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Grey and white image of tree roots, human figures, and computer text in the background. Text: ROOTS. 2025 Parsec Short Story Contest. WINNERS. Judged by SJ Powell, Eric Leif Davin, and Barbara A. Barnett

Black and white image of tree roots in the background. Text: ROOTS. Amelia Streeter. A Forest's Vicissitude. Youth Story Prize.

Black and white image of tree roots and human figures. Text: ROOTS. Alicia Maskley. The Flesh We Keep. Third Place.

Black and white image of square roots and a root menu. Text: ROOTS. J.L. Theoret. Blood and Stone. Second Place.

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
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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
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Thank you, FanCons!

There are still openings for the Writing Workshops. Check out the great workshops Charles Oberndorf will be facilitating this year and sign up to attend: confluence-sff.org/writing-work...
Workshop price is included with your Confluence membership, but registration is required.

Confluence 2025, July 25-27th. Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport Hotel. With Guest of Honor, Cat Rambo and Featured music guest, Clearly Guilty. Visit www dot Confluence dash SFF dot org for more information.

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!
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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/

Photo of Pilot, a ginger cat with a white bib and white paws. Pilot is sitting on the box of the board game Terraforming Mars; he is staring up to his left. Behind him is an orchid, mostly hidden, and windows looking onto trees.

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

Meet the Parsec Ink, 2025 Triangulation editors during the Nov 16 Parsec meeting.

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.
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Triangulation: Hospitium (Triangulation Anthologies): Amazon.co.uk: Clumpner, Greg, Ableson, Ian, Aimer, Casey, Bagnall, Robert, Barmby, Pauline, Bellin, Joshua David, Boiteau, Tim, Burnett, Emma, Call, Caleb, Ketchum, Brandon: 9780974323183: Books Buy Triangulation: Hospitium (Triangulation Anthologies) by Clumpner, Greg, Ableson, Ian, Aimer, Casey, Bagnall, Robert, Barmby, Pauline, Bellin, Joshua David, Boiteau, Tim, Burnett, Emma, Call, Caleb, Ketchum, Brandon (ISBN: 9780974323183) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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)
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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:
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Direct Link:
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Now live! I’m excited to have a story in this anthology!

Parsec Ink's Triangulation: Hospitium Kickstarter launch.

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

Coming soon: Triangulation: Hospitium Parsec Ink's 21st anthology of SF/F/H centered around the Greco-Roman concept of hospitality rites and obligations.

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

Our 2024 Guest of Honor, Richard Kadrey visits Parsec to talk about life as a writer and gearing up for the annual Confluence conference. Richard Kadrey is t... April 2024 Parsec meeting with Richard Kadrey

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 newsletter@parsec-sff.org
Thank you!
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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:
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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.
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Commiserating with our 2024 Confluence GOH. Been there...

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@sarenaulibarri.bsky.social

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

We're looking forward to seeing you in July! So excited that you'll be joining us.

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.

That would have been a much better ending!

John Alfred Taylor during a Confluence panel in 2008

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!
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