This page lists nearly all of the publications, conventions, and shows that I have been a part of. The page includes my awards, writing, fine art, published and unpublished illustration work, graphic designs, presentations, and speaking engagements.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Communication
Colorado State University; Magna Cum Laude, 2017

  • Proposal, article, technical, and academic writing
  • Social media and community involvement
  • Intercultural and diversity communications
  • Strategic communication and ethics
  • Leadership and team dynamics
  • Writing and revising support documents
  • Creating across multiple media platforms
  • Researching and verifying facts

Outstanding Staff Award
Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
Colorado State University; 2022

Inclusion, Spectrum 9 Art Annual
for the best in contemporary genre artwork, 2002; Fetal Position, art originally from Wicked Hollow Magazine

Winner, Best Web Site
Society of Professional Journalists, Region 9; Site: The Rocky Mountain Collegian website; 2016

Best Professionally Designed Ad Campaign
(2nd place) for The Rocky Mountain Collegian website; CNBAM (College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers); 2014

Best of Colorado Web Site Award
Special Multimedia; Big Thompson Flood 25th Anniversary multimedia, Fort Collins Coloradoan; Colorado Press Association; 2001

Awards & Recognition

Writing

List of publications

Visit rhdickerson.com for full writing expertise.

Apex Magazine Interviewer (2014-2019; 2020-Current)
Interviews of each month’s cover artist, listed below

Justin Adams
Godwin Akpan (2 interviews)
Joe Badon
Benedick Bana
Marcela Bolívar (3 interviews)
Adrian Borda (2 interviews)
Robert Carter
Quentin Castel
Rubén Castro
Tangmo Cecchini​
Joel Chaim Holtzman
Denis Corvus
Matt Davis
Lucas de Alcântara
Mélanie Delon
David Demaret
Anna Dittmann
Vinz El Tabanas
Clarissa Ferguson
Julia Griffin
Chase Henson
Caroline Jamhour
Aaron Jasinski
Ronnie Jensen
Irek Konior
Irina Kovalova
James Lincke
Loika
Max Mitenkov
Kim Myatt
Aaron Nakahara
Billy Norrby
Billy Nuñez
Sunny Ray
Stacey Robinson
Carolina Rodriguez Fuenmayor
Tori K. Roman (aka To-Ka-Ro)
Vincent Sammy
Emma SanCartier
Daniele Serra
Angelique Shelley
Nello Shep
May and Sin
Carly Sorge
Beth Spencer
Thomas Tan
Dana Tiger
Ania Tomicka
Vicki be Wicked
Ekaterina Zagustina (aka KatjaFaith)
Sarah Zar
Denis Zhbankov

  • Presenter
    WordPress/SEO and web technology presentations, Professional Development Institute, Colorado State University (2020)
  • Presenter
    Marketing and Communications Seminars for Lory Student Center Organizations, Colorado State University (2014)
  • Guest Speaker
    JTC 413: Online Media, Writing, and Portfolios Course, Colorado State University (2014)
  • Panelist
    World Horror Convention, Portland, Oregon (2014)
    • Social Media Marketing (for authors, artists, and publishers)
    • The Art of Self Promotion (for authors, artists, and publishers)
  • Panelist/Instructor
    (Design/Adobe), Journalism and Communications Institute, Colorado State University (2013)
  • Panelist
    (Design/Adobe), Swansea Journalism/Media Institute, Colorado State University (2013)
  • Speaker
    (Technology/Web), Region Eight Workshop, National Association for Interpretation (2008)
  • Speaker
    (Life as an artist), Horrorfest, Denver, Colorado (2011)
  • Speaker
    (Art) & Interviewer (of artist Vincent Chong), World Horror Convention, Austin, Texas (2011)
  • Speaker
    (Art Panel), KillerCon, Las Vegas, Nevada (2009)

Art, Design, and Technology Panels and Speaking Engagements

Gallery and convention art show representation

  • Luscious Nectar Lounge
    Fort Collins, Colorado (July 2014, December 2014)
  • World Horror Convention Art Show
    Portland, Oregon (2014)
  • Spectrum Fantastic Art Live!
    Kansas City, Missouri (2012, Exhibitor)
  • Rendition Gallery
    Fort Collins, Colorado (2011-2012)
    • It’s Alive show, October 2011
    • Kickflip! show, January 2012
  • Jerry’s Artarama
    Fort Collins, Colorado (2011)
  • OnDisplay Gallery
    Fort Collins, Colorado (2010-2011)
  • VisionCon
    Springfield, Missouri (2010, 2011, Guest)
  • The Gallery Underground
    Fort Collins, Colorado (2010)
  • Art Show/Panelist, World Horror Convention
    Portland, Oregon (2014)
  • Interviewer/Panelist, World Horror Convention
    Austin, Texas (2011)
  • Speaker, Horrorfest
    Denver, Colorado (2011)
  • Guest, VisionCon
    Springfield, Missouri (2009-2011; guest 2010-2011)
  • Speaker, KillerCon
    Las Vegas, Nevada (2009)
  • Necon
    Roger Williams University, Rhode Island (2007)
  • Hypericon
    Nashville, Tennessee (2006)

Conventions (attendee, guest, and/or participant)

Illustrations & Designs

List of publications featuring my art/design

Apex Publications (2016-2017)

  • Cover design, Mars Girls by Mary Turzillo (2017)
  • Cover art and cover design, Yours To Tell by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem (2017)
  • Cover design, Rosewater by Tade Thompson (2016)

Spectrum 9 (2002)

  • Original art from Wicked Hollow #1, Fetal Position; Underwood Books

Thunderstorm Books (2010-2016)

  • Cover, Strong Steps by Ronald Kelly
  • A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene (cover, sig sheet, foil imprint)
  • Cover, Grimm Awakening by Bryan Smith
  • Cover, Set’s Quartet I
  • Cover, Set’s Quartet II
  • Cover, Set’s Quartet III
  • Cover, Set’s Quartet IV
  • Foil Design; A Conspiracy of One by Brian Keene
  • Foil Design; Alone by Brian Keene
  • Foil Design; Answers of Silence by Geoff Cooper
  • Foil Design; Bitter Ale series
  • Foil Design; Douglas Western Series
  • Foil Design; Earthworm Gods II: Deluge by Brian Keene
  • Foil Design; KillerCon by William Ollie (plus endpaper)
  • Foil Design; Once Upon a Time in Midnight by John Urbancik
  • Foil Design; Sundancing by Brian Keene
  • Six Days by Kelli Owen (cover, sig sheet, foil imprint)
  • The Rising: Deliverance by Brian Keene (cover, sig sheet, foil imprint)

Omnium Gatherum (2012-2014)

  • Cover art and design, Astoria by S.P. Miskowski
  • Cover art and design, Delphine Dodd by S.P. Miskowski
  • Cover art and design, In The Light by S.P. Miskowski (2014)
  • Cover art and design, Knock Knock by S.P. Miskowski

Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #4 (2005)

  • Walk Among Us by Bryan Smith

Blindside Press (2003)

  • Wicked Gluttony: Forever Lovers by Shawn James (chapbook interiors)

British Fantasy Society Calendars: (2004-2005)

  • 2004: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Dragon by Neil Gaiman
  • 2005:  The Bucket Woman by Stephen Gallagher

Catalyst Books (2003)

  • Cold House by T.M Wright (Cover)
  • From Beneath These Fields of Blood by Gary Braunbeck (unpublished, cover)

City Slab Magazine #2-4 (2003-2004)

  • Children at Play by Brandon Alspaugh
  • Darkness Comprehended by Harry Shannon & Gord Rollo
  • Repeat Performance by Patricia D. Cacek
  • When You Came To Troy by Sonya Taaffe

Cyberpulp USA (2003)

  • Dark Streets After Hours (anthology, cover)
  • Down These Dark Streets (anthology, cover)

Dark Animus Magazine #2-5 (2003-2004)

  • Children of the First Explorers by Christina Sng
  • Death of a Thousand Papercuts by Christina Sng
  • Flesh by Darrell Pitt
  • The Womb of Night by Lawrence Schimel & Billie Sue Mosiman
  • to die dreaming by Sam Anderson
  • Wood On Bone by Josh Rountree
  • Bloodbath by Lee Clark Zumpe

Dead Things Magazine #2-4 (1999-2000)

  • Cover, Dead Things #4
  • Expressions by Robert D. Rowntree
  • Fallen Through by John Paul Cotton
  • First Wave Exterminate by Paul Finch
  • Ghost? by Steven Wright
  • Reflections of Misery by Cathy Buburuz
  • The Geek by D.J. Tyrer
  • The Hexing by Michael Pendragon
  • The Prisoner of London by Martyn Prince

Dueling Minds (July-Aug. 2000)

  • Until Death Do Us Part image used for stories

Enigmatic Tales Magazine #8-9 (1999-2000)

  • Mallory by Peter Wykes
  • Sap by Kay Fletcher
  • The White Hands by Mark Samuels (unpublished)

Flesh & Blood Magazine #8 (2001)

  • A Thousand Floors, A Thousand Sounds by Mary Sass

Horror Express Chapbooks (2004)

  • Come on in and join us by Guy N. Smith (Chapbook cover & interiors)

Horror Express Graphic Novel (2007)

  • The Attic by Marc Shemmans and Russell Dickerson

Horror Express Magazine #2-5 (2000-2006)

  • Cover and interior art, Horror Express Magazine #4
  • Danse Macabre by Christopher M. Cevasco
  • Ice Maidens of Rattling Brooke by Douglas E Wright
  • No One To Run With by John Messier
  • Shellshocked by Tim Johnson
  • The Boy at the Gate by Barry J. House
  • The Glass Cross by Douglas E Wright

Horror Saves Lives: Four Authors Unite to Fight Cancer (2004)

  • The Bloodspawn by Michael McBride (e-book Cover)

Incubusvane Publishing (2002)

  • Dark Karma (Chapbook cover)

Legend Magazine #1-5 (2001-2002)

  • A Little Onwards (Chapters 1-4) by David Gullen
  • Also cover of #5 based on A Little Onwards
  • Come the Hour by David Gullen

Midnight Street Magazine #1, #3, #10 (2003-2007)

  • cover, Midnight Street #1
  • cover, Midnight Street #10, based on Ghosts by Al Robertson
  • Jack’s House by Jay Lake
  • Old Wounds by Andrew Humphrey
  • The Colour of Water by Rosanne Rabinowitz
  • The Machine of a Religious Man by Ralph Robert Moore

Mindmares Magazine #8-9 (1999-2000)

  • Blood Alley by Christopher Stires
  • Down in the Basement by Tom Draheim
  • Foreshadows of Change by Shikar Dixit

Naked Snake Press (2008)

  • A Beckoning of Shadows by John Grover (cover)

Not One of Us Magazine #32-35 (2004-2006)

  • Another Coming by Sonya Taaffe
  • Stone, and Brass by Jennifer Rachel Baumer
  • The Crying Queen by Lila Garrott
  • The End of the Road By Brent Knowles

Independent authors (2011-2017)

  • Cover art and cover design, Next Time by M.A. Wood (2015; ebook)
  • Cover art and cover design, Colette and the Tiger by John Urbancik (2014; ebook)
  • Cover art and design, Succulent Prey by Wrath James White (2014; ebook)
  • Cover art and design, The Resurrectionist by Wrath James
  • hite (2014; ebook; 2014 print, Bloodbound Books)
  • Cover art and cover design, Fleshbags by Gerald Rice (2011; ebook)
  • Cover art and cover design, Knock Knock by S.P. Miskowski (2011, ebook; 2012, print Omnium Gatherum)
  • Cover art and design, Necropolis Now: Zombie Ascension by Vincenzo Bilof (2012-2013), ebook and print (Severed Press)
  • Cover art and design, Queen of the Dead: Zombie Ascension II by Vincenzo Bilof (2013), ebook and print (Severed Press)
  • Cover art and design, Scratch (ebook) by Brian Keene (2012)
  • Signature sheet, Frankie Funder by Patrick Douglas (2011)

Cemetery Dance Publications (2004)

  • Eyes of the Carp by T.M. Wright (Cover and interior art)

Cemetery Dance Publications (2010-2014)

  • DePompa by William F. Nolan, Dark Delicacies
  • Dereliction by Ray Garton (Cover)
  • Four Ghosts (Interiors) Peter Straub, Ray Garton, James A. Moore, Joe Hill
  • Four Killers  (Interiors) Ray Garton, Peter Straub, Brian Keene, Joe R. Lansdale
  • Scratch by Brian Keene (Cover and Interiors)
  • Vortex by Ray Garton (Cover and Interiors)

Cemetery Dance Magazine #40, 46 (2002-2003)

  • Ghosts Through Her Eyes by Jack Fisher & Gene – Michael Higney
  • Solitaire by Kathryn Ptacek
  • The Secret of Club 262 by James Baker
  • Things by Lawrence C. Connolly

Cemetery Dance Magazine #61 & #63 (2009-2010)

  • Memories by Peter Crowther
  • Variations on a Theme from Seinfeld by Peter Straub

Graveside Tales (2012)

  • Cover art and design, Murdered By Human Wolves by Steven E. Wedel

Dark Regions Press (2011)

  • Foil Design, Multiplex Fandango by Weston Ochse

Prism/British Fantasy Society (2003-2005)

  • captantes capti sumus, interior

Dark Horizons #47  (cover)

  • Harrowfield by Neil Williamson
  • The Ones We Leave Behind By Mark Chadbourn

Redsine (Print, 2000)

  • Blue Reasoning by Robert N. Stephenson
  • Nightbugs by Christopher Stires
  • The Fleshing Rooms by Paul Joyce
  • Unseen by Adam Hodgkiss

Redsine Online (February 2001; unpublished)

  • The Last Honor
  • Those in the Darkness

Roadworks Magazine #9-12, 14, 16 (2000-2003)

  • Bodies of Water by Tim Groome
  • Boneman by Simon Logan
  • Cover of #14, The Courtesy of Guests by Jay Lake
  • Cybersoul by Steve Redwood
  • Idiopathic Condition Red by Paul Pinn
  • Lawn by Kay Fletcher
  • On a Clear Day by Matt Smith
  • Sunset Over Sybaris by Vincent Lynch
  • The Passing of Guests by Jay Lake
  • Windigo by Cliff Burns

Sideshow Press (2010)

  • If Mama Ain’t Happy (unpublished)
  • On You; In You
  • Postcards From Purgatory (chapbook) by Sam W. Anderson

Silver Lake Publishing (2003-2005)

  • Children of Winter by Alice Millais (Cover)
  • Dying Days by Eric S. Brown (Cover)
  • Miller’s Hill by Mathias Mann (Cover)

Subterranean Press (2006)

  • Night Visions 12 (cover), based on Frankenstein, Victor by Simon Clark
  • Campfire Story by P.D. Cacek (unpublished)
  • My God, My God by Simon Clark (unpublished)
  • What Nature Abhors by Mark Morris (unpublished)

Surreal Magazine #1, #5 (2004-2006)

  • Fear of Flying By David Niall Wilson
  • Grandpa’s Flesh by Bonnie Mercure
  • The Reaching Ones, Cover, #1

The Dream Zone Magazine #7 (2000)

  • Rooting the Bush by Jill McGroarty
  • The Tower of Wisdom by David Price

Tim Lebbon’s Noreela Website

  • art based on the novel Dusk, “a quiet respite from the darkness”

Undaunted Press (2003-2004)

  • Bad Mojo (cover) by Eric S. Brown, John Grover & Jason Brannon
  • Dark Harvest (cover) by William P. Simmons & Paul Melniczek
  • Grimm Awakening by Bryan Smith (cover)
  • Under the Skin (cover & interiors) by Bryan Smith
  • Vicious Shivers – Anthology (cover)

Underworlds Magazine #1-2 (2002-2004)

  • Familiar Child by Tom Piccirilli
  • Illusions of Amber by Darren Speegle
  • Small Towns in May by Denise Dumars
  • Something Must Break by C.S. Thompson

Underworlds Magazine #3-5, never published

  • A View From The Lake By Greg F. Gifune
  • Crime Movies By Brian Hodge
  • Cry Quietly By C.S. Thompson
  • Heart’s Hole By Gemma Files
  • Hey, Joe. How’s It Been? By C.S. Thompson
  • Last Exit To Darlington By D.G.K. Goldberg
  • Mourning With The Bones Of The Dead By Gerard Houarner
  • Periphery By Kurt Newton
  • The Shaping By Scott Nicholson
  • The Wound Dresser By Lavie Tidhar
  • Tomato As A Metaphor By T.M. Wright
  • Wrapped in plastic By Simon Logan

Unhinged Online #1-4 (2001-2002)

  • Alice on Wonderland by Staci Layne Wilson
  • Gaia Sings by Gaie Sebold
  • Rattle of the Snake Bone Drum by Sean Russell Friend
  • The Calgary Beggar by Peter Tennant

Wicked Hollow Magazine #1-8 (2001-2004)

  • Cold Cash by Tim Curran
  • Fetal Position by Joel Arnold (also in Spectrum 9)
  • Frost Carnival by Benjamin Coleman
  • Gnaw by Peter Hynes
  • Parting the Veils by Richard Gavin
  • Return on the Downward Road by Sonya Taaffe
  • The Samhain Incident by Michael Greenhut
  • The Wholesome Scent Of Cedar by Darren Speegle
  • To die on a cold, blue world by Justin Stanchfield