Over the years, PulpFest has been a strong supporter of New Pulp: stories by modern writers who recreate the style of fiction that appeared in the pulp magazines of yore. The authors who labored for the rough paper industry liked to call themselves scribes, word-slingers, penny-a-worders, and, perhaps the most favored term of all, fictioneers. At PulpFest 2019, we’ll celebrate today’s fictioneers — the authors writing the new pulp fiction! On Friday and Saturday, the convention will feature a variety of authors reading from their works and fielding questions and comments from their listeners.
On Saturday, August 17, you can also join PulpFest 2019 for “Contemporary Pulp: Writing the New Pulp Fiction.” Moderated by Fu Manchu author William Patrick Maynard, this panel will feature some of today’s leading New Pulp authors. Joining Bill will be John Bruening, Christopher Paul Carey, and Will Murray.
While you’re waiting for the convention, why not try New Pulp Tales? It publishes weekly installments harkening back to the golden era of magazine storytelling. The website was born as a result of Chinese food and a Heidi Ruby Miller class on the rising genre of New Pulp. Like-minded classmates in Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction Master’s Program joined together to create a web platform where they could create original pulp tales for a modern audience. These tales span the genres of Sword and Sorcery, Weird Fiction, Detective Tales, and Science Fiction. There are currently six ongoing stories to dive into on the site.
Give them a try. You’ll find New Pulp Tales at www.newpulptales.com/.
(At the urging of Death, even The Shadow is giving New Pulp Tales a try. At least that’s what we think George Rozen was trying to depict when he painted the cover art for “The Book of Death.” It was the lead novel for the January 15, 1942 number of Street & Smith’s THE SHADOW.)
