2010 Festival
The 2010 festival featured more than forty regional exhibitors; readings on the hour by the city’s best, brightest, and most award-winning authors; and through a collaboration with the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, books and magazines from more than seventy-five independent publishers from all over the country.
2010 Readers
David Theis (11:00), Juanita Montoya (11:30), Glenn Shaheen (noon), Irene Keliher (1:00), National Poetry Series award-winner Anna Journey (2:00), plus nationally acclaimed fiction writers Chitra Divakaruni (3:00), Antonya Nelson (4:00), and Robert Boswell (4:30).
Bookstores
Book-Haven, Brazos Bookstore, Brown Bookshop, DOMY Books, Good Books in the Woods, Heights-Books Libros, Kaboom Books, Katy Books, Light Of Islam Bookstore, and The Menil Collection Bookstore.
Magazines & Journals
American Short Fiction, Art Lies ,Callaloo, Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Film Monitor, Glass Mountain, Gulf Coast, HTML Giant, NANO Fiction, and Pebble Lake Review .
Presses
America’s Press, Arte Publico Press, Blue Bonnets, Boots, and Books, Blue Cubicle Press, Bright Sky Press, By Grace Enterprises, Javelina Books, John M. Hardy Publishing, NAACPencils, Projective Industries Press, Slough Press, Subterfuge Publishing,and Triscelle Publishing.
Other Organizations
Bay Area Writers League, Creative Writers Collective, Houston Public Library, Houston READ Commission, Inprint, KUHF Houston Public Radio, Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter, Taping for the Blind, Writers’ League of Texas, and Zine Fest Houston.
CLMP Participants
6×6 / Ugly Duckling Press, Absinthe: New European Writing, AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Alimentum-The Literature of Food, Bellevue Literary Press, Bellevue Literary Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bitter Oleander, The Blotter Magazine, Book/Mark Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Cypher Books, Fence, The Fiddlehead, Fifth Wednesday, The Florida Review, The Furnace Review, Gargoyle Magazine/Paycock Press, The Georgia Review, Gival Press, Glimmer Train, The Greensboro Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Heat Press, Helicon Nine Editions, Home Planet News H.O.W. Journal, Journal of New Jersey Poets, KALEIDOSCOPE, Karamu, The Kenyon Review, The LBJ: Avian Life, Literary Arts, Left Curve Publications, Les Figues Press, LilithLips, The Literary Review, Literal, Litmus Press, The MacGuffin, Magick Mirror Communications, Mississippi Review, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, New England Review, New Madrid, New Rivers Press, Nightboat Books, Northwest Review, Off The Park Press, Osiris, The Oxford American, PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art, The Paterson Literary Review, Poem, Poetic Matrix Press, PRA Publishing, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Rain Taxi, Review of Books, Ruminate Magazine, Sacred Fire Magazine, Salt Hill Journal, Sidebrow, Silverfish Review Press, Skidrow Penthouse, Soundings Review, Southern Humanities Review, Southwest Review, Spinning Jenny, Spire Press, Spoon River Poetry Review, St. Petersburg Review, The Summerset Review, Think Journal, Third Coast Magazine, Tipton Poetry Journal, Toadlily Press, West Branch, Witness, Zahir: A Journal of Speculative Fiction, Zone 3 Literary Journal