Roundup of Events for Women in Horror Month 2026

Happy Women in Horror Month!

This is always such an exciting time of year. And fortunately for 2026, we have so much amazing content in the horror community!

An important reminder: I’m helping to spearhead this again for 2026, but I’m not some kind of gatekeeper in any way. Everyone is free to celebrate Women in Horror Month whenever and however they want! The more voices we have, the better!

And with that, let’s unveil all of the places where you can find Women in Horror Month features, interviews, events, and more!

INTERVIEWS, FEATURES, BOOK CHALLENGES, AND MORE

Sara Tantlinger and The Literary Hooker are hosting a Women in Horror Month book challenge on Instagram!

Andrea Blythe is running Women in Horror Month content for all of March on her site. 

Timber Ghost Press is hosting Women in Horror Month features on their site. 

Angela Sylvaine is featuring Women in Horror on her social media all month.

Speculation Publications is featuring a Women in Horror Month roundtable. 

J.G. Writes will be spotlighting women in horror content on her Instagram.

K.C. Grifant is highlighting Women Writing Weird West Horror at Weird West Fiction. 

Jessica Gleason is hosting a #WeWriteHorror challenge for Women in Horror Month.

What Sleeps Beneath is featuring work by women in horror in March.

Carlie St. George is highlighting recent horror novels by women at My Geek Blasphemy.

Debra Castaneda is highlighting Women in Horror Month content at her Instagram and Facebook pages.

Christi Nogle is doing an interview series at her Substack.

Tanya Pell is highlighting female authors in middle-grade and young adult horror.

The Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is accepting proposals for their annual conference.

The George A. Romero Foundation is spotlighting Women in Horror Month through their Scream Like a Girl initiative.

C.M. Rosens is highlighting Women in Horror Month content on her site.

Lily Chang will be featuring a giveaway and a Women in Horror Month feature. 

Tales to Terrify is spotlighting stories by female horror authors all month.

Jamie Lackey is running a Kickstarter campaign for her upcoming horror collection. 

Wendy Dalrymple is featuring Women in Horror Month spotlights throughout March.

Uncomfortably Dark Horror is spotlighting Women in Horror all month long.

Candace Nola is featuring female authors on her blog.

Katherine Silva is featuring female horror authors in her Winterviews.

Claire L. Smith is hosting Women in Horror content at her blog.

Azzurra Nox is highlighting women in horror at The Ink Blotters. 

Eliza Broadbent is highlighting interviews with female horror authors on her Substack.

Pamela Weis is spotlighting Women in Horror content on her Instagram.

Don Anelli is spotlighting Women in Horror at Don’s Horror World and Don’s Horror Reads.

Paula Cappa is highlighting women in horror at her blog.

Hook of a Book is featuring Women in Horror Month content for March.

Also, Erin of Hook of a Book has offered to host any interviews with female authors, so please get in touch with her if you’re interested!

ONLINE AND IN-PERSON EVENTS IN MARCH

March 11th: Fantastic Fiction with Kristina Ten and C.S.E. Cooney in NYC

March 14th: Emily Ruth Verona will be at The Twisted Spine in NYC

March 15th: A Women in Horror reading at A Novel Idea in Philadelphia featuring Christina Rosso, Nicole M. Wolverton, Sami Ellis, and Stephanie Feldman

March 15th: Ashley Dioses will be at the Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show

March 17th: Brooklyn Books and Booze featuring Kristina Ten, Daphne Fama, and Kelly Robson

March 21st: G.G. Silverman is hosting a Women in Horror online reading event

March 26th: Leanna Renee Hieber will be at Evening House Books in Buffalo, NY

March 26th: Wake County Public Library is sponsoring a Women in Horror Month panel

March 27th and 29th: K.C. Grifant will be appearing at WonderCon in Anaheim

March 28th: K.C. Grifant will be at San Diego Writers Festival

March 28th: The SoCo Women in Horror Fest featuring Wendy Dalrymple, C.J. Leede, Erika T. Wurth, and more

March 28th: Victoria Dalpe and Christa Carmen will be part of Dark Reads 2026

April 7th: CJ Dotson will be appearing at The Twisted Spine in NYC

April 11th: Kenya Moss-Dyme is one of the featured authors at Black Girls Who Read Book Summit in Dallas

April 14th: For a bit of self-promotion, the launch party for my collection, The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, will be held at Riverstone Books in Pittsburgh. I’ll be in conversation with Sara Tantlinger, whose latest book, Cyanide Constellations and Other Stories, is a recent Stoker nominee!

April 15th: The launch party for CJ Dotson’s new book, These Familiar Walls, will be held at the Barnes & Noble in Akron, Ohio

Happy reading, and happy Women in Horror Month!