Best fantasy convention on the block
The deadline to reserve a room in our block at our convention rate has been extended from May 30th to June 2nd.
Check out our previous post about the deadline or the hotel page for more info on rooms, rates, and all that important stuff.
Please use the latest revision of the Fourth Street flyer and poster.
[This post has been edited to reflect an extension of the room reservation deadline from May 30th to June 2nd.]
The deadline for room reservations at the convention hotel (the Holiday Inn Select Airport in Bloomington, Minnesota) is May 30th, 2008 June 2nd, 2008. If you try to reserve a room after May 30th June 2nd, we can not guarantee that you will get the convention rate or that rooms will even be available.
Our room rates are $95 for a King or Double and $125 for a Suite. Most suites have a sitting room that is separate from the bedroom with a sleeper sofa, desk, mini fridge, microwave, coffee maker, and second TV.
You can contact the hotel at (952) 854-9000 or (800) 465-4329. Tell them you’re with “Fourth Street Fantasy Convention” to get our room rate.
The hotel offers free shuttle service to and from the airport, free parking, and free wireless internet access (with wired access also available for free in some rooms). The hotel is part of a rewards club in case you’re interested in those or already a member of this particular club.
We have more info about the hotel on the hotel page.
If you run into any issues when making your reservation or have any questions that the hotel staff cannot answer, please get in touch with us.
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I was supposed to write an essay months ago for the website, but I have been finding it difficult to bring up coherent memories. Fourth Street was a great deal like disappearing under the hill, visiting the very far lands of Faerie. It was, at least, if Faerie had chocolate-covered coffee beans and a wedding party leaving at six a.m. so that the participants, including the bride and groom, could be back at the convention for the start of panels at ten; if Faerie included Samuel Delany, leaving in the middle of a panel to catch his plane home and stopping the standing ovation he was getting with the startling words, “No, no, sit down and do what you’re doing. This is valuable work”; if Faerie included Jane Yolen and Patricia McKillip doing a joint guest of honor speech; if it included Patrick Nielsen Hayden standing up out of the audience and demolishing the entire premise of a panel and providing a new one, all in a paragraph; if it included a membership so involved in the programming that moderators were sometimes obliged to say they would take only questions, not comments, until later in the hour; if it included sitting around at five in the morning while music was still going on in the other room, discussing simultaneously Dorothy Dunnett, the vagaries and virtues of fountain pens, the flavors of jelly beans, and the proper use of violence in fantasy. A few local writers, both established and aspiring, used to leave early on Sunday, followed by the pleas of their friends to stay longer, because the programming had made them want to do nothing except go home and write. Cally Soukup once stayed up for 72 hours straight at a Fourth Street, because there was always somebody to talk to.
Outdated! I’ve left this here for history, but please get the latest flyer or poster from a more recent posting.
Should you feel the urge to tell your friends about Fourth Street, the latest poster design is available below as a PDF. Feel free to print some out and post them in appropriate places!
This incorporates the extended registration deadline, and is reformatted to work better on walls instead of folded in the mail (or on freebie tables).
Edited to add: I’ve also updated the old-style mailing/freebie table flyer to contain the extended registration deadline.
Our head of Programming Steven Brust says: “If you’re a writer, editor, publisher, or critic, and plan to be at 4th Street, please let me know via email: skzb at dreamcafe dot com.”
Edited to add: You should also contact Steven if you’re interested in being on programming regardless of whether you fit in any of those categories. If you’re passionate about fantasy and are interested in being on a panel, get in touch with Steve.
We’ve extended the deadline for pre-registrations from May 15th to May 31st, 2008. This give us all more time to plug the convention to other folks, it also gives those who haven’t registered yet a bit more time to gather the funds together to do so.
We do really appreciate the pre-registrations we’ve received already, a list of members is available on the website. The earlier we receive registrations, the easier it is for us.
If you haven’t registered yet, you can register online; you’ll also find information on how to register via mail on the Registration page.
