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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author, screenwriter, filmmaker, podcaster, and actor Donald R. Guillory, PhD as a Spotlighted Guest! Dr Guillory is an Instructional Assistant Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of Mississippi. A historian, educator, and public history presenter, his work spans nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States and Latin American history, African American history, gender history, and the American Southwest. Dr. Guillory is also the author of The Token Black Guide: Navigations Through Race In America, a discussion and analysis of race, and Bastards of the Bayou and Magnolia Lane, and The Lost Slave Narrative of David Booker, fictional works whichRead More →

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We would like to express our gratitude to Lee Pennington for becoming an Imaginarium 2027 Individual Patron! The support of our Individual Patrons help us to develop, grow, and make new additions to the Imaginarium Convention, and help us advance our mission “to foster and inspire imagination, one creative at a time. Create and make your world everything you imagine it to be.” If you would like support our mission and join our group of Imaginarium 2027 Individual Patrons, please visit: https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/become-an-imaginarium-2027-individual-patron/Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 is proud to announce the addition of five new Panels to our programming! There will be over 200 panels and workshops hosted in our 14th year at the Crowne Plaza, so make sure to check back regularly on our official site to see all new additions! The titles, presenters, and descriptions for these new programming additions are as follows: New Panels Added: Banned Together: Authors, Librarians, Book Store Owners & the Fight for the Freedom to Read. Moderator – Lindsay K. Schultz. In 2025, more books were challenged in America than in almost any year on record, and the targets include everything fromRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author and editor H. David Blalock as a Spotlighted Guest! A published writer for over 50 years and an editor for over 30 with several publishing houses in the US and Europe, David’s main focus now is helping new writers to find their success in print and online. David is currently is the editor for parABnormal Magazine from Hiraeth Publishing. We are honored to have David join us for our 14th year, taking place July 23-25, 2027 in Louisville, Kentucky at the Crowne Plaza! For further information on the Imaginarium Convention, please visit www.entertheimaginarium.com Register for Imaginarium 2027 today with anRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author and podcaster David Lyons as an Official Panelist! David will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about David below! About David Lyons: David Lyons is a former homicide detective and retired police commander, living in central Kentucky. In retirement, he focuses on two passions. One, his role as a faculty member with FBI-LEEDA (the Law Enforcement Executive Development Association), the other, producing The Murder Police Podcast and The Murder Police Podcast YouTube channel. A true crime source where victim’s names are memorialized on the internet and their stories are told, throughRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author and publisher Isabella as an Official Panelist! Isabella will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Isabella below! About Isabella: Isabella is an award-winning author for Sapphire Books. She lives on the central coast of California with her wife. she teaches at a local college and has three wonderful sons. She rides motorcycles when she’s not writing or remodeling a cabin in the Sierra foothills. Isabella has written over twenty novels. If you want to read her current work, check out her newest release, Premeditation – Luce Potter’s origin story andRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author and cosplayer Rebecca Besancon as an Official Panelist! Rebecca will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Rebecca below! About Rebecca Besancon: Rebecca is a nurse, an author, and an avid cosplayer. She writes primarily in fantasy and speculative fiction, and her stories can be found through Bewildering Stories and Apex Magazine. Rebecca prides herself on her feral child nature and will often escape reality through primitive camping, wood carving, and foraging wild plants and mushrooms. Register for Imaginarium 2027 today with an Event Ticket at https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/2027-event-tickets/Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author, filmmaker, musician, actor, and screenwriter Rose Marie Machario as an Official Panelist! Rose will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Rose below! About Rose Marie Machario: Rose Marie Machario is an author, actress, model, filmmaker, and producer at Machario Productions, to include films Give My Love To Rose, An Affair To Remember, and An Affair To Forget. Rose has worked in several principal roles, and has been featured in various television shows such as Ozark, The Originals, Nashville, Homicide Hunter, Killer Couples, Murder Chose Me, Murder Comes to Town, Snapped, #Murder,Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes comic artist, 3D and visual FX artist, and writer Jeff Brennan as a Spotlighted Guest! The artist and writer for the Cyber Girl L.E.E.T.A series, Jeff brings years of experience working for notable comics publishers, including DC comics, Heroic Comics, Bongo Comics, and Heavy Metal Magazine, and as a storyboard artist on animated shows like “Jumanji”, “Dragon Tales”, “Courage the Cowardly Dog”, “Extreme Ghostbusters” and “Magma Corps”. He graduated from the Joe Kubert School of cartoon and Visual art in 1991. He also graduated from the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School in 2008. Jeff started working in comics in 1991Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author and editor Jack Valentine as an Official Panelist! Jack will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Jack below! About Jack Valentine: Jack has more than 30 years of gaming and LARP experience. Having been a storyteller since he was a little kid, about 15 years ago he began putting his work on paper. In addition to working as a freelance editor, he returned to his childhood dream of being an author and has now written more than 60 short novels, many of them spicy romances, under his pen names, available onRead More →