On This Season of PACT..

✨ Welcomed a new Line Editor, Allison Macy-Steines

✨ Offered weekly prompt series

✨ Launched the PACT Bookshop

✨ Released our first-ever limited-edition PACT stickers

✨ Hosted our inaugural craft talk with Melissa McKinstry

(We’re especially proud of the craft talk. Creating opportunities for writers to gather, learn, and engage with one another has been part of the vision for PACT from the beginning, and we’re excited to continue expanding our programming in the seasons ahead.)

✨ And continued celebrating the publications, accomplishments, and creative work of Pacific University alumni and friends

Missed the sticker drop? Good news: they’re still available!

Designed by Art Editor Verena Raban, these limited-edition stickers are waterproof, notebook-proof, laptop-proof, and cool-kid approved.

$5 each or all three for $12.

VENMO: @PACTDeskSet

Every purchase helps support future PACT programming, events, and craft conversations.

We’ll be taking a short summer pause before returning for Season 4 on August 10th.

In the meantime, we’d love to stay connected.

📚 Follow us on Instagram for announcements, opportunities, prompts, and community updates.

📬 Have an idea for programming you’d like to see—or facilitate yourself? We’d love to hear it. PACT is an experimental playground, and we’re always interested in supporting programming that centers around craft.

Reach out to us at PACTDeskSet@gmail.com.

Most importantly, thank you.

Thank you for reading, subscribing, contributing, attending events, sharing publications, responding to prompts, and helping us build this community. PACT exists because writers continue to show up for one another, and we’re grateful to be part of that tradition.

Until Season 4— (Aug. 10th — Oct.-ish)

✍️ Keep writing.
📚 Keep reading.
🎨 Keep making things.
💫 And keep the conversation going.

With gratitude,

Atina Hartunian & Mike Itaya + PACT TEAM
Co-Managers, PACT