A new independent bookstore, located in a historic home at 408 W. Forrest Street, opened in Victoria on Thursday with plans to provide a community-oriented space for local readers.
The Whiting Awards jury has announced this year’s ten winners in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama. Two winners picking up the $50,000 prize are from Texas.
The Texas State Legislature, in partnership with the Texas Commission on the Arts, will make appointments on Monday, March 25, 2019 to the positions of state poet laureate, state musician, state two-dimensional artist, and state three-dimensional artist.
The Texas Institute of Letters has announced the selection of thirteen recipients of their Annual TIL Literary Awards based on the careful review of exemplary, recently published works. More than $21,000 in award monies will be given to the recipients at the annual TIL Awards Banquet, which this year is scheduled to take place April 27th in McAllen, Texas.
Lone Star Literary Life attended the Friends of the Fort Worth Library's 8th biennial induction ceremony for the Texas Literary Hall of Fame Friday, March 15, 2019.
REELpoetry, curated by Toni Holland, is Public Poetry’s first poetry film event, featuring documentaries, workshops, panels, poetry performances, and cinepoetry
The interview show will be filmed at the Hotel Settles in Big Spring and feature Parks interviewing local poets, novelists, short story writers, and songwriters. Produced in cooperation with Kathryn Copeland of the Permian Basin Poetry Society, the show is directed by award-winning filmmaker James Fite
The Border Regional Library Association (BRLA) presented the 2018 Southwest Book Awards at their annual banquet on Saturday, February 23 in El Paso.
The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) announced 43 NALAC Fund for the Arts grants today. Totaling $267,000, the awards provide funding to 26 Latinx artists and collectives and 17 Latinx arts organizations in 13 states and Puerto Rico.