Calling all Parsec members, fans and friends of Parsec! Please help us revamp our monthly events by filling out our 2025 Event Survey by Sept 20 (Takes only 3–5 min). Your voice = better events in 2026 and forward! parsec-sff.org/parsec-event...

@parseconfluenceink.bsky.social This thanks is late, but Confluence 2025 was delightful. Great panels, readings, and turnout, wonderful volunteers and consuite, and as ever such great opportunities to chat with writers and publishers and take workshops. My library is fuller, my heart also. 😁

Why yes that is me, third from left, so if you want to hear me read my story “N-Body Code” from @parseconfluenceink.bsky.social’s 2024 “Hospitium” anthology, now you can!

Here they are! The winners of the 2025 Parsec Short Story Contest! Congratulations and thank you to all our wonderful writers, our esteemed judges, our fabulous readers, and all the contestants! @parseconfluenceink.bsky.social parsec-sff.org/2025-short-s...

Select Start will be performing on Saturday at 7pm during Confluence 2025! No additional cost for this special performance, with your paid Confluence membership. @selectstartimprov.bsky.social confluence-sff.org/confluence-2...

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Confluence 2025 will be taking place July 25-27, 2025 with GOH @catrambo.bsky.social and Featured Music Guest Clearly Guilty! Register: www.confluence-sff.org. Discounted registration closes July 11. Don't forget to pre-order your 2025 Confluence t-shirt! confluence-sff.org/t-shirt

Submission period closes March 31st! Open to non-professional writers who have not met the eligibility requirements for SFWA Full Membership.

2025 Parsec Ink: Triangulation, Dark Hearts is open for short story and poetry submissions about women anti-heroes! Submissions close Jan 31, 2025. Get the full scoop on the website! parsec-sff.org/parsec-ink/

Hello, this is Mary Soon Lee entering stage left.... Hoping to find some of the folks I used to follow on that other social media platform.... For anyone wondering who I am, I write poetry and fiction, much of it SF and F. I also have a cat, Pilot. And I like to post about books I've enjoyed :-)

Get updates on the 2025 Parsec Ink: Triangulation call for submissions on the website. www.parsec-sff.org

Triangulation: Dark Hearts is open for short story and poetry submissions about women anti-heroes. We’ve received a number of fantasy and horror pieces. We want science fiction, too. We love anything speculative, but right now sci-fi is a less competitive genre. parsec-sff.org/2024-nov-par...

Welcome. Don't be afraid. came out in @parseconfluenceink.bsky.social's Triangulation: Hospitium. After death, before forever, relax. Take a moment. Have a cup of tea. (DM for a copy of the story) www.amazon.co.uk/Triangulatio...

Parsec monthly meeting! Sat 10/19/24 via ZOOM and IN PERSON at the Carnegie Library – Squirrel Hill. Time1pm 3:30pm. Register parsec-sff.org or bit.ly/NewParsec Open to the public & free to attend. In October, our guest will be Day Al-Mohamed, author, filmmaker, and disability policy advisor.

Confluence Program Schedule: confluence-sff.org/program-sche... Direct Link: www.dpsinfo.com/confluence/2...

Now live! I’m excited to have a story in this anthology!

The Kickstarter Campaign for Triangulation: Hospitium has launched! Get early bird pricing on this anthology only until midnight EDT 5/24. Travel the solar system in a spaceship that doubles as a cat café. Read “A Fully Stocked Bar of Cats” by @jamielackey.bsky.social @gregclumpner.bsky.social

Parsec Ink Triangulation has a new Kickstarter launching on Friday 5/24. You can follow now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

ATTENTION! Parsec's May 18th Meeting. Due to a glitch with our ZOOM account, once the regular meeting starts at 1:00 pm, we will ask participants to switch to a new ZOOM link.  That link is: bit.ly/NewParsec  If you're joining after 1:10 pm or so, just use the new link to start: bit.ly/NewParsec

If you missed the March Parsec meeting with guest speaker, Richard Kadrey, you can now watch it on our YouTube channel! youtu.be/FfeBLkZHs4A

📣Last call for Sigma content. I need everything by Sat April 6th.  Send your reviews, updates and announcements to [email protected] Thank you! #newsletter #News

The Confluence writing workshops are now open for registration! No foolin'! Workshops are limited to 15 participants each. Get registered before they fill! Find all the information on the website: confluence-sff.org/writing-work...

Our 2024 Confluence t-shirt is available for pre-order! Our featured artist, @buglady.bsky.social has created an amazing piece for us! Shirts are not guaranteed unless you pre-order. confluence-sff.org/t-shirt

Commiserating with our 2024 Confluence GOH. Been there...

This Saturday, January 20th, 1:00 pm is the Parsec Monthly Meeting at @mtlebanonlibrary Mt.Lebanon Public Library, meeting room A - lower level. This is an in-person meeting with a Zoom option available. For more info or to register for the Zoom meeting, visit: parsec-sff.org

I will be performing a set on classical guitar at the @parseconfluenceink.bsky.social Confluence 2024 Literary Conference this July. @richardkadrey.bsky.social, one of my favorite authors, will be the guest of honor at the conference and all of this makes me ridiculously happy.

Long-time Confluence panelist and science fiction author John Alfred Taylor passed away on October 7, 2023. He was 92. You will be missed, JAT! www.piattandbarnhillfh.com/obituary/joh...

Happy Holidays to all, from Parsec Inc., Confluence, Parsec Ink and WorD.

Join Parsec this Sat, Nov 18 as we welcome E.E. King @eeking.bsky.social as our guest speaker! Meetings are free to attend and open to the public! Visit: www.parsec-sff.org for more info.

CONFLUENCE EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! GET IN ON EARLY BIRD PRICING BEFORE IT'S GONE. confluence-sff.org/registration... Our GOH this year is Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social Our Featured Artist is Christine @buglady.bsky.social Hutson. The Confused Greenies will return in 2024.

If you're going to be around the South Side tonight, there's a great Halloween Reading event by Write or Die at Velum Fermentation. Start time is 7pm! www.velumfermentation.com

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Parsec has a new committee to welcome into the Parsec family organization. WorD, Write or Die writing and critique group has filled the Parsec "Workshop" committee opening. So many changes yet to update. Check out WorD here: www.word-pgh.com

Capclave kicks off in one week, and here's how the current prediction stands. Hoping Saturday's promised rain does indeed limit itself to the morning, as I'd like to record a lightning round donut episode of Eating the Fantastic out on the patio, something I haven't dared attempt since 2019.

Get a preview copy of my other October book, THE PALE HOUSE DEVIL! It's available now on NetGalley in the US and UK. Just follow the link. www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

Breaking News: Americans will once again be able to receive free Covid tests by mail, U.S. officials said, ahead of a possible winter surge. nyti.ms/3POUsZy

Please Repost! "Uncanny Magazine Is Looking for Submissions Editors Once Again!" We are taking applications until September 4! Come and join Team Uncanny! www.uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-maga...