PulpFest

Pulpcon, now PulpFest, was a convention founded by three St.Louis pulp magazine fans -- Ed Kessell, Earl Kussman, and Nils Hardin -- and held over a June weekend in 1972 at the Colony Motor Hotel in Clayton, Missouri.

It was intended at a one-shot convention, gradually Rusty Hevelin became the organizer, and it has effectively continued to this day.

In 2008 the Pulpcon committee split, with one group planning to hold Pulpcon 38 in Dayton, Ohio, and the other group planning to hold Pulpcon 2009 in Columbus, Ohio. The schism was eventually settled with Pulpcon 38 being cancelled, and Pulpcon 2009 being renamed PulpFest.

PulpFest's founding management was Jack Cullers, Barry Traylor, Mike Chomko and Ed Hulse. The current PulpFest Committee is Jack Cullers, Barry Traylor, Mike Chomko, William Lampkin, and William Patrick Maynard.

Awards given out by the convention include the Lamont Award (later the Munsey Award) and the Rusty Hevelin Service Award (better known as the Rusty Award.)

Convention	Dates	GoHs
Pulpcon 1972	1972	Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett
Pulpcon 2	1973
Pulpcon 3	1974
Pulpcon 4	1975
Pulpcon 5	1976	Walter Gibson
Pulpcon 6	1977
Pulpcon 7	1978
Pulpcon 8	1979
Pulpcon 9	1980
Pulpcon 10	1981
Pulpcon 11	1982
Pulpcon 12	1983
Pulpcon 13	1984
Pulpcon 14	1985	Julius Schwartz
Pulpcon 15	1986
Pulpcon 16	July 9-12, 1987	Alex Schomburg
Pulpcon 17	1988
Pulpcon 18	1989
Pulpcon 19	1990
Pulpcon 20	1991
Pulpcon 21	1992
Pulpcon 22	1993
Pulpcon A	1994
Pulpcon 23	1994
Pulpcon 24	1995
Pulpcon 25	1996
Pulpcon 26	1997
Pulpcon 27	1998
Pulpcon 28	1999
Pulpcon 29	2000
Pulpcon 30	2001
Pulpcon 31	2002
Pulpcon 32	2003
Pulpcon 33	2004
Pulpcon 34	2005
Pulpcon 35	2006
Pulpcon 36	2007	Glenn Lord
Pulpcon 37	2008
Pulpcon 38	August 14-16, 2009
PulpFest 2009	July 31-August 2, 2009
PulpFest 2010	2010
PulpFest 2011	2011
PulpFest 2012	2012
PulpFest 2013	2013
PulpFest 2014	August 7-10, 2014
PulpFest 2015	2015
PulpFest 2016	July 21-24, 2016	Ted White
PulpFest 2017	2017	Gloria Stoll Karn
PulpFest 2018	2018	Joe Lansdale
PulpFest 2019	August 15-18, 2019	none
PulpFest 2020	August 6-9, 2020	Eva Lynd

Pulp artist Graves Gladney was a guest.

History at Pulpwiki

File770 report, pulpcon torn apart

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Convention
Website	1972—

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