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BiblioTejas Writers Conference

Name: BiblioTejas Writers Conference
Start: 2026-10-24T08:30:00-05:00
Location: SAC Bookstore

Saturday, October 24, 2026 · 8:30 AM
SAC Bookstore · TX
Authors: Yvonne Samuels, Viridiana Gomez, Marilyn Garcia, Alexandra Van de Kamp, Sarah Joy Thompson and Edward Vidaurre +14 more
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BiblioTejas Writers Conference is a one-day event that brings together writers, students, and literary enthusiasts for workshops, inspiring speakers, and meaningful connections, celebrating and strengthening San Antonio’s literary community. Conference programming includes workshops, craft classes, Q&A panels, a teen writing workshop, and readings. The conference is free to the public. October 24, 2026 Ozuna Library & Learning Center Legacy Room Legacy Room Open Yvonne Samuels, Viridiana Gomez, and Marilyn Garcia Classroom 102 Alexandra Van de Kamp Classroom 117 Sarah Joy Thompson Library Collaborative Zone (upstairs) Edward Vidaurre, Paola Carrasco, Celina A. Gomez, Rodney Gomez, and Luisa Vidaurre Legacy Room FlowerSong is an independent press rooted in the Rio Grande Valley (TX) that amplifies voices from the borderlands and across the Americas. In this context, the reading functions not just as a performance of texts but as a community-centered literary gathering. FlowerSong events often emphasize inclusivity, dialogue, and the sharing of “essential voices,” creating spaces where writers and audiences engage in collective reflection and cultural affirmation. The thematic throughline centers on borderlands identity, cultural memory, and the blending of languages and traditions. Rafael C. Castillo, Natalia Treviño, Ben Longoria, and Julian Garcia Classroom 102 From the inspired spark to struggles and setbacks to a finished manuscript, this panel of three writers will answer questions and provide information on the writers’ process and the production of one’s novel. This panel is for aspiring writers of all levels. Anel Flores Classroom 117 Gemini Ink Library Collaborative Zone (upstairs) Tiana Clark, Carrie Fountain, Charlotte Pence, and Bianca Alyssa Pérez Legacy Room Where the Poem Lives celebrates Texas State University’s MFA in Creative Writing by gathering four poets who are part of the TXST community: Carrie Fountain, former Texas Poet Laureate and literary curator of The Wittliff Collections; Tiana Clark, Visiting Professor and National Book Award finalist; Charlotte Pence, Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and MFA Director; and Bianca Alyssa Pérez, MFA program coordinator and Austin Youth Poet Laureate program mentor. Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson & Mandy Lynn Classroom 102 Mandy Lynn and Andrea Vocab Sanderson are two interdisciplinary artists whose usage of musicianship, song composition, and performance poetry have taken them to stages and classrooms across the nation. In this hybrid panel/reading/discussion, they will share music and verse, discussing how music and poetry inform and inspire one another in their personal art. Ed O’Casey & Jonathan Fletcher Classroom 117 This workshop focuses on using the Apophatic Mode in the poetry of Self. In the Apophatic Mode, a poet explores what the Self isn’t: the art of illumination through negation, rather than trying to conjure the Self/Subject through direct description, comparison, or metaphor. The act of negation brings both extremes of the Other/Self duality into the conversation. To make up for the deficiencies of language, Apophatic Poetics employs absence, moving past metaphor to a broader experience of Self. Gemini Ink Library Collaborative Zone (upstairs) Legacy Room Classroom 102 Alejandra “Mera Mera” Sánchez Alanís Classroom 117 Visivial Poética: Translanguaging as Creative Praxis invites participants into an immersive exploration of language as a fluid, embodied, and liberatory act. Rooted in bilingual and translingual practices, the session centers the ways writers, artists, and thinkers move between languages — not as limitation, but as expansion — activating memory, identity, and cultural inheritance through creative expression. The workshop will examine translanguaging as both a pedagogical tool and an artistic strategy, emphasizing its role in dismantling rigid linguistic hierarchies and honoring lived, hybrid realities. Chibbi, Mecca Miles, Gume Laurell III, Diamond Braxton, Cloud Cardona, & Aureleo Sans Library Collaborative Zone (upstairs) Gerard Robledo, Josh Robbins, Richard Boada, Diamond Braxton, Miranda Ramirez, & Laurie Ann Guerrero Legacy Room The Last Writes Reading is a San Antonio poetry open mic series which happens once a month and is curated by Gerard Robledo, author of My Mother the Butcher. This reading will feature Gerard Robledo, Josh Robbins, Richard Boada, Diamond Braxton, Miranda Ramirez, & Laurie Ann Guerrero. Cloud Delfina Cardona, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, Dee Lalo Garcia, and Saúl Hernández Classroom 102 Sara Schmidt Library Collaborative Zone (upstairs) Emmy Pérez & Rooster Martinez Legacy Room Sponsors and Event Partners include: PAC English, World Languages, INRW, & Education Department • Ozuna Library at Palo Alto College • Gemini Ink San Antonio Literary Nonprofit • Palomino Pen • The Working Writers Committee • Eleven Rivers Review, PAC’s student arts and literary journal Thank you to our supporters: PAC President, Dr. Robert Garza; Vice President of Academic Success, Patrick Lee; and Dean of Arts & Sciences, Jennifer Scheidt