Check out these live/virtual HWA member events for April 2026
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This Week!
✨WEDNESDAY APRIL 1, 2026
Scattered launches from Dark Forest Press
No foolin', this latest edition of the quarterly zine published by HWA member J.W. Donley is now available and features work from our chapter chair, Erik Keevan! Learn more and order your copy here
DFP is also opening for novel and novella submission from July 1st to 31st, 2026, and short stories and poetry for Scattered from July 1st to 15th 2026. DFP submissions page here
✨APRIL 2 - 5, 2026
NORWESCON
Multiple members from the HWA Seattle chapter will be on the floor tabling and/or sitting in panels at this classic genre event where science fiction, fantasy, and horror intersect.
Includes a decent film festival, vendors markets, artist's gallery, cosplay, and more. Held at the DoubleTree Inn at SeaTac, reachable by Link Light Rail.
Registration (membership) required; more info here
Coming up!
✨APRIL 9 - 12, 2026
SQUATCHCON
What happens when you mix Sasquatch fandom with Comicon vibes? You get a convention focused on Bigfoot held on the Olympic Peninsula.
You'll find writers from the HWA Seattle chapter there leading workshops, paneling on writing topics, selling books, livestreaming a podcast, and more at this fun family-friendly event.
What's more, you can get a FREE WEEKEND PASS from convention coordinator (and HWA member) Clay Vermulm by simply asking for one via email!
Location: Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. 4th St., Port Angeles, WA 98362
✨MONDAY APRIL 13, 2026 — 4pm
GOTHIC AND MODERN HORROR READING
Gamut Poetry's Office Hours Reading Series moves into Elliott Bay Books with this collaborative event featuring writers and faculty from the US Bothell Creative Writing and Poetics MFA program. Includes a Q&A.
Location: Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
✨SATURDAY APRIL 18, 2026 — 2 - 4pm
POETRY PROMPTS & REVISION TECHNIQUES WORKSHOP
This month's free online workshop for Seattle chapter HWA members will be led by Michele Cacano, perfect for celebrating National Poetry Month.
This is a Zoom workshop; an email with log-in instructions will be sent to members a few days before the event.
Keep this in mind: If you have horror poems in need of a bloody scalpel (muahahahaha) you can use this workshop to fine tune them, then send them off to the national HWA's Poetry Showcase Volume XIII, which is open for submissions until May 1. Editors are Colleen Anderson, Kyla Lee Ward, Erik Hofstatter, and Jamal Hodge. Submission information here.
✨SATURDAY APRIL 25, 2026 — 4pm
SEATTLE HORROR BOOK CLUB: LISTEN TO YOUR SISTER by Neena Viel
Join Perla X. Caballero with the Seattle Horror Book Club to discuss this recent title from Whidbey Island author and new Stoker Nominee Neena Viel! Requires RSVP through the SHBC or by calling the bookstore at 253.292.7367.
The book club will meet in April at Haunted Burrow Books, 430 15th Ave. E, Seattle WA 98112
You can follow the club via Instagram (@seattlehorrorbookclub) and join and RSVP via the bookclubs page https://bookclubs.com/seattle-horror-book-club/join/. RSVP highly recommended.
✨WEDNESDAY APRIL 29, 2026 — 530pm
LISTEN TO THE BENEATH THE RAIN SHADOW PODCAST
It's your latest chance to participate in the livestream edition of the Beneath the Rain Shadow podcast!
Listeners to the 1-hour livestream will be able to comment live and catch a critique of HWA member Gordon B. White's first hotseat story attempt!
Listen live at the Fermented Fiction YouTube channel on April 29 at 5:30pm Pacific
Listen later to the recorded version at the Fermented Fiction Substack starting May 6
✨THURSDAY APRIL 30, 2026 — 7pm
JOIN G.G. SILVERMAN FOR THE LAUNCH OF The Blood Year Daughter
Third Place Books welcomes HWA Seattle member-author G. G. Silverman to the Lake Forest Park branch for a conversation about her debut short story collection, The Blood Year Daughter: a collection of feminist horror stories where women and girls escape smiling captors, draw blood to curse their loved ones, and wield fear to defend themselves in post-apocalyptic worlds. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A.
Register here [FREE]
Location: 17171 Bothell Way NE, #A101, Lake Forest Park WA 98155
Sneak peek for May
✨MAY 1 - 3, 2026
CRYPTICON
This is the PNW’s premiere horror convention and probably our biggest event of the year!
If you want to go as an attendee or participate with the HWA, you'll want to make your plans now for travel and lodging. There will be writers’ program track, vendors, a film fest, the Camp Crypticon III contest anthology launch announcing the winners, a spooky open mic, galley of art, cosplay and so much more. Stay late and hang out on the 13th Floor nightly with all the other creepy people
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