Women in Horror Weekend 2025 - Nottingham

Welcome to Women in Horror Weekend 2025!

Come and celebrate Women in Horror at our weekend festival.

Including author talks from the some of the best women writers in horror, a classic film screening and spooky goody bags and workshops from Lush Nottingham!

We are thrilled to be working with local businesses including Lush Nottingham, Fortune and Glory Film Club and Nottingham Horror Collective.

See below for the full line up!

As part of the weekend there are three optional extras that you can purchase to enhance your experience. Remember to add these to your cart at checkout, prices can be found below. Act fast as availability for these extras may be limited!

Lush Goody Bag – A goody bag provided by the lovely Lush Nottingham team containing a mixture of full-size and sample size Halloween products (this might include bath bombs, soaps, shower gels, body scrubs or body lotions)

Lush Punkin’ Pumpkin bath bomb workshop – Make your own Pumpkin bath bomb in this fun workshop with Lush Nottingham

Fortune and Glory film screening goody bag – Bespoke, themed goody bag to enhance your viewing of The Haunting (1963)

Line Up:

FRIDAY 31st OCTOBER:

6:30-8:30pm: British Library Tales of the Weird Panel – Katy Soar (Return of the Ancients, Circles of Stone) and Zara Louise-Stubbs (The Uncanny Gastronomic) CHAIRED BY: Kibrina Davey

SATURDAY 1st NOVEMBER:

9-11am: Lush Punkin’ Pumpkin Bath Bomb workshop (optional extra)

11:30-12 – LUNCH

12-2pm: Eliza Clark in conversation with Lucy Rose

2-2:30pm – BREAK

2:30-5pm: Queer Gothic Panel: Kat Dunn, Heather Parry, Lucy Rose CHAIRED BY: Jen Brough

5-5:15 – BREAK

5:15 – 7:15pm: Michelle Paver in conversation with Julia Armfield

7:15 – 7:30pm – BREAK

7:30-10pm – Femgore Panel: Jessie Elland Emma Glass, Emma Van Straaten CHAIRED BY: Kibrina Davey

SUNDAY 2nd NOVEMBER:

11am-1pm: Deadly Women Panel: Susan Barker, Hannah Beer, Phoebe Stuckes CHAIRED BY: Hayley Sleigh

1-1:30pm - LUNCH

1:30- 4pm – Horror at Home Panel: Leon Craig, Leigh Radford, Vanessa SantosCHAIRED BY: Amber Carnegie

4-4:30 – BREAK

4:30-6:30pm: Anna Bogutskaya in conversation with Clelia McElroy

6:30-7pm - BREAK

7- 10:30pm: Interactive Screening of The Woman in Black (2012) with Fortune and Glory Film Club and Feminist Gothic Panel with Emily Malone, Ruth Skrytek and Hayley Sleigh CHAIRED BY: Emily Smith

For any queries or accessibility requirements, please contact events.nottingham@waterstones.com