Mythcon History
To give its far-flung membership a chance to meet, and to present papers orally with audience response, The Mythopoeic Society has been holding conferences since its early days. These began with a one-day Narnia Conference in 1969, and the first annual Mythopoeic Conference was held at the Claremont Colleges (near Los Angeles) in September, 1970. (Following the 1969 Narnia conference and the first three Mythcons, the Society published small informal volumes of conference proceedings (index available), but in subsequent years, papers were submitted to Mythlore if the scholar so chose.) The table below contains summary information about each of the Mythopoeic Conferences.