Texas Observer's Writers' Festival [Preview]

Sarah Bird

Texas Observer’s Writers’ Festival
Saturday, April 2
Pine Street Station (1101 E 5th St)
11:30am-6pm
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Is it still too early to utter the word “festival”? The Texas Observer, the fantastic non-profit, non-partisan (but totally liberal) news and culture magazine, is hosting its Writers’ Festival this Saturday. From 12-6p you’ll be able to sit in on amazing panels featuring some of Texas’s best writers.

Sarah Bird will read from her new novel, The Gap Years. Deborah Paredez, author of Selenidad, will sit on two panels about creative writing and memory & trauma respectively. Carrie Fountain will be talking about her work and Doug Dorst’s panel will cover why Texas is home to so many fantastic writers. With festivals like these, is it really that hard to imagine?

And it would seem incomplete for the Texas Observer to host such a festival without a political panel. The final panel of the evening, “Writing the Legislature,” will feature great political reporters dissing “one of the most brutal legislative sessions in memory.” Check out the entire schedule and then check out the festival. Wine and beer, free admission.