Participate – Tell-Tale Steampunk

PLEASE READ THE RULES & GUIDELINES BEFORE APPLYING:

Workshop & Panel Guidelines

All workshops and panels are scheduled for one hour. If you require additional time, please indicate this in the notes section of your application.
Set-up and breakdown time is built into the schedule and does not count toward your hour. You have a half hour before and after. Please keep in mind that you will be sharing that time with the workshop runner before and after our time slot.
Submitting a form does not guarantee acceptance. Space and time slots are limited. You will be notified of your acceptance status no later than three months before the event.
All panelists are required to purchase a ticket to attend, unless prior arrangements have been made with the show runners.
Promotion Materials: Panelists should be prepared to provide imagery and a fun, detailed description of their panel. All panels will be advertised and listed on our website as part of our promotional efforts.

Workshop Pre-Sales & Payment Information

Tell-Tale Steampunk actively promotes all workshops and works hard to help you sell as many tickets as possible. Tell-Tale Steampunk Festival can not guarantee any level of attendance for workshops. We ask that if chosen for a workshop you provide an image to use for promotions. To support this, we offer an online pre-order system for your workshop. Here’s how it works:

We will list your workshop on our website and handle all online promotion.
A small handling fee of $5 will be added to the ticket price to cover pre-ordered online payment processing.
Prior to the event, we’ll provide you with a full list of pre-sale attendees.
You will receive your payment via PayPal within three days after the show concludes.
Workshop runners will be responsible for handling payments from any walk-ins or attendees who wish to sign up during the weekend of the show. Alternatively, they may refer participants to the online sign-up form, which will remain open until one hour before each workshop begins.
Tell-Tale Steampunk Festival wants your workshop to sell out, to do so we will need images/videos or whatever else you can provide for us to advertise. Please make sure upon approval you have at least one good quality image for us to use.

Workshops provide attendees with the opportunity to make and take an item with help from and expert. If you run a workshop you will provide attendees all the supplies and use of tools needed to make the item.

Panelist & Workshop Applications

Guest speakers, workshops and panels are extremely important to our festival. Last year we promoted every panel and workshop at least five times on social media and posted details and pictures to the website,

We sold out of three workshops prior to the show opening due to the advertising efforts and all workshops were well attended.

Application cut off date is January 1, 2026. We will inform everyone of acceptance by February 1, 2026.

Entertainment Applications

Entertaining our guest is our top priority. We strive to have a variety of entertainment options for everyone to enjoy.

2026 Applications coming soon!