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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes international bestselling author and lecturer Dacre Stoker as an Imaginator Guest! Dacre is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker and the international bestselling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead,  the official Stoker family endorsed sequel to Dracula! He is also the co-author of Dracul, a prequel to Dracula, that was published by Putnam in North America, Penguin Random House in the UK, as well as publishers in numerous other countries, with film rights sold to Paramount Studios. A former Olympic modern pentathlon coach, Dacre manages the Bram Stoker Estate and regularly conducts international tours and lectures about the world of Bram Stoker, his writing ofRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes author, editor, and publisher James O. Barnes as an Official Panelist! As a Panelist, James 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 James’ individual guest page, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banner below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes award-winning international makeup FX artist Sven Granlund as a Spotlighted Guest! With over 30 years of professional experience, Sven’s work has appeared in numerous Hollywood and TV productions, including Deadpool and Deadpool 2, Kong Skull Island, The Cello, Blade Runner 2049, Trumbo, American Horror Story, and many, many more! Sven taught professional Special Effects and Prosthetics at Dick Smith’s world famous makeup school for several years, and he is a co-founder of KY Creature FX! We are honored to have Sven join us for our 13th year, taking place July 17-19 , 2026 in Louisville, Kentucky! For further information on theRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes author and bookstore owner J.M. Clark, and screenwriter, podcaster, and filmmaker Brian Haas, as Official Panelists! As Panelists, J.M. and Brian 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! To get registered for Imaginarium 2026 with an Advance Event Ticket, visit: https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/2026-event-tickets/Read More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of three new Workshops and one new Panel to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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 Workshops Added: Illustrating for Online Presentations: Presenter – Jill Baker. If you are an illustrator, how do you go about discerning the gist of the writer’s imagery and what he or she had in mind when they wrote?Illustrations for books, magazines and onlineRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of four new Workshops to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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 Workshops Added: Ask The Agent: Part I: Presenter – Cherry Weiner. Take the guesswork out of the query process! This dynamic session provides a unique platform to directly engage with a literary agent. Ask your most pressing questions about submissions, agent-author relationships, what makes a manuscript standRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes author, editor, and poet Carma Haley Shoemaker, and author and musician ML McIntosh, as Official Panelists! As Panelists, Carma and ML 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! To get registered for Imaginarium 2026 with an Advance Event Ticket, visit: https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/2026-event-tickets/Read More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of three new Workshops to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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 Workshops Added: Be The 10%: Presenter – Hallee Bridgeman. Agents and editors say that 80%-90% of the submissions they receive aren’t even able to be edited to the point of publication. If you consider that the “best” an author has to submit is what is sent toRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of one new Panel and one new Workshop to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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 Panel Added Slushfest: Moderator – Barbara V. Evers. Writers anonymously submit the first page, double-spaced, of a work in progress. It’s read aloud, and panelists (agents, publishers, editors, authors) raise their hands at the point when they would stop reading. Once half theRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes author and psychic medium Christopher J. Brown as a Spotlighted Guest! Chris is a nationally recognized psychic medium from Maine whose work has taken him from intimate one-on-one readings to stages, television, and some of the most haunted locations in America. Chris was featured on a web series called “Soul-Searching with Psychic medium Christopher,” and he was even featured on a billboard in Times Square, New York City! His mediumship has been showcased on truTV, bringing his work to national audiences, and he is the author of a book,  “I F#cking Knew It,” that shares his personal journey, spiritual insights, andRead More →