From the judges: “Sandra Cisneros has said that she writes because ‘the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.’ In a formidable and awe-inspiring body of work, which includes fiction, memoir, and po
Happy 4th birthday, Lone Star Lit!
Lone Star Literary Life was launched from the hinterlands of West Texas on February 2, 2015. Since then, our readers have multiplied faster than the state’s favorite herbivorous burrowing rodent (well, maybe).
Houston—Inside the library, the storytellers sang songs and mimicked the noises of crickets and rainfall while reading The Armadillo’s Dream, a picture book written by
CHICAGO—The Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists (USA) announced its 2019 USA Fellows last week. Among the forty-fiv
The seventeen newly elected members of the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL) are: three-time-Oscar-nominated screenwriter-director Wes Anderson (Houston); playwright and Broadway actor Eugene Lee
San Antonio—The San Antonio Book Festival announced Monday, January 21, that Lilly Gonzalez will serve as the organization’s new executive director.
New York, NY—Tuesday, January 22, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announced its 31 finalists in six categories––autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poet
New York Times bestselling authors descend on Fort Worth, February 15-17, 2019 for final ConDFW
