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NP History Some Highlights

by Tony Diaz on 01/17/18

* Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say founded April 1998 in the party hall of Chapultepec Restaurant in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, Texas.

* The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show begins broadcasting on 90.1 FM KPFT in March of 2001.

* NP organized the Latino Book and Family Festival 2002-2007 -the largest book fair in Houston and one of the largest in Texas, drawing up to 30,000 people to the GRB Convention Center.

* NP has cultivated 14 Latinos who have earned Master's degrees or Master of Fine Arts in Writing.

* 5 NP alums were the founders of the 2012 Librotraficante Caravan, which joined a national movement to defy Arizona's ban of Mexican American Studies.

* Several NP alums have gone on to great careers in writing:

- Russell Contreras is now a reporter for the Associated Press;

- Alvaro Saar Rios is a professor and his plays have been produced nation-wide;

- Poet Carolina Monsivais is completing her PhD and has published 2 collections of poetry;

- Journalist and poet Icess Fernandez is a Professor of English at Lone Star College-King Wood;

- Lupe Mendez co-founded the Librotraficante Caravan and is founder of Tintero Proejcts;

- Poet Jasmine Mendez has her 2nd book coming out in March, and there are many others.

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