Rivercon

Rivercon was a convention held in Louisville, KY from 1975 to 2000. It was originally started as a DeepSouthCon and grew into an annual convention and later spawned the NASFiC by running NorthAmeriCon in 1979. Cliff Amos, Steve & Sue Francis and Bob Roehm were the founding fans. A regular feature of the convention was a cruise on the riverboat, The Belle of Louisville, and the tradition developed of asking the guest artist to do art for the program book cover featuring the Belle.

Read Bob Roehm's 20th Anniversary History of Rivercon.

Rivercon gave out two named awards: It presented each of its GoHs with the Pegasus Award, a hand-made glass pegasus designed in 1977 by Shelby Bush and, from 1980, made by Steve Scherer. See below for a list of GoHs and, hence, winners. The Ming Award was given to the masquerade winner. It was a hand-made glass statuette of Ming the Merciless designed by Shelby Bush in 1977 and, from 1980, made by Steve Scherer. It also became customary to have the state declare a member a Kentucky Colonel.

Rivercon was officially shut down after a big bash at Rivercon XXV. Rivercon achieved the rare distinction for a convention of shutting down voluntarily while still healthy.

In 2014, a one day gaming/comic book convention in South Bend, IN, used the name River-Con, but was cancelled amidst allegations of embezzlement.

Convention	Dates	GoHs
Rivercon I	July 25-27, 1975	Philip José Farmer, Buck and Juanita Coulson
Rivercon II	July 30-August 1, 1976	Poul Anderson, Jodie Offutt
Rivercon III	July 29-31, 1977	Larry Niven, Sandra Miesel
Rivercon IV	July 28-30, 1978	Robert Bloch, Ned Brooks
Rivercon V	August 1-3, 1980	Roger Zelazny, Lou Tabakow
Rivercon VI	July 24-26, 1981	Jack Williamson, Mike Resnick, Carol Resnick
Rivercon VII	July 23-25, 1982	Gordon R. Dickson, Dave Kyle
Rivercon VIII	July 15-17, 1983	L. Sprague de Camp, Catherine Crook de Camp, Rusty Hevelin
Rivercon IX	July 20-22, 1984	Andrew Offutt, Don Eastlake, Jill Eastlake
Rivercon X	July 26-28, 1985	George R. R. Martin, John Millard
Rivercon XI	July 25-27, 1986	C. J. Cherryh, Dick Lynch, Nicki Lynch
Rivercon XII	July 31-August 2, 1987	Bob Shaw, Ken Moore
Rivercon XIII	July 29-31, 1988	Kelly Freas, Samanda b Jeude
Rivercon XIV	July 28-30, 1989	Jack Chalker, Dick Spelman
Rivercon XV	August 3-5, 1990	Mike Resnick, George "Lan" Laskowski
Rivercon XVI	August 2-4, 1991	Lois McMaster Bujold, Leslie Turek, Debbie Hughes
Rivercon XVII	July 31-August 2, 1992	Mercedes Lackey, Laurie Mann, Doug Chaffee
Rivercon XVIII	August 6-8, 1993	Joe Haldeman, Jane Dennis, Scott Dennis, Vincent Di Fate
Rivercon XIX	July 29-31, 1994	Forrest J Ackerman, Verna Smith Trestrail, Paul Lehr
Rivercon XX	September 1-4, 1995	Philip José Farmer Robert Coulson, Juanita Coulson
Rivercon XXI	August 9-11, 1996	Nancy Kress, Annette Carrico, Darryl Elliott, Jack Williamson
Rivercon XXII	July 18-20 1997	Terry Bisson, Larry Elmore, Barry Childs-Helton, Sally Childs-Helton
Rivercon XXIII	July 31 - August 2, 1998	Harry Turtledove, Kevin Ward, Julee Johnson-Tate, Chris Tate
Rivercon XXIV	July 30 - August 1, 1999	Esther M. Friesner, Pat Sims, Roger Sims, Gary M. Williams
Rivercon XXV	July 28-30, 2000	All former guests

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Convention
	1975—2000

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