Since our inception, the Morrow Chapel at Trinity Episcopal Church in
Midtown Houston has been the venue for Saint Julian Press events. The Morrow Chapel
is one of Houston's most inspiring artistic and sacred spaces. A space we are immensely grateful to
the church for sharing with us and with the public who attends the reading
events we offer with great humility of spirit.
Our
Inspiration
Our inspiration is Julian of Norwich, the Fourteenth-Century English
mystic and Anchoress, whom scholars believe was the first woman to write a book
in the English language. Her lasting work, the
Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love
, touches on the heart of our
mission as a Twenty-First Century literary imprint.
We hope to publish transforming art and literature, which symbolizes a
radical openness to the literary and visual arts, cultures, and faiths across
humanity. Our wish is to open far and wide the doorways to an artistic
dialogue. Building an ever-expanding inclusive community locally and globally
that cultivates meaningful conversations across national boundaries,
secular-societies and encourages an interfaith exchange.
Saint Julian Press is answering a calling in the innermost sense of
humanity for words and artistic expressions. We enter this endeavor for the
pleasure of art and literature and their power to transform the world. This is
a calling in the most profound sense of that word, a call for a transformed
world. You are invited to join us on a journey where you will discover new
voices and songs of transformation and thoughtful provocation.
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Our Direction Saint Julian Press is just beginning, planting the first seeds with
poets, writers, and readers alike. We intend to focus on transforming artistic
works that inspire and create lives of compassion and creativity. We aspire to
work with artists, poets, and writers whose humble efforts and brilliant lights
trace transformation. Our dream is to share art from many innovative, diverse, literary, and
artistic voices. Numerous creative voices, established and new, need to be
heard, seen, and treasured. Our wish is to share the transmuting and literary
works of artists, poets, writers, and musicians through public events and
receptions, poetry readings, performances, new books, internet publishing, and
building new artistic communities. We desire to share this creative journey through several imaginative venues
a year, giving the public a unique and farseeing value to life-affirming
literature as language, cultural diversity, and evolving societies. Our aim is
to engage with the public and our communities and neighbors actively. And to
celebrate life with the people we live and breathe and share our lives daily —
by engaging liberally with emerging and known literary voices and artists. |
Saint Julian Press, Inc. * Houston, TX 77008 * Ron Starbuck ~ Publisher-CEO
Phone: 281-734-8721 * Email: ronstarbuck@saintjulianpress.com * Web: www.saintjulianpress.com