USA Today bestselling author, Dragon nominee, and award-winning journalist, Jeffery H. Haskell, lives and breathes writing. A passion of his from a young age, he can’t remember a time when he wasn’t telling stories. As a full-time author, he now pursues his life’s calling with the help of his amazing family. The only thing he …
UPDATE: Jason A. Anderson will not be able to join us this year. Jason was raised in Southern California before moving to Utah to attend high school. While a teenager, he created and began writing his teen adventure series, The Starriders Saga. Considering himself a bit obsessive as a Creator, he ended up with a …
Saturday, June 13th is the deadline to preorder a T-shirt and have it waiting for you at the Cantina!
Craig Nybo writes and composes novels, musicals, and boardgames. His novels include Dead Girl, Bieber’s Finger, The Pan-Galactic Promshow, and Small Town Monsters. His musicals include Space Funk: A Science Fiction Funk Opera, and Tesla V Cthulhu: A Musical. As a game developer, Craig has produced Shoot Your Friends, CHOPS, and Rites of Cthulhu. Craig …
Blake Casselman is a teacher, editor, short story and comic book writer, and award-winning screenwriter and film producer. His films have been screened at film festivals and pop culture conventions around North America and as far away as the Cannes Film Festival. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and when not writing or working …
UPDATE: Taylor Anderson will not be able to attend. Taylor Anderson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Destroyermen novels and the Artillerymen novels. A gunmaker and forensic ballistic archaeologist, Taylor has been a technical and dialogue consultant for movies and documentaries and is an award-winning member of the National Historical Honor Society …
Did you know that Writers Cantina wrote a novella? Project: Salamander is a round-robin story, with parts contributed by a bunch of people associated with Writers Cantina from the beginning — ten of the eleven contributing writers have appeared at WC in past years (nine of them will be presenting this coming July), and the …
Angie Lofthouse went to college with every intention of becoming a particle physicist, but through a series of misadventures, found herself studying Shakespeare instead. After college she combined her love of science and her love of words into a science fiction writing career. She is the author of Defenders of the Covenant, The Ransomed Returning, The Glory of the …
We’ll be closing pre-orders for this year’s Writers Cantina T-shirt on June 13th to have enough lead time for their production before July 17th, which means if you want to order one, time is getting short! We’ll have extras of various sizes for sale at the registration desk, but I guarantee that YOUR size will …
Johnny Worthen is a widely published, award-winning, best-selling author of books and stories. Trained in stand-up comedy, modern literary criticism and cultural studies, he writes excellent multi-genre fiction, symbolized by his love of tie-dye and good words. “I wear tie-dye for my friends, but I write what I like to read,” he says. “This guarantees …