Dedicated to rewarding excellence in various aspects of Speculative Fiction Podcasting


the Parsec Award is available for Sci-fi & Fantasy Original Content, podiobooks and a variety of other categories dealing with the new frontiers of Portable Media.


The 4th annual Parsec Awards will be held at the Dragon*con convention held September 4 through September 7, 2009.

Nominees Update

A quick update the nominations are closed and we are currently working to get the nominee list out of the database. We should have emails out to nominated shows in the next day or two, it's just some clean up work of the file. Thanks for your patience and we will be in contact soon.

2009 Parsec Awards Promos

Help inform people about this year's Parsec Awards by playing one of our promos on your podcast or send it to your favorite show. In addition to the fun, but adult oriented Scott Sigler and JC Hutchins promo we also now offer a shorter version voiced by the Steering Committee's Susie the Southern Geek. Enjoy and thanks for your help.

2009 Parsec Promo - Sigler and Hutchins

They're back, Scott Sigler and JC Hutchins return in 2009 with another fun, but perhaps NSFW Parsec promo. We will have additional promos posted to the site in the next few days.

2009 Nominations now open!

Nominations for the 2009 Parsec Awards, to be held again at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, are now open! Please submit your favorite Speculative Function podcasts now! There are three new categories available for nomination this year. By popular demand, a category for Music podcasts has been added and the Anime category has returned. In addition, Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster/Team is a new category for this year. Please read the category definitions for details. Nominations will be accepted until June 7th.
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