Winnipeg readin': A Spec-Fic Midsummer Spectacular at Raven's End Books

Say—do I know anyone in Winnipeg? Because I am reading there with a fabulous spec-fic crew there this Thursday, July 24!

Raven's End Books: The Horror Bookshop Presents 
A Spec-Fic Midsummer Spectacular
with readings by Canuck speculative fiction voices:
Samantha Mary Beiko 
Keith Cadieux 
Susie Moloney 
& special guest: 

Ottawa’s James K. Moran 

hosted by Susie Moloney
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Doors 6pm; reading 6:30pm. Free.
Raven’s End Books: The Horror Bookshop
1859 Portage Ave.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
info@ravensendbooks.com

Bios

S.M. (Samantha) Beiko pens award-winning fantasy novels for teens including The Lake and the Library, The Realms of Ancient Trilogy (Scion of the Fox, Children of the Bloodlands, The Brilliant Dark) and her new queer monster romance series, The Brindlewatch Quintet (The Stars of Mount Quixx, The Door in Lake Mallion, followed by The Sleuth of Ferren City in 2026). Beiko created the Aurora Award-winning webcomic Krampus is My Boyfriend! and is the editor of Gothic Tales of Haunted Love and Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures.

Keith Cadieux, a horror writer and editor of modest publication history, has stories in Grain, Prairie Fire and ELQ. Of his short story collection Donner Parties, the Winnipeg Free Press said, "Cadieux is a master of letting the horrors which lie beneath and outside us press up relentlessly into our troubled minds. No one should miss that experience." He lives in Winnipeg with his wife and big dog named Bear.

Susie Moloney has authored four novels of horror and supernatural, Bastian Falls, A Dry Spell, The Dwelling and The Thirteen and the short-fiction collection, Things Withered. She continues publishing in journals and anthologies. Currently Moloney is writing television and film in the genre and you can see Bright Hill Road and Romi wherever you rent movies. She’s working on a new novel, her first in ten years.

James K. Moran fell hard for horror with Universal Monsters and Weird Tales covers. Moran’s speculative fiction and poetry have appeared in Bywords, Glitterwolf, and On Spec. Lethe Press published his collection Fear Itself and small-town Canada horror novel Town & Train. Moran reviews for Arc Poetry Magazine, Plenitude and Strange Horizons. Findable at jameskmoran.blogspot.ca & jamestheballadeer.bsky.social.