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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, 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 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 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 two-time Rondo Hatton award-winning artist and graphic designer Eric Puckett as a Spotlighted Guest! Eric won the two Rondo Hatton Awards under the special category The Linda Miller Fan Artist of the Year, presented by the Classic Horror Film Board. As a professional graphic designer, he has worked for major publishers. His art shows the classical influence of the Old Masters, along with the dynamics of Impressionist, and has been featured in magazines, galleries, restaurants, offices, private collections, and in celebrity homes all over the world. He graduated from Morehead State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art and GraphicRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author, editor, publisher, artist, cosplayer, and game designer Renmeleon as a Spotlighted Guest! Under the name Renmeleon, Ana Maria Selvaggio has been a working creative since 1986. With a passion for writing, she has worked in and around the publishing industry since the mid-90s as a book designer, editor, and cover artist! Renmeleon is the founder of Dragonfly Press, the editor-in-chief of Kraft Paper Muse Magazine, and she is also the owner of Two Crows Market, a series of annual, mid-range juried art shows. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing, specializing in screenwriting for gaming, film, animation, and television,Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes New York Times and USA Today bestselling author and publisher J.M Madden as a Spotlighted Guest! The author of several popular series such as the Lost and Found Series and The Dogs of War Series, J.M. writes compelling romances between ‘combat modified’ military men and the women who love them, but occasionally she writes spicy, angst-ridden love. J.M. was a Deputy Sheriff in Ohio for nine years, until moving with her family to Kentucky. We are honored to have J.M. join us for our 14th year, taking place July 23-25, 2027 in Louisville, Kentucky at the Crowne Plaza! For further informationRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author and poet Michael Williams as a Spotlighted Guest! Michael is one of the original authors in the bestselling DRAGONLANCE Series with the novels “Weasel’s Luck” and “Galen Beknighted,” Michael is also the author of “Arcady,” a novel singled out for praise by Locus and Asimov’s magazines. Michael’s recent work includes the acclaimed mythic fiction City Quartet—four magical realist novels set in a city that is/is not Louisville, Kentucky—that has received widespread critical acclaim! His latest publication, “Farewell Tour” (2026), is a long narrative poem that ties to the novels in the City Quartet, because what is a quartet withoutRead More →