Writefest is a week-long writers’ festival taking place virtually and in-person in Houston, TX. It is hosted by Writespace, Houston’s grassroots nonprofit literary arts center. The festival kicks off with a series of Monday-Thursday workshops and culminates in a weekend filled with panels and presentations by local and national writers, agents and book editors, literary journal editors of all genres, and readings by local and nationally-recognized authors.
All workshops will take place online, via zoom. Workshops include a mix of craft advice, critique, and real-world writing advice. You will have the opportunity to submit a piece of writing for group critique. About the Instructor An East Side Houston native, THOMAS H. MCNEELY is the author of the forthcoming story collection PICTURES OF THE SHARK: STORIES (Texas Review Press) and the novel GHOST HORSE (Gival Press). His short stories and non-fiction have appeared in The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, Ploughshares, and many other magazines and anthologies. He has received National Endowment for the Arts, Wallace Stegner, and MacDowell Colony fellowships for his fiction. His first book, Ghost Horse, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College, Boston.
