[3] Founding members of the group included Lisa Tuttle, Howard Waldrop, Steven Utley, and Tom Reamy.
The workshop was first held in Grand Prairie, Texas, but soon shifted to Austin when most of the writers involved moved there during the mid-1970s.
[4] Other writers who have attended Turkey City include Ted Chiang, Paul Di Filippo, Cory Doctorow, Andy Duncan, George Alec Effinger, Mark Finn, Steven Gould, Eileen Gunn, Leigh Kennedy, John Kessel, Rick Klaw, Raph Koster, George R. R. Martin, Maureen McHugh, Paul O.
Miles, Chris Nakashima-Brown, Chad Oliver, Lawrence Person, Jessica Reisman, Chris Roberson, Jayme Lynn Blaschke, Lewis Shiner, Lou Antonelli, John Shirley, Jeff VanderMeer,[6] Don Webb, Martha Wells, and Connie Willis.
[1] The workshop also compiled "The Turkey City Lexicon", a collection of terms used when discussing recurring SF writing tropes.