TBF Lit Crawl

The 1st Annual Texas Book Festival Lit Crawl went off without a hitch tonight! It was a delight to see what performing on a new stage was like, and to perform outside for the first time.

Thanks to all the performers: Ernie Cline, Jeff Martin, Anis Mojgani, Lydia Nelson and Your Terrific Neighbors. Thanks also to the lovely Jill Meyers and the delightful Clay Smith for helping us to coordinate this with Tamara and Maggie at Cheer Up Charlie’s. They were all so generous and helpful and kind.

Thanks also to the fine folks that came out to join us for the show. There were lots of our favorite loyal faces and even more brand new, curious and still-innocent faces. We love to have new people join in the adventure, so this kind of weird, fun experiment is a great way to do that.

Also in attendance was an impromptu crew of big name poets, a virtual who’s who of Austin Slam giants who helped put the ATX on the Slam map. Seeing them all together (and having a couple of them in tonight’s show) was such an awesome experience for lit nerds like us. It’s so great to know there’s so much amazing talent in this town, and that all of them are wonderful individuals that we’re proud to call friends. It’s so good to work with geniuses and to still get to see them keep blowing peoples’ minds.

Thanks for this opportunity, TBF. And congrats for a successful first year with the Lit Crawl. We can’t wait to see it keep building and growing for many more years to come!