The magazine publishes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, reviews, literary essays, and art written by undergraduates.

[5] Glass Mountain is associated with the Creative Writing Program of the University of Houston College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and the literary magazine Gulf Coast.

The magazine has been involved with a number of local and national community organizations, including the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Poison Girl Reading Series,[7] the Houston chapter of Writers in the Schools,[8][9] Brazos Bookstore, Bohemeo's, the Menil Collection,[8][10] the Society for the Performing Arts Prelude Series, and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

[17][18] The conference is held at the M. D. Anderson Library at the University of Houston and hosts craft talks, readings and workshops in poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction.

Guest speakers to the event have included Ange Mlinko, Kevin Prufer, Jericho Brown, and Alexander Parsons among others.