Business

1. Welcome and introduction 
2. HWA News
   1. 2025 Bram Stoker Award® Winners at the 2026 StokerCon
   2. StokerCon 2027 will be held Thursday, June 10 through Sunday, June 13, 2027 in Pittsburgh, PA
      1. The 40th anniversary of HWA
      2. Earlybird price is $200 through September 30th, then $250 in October, then $300
      3. Single day passes also available for $200
      4. Virtual starts at $75
3. Upcoming June & July Chapter Events
   1. Sunday, June 28 at 6 PM: Virtual Book Club – A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
   2. Sunday, July 17 at 6 PM: Chapter Meeting with Niyyah Ruscher-Haqq, “Writing Horror for Younger Audiences”
   3. Sunday, July 26 at 6 PM: Book Club – Never Whistle at Night ed. Shane Hawk & Theodore C Van Alst (Short Stories) (HWA Summer Scares Book #2)
   4. Friday, July 31 at 5-7 PM: Tabling at the Writer’s Fair (Crowne Plaza Hotel)
   5. Saturday, September 19, 2026: Salem Pride
      1. Let us know if you want to help or sell your books
   6. October events at Beaverton City Library and BOLD Coffee & Books
      1. Sign up to read!
      2. New readers welcome
   7. Thursday, November 05, 2026: Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover horror panel

StokerCon 2026 Recap

1. You can come up with ideas for panels next year (perhaps HWA Oregon could come up with one.)
   1. We’ll send out link to Google application for panel ideas when it is available
2. Members who attended shared their thoughts on StokerCon 2026. Highlights:
   1. You can’t attend everything; take time to rest. Stay longer to explore the host city. (Tom)
   2. Meeting HWA Oregon members the first night of StokerCon at a rooftop beer garden, the Final Frame Film Competition Showing, and the banquet and Bram Stoker Awards were all highlights. (Richard)
   3. Pitching helps make the publishing process seem less like submitting our work into a void, and seeing and interacting with our favorite authors and editors helps us see them as real people. (Dan)
   4. People were accessible and friendly, and it also helped to have HWA Oregon people we know around. Horror University was really good and interactive. The Pitch panel was helpful for learning what agents and editors have on the manuscript wishlists and how they wanted pitches to go. (Stephanie)
   5. Panels with acquisitions editors, but would like to see other types of editors and relevant panels, too. Attend panels you’re interested in, but also panels you don’t know anything about. Practice self care and take breaks. Leave panels if you need a break. (Amber)
   6. Several attendees praised the reading sessions (many of them, held at the same times as panels.)
   7. Favorite panels included “The Black Gothic in America,” “Female Asian Gothic: Fury and Metamorphosis,” “Bizarro Fiction: The Wrecking Ball of Weird vs. the Boundaries of Genre,” “Better the Devil You Know: A Panel on the Value of Queer Villains,” “Fatal Foliage: Botanical and Ecological Horror,” “Pitch Session Panel”