GUESTS of HONOR – NECRONOMICON PROVIDENCE 2024
Along with a great many prominent authors, artists, and academics joining us for NecronomiCon Providence 2024, these special Guests of Honor have been selected to represent a multi-faceted and vibrant weird fiction community.
We are also excited to welcome back several of our former guests of honor, including Peter Cannon, Santiago Caruso, Ken Hite, Kier-La Janisse, Oscar Rios, Paul Tremblay, Bryan Thao Worra, and Ann VanderMeer, and we still hope to add to the below list with one or two more surprises! 😉
NECRONOMICON PROVIDENCE 2024 GUEST PANELISTS, PRESENTERS, SPEAKERS, AND READING AUTHORS will be posted on the programming pages
ARMITAGE SYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS will be posted on the Armitage Symposium page.
Nadia Bulkin is the author of the short story collection She Said Destroy (Word Horde, 2017) and the forthcoming novella Red Skies in the Morning (Dim Shores, 2024). She is also the co-editor of the haunted house anthology Why Didn’t You Just Leave (Cursed Morsels, 2024). She has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award five times, for She Said Destroy and four of her stories; in 2024, she won the Bram Stoker Award for her non-fiction essay “Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia.” She grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia with her Javanese father and American mother, before relocating to Lincoln, Nebraska. She has two political science degrees and lives in Washington, D.C.
@nadiabulkin on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky
(photo credit: Louis Maistros)
Poppy Z. Brite is the longtime pen name of Billy Martin. Since beginning his career in the small-press magazine The Horror Show in 1985, he has published eight novels including Lost Souls, Exquisite Corpse, and the Liquor series, as well as several short story collections and assorted nonfiction work. Brite is also the editor of the erotic horror anthologies Love in Vein and Love in Vein 2. He has recently completed Water if God Wills It, a nonfiction book about religion and spirituality in the works of Stephen King. In addition to writing, he runs the online curio shop PZBaubles New Orleans, specializing in vintage Tarot cards, quirky jewelry, religious objects, and more. He lives in New Orleans with his husband, the artist Grey Cross, and their cats.
www.patreon.com/docbrite
www.facebook.com/billy.martin.127648
Mike Mason is an award-winning game designer, writer, and the creative director for the Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game at Chaosium. Mike is the co-writer of Call of Cthulhu 7th edition, Pulp Cthulhu, Arkham, and the revised Masks of Nyarlathotep, as well as numerous Call of Cthulhu titles. Mike previously worked for Games Workshop, co-writing the ENNIE Award winning Warhammer 40,000 RPG: Dark Heresy. When not designing games, Mike writes horror and weird fiction for Mason & Fricker’s Eldritch Stories podcast. He lives in the Midlands of England, betwixt the rolling Derbyshire Peaks and the Satanic Mills of Nottinghamshire with a cat called Stripey.
www.chaosium.com
Mason & Fricker’s Eldritch Stories – www.eldritchstories.com
facebook.com/mikedmason
Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, teaching artist, and game designer from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions and the 2020 Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative Poetry, and is published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange Horizons, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among others. He is the former Poetry editor of FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. His debut poetry collection, Can You Sign My Tentacle?, available from Interstellar Flight Press, is the winner of the 2022 Elgin Award.
brandonobrien.xyz
Twitter: @therisingtithes
Bluesky: @therisingtithes.bsky.social
Instagram: @therisingtithes
Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winningfiction writer, poet, and a multiple Hugo Award nominated, Locus Award, and three-time World Fantasy Award-winning editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science and Mississippi Delta conjure and has earned her fiction fellowships at the Millay Colony of the Arts, Bread Loaf Environmental, with the Cave Canem Foundation, and many others. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy. The author of three fiction collections, including Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life, and Shotgun Lullabies, Sheree is a co-editor for Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue, and is the editor of the groundbreaking Dark Matter speculative fiction anthologies that first introduced W.E.B. Du Bois’s work as science fiction and explored 160+ years of Black Speculative Fiction. In 2023 she was honored with the Octavia E. Butler Award. She is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction and associate editor of Obsidian. Her collaboration with artist Janelle Monáe on the “Timebox Altar(ed)” novelet appears in The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer (HarperVoyager), a New York Times bestseller. Sheree is a Marvel writer, including the novel, Black Panther: Panther’s Rage (Titan/Penguin Random House), an adaptation of Don McGregor’s legendary graphic novel, and her comic book debut, “The World Is Not Ready” featuring the Black Panther and Storm appears in Marvel Voices: Legends #1 (January 31, 2024). She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee near a mighty river and a pyramid.
shereereneethomas.com
(photo credit: Kyle Cassidy)
Called “the weird Thoreau” by the New Yorker, Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Hummingbird Salamander; the Borne novels (being developed for TV by AMC); and the NYT-bestselling Southern Reach series (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), the first volume of which won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Paramount. VanderMeer’s latest novel, Absolution, out in October, continues the Area X story in terrifyingly uncanny ways. With his wife Ann he has co-edited many iconic fiction anthologies, including The Weird. He has spoken at MIT, Columbia, Yale, and Vanderbilt, and gave the 2024 John Hersey Memorial Address at the Key West Literary Seminar. Environmental nonfiction by VanderMeer has appeared in TIME, the Nation, and Esquire, among others. He lives in Florida, where he founded the Sunshine State Biodiversity Group nonprofit in 2023.
www.jeffvandermeer.com/
twitter.com/jeffvandermeer
www.facebook.com/jeff.vandermeer
www.instagram.com/jeff_vandermeer123
bsky.app/profile/jeffvandermeer.bsky.social