenomenon. It isn’t widely celebrated in Malaysia (where I spent my early childhood) and is really only just starting to take hold in Australia. I love seeing my…
2022-10-29 08:01:03A chilling reading of “Homebound” by Teel James Glenn from the recently released HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are…
2022-10-28 13:55:24“Why do you write horror?” they ask (whoever they are—generally people who avoid horror at all costs, who don’t like to be scared). I’m never sure how to answer. Despite being a writer, there are some things I can’t…
2022-10-28 08:01:53Geneve Flynn gives a wonderful reading of her poem “spoon against bone,” one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole…
2022-10-27 13:52:12As a child born to Cuban exiles in 1971, Halloween wasn’t a major holiday in our household for a while, since it wasn’t celebrated in Cuba. Once my parents recognized they were never going home to Havana, however, that…
2022-10-27 08:01:23To kick of the HWA Poetry Showcase readings we have a genuine New Yorker! Gordon Linzner will be reading his series of haiku “Triptych of Terror.” If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better…
2022-10-26 13:44:28No one celebrates Halloween better than the Halloween People, and while every Halloween has been special in some way or another, the most memorable one, for me, was in 2015. If you love horror, and if you’re reading this,…
2022-10-26 08:01:55by Angela Yuriko Smith Were it not for Peter Adam Salomon and the HWA Showcase series he started, I might not be still poeting today. Our community is particularly kind to dark poets. From founding National Dark Poetry Day…
2022-10-25 13:19:05One of my favorite parts of the Halloween season is watching horror films. Ever since I was a kid in the 80s scouring Fangoria magazine for October releases to find the newest spooky films and video tapes, I have…
