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 canceled, 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, Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Pulpcon 1972 | June 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 | January 6-9, 1994 | R.G. Harris |
| Pulpcon 23 | August 4-6, 1994 | Hugh B. Cave, Harold Masur |
| Pulpcon 24 | August 3-6, 1995 | Michael Avallone, Hugh B. Cave |
| Pulpcon B | February 8-11, 1996 | Talmage Powell |
| 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 | |
| Canceled. | ||
| PulpFest 2009 | July 31–August 2, 2009 | Start of new series. |
| 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 |
| Canceled due to the Covid-19 epidemic. | ||
| PulpFest 2021 | August 19-22, 2021 | |
| PulpFest 50 | August 4-7, 2022 | |
| PulpFest 2023 | August 3–6, 2023 | |
| PulpFest 2024 | August 1–4, 2024 |
| Convention | |
| 1972— |
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