NerdCon: Stories 2015 edition (Minneapolis, October 9-10)
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2015-10-16) · last mentioned: 2025-11-28
Hank announced NerdCon: Stories in March 2015, a new event celebrating stories on October 9-10, 2015, at the Minneapolis Convention Center. It was held in October, and Hank said it went really great.
Parts: Hank asks viewers to buy NerdCon: Stories 2015 tickets at nerdcon.com before it sells out (2015)
Told alongside: Hank suggests viewers check out NerdCon: Stories 2016 at nerdcon.com (2016) · NerdCon: Stories 2016 edition
About: NerdCon: Stories, Minneapolis Convention Center
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-27 | announced | Hank announces NerdCon: Stories, a new event celebrating stories on October 9-10, 2015, at the Minneapolis Convention Center, with an initial guest list. | Announcing NerdCon: Stories 00:02:39 |
| 2015-08-07 | milestone | NerdCon: Stories is still happening October 9th and 10th in Minneapolis; since VidCon they have been planning it, and most but not all tickets are sold. | Is This Video Cool? 00:03:35 |
| 2015-09-29 | milestone | John says NerdCon: Stories is a week and a half away in Minneapolis, with a great bunch of storytellers coming. | Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling 00:00:25 |
| 2015-10-02 | milestone | Hank says NerdCon: Stories is next week (week of 5 October 2015) and he is very busily prepping for it. | Awkward Stranger Conversations 00:02:49 |
| 2015-10-09 | milestone | Hank says he pre-recorded the video because of too much going on in Minneapolis with NerdCon, so recent events go unmentioned. | The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! 00:03:43 |
| 2015-10-16 (happened 2015-10) | outcome | Hank says NerdCon went really great and he is editing NerdCon material to put on the YouTube channel. | Post-NerdCon Haze 00:00:42 |
| 2016-07-29 | looked back | Hank suggests viewers who want to love things like that check out NerdCon: Stories, the conference he built with a team; last year (2015) was fantastic. (hedged) | Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!) 00:02:57 |
| 2016-09-16 | looked back | Hank says last year's (2015) NerdCon: Stories was wonderful; he is sad he can't attend this year (2016), especially since it is probably the last time it happens. (hedged) | Let's Talk about Failure 00:01:45 |
| 2025-11-28 | looked back | Hank knows Desiree Burch from America: she performed at NerdCon: Stories in 2015. | Three Things! (Wait, no, actually four...) 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
12 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2015-03-27 · Announcing NerdCon: Stories — announcement: Hank says VidCon's full-time staff have lulls between yearly VidCons and wanted another conference, so he chose stories, a cultural institution as important to him as online video, or more. — 00:02:16
- 2015-03-27 · Announcing NerdCon: Stories — announcement: Hank announces NerdCon: Stories, a new event celebrating stories on October 9-10, 2015, at the Minneapolis Convention Center. — 00:02:39
- 2015-03-27 · Announcing NerdCon: Stories — announcement: Hank says they are leaving the door open for possible future NerdCons on other things. (hedged) — 00:02:50
- 2015-03-27 · Announcing NerdCon: Stories — announcement: Hank says NerdCon: Stories will have panels, talks, performances, Q&A sessions and a tiny vendor room, and will be much smaller than VidCon. — 00:02:54
- 2015-03-27 · Announcing NerdCon: Stories — announcement: Hank lists guests: fantasy, sci-fi and YA authors (Rothfuss, Clare, Black, Kowal, Scalzi, Bacigalupi, Woodson, Perkins), musicians Kimya Dawson and Dessa, and shows Welcome to Night Vale, Wits and Story Collider. — 00:03:06
- 2015-08-21 · Book Towers for Miles — announcement: Hank corrects himself: he recently said Cassandra Clare would be at NerdCon: Stories, but she won't be; he apologises. — 00:02:43
- 2015-08-21 · Book Towers for Miles — announcement: Hank lists other NerdCon: Stories guests: Holly Black, Mara Wilson, M.T. Anderson, the Welcome to Night Vale folks, Nalo Hopkinson, Jacqueline Woodson, Rainbow Rowell, John Scalzi, Stephanie Perkins, Pat Rothfuss, Hank and John. — 00:02:51
- 2015-10-13 · John Green's Fiery Race Car Disaster — John: On Friday John and Rosianna left NerdCon: Stories for Princeton, Minnesota, where John raced cars on a dirt track against best-selling author Maggie Stiefvater. — 00:00:01
- 2015-10-16 · Post-NerdCon Haze — Hank says he and John got to hang out at NerdCon in Minneapolis; a very brief interaction between them closes the latest episode of Dear Hank and John. — 00:00:14
- 2015-10-16 · Post-NerdCon Haze — announcement: Hank says NerdCon went really great; he has been editing NerdCon material, some of which goes up on the YouTube channel for people who weren't there and those who were. — 00:00:42
- 2015-10-16 · Post-NerdCon Haze — Hank says he came away from NerdCon with many video ideas and couldn't pick one, so this is one of those videos where he screams and nothing happens. (playful) — 00:01:36
- 2016-09-16 · Let's Talk about Failure — Hank thinks this year's (2016) NerdCon: Stories will be a fantastic time for everyone there, and says that is what really matters. (hedged) — 00:01:55