The Center for Performing Arts Medicine is pleased to welcome you to an evening of literary readings from the Inprint Creative Writing Houston Methodist Workshop led by Vanessa Golenia. The narratives are written and performed by the talented employees at Houston Methodist Hospital.

Join Inprint as we celebrate with former Inprint Programs Manager, Patricia Coral, her debut memoir Women Surrounded by Water.

JLF Houston

presented in partnership with Teamwork Arts and Asia Society Texas

JLF Houston returns to the Bayou City in its 7th edition. The iconic Jaipur Literature Festival, which annually draws half a million people to the Pink City of Jaipur, Rajasthan, has always believed in the hope, strength, and vitality literature gives. Now that inspiring atmosphere is coming to Houston.

Join Teamwork Arts, Asia Society Texas Center, and Inprint to celebrate the Houston edition of this international literary festival alongside a diverse community of fellow book lovers.

Houston’s festival includes discussions with bestselling authors Alka Joshi and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cristina Rivera Garza, doctor, poet, and translator Fady Joudah, and many more.

Saturday, September 7, 10 am – 6 pm

Asia Society Texas
1370 Southmore Blvd, Houston, TX 77004

with more events:
Friday, September 6, 3 pm – 9 pm at Museum of Fine Arts Houston featuring Houston Youth Poet Laureate Elizabeth Hsu
Sunday, September 8,  5 pm – 6 pm Eternal Gandhi Museum

See below for more information on Inprint happenings and the JLF Houston schedule.
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Join Inprint as we celebrate the stories of those enrolled in the Inprint Senior Memoir Workshop at the Finnigan Park  Community Center. The Inprint Senior Memoir Workshops have been running at Harris County Precinct One’s Finnigan Park Community Center in the Fifth Ward for more than 15 years.

Free and open to the public, no registration required

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The 2024 BIPOC Book Fest takes place Saturday, May 4

10 am – 6 pm at the Asia Society Texas Center.

Inprint is proud to be a partner of the annual BIPOC Book Fest, a celebration centered on underrepresented voices through a showcase of literary works that feature Black, Indigenous, people of color, and other creatives of marginalized communities. Curated with diversity in mind, the festival combines the nostalgia of the book fairs we knew and loved as children with unique programming, panels, readings, vendors, book-related memorabilia, poetry performances, and more!

Inprint will kick off the festival with an Inprint Writing Workout from 10 am – 11 am. The bilingual Inprint Poetry Buskers will also be on-site writing free personalized poems.

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In the National Book Foundation’s 2024 Science + Literature selected title Digging Stars, author Novuyo Rosa Tshuma tells the story of Rosa, a protagonist preoccupied both with space, and with what it means to be human. Join Tshuma in conversation with author and 2024 Science + Literature committee chair Ricardo Nuila (The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine) on writing fiction through a scientific lens.

Presented by Baylor College of Medicine’s Humanities Expression and Arts Lab, Hermann Park Conservancy’s Garden and Nature Series, Inprint, and the National Book Foundation.

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Join us for a reading by the renowned Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov from his acclaimed novel, Grey Bees. Translated by Boris Dralyuk, Grey Bees received the 2022 Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle. With his signature humor, Ukraine’s most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict along the Russian border.

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Join us in celebrating the Texas Institute of Letters Finalists and Award Winners with a poetry reading.

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Laura Villareal is a poet and book critic. Her debut poetry collection, Girl’s Guide to Leaving, (University of Wisconsin Press 2022) was awarded Texas Institute of Letter’s John A. Robert Johnson Award for a First Book of Poetry. She earned an MFA at Rutgers University—Newark and has been the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, National Book Critics Circle’s Emerging Critics Program, VONA, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program at University of Texas-Austin. She is currently an associate with Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, where she co-edits and writes for Letras Latinas Blog 2, in addition to working on other related projects.

Ayokunle Falomo is Nigerian, American, and the author of Autobiomythography of (Alice James Books, 2024), AFRICANAMERICAN’T (FlowerSong Press, 2022), two self-published collections and African, American (New Delta Review, 2019; selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review’s 8th annual chapbook contest). A recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, MacDowell, and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where he obtained his MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry, his work has been anthologized and widely published.

J. Estanislao Lopez is the author of We Borrowed Gentleness (Alice James Books 2022). His poems have been featured in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Rumpus, BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, The Slowdown Podcast, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in his hometown, Houston.