Through a collaboration with The Menil Collection, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, and Houston Public Radio, NANO Fiction and Gulf Coast are proud to host this year’s Houston Indie Book Festival, at Menil Park (view map).

The event is completely free and open to the public, beginning Saturday, April 3 at 10 a.m. and closing at 5.

Now in its third official year, the Houston Indie Book Festival remains the only event of its kind in the Houston and Austin areas, featuring a variety of nationally-distributed literary journals and small-press books alongside local booksellers, book and magazine publishers, small presses, literary organizations, and writers. Gift certificates and other items will be raffled off throughout the day and Houston’s best and brightest writers will read from their work on the hour every hour. So take a much-needed break and see what Houston’s bibliophiles have to offer!

Download the official 2010 press packet today (archived .zip file).

We expect this year’s festival to be the biggest and best ever, featuring more than forty regional exhibitors and vendors. So far, this year’s local participants include:

Through a collaboration with the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, we’ll also be selling books and magazines from more than seventy-five independent publishers from all over the country, for only $2 per magazine and $4 per book. Here is a glimpse of what you will find: