BookPeople

Phone:

(512) 472-5050

Type: Historical Site

Website:

http://www.bookpeople.com/

E-mail:

Founded in 1970, BookPeople is the largest independent bookstore in Texas. The store hosts regular author events, book club discussions, storytime activities for children, teen events, and more. The store also contains a cafe that serves coffee drinks, sodas, sandwiches, breakfast tacos, and dessert.

Address: 603 North Lamar Boulevard

Austin, TX 78703

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City Guide

Austin, Texas

by Oscar Casares

City Guides

From the long-standing tradition of the Texas Book Festival to the offbeat O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships, acclaimed author Oscar Casares highlights a range of literary happenings and haunts in Austin, a city that pledges to keep it weird.

Conferences & Residencies

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Austin International Poetry Festival

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MFA Programs

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Writing Contests

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Dobie Paisano Fellowships

Magazine Articles

The Written Image: Kenneth Patchen

by Staff

News and Trends

January/February 2012

In this issue we offer a look at one of Kenneth Patchen’s “picture-poems,” currently on display in An Astonished Eye: The Art of Kenneth Patchen, the largest-ever exhibition of the genre-defying writer’s visual work, at the University of Rochester in New York.

Latino Poets Connect at CantoMundo

by Belinda Acosta

News and Trends

November/December 2011

CantoMundo, a burgeoning Latino poets workshop in its second year, has become the third organization to make up an unofficial triad aimed at nurturing the work of American poets of color.

Small Press Points

by Staff

News and Trends

September/October 2010

Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features the new independent poetry press Birds, LLC, whose editors say an integral part of their mission is to build close relationships with authors and their work.

Directory of Writers

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Fiction Writer

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David Bates

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Scott Wiggerman

Poet

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