Intensive training for creative writing & literary studies. โ๏ธWe provide a community for students to flourish in their education & in the city๏ฟผ.๐HTX.
Spotlight on one of our incredible undergraduates, Kristina Markovska! Read all about Kristinaโs accomplishments, including her recent practicum internship with WITS (Writers in the Schools), above. Keep up the incredible work, Kristina! โจ๐โ๏ธ
๐ฃ Calling all undergrads! Applications for the Rowan Internship program are open from now until May 8th. The Rowan Foundation makes possible both Houston-based ($2,500 of funding) and out-of-town ($5,000) internships. Interns work with relevant publishing, marketing, and other writing-oriented businesses during the summer break.
Scan the QR code on the flyer or visit the link in our bio for more information. Send in applications today!
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2026 Alexandra L. Rowan Memorial Foundation Writing Competition Prizes, won by UH undergraduate students!
Please join us this Saturday, April 18th at 3:45 pm at The Menil Collection to hear the prize-winning writing!
๐ Congratulations, writers! ๐
We are so thrilled to announce the winners of the 2026 Inprint Prizes!
Please join us this Saturday, April 18th at 3:45 pm at The Menil Collection for the Inprint Prize Winners reading!
๐ Congratulations, writers! ๐
Please join us on ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฎ๐, ๐๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐น ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฒ:๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฝ๐บ for a craft talk and reading with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, an African American writer, poet, artist, and educator who works at the intersection of computation, AI, race, and gender. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Visiting Artist.
๐๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป-๐ฌ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ is the author of several poetry collections including, most recently, ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐บ (Soft Skull Press, 2023). Bertram recently co-edited (with Nick Montfort) ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต: ๐๐ฏ ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ-๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐น๐ต, 1953-2023. They are an Associate Professor of English and Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland.
Our ecopoetry exhibition is back! After a successful showcase two months ago, weโre excited to bring it to Basket Books & Art on Friday, February 27 @ 7PM. Everyone is welcome and weโd love for you to join us!
This free event will feature a reading of our ecopoetry book alongside our ecopoetry posters and cinepoems created in collaboration with students from the Creative Writing program (@uhcwp ) at the University of Houston.
Weโll also have 50 limited-edition, hand-made copies of the book available for purchase, with all proceeds supporting our senior show.
Come listen, explore the work, and stay for snacks & refreshments on opening night!
This project is funded by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.
Basket Books & Art @basketbooksandart
115 Hyde Park Blvd, Houston, TX 77006
Itโs that time of year: the undergraduate Rowan Writing Awards are in full swing! At $2,000 per award, this is one of the best opportunities we have in the department for emerging writers to earn funds for their art and showcase their work to the community. Scan the QR code on the poster for full contest details, or reach out to @uhcwp with your questions.
Nov 6 at Basket Books in Houston, Kevin Prufer and I are hosting quite possibly my favorite living novelist, Dan Chaon and his new novel ONE OF US (look up all the rave reviewsโone of those stories that keeps you up at night, in the best way). Dan will read a bit, weโll chat a bit, then weโll drink some wine and shmingle with the audience. Great opportunity to meet one of the most significant prose writers writing today in a small & friendly environment. Come say hello and get your story on! @basketbooksandart@dchaon@pruferkevin@uhcwp
The UHCWP is thrilled to welcome @hayan_charara and wishes him congratulations on the publication of his debut novel, Hush Little Children, now out with Flexible Press!
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Friday marked the first Gulf Coast reading series of the year, featuring three UHCWP student readers, Karen Zheng, Leah Fretwell, and Julia Guez (plus special guests Leisa Loan, KT Herr, and Maha Abdelwahab). PhD student Iqra Khan introduced visiting author Patrycja Humienik. It was a wonderful evening - congrats to everyone involved! @gulfcoastjournal
