About the featured reading:
🕸️ Celebrate Halloween with PPN and the Horror Writers Association (Seattle Chapter) for a night of spooky storytelling! Expect eerie tales, creepy atmosphere, and chills without the gore.
Halloween-inspired costumes or festive attire are encouraged, though coming as you are is always welcome!👻
✍️ Write & Share: Stick around for an interactive prompt session! We’ll dish out eerie starter prompts and give everyone 10 minutes to draft a flash fiction micro-tale, poem, or prose piece. Afterward, share your spooky creation with a small group or step up to the open mic! 🔮✨
Erik Keevan is a writer, playwright, and digital artist living in Seattle, WA. Erik serves as the chair for HWA Seattle, President of Gamut literary series, and writer for the Victorian horror troupe Phantasmagoria. His work has been featured in Horror Tree’s Trembling with Fear series, Clamor literary magazine, and won the 2025 Camp Crypticon writing contest for best horror story. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from UW Bothell to make sure he is sufficiently pretentious.
Dark speculative writer Tamara Kaye Sellman is author of Trust Fall (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2026), Cul de Sac Stories (Aqueduct Press, 2024) and Intention Tremor (MoonPath Press, 2021). She's also co-author Rain Shadows volume 1 (BTRS Books, 2025) with volume 2 coming out in 2027. Her fiction, poetry, and essays are widely anthologized; she’s a frequent Pushcart Prize nominee. Tamara also produces poetry films, creates resistance zines, podcasts, grows a guerilla garden, and makes good trouble.
Brianna Malotke is a horror and romance author. She’s an editor for Letters to the Gods and has contributed to the Hallow Ian Horror Hour TV show with Tapped House Media. Her writing is rooted in love and nightmares, often weaving the two together. She has multiple poetry collections out as well as a vampire novella series titled Wicked Bites. Last year she was a Costume Judge for the MoPop’s Fashionably Undead Halloween party and won the international Azerate Poetry Prize. This year she won the Seattle Erotic Art Festival’s Poetry Foundation Award.
About the event:
Please join us for our next reading! We gather at Centro Cultural Mexicano in Redmond, Washington. All readings are free and include one or more featured readers, a break for snacks, and an open-mic reading for poetry or prose (usually about 3-4 minutes per person). We often socialize at a nearby restaurant afterwards.
We generally meet on the last Friday of each month, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.