2027 Inprint Poets & Writers Ball
The Inprint Poets & Writers Ball makes possible literary performance programs, community workshops, support for the world's top emerging writers, and more.
2027 Inprint Poets & Writers Ball
Saturday
February 27, 2026
6:30 pm
River Oaks Country Club
1600 River Oaks Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77019
FEATURED SPEAKER
Jennifer Egan
GALA CHAIRS
Isabel and Danny David
Black tie
Thanks to the 2027 Inprint Poets & Writers Ball, Houston will continue to be a thriving city nurtured by the power of creative writing and reading.
For more than four decades, Inprint has been championing the world’s great writers and enhancing communities with the power of creative writing. Central to what makes Inprint’s service to the community possible is the annual Inprint gala. The 2027 Inprint Poets & Writers Ball, a one-of-a-kind black-tie fundraising gala, will be chaired by Isabel and Danny David. The featured speaker for the evening is Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan.
The festivities will take place at River Oaks Country Club on Saturday, February 27, starting at 6:30 pm with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Short salon-style readings by three gifted authors who have benefitted from Inprint programs and support will follow. A gourmet meal, designed by Chef Emeritus Robert Del Grande of The Annie Café and Bar, adds to the evening, along with literary-themed table decorations created by table hosts and volunteers, and music by Latin Carnaval. The evening will culminate over coffee and dessert with a keynote talk by Jennifer Egan.
As a thank you gift, guests will receive an artist-designed memento signed personally by Jennifer Egan. The evening will also include a nightcap for those who want to keep the party going.
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To learn more about featured speaker Jennifer Egan, click here.
Reserve a table or seats
Underwriting opportunities are coming soon. For questions, please email info@inprint.org.
GIVING LEVELS
TABLES for 10
EPIC $30,000
Premier table for 10; invitation to pre-dinner champagne toast and brunch with featured speaker; reserved seating in salon reading room; signed memento for each couple or individual at the table; name and logo recognition in the evening’s printed program, invitation, press releases, digital communication, and event webpage
NOVEL $20,000
Premier table for 10; invitation to pre-dinner champagne toast and brunch with featured speaker; reserved seating in salon reading room; signed memento for each couple or individual at the table; name and logo recognition in the evening’s printed program, invitation, press releases, and event webpage
STORY $10,000
Preferred table for 10; signed memento for each couple or individual at the table; name recognition in the evening’s printed program, invitation, press releases, and event webpage
BOOK CLUB $8,000
Select table for 10; signed memento for each couple or individual at the table; name recognition in the evening’s printed program, invitation, and event webpage
BOOKSHELF (Limited number) $6,000
Table for 10; five signed mementos; name recognition in the evening’s printed program, invitation, and event webpage
INDIVIDUAL SEATS
EPIC $3,000
Seat at a premier table; invitation to pre-dinner champagne toast with featured speaker; signed memento; name recognition in the evening’s printed program, invitation, press releases, and event webpage
NOVEL $2,000
Seat at a premier table; signed memento; name recognition in the evening’s printed program, invitation, and event webpage
STORY $1,000
Seat at a preferred table; signed memento; name recognition in the evening’s printed program, invitation, and event webpage
BOOK CLUB $800
Seat at a select table; signed memento; name recognition in the evening’s printed program, invitation, and event webpage
BOOKSHELF (Limited number) $600
Seat at a table; signed memento; name recognition in the evening’s printed program, invitation, and event webpage
Festivities of the 2027 Inprint Ball
6:30 pm – Cocktails and Hors D’oeuvres
Music by Latin Carnaval
7 pm – Readings
Salon-style readings by three gifted authors who have benefitted from Inprint programs and support
8 pm – Touring Table Decorations in the Ballroom
Literary-themed tables decorated by table hosts and volunteers featuring books and items from personal collections
8:15 pm – Dinner
Menu designed by Chef Emeritus Robert Del Grande of The Annie Café & Bar
9 pm – Featured Speaker
A keynote talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan over coffee and dessert
After hours – Postscript
The party continues over a nightcap
About Featured Speaker Jennifer Egan
JENNIFER EGAN’s 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, has been awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She is also the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz in 2001, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, and A Visit From the Goon Squad, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize. Her latest novel is, The Candy House, a sibling to A Visit From the Goon Squad. Egan’s short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney’s and other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine. Her 2002 cover story on homeless children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award, and “The Bipolar Kid” received a 2009 NAMI Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She recently completed a term as President of PEN America.
