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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes publisher and cover artist Melissa Allen as an Official Panelist! As a Panelist, 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 Melissa’s individual guest page, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banner below! To register for Imaginarium 2026 with an Advance Event Ticket, please visit: https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/2026-event-tickets/Read More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes filmmaker, actor, and cosplayer Myles Jordan as an Official Panelist! As a Panelist, Myles 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 Myles’ individual guest page, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banner below! To register for Imaginarium 2026 with an Advance Event Ticket, please visit: https://www.entertheimaginaRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes author Michael Small as an Official Panelist! As a Panelist, Michael 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 Michael’s individual guest page, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banner below! To register for Imaginarium 2026 with an Advance Event Ticket, please visit: https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/2026-event-ticketRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes author Dan Kemp as an Official Panelist! As a Panelist, Dan 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 Dan’s individual guest page, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banner below! To register for Imaginarium 2026 with an Advance Event Ticket, please visit: https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/2026-event-ticketRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes makeup FX artist and artist Yazmin Granlund as a Spotlighted Guest! Yazmin Granlund is a Los Angeles-based makeup artist now working out of Kentucky. She is an IATSE Local 798 makeup artist specializing in beauty, character design, prosthetics, and special makeup effects for film and television. She has experience working across studio features and commercial productions with companies including Paramount, Hallmark, Hulu, Apple and more. A horror movie lover, Yazmin is a co-founder at KY Creature FX, which features a team of skilled makeup artists, special makeup effects artists, prosthetic artists and creature / character designers who create practical makeup effectsRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes SFX artists, filmmakers, and haunted attraction owners Amanda and Sean “Joker” Durkin as Spotlighted Guests! The owners of the multi-award-winning haunted attraction Malice Manor, Sean and Amanda have been set design and builders, scare actors, show directors, special effects lighting, sound effects, and animations programmers.  Past highlights have included making vacuum panels for TV shows like Bones, theme parks like Six Flags, Sea World, and Nightclubs in NYC & Vegas. They have created foam sculptured fabrications for the Kentucky State Fair, Kentucky Derby festival, Gallopalooza Horses, the Mint Julep Cup, and Light Up Louisville. Amanda has also been a costume designerRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes literary agent and USA Today bestselling author Rose Betancourt as a Spotlighted Guest! Rose is the owner and principal agent of Betancourt Literary, bringing more than twenty years of experience in the publishing industry as both an agent and a USA Today bestselling author! Rose is particularly drawn to psychological thrillers with a dark twist, layered mysteries, and stories that explore obsession, secrets, and moral ambiguity. She has a deep love for Southern and Southern Gothic fiction, especially novels that lean into atmosphere, complex female characters, and a sense of place that feels almost alive. She also represents select romance projects,Read More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes award-winning, #1 Amazon bestselling thriller author A.G. Mock as an Imaginator Guest! A.G. earned a Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Editor’s pick for his psychological thriller, Now is the Time of Monsters, and he is a two-time American Fiction Awards winner for his debut novel, The Little Woods! His growing fanbase of readers have made each of his books a #1 bestseller on Amazon’s horror and thriller charts in the US, UK, and Canada! A.G. is an active working member of the International Thriller Writers (ITW), the Horror Writers Association (HWA), and Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi). We are honored to have A.G. join usRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the first thirty-eight Official Selections in this summer’s independent film festival! Selections will continue to be announced throughout May, with a portion of screening slots left open for consideration of entries on our May 11th Late Deadline. This group of Official Selections come out of our largest field of entries already (with more still coming in on the Late Deadline) and we congratulate every one of them! The following Official Selections will be screened at Imaginarium 2026 and juried for the determination of Film Festival Awards: United States Official Selections AI Jesus Director: Ashley Billington Short Film Another DayRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of two 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: Horror & Comedy: Adding Levity to the Darkness. Presented by Scott Sigler. From the razor-sharp wit of Shaun of the Dead to the irreverent bite of Christopher Moore’s You Suck: A Love Story and the genre-defining balance of Buffy the VampireRead More →