How To Write Genre Fiction: A Dallas Is Lit Panel

Join us at 11am at the Dallas Is Lit Book & Author Fair for a FREE panel on writing genre fiction with Shaun Hamill, Kate Khavari and Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, moderated by Alex Temblador. Come find out about character creation, world building and genre conventions from three acclaimed authors! Plus, stick around after to talk with the authors and get your books signed.

Shaun Hamill earned his bachelor’s in English from the University of Texas at Arlington, and his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the author of four novels, including A COSMOLOGY OF MONSTERS, as well as ALIEN: PERFECT ORGANISMS and THE DISSONANCE. He is also the host of The 616 Files, an podcast chronicling the history of Marvel comics. He lives, works, and writes in Fort Worth, Texas.

Kate Khavari is the USA Today bestselling author of fiction ranging from historical mysteries to high fantasy epics. She has her parents to thank for her fascination for historical mysteries, as she spent the majority of her childhood memorizing Sherlock Holmes’s and Poirot’s greatest quips. She lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas with her husband, two children, and a lovely garden that contains absolutely no poisonous plants.

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam is the author of the horror novel Grim Root (Dark Matter Ink, 2024), the short story collection Where You Linger & Other Stories (Vernacular/Lethe, 2022), and the horror novella Glorious Fiends (Underland, 2022). Her short fiction and poetry has appeared in over 90 publications such as Popular Science, Lightspeed, and LeVar Burton Reads, as well as in six languages. By night, she’s a two-time finalist for the Nebula Award. By day, she makes games. She lives in Texas with her partner and a mysterious number of cats.

Alex Temblador (moderator) is the award-winning author of a writing craft book, Writing An Identity Not Your Own, and two magical realism novels, Half Outlaw and Secrets of the Casa Rosada. In addition to receiving her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma, Alex’s creative work has been published in literary outlets like PALABRITAS, D Magazine, Colorado Review, as well as two anthologies — Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Alex has taught creative writing seminars, workshops, and classes with WritingWorkshops.com, the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, the Writer’s League of Texas, StoryStudio Chicago, WorldShift: The Speculative Fiction Writer’s Summit, Texas Book Festival, Macmillan Publishers, Abydos Learning Conference, and more. When she’s not writing her next book, Alex is working as an award-winning journalist, traveling, gardening, or exploring her home base of Dallas with friends.