Hotel Information

With exciting news of MidSouthCon returning to the bluff city, we are pleased to provide you with the information you can use to book a room at the new hotel and maximize you experience with us. We are pleased to announce that we've been able to secure room rates at $85 per night. In addition, there are no specific room party rates either.

To book your hotel room online:

Click here to book your room
Group Name:Mid South Con 2011
Group Code:MC0325

Or you can contact the hotel via phone at the number below and use the group information above.


939 Ridge Lake Boulevard
Memphis, Tennessee
USA 38120
Tel: +1-901-684-6664
Fax: +1-901-762-7496

This 405-room Memphis, Tennessee hotel was designed by the late Memphis, TN architect Francis Mah, and has undergone an extensive multi-million dollar renovation to return the hotel to its once-grand glory. This Hilton hotel in Memphis offers more of the comfort, amenities and entertainment choices travelers to the Memphis, TN area desire. Whether you are on a vacation, with a group or meeting, or on an individual business trip, this Hilton hotel in Memphis, TN has something for everyone, including meeting rooms and public space. Guests will enjoy the superbly furnished residential rooms. The Hilton Memphis, Tennessee hotel features breathtaking views of the Memphis, TN skyline in every room because of our floor to ceiling windows.

Hilton Memphis Hotel Features Include:

  • Rooks Corner - an American Bistro, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner
  • Lobby Bar - to quench any thirst
  • Beautifully-landscaped outdoor pool and whirlpool
  • Complimentary security monitored parking
  • Valet parking available
  • 24-hour fitness center with our new in 2007 Fitness by Precor®
  • 24-hour access to our self-service Business Center
  • Hotel gift shop catering to all business and personal needs
  • Gate controlled, security monitored valet parking
  • Complimentary airport shuttle service

Hilton Memphis, TN Hotel Guest Room Features Include:

  • New in 2008 Flat-Screen Televisions, 32-inch in our Standard rooms and 37-inch in our Deluxe Level rooms
  • 405 tastefully decorated guestrooms, including seven suites
  • 66 Deluxe Level rooms located on the top four floors of the hotel with larger 37-inch Flat-Screen Televisions
  • Wireless high-speed Internet access available in all 405 rooms as well as in the meeting spaces and public areas
  • Serenity Bed Collection® featuring the Hilton Suite Dreams Mattress & Box Springs by Serta®
  • Bath amenities featuring the La Source line from Crabtree & Evelyn®
  • Hilton's signature MP3-capable alarm clock radio
  • USA Today® each weekday morning
  • Two dual-line phones with data ports and voicemail
  • Over 30,000 square feet of meeting space, enough to handle two persons or a reception for 1,600

 

Hilton Memphis, Tennessee Hotel Neighborhood:

  • Less than 10 miles from Memphis International Airport
  • Convenient to many corporate headquarters in the "Poplar Corridor"
  • Close to shopping at Oak Court Mall
  • Easy access to all major highways and interstates
  • Easy access to the Pink Palace, Memphis Zoo, Graceland, the FedEx Forum, and Beale Street
  • Close to many golf courses, including the TPC at Southwind
Travel should take you places™. The Hilton Memphis hotel in Memphis, Tennessee is located in the heart of the East Memphis business district and a short drive from Beale Street, FedEx Forum, Elvis Presley’s Graceland, the Memphis Zoo, Liberty Bowl, Memphis International Airport (MEM), The University of Memphis, The University of Tennessee at Memphis, the Civil Rights Museum, the Loraine Hotel, and downtown Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis is also the home of the Grizzlies and the Redbirds; so come to Memphis, enjoy a game and stay with us at the Hilton Memphis, TN hotel.

 

Social Sites

  • Facebook Page: 55850644456
  • MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/MidSouthCon
  • Twitter: midsouthcon
  • YouTube: midsouthcon

Sci Fi News

  • Borders Goes Beyond Books
    In the wake of disappointing sales for the second quarter, Borders Group has announced plans to expand non-book products in many of their 679 stores. CEO Mike Edwards said, “We are taking steps to transform our retail model, in part through high-impact strategic partnerships, like Build-A-Bear Workshop, that enable us to offer a compelling mix [...]
  • Stephenson & Bear Collaborate
    Neal Stephenson & Greg Bear, with Subutai Corporation, announced the launch of their speculative fiction historical adventure novel The Mongoliad, released on PULP, Subutai’s new, interactive social book platform. The platform immerses readers into the world of the novel, letting them experience “meta-narrative” and “para-narrative” by inclusion of character sketches, videos, articles, short stories, music [...]
  • Black Library announces Hammer and Bolter
    Gaming-related publisher Black Library has announced a new downloadable short fiction magazine, Hammer and Bolter, to launch in October as part of their new e-book publishing initiative. Each issue will sell for £2.50, and the debut issue will feature a previously-unpublished Warhammer story by John Brunner, who died in 1995. Other authors contributing work to [...]
  • The Speed of Time

     

    “Light goes by at the speed of time,” Marlys once told me.

    That was a joke, of course. Light can be slowed to a standstill in a photon trap, travel on going nowhere at all forever in the blueing distance of an event horizon, or blaze through hard vacuum as fast as information itself moves through the universe. Time is relentless, the tide which measures the perturbations of the cosmos. The 160.2 GHz hum of creation counts the measure of our lives as surely as any heartbeat.

    There is no t in e=mc2.

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Mission

Our primary focuses are literacy and education. To that end, we have held an annual convention in Memphis, TN for over two decades hosting numerous authors, editors, scientists, and artists. We also hold a free seminar for educators and librarians, a writers' conference with workshops by award winning authors and editors, and annual student art and writing contests.

Non-Profit

MidSouthCon is presented by Mid-South Science and Fictions Conventions Inc. a non-profit type 501(c)(3) Corporation. Donations are welcome (and are tax deductible).

Contact

Address: MidSouthCon
P.O. Box 17724
Memphis, TN 38187-0724
info@midsouthcon.org
www.midsouthcon.org