2012 Houston Indie Book Festival

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Come celebrate the fifth annual Houston Indie Book Festival along with dozens of nationally-distributed literary journals, local booksellers, publishers, small presses, literary organizations, and writers at the Menil Park on Saturday, April 14th from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Cosponsored by NANO Fiction and Gulf Coast, the festival showcases the efforts of writers, artists, teachers, community members, and cultural groups working to make the arts and humanities a vibrant part of the Houston community.

This year’s festival offers a new “Children’s Area” with day-long programming, including face painting, guided poetry workshops for children, a Book Binding Workshop with the Houston Book Arts Guild, and readings by Ana Maria Rodriguez and Andrea White.

For the adults, the festival will have readings by poet and nonfiction writer Laurie Clements Lambeth, as well as fiction writers Justin Sirois and Andrew Porter. And at 1:30 p.m., local indie authors and publishers will give a panel discussion that focuses on how to submit manuscripts to small presses and the art of self-publishing. A second panel discussion at 3:30 p.m. will present editors from local literary journals who will guide the audience through the submission process, and talk about expectations from literary editors.

This year’s festival is set to correspond with the Menil Collection’s Open House event. Alongside
the book fair, visitors can enjoy outdoor art exhibits, tours of the Menil campus, art demonstrations,
live music, food trucks, and much more!

For times and a full schedule, please visit HIBF online at indiebookfest.org. See you there!

The Houston Indie Book Festival is supported by the Houston Arts Alliance, The Houston Endowment, Inc., Inprint, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Texas Commission on the Arts, and the University of Houston’s Department of English.