CONFLUENCE, The Annual Literary Sci-Fi/F/H Conference in Pittsburgh, PA originally scheduled for July 19-21, 2013 was cancelled due to the Holiday Inn Hotel cancelling our contract.*
THERE WILL BE NO CONFLUENCE 2013!
Notes: Convention was scheduled for July 26-28. FFG was slated to be Brooke Abbey. Play was slated to be “Harry Potter’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (a travesty of the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling set to Beatles music), written by Randy Hoffman and the Parallax Second Players for performance by the Parallax Second Players. However, the convention hotel was closed and the convention had to be canceled.
Parsec Ink anthology. Triangulation: Steel Cities
Editor: Steve Ramey
Creative, intriguing and sometimes emotional, this edition of Triangulation includes many variations on the theme “Steel Cities”. From pigeons to sentient buildings, love stories to radioactive planets, mysterious entities to all-too-human beings and a planet that gives new meaning to the term “ghost city”, you’ll find a wide variety of interesting reading within the pages of this short story anthology.
Parsec Short Story Contest:
2013 THEME: STEEL CITIES
- First Place: “Cities of Dust and Steel” Tom Wortman
- Second Place: “The Bloomery” L. L. Joseph
- Third Place: “The Steel Awoke From Long Forgetting Time” Peter Dennis
*THE HOTEL HAS BEEN SOLD AND WILL NO LONGER BE FUNCTIONING AS A HOTEL
The Holiday Inn Airport is closing 4 days before the conference. The hotel informed us of this very recently. The committee is unable to find an alternate site on short notice.
We wanted to inform everyone who might be considering attending/working Confluence as soon as possible.
Our sincerest apologies for the inconvenience.
We are all saddened by this sudden turn of events.