American Literary Translators Association
Through its annual conference, awards, publications, collaboration with other professional organizations, and lobbying efforts, ALTA, whose national offices are located at the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, was founded in 1978.

Austin Poetry Society
The Austin Poetry Society brings poets and poetry lovers together to meet, mingle, and support each other. It offers monthly programs, contests, and a monthly newsletter.

Gemini Ink
Gemini Ink nurtures writers and readers and builds community through literature and the related arts. We now serve an average of 5,000 patrons annually—from the avid reader to troubled youth, from the professional writer to the elder who wants to record her familiy stories.

Harry Ransom Center
Officially titled The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, this unassuming looking building houses one of the world's greatest collection of manuscripts and archives, including a Gutenberg Bible and the world's first photograph.

Montgomery County Literary Arts Council
The Montgomery County Literary Arts Council Writer In Performance Series became a 501(c) 3 non profit corporation in 1993. The mission is to bring the most distinguished minds and their bright visions to the citizens of Montgomery County. MCLAC programs have hosted over a hundred of the most distinguished writers and poets including several Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and national and state Poet Laureates.

Poetry in the Arts
For 19 years, this organization has worked to improve literacy by sponsoring writing contests and awards for young people.

Poetry Society of Texas
This writer's circle, founded in 1921, meets monthly, shares work, listens to presentations from invited guests, gives prizes to its authors, and sponsors a summer conference.

Texas Institute of Letters
The Texas Institute of Letters is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to stimulate interest in Texas letters and to recognize distinctive literary achievement. In addition to promoting fellowship among those especially interested in the cultural development of the state, the TIL annually gives awards for published work and, with the University of Texas at Austin, supports the Paisano Fellowships for writers.

WordSpace
Founded by Texas poet Robert Trammell, WordSpace is a non-profit literary organization based in Dallas. Throughout the year, they present author readings, workshops, concerts, salons and the annual Texas UnBound summer festival. Their mission is to promote the use of imaginative language and its creators working in traditional and experimental forms. Featured poets have included Robert Creeley, Andrei Codrescu, James Kelman, Hoa Nguyen, Tim Seibles, and Shin Yu Pai.

The Writer's Garret
With classes, workshops, publications, community outreach, luncheons and salons, north Texas is in very good hands with this Dallas-based organization.

Writers in the Schools
Writers in the Schools (WITS) writers work in year-long programs in over 350 classrooms. They participate in national initiatives such as mentoring other writers-in-schools programs, serving as a model for multidisciplinary arts educators, and designing curricula for use in schools, as well as leading in-services and writing workshops for teachers.

Writer's League of Texas
With a plethora of programs, including classes and workshops, grants and awards, and conferences and meetings, grew out of the Austin Writer's League, and now has members far beyond the Texas borders.

The Waltz We Were Born For
by Walt McDonald
I never knew them all, just hummed...

Always on the Train
by Ruth Stone
Writing poems about writing poems...

Eden
by David Woo
Yellow-oatmeal flowers of the windmill palms...

Heart
by Catherine Bowman
Old fang-in-the-boot trick. Five-chambered...

the great american yellow poem
by Frances Chung
she heard tales about saving grapefruit skins for cooking...

The Road into Cuyabeno
by Michael Dowdy
Texas oilmen named this laceration...

South Texas Summer Rain
by Rebecca Gonzales
Dusk cools easily...

Dobie Paisano Fellowship
Winners of this lucrative and prestigious fellowship-one poet and one fiction writer are chosen per year-live and write for six months on the Paisano Ranch, once owned by folklorist J. Frank Dobie.

Sam Houston State University
The Creative Writing Program, which offers an MA in English with a Creative Writing Concentration, publishes two journals, The Sam Houston State Review and The Texas Review, and operates Texas Review Press.

Southern Methodist University
Both the graduate and undergraduate English majors can earn a concentration in Creative Writing at the landmark Texas institution which produces the Southwest Review.

Texas State University
One of the best-kept secrets in Texas, this stellar MFA program attracts some of the finest writers in the field to teach workshops and seminars.

Texas A&M University
Earn a PhD in English with a Creative Writing concentration at one of the oldest and largest schools in Texas, which currently houses the World Shakespeare Bibliography, the South Central Review, The Powys Journal, and Callaloo.

Texas Tech University
Balancing creative and scholarly interests, graduate students accepted into the PhD program in Creative Writing will be encouraged to develop their writing skills in both fiction and poetry so they will be prepared to teach both genres.

University of Houston
This program has grown dramatically and attained national prominence since its founding in 1979. It is one of the few programs in the nation offering all three advanced degrees: an M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing and an M.F.A. in English: Creative Writing. Admission to the Creative Writing Program is extremely competitive, with only 10 new poetry and 10 new fiction students selected each year. Aside from teaching assistantships and the acclaimed Writers in the Schools organization, students can gain experience as staff members of the student-produced Gulf Coast literary journal.

University of Texas Michener Center
One of the only programs of its kind in the country, the James A. Michener Center for Writers is an interdisciplinary graduate program of the University of Texas at Austin and offers a three-year MFA degree in Writing. A defining feature of the program is its multi-genre emphasis: students work in at least two areas--chosen from poetry, fiction, screenwriting, and playwriting.

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
Founded in 1992, this Austin-based literary journal publishes poetry along with photographs, reviews and essays, and they launched the Borderlands Web Audio Project, which features readings and discussions with previous Borderlands contributors.

Gulf Coast
The journal produced by the English Department of the University of Houston, Gulf Coast was recently redesigned, and with its new look presents poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.

Mutabilis Press
Founded in 2003, Mutabilis is a non-profit literary press devoted to publishing poetry, especially the work of poets living in the greater Houston area. Currently, Mutabilis aims to create more publication opportunities for established and emerging poets active in the Houston literary community, but future projects may include publishing writers from other areas.

Southwest Review
"Begun in 1915 and located on the campus of Southern Methodist University, SWR is the fourth oldest, continuously published literary quarterly in the United States. We try to discover works by new writers and publish them beside those of more established authors."

Translation Review
Translation Review, published three times a year, presents interviews with translators; articles that deal with the evaluation of existing translations; profiles on publishers of foreign literature in translation; comparative studies; investigations of methodologies; and information concerning ongoing research.

Texas Review Press
The Texas Review Press is a member of the Texas A&M University Press Consortium. The Press publishes fiction, poetry, and prose non-fiction as well as a literary magazine, The Texas Review.