INPRINT BOOK CLUB DISCUSSES Family Lore

This Inprint Book Club meeting will take place via Zoom. The Zoom link will be the same for every meeting and will be provided in your Eventbrite email receipt (scroll down to the Additional Information section).

On July 14, 2024 the Inprint Book Club will discuss Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo, who will appear as part of the 2023/2024 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series on April 15, 2024. Visit brazosbookstore.com to order your copy of Acevedo’s newest book.

Inprint Book Club meetings are free and open to the public and are facilitated by experienced book club leader Torie Ludwin. The full schedule of Inprint Book Club meetings for 2023/2024 season appears on the main Inprint Book Club webpage, which you can access by, clicking here.

If you have any further questions, please email info@inprint.org.

INPRINT BOOK CLUB DISCUSSES Wandering Stars

This Inprint Book Club meeting will take place via Zoom. The Zoom link will be the same for every meeting and will be provided in your Eventbrite email receipt (scroll down to the Additional Information section).

On June 23, 2024 the Inprint Book Club will discuss Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange, who will appear as part of the 2023/2024 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series on Monday, March 25, 2024. Visit brazosbookstore.com to order your copy of Orange’s newest novel.

Inprint Book Club meetings are free and open to the public and are facilitated by experienced book club leader Torie Ludwin. The full schedule of Inprint Book Club meetings for 2023/2024 season appears on the main Inprint Book Club webpage, which you can access by, clicking here.

If you have any further questions, please email info@inprint.org.

Advanced Flash Creative Nonfiction Intensive/In-person 2024-201

To register for this workshop, we encourage you to have taken a previous Inprint creative nonfiction or flash creative nonfiction workshop. 

Sometimes big impact comes in a small container. Dinty Moore once described flash writing as a sudden storm. Author Michael Todd Cohen maintains that if flash is a sudden storm, an author’s job is to nurture the conditions to conjure it. In this advanced creative nonfiction class, we’ll conjure our flash nonfiction storms by mining our own memories, family histories, and experiences for the truths we live by. We’ll play with known forms—letters, lists, journal entries, legal documents—to figure out which ones might best illuminate the bright spots and shadowlands of our lives. We’ll cultivate emotional resonance, character development, perspective, and tone within the flash constraint of 750-words or less. We’ll also talk about revising and publishing your pieces.

Workshop will include sharing student work, in-class readings, and lots of generative prompts to get your short-form memoir and essays off the ground, using student feedback and craft essays to cinch them back into the flash form.

Creative Nonfiction: The Hybrid Lyric/Online 2024-108

This is an online workshop that takes place via Zoom.

Embark on a transformative journey of literary exploration in this immersive workshop focused on creative nonfiction writing with a lyric flair. Blending the genres of prose and poetry, participants will discover the power of storytelling to illuminate truths, evoke emotions, and captivate readers. Through a series of engaging exercises, discussions, and peer feedback sessions, students will hone their craft, experiment with hybrid forms, and cultivate their unique voices as writers.

INPRINT BOOK CLUB DISCUSSES Above Ground & Unshuttered

This Inprint Book Club meeting will take place via Zoom. The Zoom link will be the same for every meeting and will be provided in your Eventbrite email receipt (scroll down to the Additional Information section).

On May 19, 2024 the Inprint Book Club will discuss the poetry books Above Ground by Clint Smith and Unshuttered by Patricia Smith, who both will appear as part of the 2023/2024 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series on Monday, February 12, 2024. Visit brazosbookstore.com to order your copies of Clint Smith and Patricia Smith’s newest poetry books.

Inprint Book Club meetings are free and open to the public and are facilitated by experienced book club leader Torie Ludwin. The full schedule of Inprint Book Club meetings for 2023/2024 season appears on the main Inprint Book Club webpage, which you can access by, clicking here.

If you have any further questions, please email info@inprint.org.

INPRINT ELIZABETH ACEVEDO REBROADCAST

DETAILS AND HOW TO WATCH: This is an online rebroadcast of Elizabeth Acevedo live event as part of the 2023/2024 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. This online event will be accessible from the Inprint website. Details on how to access the reading will be provided to season subscribers. Those who purchase general admission tickets for this rebroadcast event will be provided the viewing link on their Eventbrite email receipt in the “Additional Information” section.

Elizabeth Acevedo will read from her new novel Family Lore, followed by an on-stage conversation with celebrated Houston author Jasminne Mendez. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. The event is presented as part of the 2023/2024 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series

ELIZABETH ACEVEDO, the current Young People’s Poet Laureate, “is in full command of her special powers as a storyteller of compassionate, capacious, and lyrical imagination” (Julia Alvarez). Her New York Times bestselling YA novel-in-verse The Poet X was “an incredibly potent debut” (Jason Reynolds) and won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Carnegie Medal. Acevedo is also the author of the picture book Inheritance: A Visual Poem and the YA books Clap When You Land and With the Fire on High, which explore family, love, and Dominican-American culture.

Acevedo comes to Houston to share her first novel for adults about a lineage of powerful sisters, Family Lore. About the novel, Angie Cruz writes, “Acevedo has written unforgettable characters who breathe new life into how we grieve, age, and take care of each other.” According to Kiese Laymon, “No writer on earth transforms a page into a home with distinct emotional chambers like Acevedo…. This is how stories should be made,” and Jacqueline Woodson adds, “With Family Lore, Elizabeth Acevedo has made the transition into the adult world look easy. The true gift of a stunningly talented writer.” Acevedo lives in Washington D.C. and is a National Poetry Slam Champion.

JASMINNE MENDEZ is a Dominican-American poet, playwright, translator, and award-winning author of books for adults and children. Her most recent publications include Aniana del Mar Jumps In, a YA novel in verse, her YA memoir, Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American, her poetry collection City Without Altar, and translations into Spanish of children’s books by Amanda Gorman and Nikole Hannah-Jones/Renée Watson. She is Program Director for Tintero Projects and co-hosts the Inprint/Tintero Projects podcast Ink Well, which showcases primarily Latinx writers.

Poetry/In-person 2024-107

 

This is an in-person workshop that takes place at Inprint House.

I believe two of the most significant concepts in poetry are concreteness and abstractions and I seek to understand the balance between the two. Some poems will lean more on creating a solid world for the reader to live in, while others will rely on conceptual ideas and images that feel less interconnected. There is no right or wrong side, but I feel poems that find ways to encapsulate both sides carry a special weight to them. Whether you try to create a balance between the two in your work or want to lean on one a lot more than the other, it’s important to be aware of how much space each takes up in your work. In this generative workshop, we will learn how to hone in on our own strengths of using concrete images and ideas, and abstract ones. We will explore the work of poets like Terrance Hayes, Solmaz Sharif, Natalie Diaz, Joy Priest, Marie Howe, Jean Valentine, Louise Gluck, Jack Gilbert, Etheridge Knight, William Carlos Williams, Linda Gregg, Diannely Antigua, Sharon Olds and more. Poets at any stage in their writing journey are welcome.

Inprint Elizabeth Acevedo Reading

 

Elizabeth Acevedo will read from her new novel Family Lore, followed by an on-stage conversation with celebrated Houston author Jasminne Mendez. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. The event is presented as part of the 2023/2024 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series

ELIZABETH ACEVEDO, the current Young People’s Poet Laureate, “is in full command of her special powers as a storyteller of compassionate, capacious, and lyrical imagination” (Julia Alvarez). Her New York Times bestselling YA novel-in-verse The Poet X was “an incredibly potent debut” (Jason Reynolds) and won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Carnegie Medal. Acevedo is also the author of the picture book Inheritance: A Visual Poem and the YA books Clap When You Land and With the Fire on High, which explore family, love, and Dominican-American culture.

Acevedo comes to Houston to share her first novel for adults about a lineage of powerful sisters, Family Lore. About the novel, Angie Cruz writes, “Acevedo has written unforgettable characters who breathe new life into how we grieve, age, and take care of each other.” According to Kiese Laymon, “No writer on earth transforms a page into a home with distinct emotional chambers like Acevedo…. This is how stories should be made,” and Jacqueline Woodson adds, “With Family Lore, Elizabeth Acevedo has made the transition into the adult world look easy. The true gift of a stunningly talented writer.” Acevedo lives in Washington D.C. and is a National Poetry Slam Champion.

JASMINNE MENDEZ is a Dominican-American poet, playwright, translator, and award-winning author of books for adults and children. Her most recent publications include Aniana del Mar Jumps In, a YA novel in verse, her YA memoir, Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American, her poetry collection City Without Altar, and translations into Spanish of children’s books by Amanda Gorman and Nikole Hannah-Jones/Renée Watson. She is Program Director for Tintero Projects and co-hosts the Inprint/Tintero Projects podcast Ink Well, which showcases primarily Latinx writers.

Teachers-As-Writers Workshop for HISD/Online 2024-106

This workshop is supported by the HISD Foundation. It is tuition-free and only open for K-12 educators currently teaching in HISD. Up to 12 CPE hours are available for this workshop by request.

 

As educators, it can sometimes be difficult to find time to practice and nurture within ourselves the creativity we teach and foster in our students each day. Focusing on poetry and creative nonfiction, this workshop aims to help us all reconnect with our creativity and reinvigorate our love for words and the creative process. We will read published works for inspiration and direction and will then spend dedicated time each week generating new work that speaks to our own interests and passions. There will also be opportunities to workshop and share our writing as a means of building community and strengthening our work through collaborative discussion. All experience levels are welcome!

INPRINT BOOK CLUB DISCUSSES Devil Makes Three

This Inprint Book Club meeting will take place via Zoom. The Zoom link will be the same for every meeting and will be provided in your Eventbrite email receipt (scroll down to the Additional Information section).

On April 14, 2024 the Inprint Book Club will discuss Devil Makes Three by Ben Fountain, who will appear as part of the 2023/2024 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series on Monday, January 29, 2024. Visit brazosbookstore.com to order your copy of Fountain’s newest novel.

Inprint Book Club meetings are free and open to the public and are facilitated by experienced book club leader Torie Ludwin. The full schedule of Inprint Book Club meetings for 2023/2024 season appears on the main Inprint Book Club webpage, which you can access by, clicking here.

If you have any further questions, please email info@inprint.org.