2011 Festival

The 2011 festival took place on Saturday, April 2 at Menil Park and featured over seventy exhibitors and six readers from the Houston, Austin, and Louisiana areas.

Readers

The 2011 readers, presented by the Houston Indie Book Festival and Inprint Readings, included children’s book author, Gwendolyn Zepeda; fiction writers Sophie Rosenblum, Amelia Gray, Ann Weisgarber, and Ryan Call; and poet Hayan Charara.

Exhibiting Authors

Lynn Abrams, Cathy Clay, David Ciambrone, Ryan Dilbert, Gale Minchew, M.W. Moore, Kerry Sparks, and K.C. Williams.

Bookstores

Blue Willow Bookshop, Book Haven, Brazos Bookstore, Brown Bookshop, DOMY Books, Good Books in the Woods, Kaboom Books, Light of Islam Bookstore, and Sedition Books.

Magazines & Journals

American Short Fiction, Art Lies, Bat City Review, CALLALOO, Film Monitor, Glass Mountain, Gulf Coast, HTML Giant, NANO Fiction, The Cupboard, REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters, and Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature.

Presses

Arte Publico Press, Blue Cubicle Press, Bright Sky Press, Catch a Winner Publishing, Champagne Books, Featherproof Books, Haymarket Books, NAACPencils, OH NO Books, Publishing Genius, Slough Press, Triscelle Publishing, and Texas Review Press.

Other Organizations

Clear Lake Area Writers (CLAW), Houston Public Library, Houston Public Radio 88.7, Houston Writers Guild, Inprint, Nuestra Palabra, Taping for the Blind, Writers in the Schools, Writers League of Texas, Texas Authors of Romance Fiction, River Writers, Reading Series, and Radius of Arab American Writers.

Food & Drink

Melange Creperie, Snowdog Ice Cream, Oh my! Pocket Pies, Houston Dairymaids, H-town StrEATs, and Bullbutter Bros. BBQ

CLMP Participants

6×6 / Ugly Duckling Press, Absinthe: New European Writing, AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Beloit Literary Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bitter Oleander, Black Mountain Institute, The Blotter Magazine, Blueline, Book/Mark Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Deadman Publishing, Ellipsis Literature and Art Journal, Evening Street Press, Evening Street Review, Fence, The FiddleHead, Fifth Wednesday, The Florida Review, The Furnace Review, Gargoyle, The Georgia Review, Gival Press, Glimmer Train, Glimmer Train Press, The Greensboro Review, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Hampton’s-Sydney Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Heat Press, Inkwell, Jelly Bucket, KALEIDOSCOPE, Karamu, The Kenyon Review, Lalitamba, Left Curve, Left Figures Press, LilithLips, Lillies and Cannonballs Review, Literal: Latin American Voices, The Literary Review, Litmus Press, Louffa Press, The MacGuffin, New England Review, Northwest Review, Off the Park Press, Osiris, The Oxford American, PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art, Paycock Press, Poem, Poetic Matrix Press, Post-Apollo Press, PRA Publishing, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Rain Mountain Press, Rain Taxi, Review of Books, River Styx, Ruminate Magazine, Salamander, Salmagundi, Salt Hill Journal, Silenced Press, Skidrow Penthouse, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Review, Southwest Review, Spire Press, Spoon River Poetry Review, Think Journal, Third Coast Magazine, Upset Press, West Branch, Witness, Willow Springs, Zone 3 Literary Journal