Every spring, the English Department hosts our annual Authors Day to celebrate reading and writing with the Coastal Bend Community. Faculty and students work together with high school students who spend the day on campus. We also invite a published author to read from her/his work and to conduct workshops for University and area school students. In the past, Jim Daniels, Helena Maria Viramonte, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Pat Mora, Naomi Shihab Nye, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Denise Chavez, Brett Anthony Johnston, Laura Emma Perez and Cyrus Cassells have visited our campus.
Students from Miller, Moody, Carroll, King, Collegiate and Tuloso-Midway visited our campus and enjoyed a day of workshops in creative and professional writing, as well as getting to share their own poetry with members of the English Department at their own Poetry Slam.
In 2020, we held our 23rd annual Authors Day with Ire’ne Lara Silva as the keynote speaker. We hosted students from four Corpus Christi high schools.
