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.