Maine Lit Fest Event - Day 6
Thriller writers at all stages of their careers will discuss the genre, the types of suspense that excite them most, and the lasting impacts of the books and stories of Stephen King. Featuring Steph Cha (author of Your House Will Pay and current series editor of the Best American Mystery & Suspense anthology), Mo Drammeh (Maine Lit Fest Fellow and author of Where the Cryptids Fled), Paul Tremblay (author of 10 books including his latest, Horror Movie, and The Cabin at the End of the World), and Rebecca Turkewitz (author of Here in the Night). Facilitated by Katrina Niidas Holm.
Briar Patch Books will sell books.
Free event with RSVP.
Steph Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the California Book Award, and the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She’s a critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she served as noir editor, and is the current series editor of the Best American Mystery & Suspense anthology. A native of the San Fernando Valley, she lives in Los Angeles with her family.
Mo Drammeh is a freshman at the University of Maine and a member of the Honors College. He was among Maine Magazine's Mainers of The Year in 2022 for his writing, was the winner of the 2022 Crime Flash Competition, and is a 2023 Macklin Fellow. Mo grew up in Bangor, Maine, and has lived there all his life.
Katrina Niidas Holm is a freelance writer and book reviewer who regularly contributes to Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Mystery Scene Magazine. She also did time with The Life Sentence as an editor and social media maven. She lives in Portland with her husband, writer Chris Holm.
Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of Survivor Song, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, the crime novels The Little Sleepand No Sleep Till Wonderland, and the short story collection, Growing Things and Other Stories. Horror Movie is his latest novel.
His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family.
Rebecca Turkewitz is a writer and high school English teacher living in Portland, Maine. She is the author of the story collection Here in the Night, which was a finalist for the Maine Literary Awards and named one of Debutiful’s Best Debuts of 2023. Her fiction and humor writing have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024, Alaska Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, Best Microfiction 2023and 2024, The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in fiction from The Ohio State University.
