Although we’re nearly a year away from putting the next issue of The Pulpster into your hands, we’re beginning to line up articles for our 2027 number. Are you interested in contributing? The Pulpster 36 will debut next summer at PulpFest 2027.
For more than 50 years, PulpFest has celebrated mystery, adventure, science fiction, and more. We’ll mark the 90th anniversary of The Shadow radio drama’s debut, featuring a young Orson Welles as the title character.
Although it differed from the character featured in Street & Smith magazine, The Shadow radio drama was an important way for many people to discover the pulps. Have something to write about The Shadow? Or do you want to tackle another magazine, writer, artist, or editor? We’d love to hear from you.
We’re always happy to have articles related to our PulpFest themes, but we don’t limit contributions to those topics. Each issue blends essays on the men and women who wrote, illustrated, edited, and published the pulps; magazine histories; and pieces on the pulp-collecting hobby itself.
And don’t forget we’re always looking for articles that tie into our associated conventions—Doc Con 2027, ECOF 2027 (replacing ERBFest), FarmerCon XXII, and The Shadow Con 2027.
Please remember we’ve covered many of these topics before and don’t want to repeat ourselves. However, we welcome fresh angles or new perspectives.
There are two routes you can take to help us out:
- Do you have an idea for an article you’d like to write for The Pulpster? Please drop us a line and let us know.
- Do you have an idea for an article you’d like to read in The Pulpster, but not necessarily write? Let us know that, too. We’ll try to recruit someone to write it.
If you have an idea, email me at bill@thepulpster.com. The sooner I hear from you, the better; I have to plan space for articles and start collecting artwork and illustrations. The deadline to submit your finished article is May 1, 2027. (Earlier is always better.)
If you’d like to advertise in The Pulpster, please write to the magazine’s publisher, Mike Chomko, at mike@thepulpster.com. He can provide pricing and print specifications. If you’d like a cover spot, they sell out quickly, so reach out as soon as possible.
And of course, please register for PulpFest 2027 to ensure you get a copy of next year’s issue.
If you can’t attend PulpFest in 2027, consider registering as a supporting member. As a thank-you for your contribution, we’ll mail you a copy of The Pulpster #36 after the convention. All PulpFest members — including supporting members — receive a free copy of The Pulpster as part of their membership.
To order a copy of the current issue of The Pulpster or select back issues, please click here.
We look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you at our 55th PulpFest. It’s scheduled for August 5 to 8 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania.
Our featured image is excerpted from Frank McAleer’s cover for the August 1927 number of Air Stories. Published by Fiction House, it was the first aviation pulp to land on America’s newsstands.
William Lampkin adapted our lead image from George Rozen’s cover art for The Shadow for May 1, 1938, illustrating Walter B. Gibson’s “Cards of Death.”
Gibson, who wrote 282 of The Shadow’s original 325 adventures, was born on September 12, 1897. Next year will be the 130th anniversary of his birth. Our final image is Gibson at his typewriter around 1941. Thanks to ThePulp.Net for sharing the photograph with us.
Bill Lampkin edits our award-winning program book, The Pulpster. Called “one of the unsung heroes of contemporary pulp fandom,” Bill is also the advertising director for PulpFest and manages its website. The founder of the Southern Pulpsters Facebook group, Bill also runs ThePulp.Net and writes the Yellowed Perils blog. He won the Munsey Award in 2018.
