PulpFest 2016 will begin on Thursday, July 21. The dealers’ room will be open to registered sellers to set up their displays from 4 to 11 PM. Early registration for all convention attendees will take place outside the dealers’ room in the Battelle South exhibition hall on the third floor of the Greater Columbus Convention Center from 4 to 8 PM. There will be early-bird shopping available to PulpFest members who will be staying at the Hyatt Regency Columbus or those who elect to purchase an early-bird membership from 6 to 9 PM. Our full slate of programming for Thursday evening will get underway at 9:10 PM.
If you have not yet booked a room for your stay, call 1-888-421-1442 to reach the Hyatt Regency. Perhaps there has been a cancellation. Please book a room for three nights and register now for “Summer’s AMAZING Pulp Con.”
If you can’t find a room at the Hyatt Regency Columbus, you’ll find a list of area hotels courtesy of the Greater Columbus Convention Center at www.columbusconventions.com/thearea.php. Alternately, you can search for a room at tripadvisor or a similar website to find a hotel near the convention. Thanks so much to everyone who has reserved a room at our host hotel. By staying at the Hyatt Regency, you’ve helped to ensure the convention’s success.
Below, you’ll find our complete schedule for the entire convention. To learn more about a particular programming event, click on its title link. We look forward to seeing you in a week.
Thursday, July 21st
Dealers’ Room
4:00 PM – 11:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Set-Up
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM — Early Registration
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Opens for Early-Bird Shopping
Programming
9:10 – 9:55 PM — Street & Smith’s Second Stringers — The Whisperer and The Skipper (Will Murray)
10:05 – 10:50 PM — Traveling through Time with H. G. Wells (Garyn Roberts)
11:00 PM — Pulps in the Pub (join your friends in the hotel bar and talk pulp)
Friday, July 22nd
Dealers’ Room
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM — Early Registration and Dealers’ Room Set-Up
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All
Programming
1:00 – 4:15 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — see full schedule on day of show
6:55 – 7:00 PM — Welcome to PulpFest 2016 (Convention Chairman Jack Cullers)
7:00 – 7:40 PM — FarmerCon XI — Collaborating with Philip José Farmer (moderator Paul Spiteri with authors Danny Adams, Christopher Paul Carey, and Win Scott Eckert)
7:50 – 8:35 PM — The Artists of THE ARGOSY — 120 Years of Sensational Pulp Artists (David Saunders)
8:45 – 9:30 PM — AMAZING STORIES — The First Science-Fiction Pulp (Joseph Coluccio, president of the Pittsburgh Area Fantasy and Science Fiction Club)
9:40 – 10:20 PM — A Century of the Specialty Pulp — LOVE STORY MAGAZINE and the Romance Pulp Phenomenon (Laurie Powers)
10:30 – 11:15 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp — WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE and the Evolution of the Pulp Western (Will Murray)
Saturday, July 23rd
Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All
10:00 AM – 10:00 PM — Gaming Track in the Clark Room, Second Floor
Programming
1:00 – 1:50 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — see full schedule on day of show
2:00 – 2:50 PM — The AMAZING World of New Pulp (moderator Ron Fortier with authors Barbara Doran, Win Scott Eckert, Andy Fix, and Jeff Fournier on “Writing Hero Pulp”)
3:00 – 3:50 PM — Ten Years in The Shadow’s Sanctum — Anthony Tollin’s Sanctum Books (with Will Murray)
5:00 – 6:50 PM — PulpFest 2016 Group Meal at Dick’s Last Resort (Volunteer coordinator Sally Cullers)
7:00 – 7:20 PM — 2016 Munsey Award (to be presented by a previous award winner)
7:30 – 8:15 PM — Our Guest of Honor (Ted White, editor emeritus of AMAZING STORIES)
8:25 – 9:10 PM — 120 Years of THE ARGOSY — The World’s First Pulp Magazine (Doug Ellis)
9:20 – 9:40 PM — PulpFest 2016 Business Meeting (meet the convention organizers)
10:00 PM – ??— Saturday Night at the Auction (John Gunnison, auctioneer)
Sunday, July 24th
Dealer’s Room
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All (many dealers will be packing up; buying opportunities may be limited)
Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
The PulpFest 2016 dealers’ room will be in the Battelle South exhibition hall on the third floor of the Greater Columbus Convention Center.
All PulpFest 2016 programming will take place in the Union Rooms on the second floor of the Hyatt Regency Columbus.
The PulpFest 2016 Gaming Track will take place in the Clark Room on the second floor of the Hyatt Regency Columbus.
For questions about our programming, please write to our programming director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
For questions about our New Fictioneers Readings, please write to our afternoon programming director Chuck Welch at chuck@pulpfest.com.
For questions about our dealers’ room, please write to our convention chairperson Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com.
(The PulpFest 2016 post card features Frank R. Paul’s cover art from the August 1927 issue of AMAZING STORIES, illustrating H. G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds.”)
