moderators & admin:
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Kevin M. Hayes (Group moderator) has been a member of WorD since 1998. In some stories he relies on humor to entertain his readers; in others, he keeps to the serious side of his personality, hinting at dark, forbidden things readers would be best kept unaware of. His stories have appeared in “Six From Parsec” and several volumes of “Triangulation.” He has also published limericks. Sometimes, he reads for the podcast, “Pseudopod.” www.kevinmhayes.com
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Karen Yun-Lutz (Group admin and moderator) owns and runs her own website design company, Manageable Media. She is also a photographer, graphic designer, writer, videographer and video editor. She helps herd cats for the Write or Die group. She is also the Parsec-sff.org Board of Directors Treasurer, webmistress, PR/Marketing and grant writer, and also does volunteer work as the director of publicity and program book designer for Confluence-sff.org, the annual SF/F/H literary and music conference. She resides in Pittsburgh, PA in an insanity of her own design, with three of her five children, one grandchild, two cats and a man that puts up with her idiosyncratic approach to life. Find her on: Facebook or Instagram: @kyunlutz
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Diane Turnshek (Founder)
Science fiction author, astronomer, physics instructor, International Dark-Sky Defender. Diane teaches college astronomy classes in Pittsburgh. She writes science fiction stories with an eye to the stars and taught writing classes at CMU and St. Vincent. She has been on the Board of Directors for both SFWA and Parsec, Pittsburgh’s premier science fiction charitable organization. For nine years, she mentored graduate students at Seton Hill's MFA Writing Popular Fiction program. She is the founder of WorD, a critique group, Alpha, a teen writing workshop, the CMU Speculative Fiction Lecture Series and Triangulation, a yearly themed genre anthology, which she is currently editing. Read more about Diane on Goodreads |
Some of our regular attending members include:
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John Thompson wrote his first story in grade school, a first-person account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima told from the perspective of a man standing directly under the bomb as it fell. The story ended very abruptly and his teacher accused him of being too lazy to finish it. Read more on his Amazon author page . . .
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Brandon Ketchum is a speculative fiction writer from Pittsburgh, PA who enjoys putting a weird spin or strange vibe into every story, dark or light. He runs the Pittsburgh Writers Meetup Group, and is the coordinator for the 2019 PARSEC Short Story Contest. www.brandonketchum.com
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Vincent Baverso holds a degree in English writing from the University of Pittsburgh. A true Renaissance man, Vincent loves to create. He is an architectural draftsman, poet, philosopher, carpenter, pipe maker, artist and mead maker. He does all this when he’s not working on his latest project or spending time with his wife and three children.
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Larry Ivkovich’s speculative fiction has been published in over twenty online and print publications, including Shoreline of Infinity, Across the Karman Line, and TV Gods II. He’s recently finished the fourth and final novel in his urban-fantasy series, The Spirit Winds Quartet, from IFWG Publishing. He’s been a finalist in the L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest and was the 2010 recipient of the CZP/Rannu Fund award for fiction. Larry is a member of the Pittsburgh SF group Parsec, the writing/critique group WorD, Pennwriters, the Mindful Writers East and North, and the Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA. He lives in Corapolis, PA with his beautiful, talented wife Martha and wonder cat Milo. www.larryivkovich.com
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Previous WorD members have included:
Phil Klass (aka: William Tenn: 5/9/920 – 2/7/2010) William H. Keith & John DeChancie, J.D. Barker, Aaron M. Roth,
Sheridan Jeane (www.sheridanjean.com), Frank Oreto,
Sheridan Jeane (www.sheridanjean.com), Frank Oreto,
