The 2025 Mycelium Parish News is out and available on Etsy. Thank you to Dan and Ben Graham for all your help.
Our 4th edition contains the usual listings of things that happened in our corner of counter-culture in 2025. There are also micro-essays from John Higgs, Reverend Jon Harris from the Church of Burn, and Saath from Echologorrhea. As ever, this will be put online once we’ve distributed all our physical copies – but we think it’s more important than ever to promote things outside the feeds and algorithms of the Internet.
Compiling this was hard work – which is why the publication date drifted by a couple of months. A few times, Dan and I discussed skipping this year. But I’m glad we kept pushing. I’ve changed my approach for compiling the 2026 edition and expect this to be much, much easier.
One major change is that we’ve dropped the use of GenAI images. I’d hoped to write an essay on this but didn’t have the capacity. We’ve listed some GenAI projects that we love in the zine, but I’m aware that some people are boycotting anything made with GenAI. I’d rather not be putting people off from our magazine – but I wish I’d had time to say how much I love the interesting GenAI projects I’ve seem.
Future issues will be published in Jan/Feb. We’re collecting entries throughout the year, so let us know anything we should add.