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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, podcaster, and actor Chase Dudley as a Spotlighted Guest! The founder of Cut 2 The Chase Entertainment, Chase is a multi-award-winning director and filmmaker, celebrated for his dedication to crafting compelling and innovative stories. Together, Chase and his partner Samantha Dudley have produced and directed several feature films. Those films include “The Desperate,” “Blood on the Bleachers,” “Marvelous Mandy,” “Broken Innocence,” “Locked In,” and “Payday.” Chase is finishing post-production on his latest feature project, “Between the Living and the Dead.” Chase is also a member of The Kentucky Motion Picture & Television Hall of Fame. We are honoredRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author and journalist Bob Hill as a Spotlighted Guest! As a columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal, Bob wrote about 4,000 columns in his 33 years at the paper, winning about 25 local and national awards for stories across Kentucky, Indiana and the Midwest. Along the way he wrote 15 books on many subjects, including gardening, local history, and the Ohio River. He also coached Little League teams, opened a flower and tree nursery where he offered tours for visitors of all ages, and then decided to write children’s books to share all what life had given him with a youngerRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author, editor, and publisher Barbara V. Evers as a Spotlighted Guest! Barbara is a two-time Imadjinn Best Fantasy Novelist, and she’s won several other awards for her writing over the years including a Pushcart Prize nomination. She is the author of The Watchers of Moniah, an award-winning epic fantasy trilogy, and she is currently working on an upcoming urban/mountain fantasy series, The Matriarch Enchanter. Her short stories and essays have appeared in multiple literary journals and several can be found in her short story collections, Pieces of Her: Being a Woman is Not for the Faint of Heart and TheRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author, blogger, and podcaster Serra Miller as an Official Panelist! Serra will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Serra below! About Serra Miller: Serra Miller is an experienced blogger/podcaster turned author. Her first published works appear in Hauntings: An Anthology. Serra is an aspiring novelist who is editing her first unpublished horror manuscript. With a focus on all things dark and wicked, Serra also writes flash fiction and other ghost stories for submission. She is a member of the Blah, Blah, Blah Writer’s Group and the Bluegrass Writers Coalition. She calls Lexington,Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author, actor, marketing & PR strategist, journalist, and entrepreneur Terry Chambers as a Spotlighted Guest! Terry Chambers brings decades of hands-on experience in marketing, public relations, journalism, entrepreneurship, and the performing arts. As owner of Stonewall Productions, she combines her business and creative experience to develop, produce, and promote original projects. An author, actor and historical storyteller, Chambers independently researches scripts, costumes, stages and promotes her own historical one-woman shows, bringing remarkable female figures to life for diverse community audiences. We are honored to have Terry join us for our 14th year, taking place July 23-25, 2027 in Louisville, Kentucky atRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author and publisher Taylor Woodland as an Official Panelist! Taylor will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Taylor below! About Taylor Woodland: Taylor Woodland is a five-time indie author who writes in multiple genres and age groups. She runs her own small business called Fae Cafe Publishing and has spent the last six-plus years building her own tiny publishing team. Besides reading and writing, a couple of her favorite things to do are playing with her tiny talking parrots Koko and Kiyo, and watching anime with her husband. Visit Taylor’s official siteRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author and poet Rita S. Spalding as an Official Panelist! Rita will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Rita below! About Rita S. Spalding: Kentucky poet Rita S. Spalding, a 2025 Pushcart Prize nominee, received the internationally recognized 2026 Imadjinn Award for Best Collection of Poetry for her book, The Eighth. She has received awards for poetry from Jefferson Community and Technical College, Elizabethtown Community College, the National Library of Poetry, Kentucky Monthly Magazine, and the Kentucky State Poetry Society. She has had her poetry exhibited at the Main Branch ofRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author and screenwriter Ryan David Jahn as a Spotlighted Guest! Ryan is the author of several novels, including Good Neighbors, which won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Dagger; The Dispatcher, which was adapted for television as Apple TV’s Last Seen; The Breakout; and The Strangers, a sequel to The Dispatcher. He also wrote “All This Distant Beauty,” a short story selected for inclusion in the prestigious The Best American Mystery Stories anthology for 2020. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife Jessica and two children, Fran and Matilda. We are honored to have Ryan join us for ourRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author, editor, and poet Carma Haley Shoemaker as an Official Panelist! Carma will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Carma below! About Carma: Just off I-71 between the cornfields in North Central Ohio lives a tea-drinking, football-loving ginger named Carma Haley Shoemaker and mini panther, Mystic. Mother to three grown sons, Carma loves people watching, Dean Winchester, and Honeycrisp apples. She believes in dragons, fairies, and that one day the Cleveland Browns will again be world-champions. After hanging up her stethoscope, Carma began her writing career as a NF magazine writer.Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes screenwriter Michael Maultsby as an Official Panelist! Michael will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Micharel below! About Michael: As a screenwriter, Michael is a three-time finalist in the Imaginarium Convention Independent Film Festival for Short Format Screenplays. He’s a fan of using AI responsibly, as a sparring partner. He studied logic until he realized that people are more emotional than thoughtful, and began years of self-study in persuasion and behavioral engineering. An avid board gamer, he may occasionally be found in the game room.Read More →