Hauntings & Houses: The Horror in Home

Speakers for this event

• AGA Wilmot

  AGA Wilmot

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  AGA Wilmot (BFA, MPub) is a writer and editor based out of Toronto, Ontario. They have won awards for fiction, short fiction, and screenwriting, including the Friends of Merril Short Story Contest and ECW Press’s Best New Speculative Novel Contest. For seven years they served as co-publisher and co-EIC of the Ignyte- and British Fantasy Award-nominated Anathema: Spec from the Margins. Books of AGA’s include The Death Scene Artist (Buckrider Books, 2018) and Withered (ECW Press, 2024). They are represented by Kelvin Kong of K2 Literary (k2literary.com). Find them online at agawilmot.ca.

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• Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez

  Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez

  Author

  Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez was born in Manila, where she grew up with her family’s stranger-than-fiction stories. She developed a love for philosophy and classics in university. She then worked as a copywriter in advertising and later became associate creative director. She spent her twenties trekking around the Philippines, sampling regional food, and experiencing the hospitality of her fellow Filipinos.She moved to Canada in the mid-nineties, worked as a designer, then studied creative writing at the University of Toronto. She now works in communications. She lives in Toronto, with her spouse and daughter.

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• Madeline Ashby

  Madeline Ashby

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  Madeline Ashby is a consulting futurist and novelist based in Toronto. She is the author of the Machine Dynasty series, Company Town, and contributor to How to Future: Leading and Sense-making in an Age of Hyperchange. She has developed science fiction prototypes for Changeist, the Institute for the Future, the Smithsonian Institution, SciFutures, Nesta, The World Health Organization, the World Bank, the Atlantic Council, and others. She is a member of the AI Policy Futures Group at the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination, and the XPRIZE Sci-Fi Advisory Council. Her work has appeared in BoingBoing, Slate, MIT Technology Review, WIRED, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.

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• Nick Cutter

  Nick Cutter

  Moderator

  Nick Cutter is the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller The Troop (which is currently being developed for film with producer James Wan), The Deep, Little Heaven, and The Handyman Method, cowritten with Andrew F. Sullivan. Nick Cutter is the pseudonym for Craig Davidson, whose much-lauded literary fiction includes Rust and Bone, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, and, most recently, the short story collection Cascade. His story “Medium Tough” was selected by author Jennifer Egan for The Best American Short Stories 2014. He lives in Toronto, Canada. He returns with THE QUEEN (October 2024), a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth.

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