HWA Oregon had a great time at Salem Pride in the Park in Salem, Oregon on Saturday, September 19, 2026. Thank you to Niyyah Ruscher-Haqq, H. A. Spector, and Richard Leis for setting up and talking to interested visitors. We had books and anthologies from Lee Mitchell, Little Key Press, Tenebrous Press, and Weird Fiction Quarterly at our table, and sold several of them.
We held a virtual town hall at our chapter meeting on Sunday, September 20, 2026, and invited members to share their thoughts, hopes, and concerns about HWA and HWA Oregon. We had a great turnout. Thank you to everyone who attended.
HWA Oregon member and LAIKA Studios VFX Production Coordinator Davis Walden shared the final trailer for the LAIKA Studios latest’ stop-motion animated dark fantasy film, Wildwood. The movie arrives in theaters on Friday, October 23, 2026.
Erik Grove organized the inaugural Endeavor Writers Conference, held in Milwaukie, Oregon on Saturday, October 10, 2026. The conference also hosted the annual Endeavour Award presentation.
Niyyah Ruscher-Haqq chatted with Wendy Wagner about the launch of Niyyah’s new horror novella, The Veil, at Rose City Book Pub in Portland, Oregon on Friday, October 2, 2026. Attendees showed up in costumes for the Twin Peaks themed event. You can purchase The Veil here.
Katherine Quevedo and Richard Leis joined Brian U. Garrison for the “Get Speculative! Poetry Night” reading at BOLD Coffee & Books in Portland, Oregon on Friday, October 2, 2026. Katherine read poems from her Elgin Award-winning poetry chapbook The Inca Weaver’s Tale (Sword & Kettle Press), her forthcoming chapbook of video game poetry titled Extra Lives in Verse (Manawaker Studio), and her forthcoming full-length poetry collection (Interstellar Flight Press.) Richard read a mix of published and new poems.
Katherine Quevedo joined Brian U. Garrison and Haley Bossé for the “Speculative Poetry: Weavings and Unweavings” reading at Parallel Worlds Bookshop in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, where she read even more of her poetry from The Inca Weaver’s Tale and forthcoming chapbook and collection.
Tenebrous Press celebrated the release of Your Body is Fever Dream, their latest anthology of Weird Cosmic Horror from 30+ trans and gender nonconforming writers and artists, with a launch event at Always Here Bookstore in Portland, Oregon on Friday, October 9, 2026.
Caitlin Starling is in conversation with Laura Cranehill about Caitlin’s latest book, Milkteeth (St. Martin’s), on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing in Beaverton, Oregon.
Tom Witherspoon (“Dripping”), Richard Leis (“Star Business”), Adam Bolivar (“The Twilit Land”), David Barker (“The Slow Path”), and Sarah Walker (“Gas Station”) had new poems or flash fiction published in the Weird Fiction Quarterly: Liminal Spaces & Beings anthology.
Larina Warnock’s poem “Hell Is A Destination Location” will be published in Not One of Us, Issue 88.
Larina’s poem “Last Stand of Eden” was published in the Religion of Love Journal, Issue 1.
Her poem “This Is How You Breathe Fire” was published in Merganser Magazine.
Tom Witherspoon’s next flash fiction story, “Top-Tier Asset,” will appear in the upcoming anthology Weird Fiction Quarterly: Animals.
Katherine Quevedo’s fantasy story “Shades of Bruises and Blood” is free to read online in Trollbreath Magazine.
Richard Leis’s apocalyptic poems “Before the First Drop of Rain Wets the Ground” and “Moving On, Moving In” were published in Cozy in the Apocalypse (Angry Gable Press.)
J.S. Douglas’s short story “Water Quality Advisory” was published in Issue One of Northern Shadows Magazine.