FarmerCon XVII

WHERE & WHEN

Thursday, August 4th – Sunday, August 7th 2022 in Pittsburgh, PA at PulpFest 50!!

HOW TO REGISTER

To sign up for FarmerCon XVII, first email mike@pjfarmer.com to be added to the email list and facebook group.

While there is no charge to attend FarmerCon XVII, you must Register with PulpFest to attend.

BOOK YOUR ROOM

Stay at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh/Cranberry and get discounts on your PulpFest registration. However, you must book your room by July 5th, or before the block sells out. This is a new hotel in a new city for PulpFest and we couldn't be more excited.

PULPFEST PROGRAMMING

THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2002

Dealers' Room
11:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Set-Up
12:00 PM – 4:45 PM — Member Registration and Early-Bird Shopping

Auction Preview
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM — Estate Auction Preview (in auction set-up rooms)

Hotel Lounge
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM — Pizza at PulpFest (Sponsored by Our Generous PulpFest Dealers)

Evening Programming
7:00 PM – 7:05 PM — Welcome to PulpFest (Chairman Jack Cullers)
7:10 PM – 7:55 PM — Fifty Years of PulpFest (Jack Cullers, Tony Davis, Don Hutchison, Sara Light-Waller, and Walker Martin, with William Lampkin moderating)
8:00 PM – 8:45 PM — Nick Eggenhoffer — Dean of Western Illustrators (David Saunders)
8:50 PM – 9:35 PM — Popular’s Chameleon — Dime Mystery (Ed Hulse & Garyn Roberts)
9:40 PM – 10:25 PM — Robert E. Howard and Fiction House (Morgan Holmes)
10:30 PM – 11:15 PM — FarmerCon XVII Panel — Lord Grandrith, Doc Caliban, and Lovecraft (Win Scott Eckert and Frank Schildiner, with Rick Lai moderating)
11:30 PM – 1:00 AM — North-West Stories — King of the Royal Mounted, Chapters 1 – 4, and Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties

FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2022

Dealers' Room
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM — Early Registration and Dealers’ Room Set-Up
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All PulpFest Members

Afternoon Programming
1:30 PM – 2:20 PM — Forty Years of The Savage Society of Bronze (Jennifer DiGiacomo and Will Murray)
2:30 PM – 3:20 PM — Bringing the Pulps Into the 21st Century — The Writers (William Patrick Maynard & panelists to  be announced)
3:30 PM – 4:20 PM — Made Ya Flinch! — In-Your-Face Pulp-Style Adventure Fiction! (Jim Beard and John Bruening of Flinch! Books)

Auction Preview
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM — Estate Auction Preview (in auction set-up rooms)

Evening Programming
7:00 PM – 7:45 PM — George Gross — From Pulps to Paperbacks (Bob Deis and Wyatt Doyle)
7:50 PM – 8:35 PM — The Hardboiled West (Ed Hulse and Will Murray)
8:40 PM – 9:25 PM — Fiction House Comics (Jim Beard)
9:30 PM – 10:25 PM — Planet Stories and The Romance of Space (Sara Light Waller)
10:30 PM – 11:15 PM — Meteor House — Collaborating with the Grand Master (Mike Croteau, Win Scott Eckert, and Paul Spiteri, with Keith Howell moderating)
11:30 PM – 1:00 AM — North-West Stories — King of the Royal Mounted, Chapters 5 – 8, and Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2022

Dealers' Room
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All Pulpfest Members

Afternoon Programming
1:30 PM – 2:20 PM — Influence or Coincidence? Hemingway’s Fiction and Hammett’s Hardboiled Pulp (Craig McDonald & panelists to  be announced)
2:30 PM – 3:20 PM — Bringing the Pulps Into the 21st Century — The Artists (Sara Light Waller & Mark Wheatley)
3:30 PM – 4:20 PM — The Universe According to Edgar Rice Burroughs (ERB, Inc. panelists to  be announced)

Auction Preview
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM — Estate Auction Preview (in auction set-up rooms)

Evening Programming
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM — PulpFest Annual Business Meeting (meet the convention organizers)
7:40 PM – 8:00 PM — 2022 Munsey Award Presentation (presented by Rich Harvey)
8:15 PM – 11:15 PM — Carl Joecks Estate Auction & PulpFest 50 Member Auction
11:30 PM – 1:00 AM — North-West Stories — King of the Royal Mounted, Chapters 9 – 12, and Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties

SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2022

Dealer's Room
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Open for Dealer Tear-Down and Last Minute Shopping

Please note that the schedule above is subject to change. To learn more about each presentation, click on the link that is embedded in each title.

Our featured images have been adapted by PulpFest advertising director William Lampkin from George Gross’ cover art for All-American Football Magazine, the Fall 1949, 2nd number, published by Fiction House, and Walter Baumhofer’s cover art for the April 1934 Dime Western Magazine, published by Popular Publications.