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Creative Writing: 2015-2016 Reading Series launches this week The reading series of Glass Mountain, Poison Pen and Gulf Coast start this week at locations on campus and off

aGlass Mountain Reading Series featuring Braden Root, Janise Scott, Paige Zube

Wednesday, September 23, 7pm
(University Center, UH Campus, The Red Lounge)

Glass Mountain is a national undergraduate literary magazine run by undergraduates at UH. This is the first reading for 2015-2016 Scheduled reading will be followed by an open mic portion of the evening, which is open to all.


bPoison Pen Reading Series featuring Martha Serpas, Kevin Moffett, and Henk Rossouw

Thursday, September 24, 8:30 pm
(Poison Girl, 1641 Westheimer Rd.)
 
Voted Houston’s Best Reading Series in 2014 by the Houston Press, Poison Pen brings in three readers on the last Thursday of each month. Poison Pen’s readers are locally and nationally recognizable writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.


cGulf Coast Reading Series featuring Kathleen Winter, Jonathan Meyer, Will Burns, and Yerra Sugarman

Friday, September 25, 7:00 pm
(Rudyard’s Pub, 2010 Waugh Dr.)

This year, the Gulf Coast reading series will present the poetry and prose of 21 CLASS graduate students, as well as 10 featured visiting writers, whose work have appeared in the pages of the magazine. Participating students will come from the MFA and PhD programs in Creative Writing, and range from first-years to fifth-years. Readings will alternate between Brazos Bookstore and Rudyard's Pub. New this year, in an effort to collaborate with literary partners and expand our community, Gulf Coast will co-sponsor Pop-Up reading events, partnering student-readers with published authors traveling through Houston.