San Marcos workshop participants gather at The Wittliff Collections in the Albert B. Alkek Library at Texas State University on September 26, 2014.
Mark Busby, professor of English at Texas State University, takes questions after his lecture on the defining elements of Southwestern literature.
Mark Busby leads an afternoon workshop on Stephen Crane's 1898 short story "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky."
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of Creative Writing at The University of Texas at Austin, delivers a lecture on fiction of the American Southwest.
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith responds to a question from a teacher following his lecture.
Nathan Pipes of San Antonio's Warren High School asks a question during the San Marcos workshop.
Steven L. Davis, curator of the Southwestern Writers Collection at The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, delivers a lecture titled "A Land So Strange: Texas in Nonfiction."