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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.

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Saturday, April 30 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Speculative Poetry Thunderdome

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FIVE POETS ENTER, FIVE POETS POET. This interactive poetry panel will exercise the poets’ improvisational poetry skills. You'll laugh, you'll cry, no one will win but it's fun so who cares. Suggestions from the audience prompted by the moderator will demonstrate poetic devices, language, and forms to collaborate on generating poetry pieces that show the audience how to sharpen their skills and use these elements in their own work.

Moderator: Deborah Davitt
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Deborah Davitt

Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her prize-winning poetry has received Rhysling, Dwarf Star, and Pushcart nominations and has appeared in over fifty journals, including F&SF and Asimov’s. Her short fiction has... Read More →
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T.D. Walker

T.D. Walker is the author of the poetry collections Small Waiting Objects (CW Books, 2019) and Maps of a Hollowed World (Another New Calligraphy 2020). Her poems and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Web Conjunctions, The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Luna Station Quarterly... Read More →
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Jessica Reisman

Jessica Reisman grew up on the east coast of the U.S., was a teenager on the west coast, and now lives in Austin, Texas. She's been a writer, animal lover, devoted reader, and movie aficionado since she was a wee child. She's had two novels published, and her first collection of stories... Read More →
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Cassandra Rose Clarke

Cassandra Rose Clarke's work has placed in the Rhysling Awards and been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, the Pushcart Prize, and YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults. She grew up in south Texas and currently lives in Virginia, where... Read More →

Saturday April 30, 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
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