New Pulp. To the uninitiated, it sounds like a contradiction in terms, but it’s a genre that excels at PulpFest. While we’re a convention dedicated to the magazines published before many of us were born, we’re happy to save space for the authors and publishers who are recreating and reinventing the field.
PulpFest co-founder Mike Chomko once wrote, “If you’re a writer who has been inspired by the work of yarn-spinners such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Raymond Chandler, Walt Coburn, Carroll John Daly, Lester Dent, Frederick Faust, Walter B. Gibson, Edmond Hamilton, Robert E. Howard, H. Bedford-Jones, Henry Kuttner, H. P. Lovecraft, Norvell Page, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Williamson, and countless others who churned out commercial fiction for the pulp market, PulpFest is looking for you!”
Since 2009, PulpFest has offered the mic to some of New Pulp’s best writers. On Friday and Saturday afternoons we’re hosting readings by some of today’s stars of New Pulp. We call these sessions the New Fictioneers, and we’re making a call for writers to join the ranks of this elite club. If you write genre fiction -– detective, fantasy, pulp hero, science fiction, western, etc –- you could join the New Fictioneers.
As a New Pulp author, we’d like you spend a few minutes reading from a recent work and then take questions from the audience. At this time we have slots available on both Friday, July 27, and Saturday July 28.
If you’re a writer of contemporary genre fiction who would like to participate in our 2018 festivities, send an email to PulpFest programming director at mike@pulpfest.com. Please provide some information about yourself, your work, where you’ve been published, and whether you’re available Friday, Saturday, or both.
In order to prepare the convention schedule, we need your application to be submitted by April 15, 2018. We only have a limited number of slots available, so please remember first come is first-served. Send your email as soon as possible.
