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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes publisher and publicist Kevin Carey, and author, editor, and publisher Randi Perrin, as Official Panelists! As Panelists, Kevin and Randi will be participating in our extensive panel and workshop programming during our 13th year, July 17-19, 2026, in Louisville, Kentucky! We invite you to explore their individual guest pages, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banners below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes award-winning author, editor, and screenwriter Barbara V. Evers as a Spotlighted Guest! A two-time Imadjinn Best Fantasy Novelist, Barbara has won several awards for her writing over the years, including a Pushcart Prize nomination! Her short stories and essays have appeared in multiple literary journals, and also in her short story collections, Pieces of Her: Being a Woman is Not for the Faint of Heart and the recently released, The Nature of the Beast. Barbara is a supporter and advocate for animal conservation and contributes a portion of her royalties to support the work of The Giraffe Conservation Foundation! Barbara alsoRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes author and editor Lawrence Weill, and author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and podcaster Melissa Goodman, as Official Panelists! As Panelists, Lawrence and Melissa will be participating in our extensive panel and workshop programming during our 13th year, July 17-19, 2026, in Louisville, Kentucky! We invite you to explore their individual guest pages, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banners below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes author and editor Kelly Ferguson, and author, editor, and publisher Marian Allen, as Official Panelists! As Panelists, Kelly and Marian will be participating in our extensive panel and workshop programming during our 13th year, July 17-19, 2026, in Louisville, Kentucky! We invite you to explore their individual guest pages, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banners below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes award-winning author, editor, publicist, publisher, and podcaster Liz Carey as a Spotlighted Guest! Liz is the founder and editor-in-chief of Heritage Link Press, and a co-founder of the Blah Blah Blah Writers Group in Lexington, Kentucky! As a freelance writer, Liz contributes to magazines from Duluth, Minnesota to Charleston, South Carolina, and is a regular contributing writer for The Daily Yonder, Daily Energy Insider, WorkersCompensation (dot) com and Business Lexington. A multi-genre author, Liz’s published work includes non-fiction books, a children’s book, and a murder mystery! An award-winning journalist for many years in Ohio, Kentucky and South Carolina, her column onRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes author and publisher Sara Marian, and author, editor, and publisher Sharon Marie Provost, as Official Panelists! As Panelists, Sara and Sharon will be participating in our extensive panel and workshop programming during our 13th year, July 17-19, 2026, in Louisville, Kentucky! We invite you to explore their individual guest pages, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banners below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes author, editor, and cosplayer Clayton Barnett, and author and librarian LJ Mack, as Official Panelists! As Panelists, Clayton and LJ will be participating in our extensive panel and workshop programming during our 13th year, July 17-19, 2026, in Louisville, Kentucky! We invite you to explore their individual guest pages, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banners below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes award-winning author, editor, publisher, and book reviewer Chris Helvey as a Spotlighted Guest! An award-winning short story writer, poet, and novelist, Chris has penned more than a dozen novels and multiple short story collections. He is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Trajectory Journal and also a founding member of the Bluegrass Writers Coalition. We are honored to have Chris join us for our 13th year, taking place July 17-19 , 2026 in Louisville, Kentucky! For further information on the Imaginarium Convention, please visit www.entertheimaginarium.comRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes award-winning author, editor, and publisher Stephen M. Vest as a Spotlighted Guest! Stephen is the editor and publisher of Kentucky Monthly magazine, which won the Governor’s Award in the Arts (Media) in 2005. Founded in 1998, Kentucky Monthly has more than 100,000 readers. Stephen is the author of Unexpected Inheritance, a memoir about being raised by older parents and a hard-to-please grandmother, two collections of his columns, and the publisher of the anthology Kentucky’s Twelve Days of Christmas. A frequent speaker, Vest is also an adjunct professor of communications at Campbellsville University, Eastern Kentucky University, and Midway University. We are honored to have Stephen participate with us forRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes award-winning author, poet, editor, publisher, filmmaker, and actor Katerina Stoykova as a Spotlighted Guest! Katerina is the founder and senior editor of Accents Publishing, where she has selected, edited, and published close to 100 poetry collections. Her works as an author include Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House (University Press of Kentucky, 2024) and The Poet’s Guide to Publishing: How to Conceive, Arrange, Edit, Publish and Market a Book of Poetry (McFarland, 2024). Katerina acted in the lead roles for the independent feature films Proud Citizen, Fort Maria and Other Houses. all three co-directed by Thom Southerland. Katerina alsoRead More →