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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 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 Serra is an aspiring novelist who is editing her first unpublished horror manuscript.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 award-winning artist, poet, filmmaker, actor, musician, and podcaster Jayson William Allen as a Spotlighted Guest! A professional musician for over 25 years, Jayson has founded and performed as the front-man for several bands such as Poetry of the Dead, releasing 8 albums, with new projects currently in development that are expected to be released under ARC Music Group. Jayson has also been a working actor since 2011 and participated in many capacities with independent film and music video projects, several of them garnering awards. Jayson is one of the founders of the award-winning Hallowed Hills Entertainment, a media production company basedRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author, book blogger, poet, and podcaster Morgan Hazelwood as an Official Panelist! Morgan will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Morgan below! About Morgan Hazelwood: Morgan Hazelwood (she/her) writes from her lair in Northern Virginia. She’s been sharing “Writing Tips & Writerly Musings” with writing tips from the pros and her own writerly musings since 2015, first as a blogger, and now as a vlogger and podcaster. An actively querying fantasy author, her short story, “Just a Hike In The Woods” was published by the Dark Recesses webzine in January 2022. WhenRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author R.C. Reid as an Official Panelist! R.C. will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about R.C. below! About R.C. Reid: An uber fan of the works of John D. MacDonald, Edward S. Aarons and Daniel Silva, R.C. Reid longed to see well-written female protagonists in the action-espionage genre and so created both the Mother Russia and the Morrigan Stories thriller series. With his friend Timothy Hardy Bischoff (also known as Cajun) he is half of Southern Wilds Publishing, serving as vice president and editor. Star Trek, Shakespeare and English history are severalRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author, publisher, screenwriter, and podcaster Tony Acree as a Spotlighted Guest! Tony is the author of the award-winning Victor McCain thrillers. Two streaming shows, one based on his Victor McCain thrillers, and the other on his Samantha Tyler thrillers, will be produced by Dark Harbor Pictures. In addition, his screenplay, Songs of Bloody Harlan has been optioned for the silver screen by Jamezz Hampton and 1209 Productions. His screenwriting honors include awards from the L.A. Film Awards and Imaginarium, where The Dead Man’s Flood most recently won Best Long Format Screenplay. Tony’s award-winning publishing house, Hydra Publications, features several imprintsRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes content creator, filmmaker, and podcaster Chris Flanigan as a Spotlighted Guest! His company TN2M Shows was created in 2015 on a single podcast and has grown to include several podcasts, a YouTube channel, live events, and so much more! The podcasts are heard in 41 countries, and the TN2M Shows YouTube page has grown to over 192,000 subscribers. Whether it’s shorts, long form videos, podcasts, or even feature length productions, Chris is always pushing to find his next creative outlet! We are honored to have Chris 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 award-winning author, filmmaker, podcaster, screenwriter, and playwright Amy Leigh McCorkle as a Spotlighted Guest! a 4x Telly, Silver Davey, ISA, World Entertainment Award-winning filmmaker and is one half of Healing Hands Entertainment. With over 40 published works and 40+ produced films Amy is also a fierce mental health advocate. Amy is the author of the international  #1 Amazon Bestseller Letters to Daniel. Currently, the sequel to Letters to Daniel, Letters to Matthew, is in development, She has a 2 picture deal with Fish4Him Entertainment, and is partnering with NAMI of Louisville on the documentary Hope Reimagined: One Woman’s Journey Overcoming Stigma.Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes poet, author, podcaster, and blogger Erynn Crittenden as an Official Panelist! Erynn will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Erynn.below! About Erynn Crittenden: Erynn Crittenden has written poetry since she could hold a pen. This love prompted her to earn a BA in Creative Writing, where she learned how to experiment with syllables and styles. Since then, Erynn has self-published four poetry collections (“By the Bones,” “Transfiguration,” “Into the Western Sky,” and “Structured Chaos”), and also works as a contributor and editor for the Coffee House Writers Magazine. Her work has appearedRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author, podcaster, and bookstore owner Lynn Tincher as a Spotlighted Guest! Lynn is a published author, writing coach, podcaster, and owner of From the Ground Up Books, with two locations in La Grange and Shepherdsville, Kentucky! Passionate about supporting storytellers, she works to create opportunities for authors and inspire the next generation of writers through community programs, events, and PenCrafters, the mentorship program for authors of all genres! Lynn is a multi-genre author whose work includes the Mind Bending thrillers, the forthcoming young adult fantasy Winberie Journals, and the Everyday Magic spirituality series. She also, leads the John B Tincher andRead More →