The Horror Writers Association (HWA), World Horror Convention (WHC), and iSCIFI.tv have jointly announced that the 2007 Bram Stoker Awards ceremony will be broadcast live on the Internet on Saturday 29 March 2008. This will be the first time that the Stokers are broadcast as they happen.
The awards ceremony is being held at the 2008 World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. Following a banquet, the awards ceremony will begin at approximately 9:00PM local time (11:00PM EDT).
To watch the awards, click to www.iscifi.tv/live, where the podcast will be displayed in the center of your screen.
The Master of Ceremonies will be Jeff Strand, and a series of horror authors will present the Stokers. Several non-Stoker awards will be presented, including:
The 2008 Grandmaster Award (presented by the World Horror Society)
The co-winners of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award
The Richard Laymon Award (HWA President’s Award)
To view the live video, you will need to have Flash installed for your web browser and your Internet speed needs to be at least 300 kbps (downstream / download). If your stream is slower, you may have pausing in the video, or the audio will be out of sync. iSCIFI.tv will also be offering audio only and still images that are captured during the podcast. For more information, see the live stream page.