Literary & Writing Organizations

• Gist Street Reading Series
  http://www.giststreet.org/
  The Gist Street readings are held monthly and feature local and national poets and writers. The series focuses on emerging writers either publishing in national journals and magazines or publishing their first or second books.

• PARSEC - Pittsburgh Area Realtime Scientifiction Enthusiasts Club
  http://www.parsec-sff.org/
  a club for the promotion of literary science fiction, fantasy and horror in southwestern Pennsylvania.

• Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures
  http://www.pittsburghlectures.org/
  Producer of the Drue Heinz Lecture Series, formerly the Three Rivers Lecture Series.

• Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange
  http://pghpoetryexchange.pghfree.net/
  is a community-based organization and information exchange that promotes poets and poetry.

• Pittsburgh South Writes
  A small local group of science fiction and fantasy writers

• Sisters in Crime Pittsburgh
  http://www.pghsinc.com/
  The Mary Roberts Rinehart Chapter of Sisters in Crime based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sisters in Crime is an international organization of writers, readers, booksellers, librarians, agents, editors, reviewers, and teachers interested in promoting the work of women mystery writers.

• Western Pennsylvania Writing Project
  http://www.wpawritingproject.org/
  a community of educators, kindergarten through college, working to improve the teaching and learning of writing in an eight-county region in southwestern Pennsylvania.

• Write or Die
  http://word.pghfree.net/
  a science fiction, fantasy and horror writing group that is free and open to the public and that meets at the Monroeville Public Library.

Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania Center for the Book
  http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/
  The mission of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book is to study, honor, celebrate, and promote books, reading, libraries, and literacy to the citizens and residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Their website features sections on Book News, Pennsylvania Book World, Reference, and an online Literary Map of Pennsylvania, and a Family Literacy Activity Guide (Playing with Words).

• Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association (POWA)
  http://www.paoutdoorwriters.com/
  The Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association (POWA) is an organization of professional writers, artists, photographers, broadcasters, telecasters, lecturers and other communicators with a common interest in the outdoors.