It’s Pen Show season! If you’re a fountain pen aficionado and stationery enthusiast, attending a pen show can be great fun. Did you know we’ve got a list of all the pen shows we know about? And I’ve just updated that list today with all the 2025 dates that I can find. As always, if we’ve missed a show that you know of, please leave us a comment and we’ll add it to the compendium.
If you’ve never attended a pen show, or want to live vicariously through someone else, Mike from Inkdependence usually does a live stream of the shows he attends. Check out his 2+ hour extravaganza from this past Friday in Baltimore (stay tuned until the end and you’ll see a pink-haired ink wielding goddess!).
That pen show calendar was getting a little dusty, so we pulled it out, checked our links and added the 2025 dates where we can find them! We've also added a new section devoted to stationery fests (Yoseka started a trend) and other planner shows. As always, if we missed…
First, there's just a few hours left to back The Pen Addict Live 2017 - RelayCon Atlanta & DC Pen Show on Kickstarter and get a chance to the special video of Brad and Myke in Atlanta (and ME in the third chair) AND get the cool Pen Addict podcast NockCo…
Laura posted her impressions and photos from the St. Louis Pen Show yesterday. For me, as a staff member for Team Dromgoole's, the show is a much different experience. I don't get time to take classes or shop. I am up and out the door several hours before the show…
I had to laugh… Pen Show season is a looong one! Denver is in October. I went last year and it was barely a show. Only about 1/2 as big as pre-covid.
Makes me a little sad.
Posting here, just in case someone who lost a pen case at the Baltimore Pen Show reads this. I found this on Reddit, and am trying to do my part in reuniting the person with their pens. Luckily a nice person found the pen case, and posted on Reddit.
I had to laugh… Pen Show season is a looong one! Denver is in October. I went last year and it was barely a show. Only about 1/2 as big as pre-covid.
Makes me a little sad.
Posting here, just in case someone who lost a pen case at the Baltimore Pen Show reads this. I found this on Reddit, and am trying to do my part in reuniting the person with their pens. Luckily a nice person found the pen case, and posted on Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/1j8dj5m/this_lost_case_was_found_at_the_baltimore_pen/