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Cancelled: A Place at the Table: Nurturing an Inclusive Literary Ecosystem

Thursday March 5, 2020 9:00 am

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Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level, Room 217B
900 E Market St,
San Antonio, TX 78205 United States
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We are sorry to say that Inprint will not be at #AWP2020 and have cancelled this panel. A huge thank you to our panelists Niki Herd, Lupe Mendez, Ricardo Nuila, and Kaj Tanka. We love the work we do with these talented writers and will continue to work together to build an inclusive literary ecosystem in Houston!  

How do we ensure that our literary communities reflect the diversity of our towns and that everyone has a place at the table? In this AWP panel, writers connected with Inprint—a Houston-based literary arts nonprofit—will discuss the various Inprint community writing activities they lead for senior citizens, the incarcerated, healthcare providers, the Latinx community, and more, expanding the notion of who is a writer and nurturing an inclusive literary ecosystem.

 

Moderator: Rich Levy
Panelists: Niki Herd, Lupe Mendez, Ricardo Nuila, and Kaj Tanaka

Rich Levy is a poet and, since 1995, executive director of Inprint, a literary nonprofit organization in Houston, Texas. His collections include Why Me? and the letterpress chapbook One or Two Lights. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

Niki Herd is the author of The Language of Shedding Skin. Her work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Cave Canem and has appeared in a number of journals. She is completing her PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston.

Lupe Mendez (educator/writer/activist) has prose work in the Kenyon Review and Sudden Fiction Latino as well as poetry that appears in Huizache, Luna, The Texas Review, Tinderbox, Hunger Mountain, Glass Poetry, and Gulf Coast. His book is Why I Am Like Tequila.

Ricardo Nuila is a practicing doctor, teacher, and writer. His nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker and VQR, and his fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories. A former Yaddo, MacDowell, and Dobie Ranch fellow, his first book is on safety net hospitals.

Lupe Mendez (educator/writer/activist) has prose work in the Kenyon Review and Sudden Fiction Latino as well as poetry that appears in Huizache, Luna, The Texas Review, Tinderbox, Hunger Mountain, Glass Poetry, and Gulf Coast. His book is Why I Am Like Tequila.

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