Controversy @ Noon Panel – Who is the Greatest Horror Writer of All Time: Halloween Edition
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
12 – 1 PM MDT
Online
Free
We’re pivoting a bit and looking to have some fun with our October Controversy @ Noon Panel; this may be our most controversial discussion to date! We want to know: Who is the greatest horror writer of all time? From the gothic pages of Stoker and Shelley, to King’s twisty endings or Rice’s description-laden vampire tales, who really takes the cake when it comes to making us squirm, scream, cry, or throw our pages across the room in unabated anger? There are too many writers to list here, but you catch our drift. What makes for excellent horror writing? Are there formulas and tropes we should follow as writers to successfully reach our audience, or is creating timeless horror an innate ability? What do we love to see in horror writing? What do we loathe? Join our panelists this October as they hunt down the nuances of great — and not so great — horror writing.
Moderator: Susie Moloney
Panelists: Richard Van Camp, Jacqueline Baker, and Francine Cunningham
Please pre-register for the panel here.
About The Panelists
Susie Moloney
Susie Moloney is the author of Bastion Falls, A Dry Spell, The Dwelling, The Thirteen and a collection, Things Withered. Her books have sold in 18 countries and have been translated into 12 languages. She also writes film and television. She lives and often collaborates with playwright Vern Thiessen, and her film ROMI is premiering on streaming service Superchannel Oct 15.
Instagram: @susie.moloney
Jacqueline Baker
Jacqueline Baker is the author of A Hard Witching & Other Stories, The Horseman’s Graves, and most recently, The Broken Hours, a ghost story about the final days of horror icon HP Lovecraft.
Richard Van Camp
Richard Van Camp is a proud Tlicho Dene author and storyteller born and raised in Fort Smith, NWT, who now lives in Edmonton with his family. A recipient of the Order of the Northwest Territories, Richard is the best selling author of 30 books these past 30 years. His novel, The Lesser Blessed, is now a feature film with First Generation Films and his new novel with Douglas&McIntyre is the YA supernatural thriller BEAST. His new graphic novel is Wheetago War: ROTH with master artist Christopher Shy and is published by Renegade Arts Entertainment. You can visit Richard on Facebook, X, Twitter, Instagram, SoundCloud, YouTube and at www.richardvancamp.com.
Francine Cunningham
Francine Cunningham is an award-winning writer, artist and educator who spends her summer days writing on the prairies and her winter months teaching in the north. Francine is a member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta but grew up in Calgary, Edmonton, and 100 Mile House, BC. Francine is also Metis, and has settler family roots stretching from as far away as Ireland and Belgium. She currently resides in Alberta but previously spent over a decade calling Vancouver her home.
Her debut book of poems On/Me (Caitlin Press) was nominated for The BC and Yukon Book Prize, The Indigenous Voices Award, and The Vancouver Book Award. Her debut book of short stories God Isn’t Here Today (Invisible Publishing) is out now and is a book of speculative fiction and horror and was longlisted for The inaugural Carol Shield’s Prize for Fiction, was a finalist for the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award, and won the 2023 ReLit award for short fiction. Her first children’s book What if bedtime didn’t exist (Annick Press) has been chosen for the 2024 TD Summer Reads Program and her second children’s book Owl in the Attic (Annick Press) if forthcoming. Francine just finished up her time as the 2023/2024 Canadian Writer in Residence at The University of Calgary.
Francine also writes for television with credits including the teen reality show THAT’S AWSM! among others and was a recipient of a Telus StoryHive grant to make a web-series. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have also appeared in The Best Canadian Short Stories, The Best Canadian Non-Fiction, in Grain Magazine as the 2018 Short Prose Award winner, on The Malahat Review’s Far Horizon’s Prose shortlist, and on the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize longlist among others.
You can find out more about her at www.francinecunningham.ca