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Why Doesn’t Houston Have a Writing Conference?
As a lament, a lack of creative culture in Houston is not one that can be blindly thrown about. There’s a celebrated opera house, a metastasizing museum district, and a rap scene that sets the world on edge every fifteen years or so. If one cared to do so, they could string a weekend of cultural events—lectures, exhibit openings, dance performances, plays, drag brunches, art classes, indie films, and street festivals—together from one Friday at 5 PM to Sunday night most weeks of the year. But a glaring lack in H-town for years has been the absence of a writing conference celebrating the authors and institutions that export their written words across the world.
10 Houston Authors We Love
Whether you know it as Space City, Clutch City, or Screwston, there’s a lot overlooked about the largest city in Texas. From the 215 languages spoken in the metro area to its storied history as a meeting place of cultures, Houston is a vibrant and diverse city well known for food, culture, and big business. From the towering Phillip Johnson skyscrapers of downtown through lush green Oak-lined neighborhoods to strip centers of concrete stretching for miles and sprawling exurbs reaching across the Katy Prairie, Houston has a plethora of real and imagined worlds teeming within. Here are ten of our favorite writers who have called H-Town home, whether Houston-born, Houston-bound, or just passing through.