Confluence will be held July 23-24-25, 2027
Location: Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport Hotel
1160 Thorn Run Road Extension. Coraopolis, PA 15108
REGISTRATION ︱ BOOK HOTEL ROOM ︱ HOTEL Function Space MAP
︱PROGRAM SCHEDULE︱
2027 Guest of Honor, Sarah Pinsker
Sarah Pinsker is the author of over sixty works of short fiction, one novella, two novels, and two collections. Her work has won four Nebula Awards (Best Novel, A Song For A New Day; Best Novelette, “Our Lady of the Open Road,” Best Novelette, “Two Truths And A Lie,” Best Short Story, “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather,”), two Hugo Awards (“Two Truths And a Lie” and “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”), the Philip K Dick Award, the Locus Award, the Eugie Foster Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and been nominated for numerous Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. Her fiction has been translated into almost a dozen languages and published in magazines including Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Uncanny and in many anthologies and year’s bests. Visit her website for more info: https://sarahpinsker.com/bio
Bibliography
Featured Music Guest: TBA
Coming soon!
More great musicians performing Confluence weekend!
With performance ASL for select concerts by Judi Miller
Judi Miller has been active in the filk community since the 1980s. Winner of the Pegasus Award for Best Performer in 2006 and 2017 and admitted to the Filk Hall of Fame in 2017, Judi is best known for her sign-language musical interpretation, which she has done for concerts at our conference and elsewhere for many years. She was our 30th Anniversary Honors Guest in 2019 and we are very glad that she can be with us again.
Featured Artist: TBA
Coming Soon!
If you plan on mailing or bringing artwork to Confluence for selling in the art show, please fill out the Artist Participant form on the Info for Artists page. Completing this form helps us get your payment to you faster!
Our featured artists creates the artwork we will use for our shirt, program book and badges.
Shirts are not guaranteed unless you pre-order!
Writing Workshops with TBA
Facilitator Coming Soon!
Workshop Registration:
- Signup is required. Visit the WRITING WORKSHOPS page for more info.
- A Confluence membership is required to attend and register for the workshops. There is no additional cost for the workshops.
- Both workshops are limited to 14 participants! One workshop per person, please!
- Workshops are 2.5-3 hours in length.
- Workshops will be held in the Board Room this year!
Facilitator bio will be here.
PITCH SESSIONS
- Signup is required.
- There is no additional cost but a Confluence membership is required to attend and register for the pitch sessions.
- Each pitch sessions is limited to the first ten participants that sign up!
Visit the PITCH SESSIONS page for more info:
Programming You Don’t Want to Miss!
Friday: Opening Ceremonies
Friday July 26 at 7p.m
Join the Confluence committee and guests of the conference for an inside look at the Confluence weekend.
Someone will lead the singing of “Three Days Away from the Ratrace” with audience participation.
Printed sheet music will be provided or can be DOWNLOADED or accessed through the WEBSITE.
The Parsec Short Story contest* winners will be announced by the coordinator for the 2027 contest.
*The Parsec Short Story Contest winning story is printed in the Confluence program book.
Saturday Featured Entertainers: TBA!
Saturday July 24th in Ballroom 1. Doors open for seating at 6:45. Performance starts at 7pm.
How many years have you been with Confluence?
Who can name the play shown in the photo and the year it was performed?
Confluence Book Discussion Groups 2027
For several years, Confluence has looked back on the SF and fantasy of 50 years ago. We plan to do that again this year, with a panel discussing the works of TBA. In addition, we are adding something new: book discussion groups, where any readers can read the books in advance, then show up to discuss the work in question.
TBA
Once the 2027 books are listed, check the schedule and join your fellow readers.
Project Hail Mary
Writing “Exercises” will be in the Equinox room.
Facilitators: TBA
No signup is required.
Saturday 9-10am
Sunday 9-10am
Attendees should bring a pen and paper or a computing device to write with—whatever suits you.
Hotel Map:
Staff
These are the people that volunteer their time to bring Confluence to you!
(+ Mary Tabasko)
Treasurer &
Cat herder
Nancy Janda and
Lara Van Winkle.
Consuite crew
Art Show Staff
Hotel Liaison
(with Laura Schmid)
Sound Techs
Confluence 2025 Masking Policy
😷 Masking is optional and vaccines are not required. 🙂
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