The Smitch Circle conference is proud to host the following panelists:
S. T. Joshi
S. T. Joshi has coedited Clark Ashton Smith's Complete Poetry and Translations as well as editions of Smith's letters to George Sterling, Samuel Loveman, August Derleth, and Donald Wandrei. He has just completed a full-scale biography of Smith, due out later this year.
stjoshi.org
Ron Hilger
Ron Hilger is a Northern California native who has organized such Clark Ashton Smith related events as "The CAS Centennial Conference" in 1993 and "The CAS Plaque Dedication" in 2002. Hilger has also edited: The Averoigne Chronicles by Centipede Press, 2016, and along with Scott Connors, has co-edited Red World of Polaris, The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, and The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith, all for Night Shade Books. Currently working on a thematically oriented CAS series for Hippocampus Press, Hilger continues to promote Clark Ashton Smith as not only a major literary figure, but as an important California personality as well.
Cody Goodfellow (He/Him)
Cody Goodfellow has written nine novels and five collections of short stories. His writing has been favored with three Wonderland Book Awards for excellence in Bizarro fiction. His comics work has appeared in Mystery Meat, Dark Horse’s Creepy, Slow Death Zero and Skin Crawl, for which he penned a comic adaptation of “The Seven Geases.” As an actor, he has appeared in numerous TV shows, videos by Anthrax and Beck, and a Days Inn commercial. He also wrote, co-produced and scored the Lovecraftian hygiene films Baby Got Bass and Stay At Home Dad, which can be viewed on YouTube. He works as a fiction pimp for Heavy Metal Magazine. He “lives” in San Diego, California.
Darin Coelho Spring (He/Him)
Darin Coelho Spring lives in Placerville, California and runs The Bookery, where he stocks the shelves with plenteous amounts of weird, strange and outre stuff. His feature-length documentary Clark Ashton Smith: The Emperor of Dreams came out in 2018.
Skinner (He/Him)
Skinner is best known for his psychedelic illustrations, paintings, expansive installations, sculptures and gallery shows around the world, while also doing work for Warner Bros, Adult Swim, Vans, Apple, Quentin Tarantino, Fender guitars, and Juxtapoz. Being an Auburn native, he provided the cover art for Darin Coelho Spring's Clark Ashton Smith documentary.
https://www.theartofskinner.com/
Charles Schneider (He/Him/His)
Charles Schneider has spent his life ceaselessly exploring the realms of the Fantastical, Weird and Macabre. Born with a torturously nostalgic sense of being out of fime and place, both his pen and ink artwork and his oil paintings match the grotesquely antiquated, gleefully decadent tone of his written works. His horror stories and poems are languidly consumed by jaded connoisseurs of outre literature. In this vein are his bouquet of rare flowers of poetry, Ruination in Bloom, and his collection of tales titled The Mauve Embellishments, which Thomas Ligotti called "a display of moral and mental deterioratin".
https://cschneidercinema.wixsite.com
Jason Bradley Thompson (Any)
Jason Bradley Thompson is the author of the upcoming tabletop RPG Dreamland: Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep (dreamrpg.com) and artist of the graphic novel H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and Other Stories, and Hyperborea: The Tale of Satampra Zeiros (mockman.com). As a story artist and illustrator, his work has appeared in games like Dungeons & Dragons and Call of Cthulhu and movies like The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Minions: The Rise of Gru. He lives in San Francisco with his spouse and children.
dreamrpg.com
mockman.com
John R. Fultz
John R. Fultz is an author of fantasy and weird horror. His latest novel is A FEW ODD SOULS, a weird epic from Jackanapes Press (coming in Fall of 2025). His novel series include the the Scaleborn Saga and the Shaper Trilogy, and his short story collections include WORLDS BEYOND WORLDS, DARKER THAN WEIRD and THE REVELATIONS OF ZANG. John's short fiction has appeared in YEAR’S BEST WEIRD FICTION, WEIRD TALES, OLD MOON QUARTERLY, WAY OF THE WIZARD, BOOK OF BLADES, NEITHER BEG NOR YIELD, CTHULHU’S REIGN, THE BOOK OF CTHULHU II, THAT IS NOT DEAD, WEIRDBOOK, BLACK GATE, SHADOWS OUT OF TIME, NEW EDGE SWORD-AND-SORCERY, LIGHTSPEED, and plenty of other places both wonderful and strange.
fultzauthor.com
Sunday, June 15, 2025
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Come join us for A Rendezvous in Averoigne. The Smith Circle: A Clark Ashton Smith Conference will be held on January 10th, 2026, the Sa...
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Come join us for A Rendezvous in Averoigne. The Smith Circle: A Clark Ashton Smith Conference will be held on January 10th, 2026, the Sa...
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