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Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Barbara Brannon, producer of Lone Star Literary Life, studied poetry with James Dickey at the University of South Carolina, where she earned the MA and PhD. Her poems have appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Broad River Review, Cenacle, Kakalak, Light, Measure, the South…

Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop slated for Sept. 15–17 in Midland The Third Annual Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop will be held Sept. 15-17, 2017, at Midland College. Administered by the Permian Basin Bookies, a nonprofit organization of West Texas writers, and the Midland Public Library, the workshop aims to bring nationally recognized members of the writing…

Michelle Newby is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and Foreword Reviews, writer, blogger at TexasBookLover.com, member of the Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop advisory committee, and a moderator for the Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, Concho River Review, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Atticus Review, The Rumpus, PANK Magazine, and The Collagist.…

1st Annual Marfa Poetry Festival, August 9-13 Friends of the Dallas Public Library Book Sale, August 11-13 Literary Libations Week (benefiting the Texas Book Festival), various locations, August 14-18 Writers’ League of Texas Summer Writing Workshop, Austin, August 14-19 Ongoing Exhibits Illustrator of the Century Garth Williams, Abilene, June 8–September 1 George Catlin’s North American…

Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. Kay Ellington has worked in management for a variety of media companies, including Gannett, Cox Communications, Knight-Ridder, and the New York Times Regional Group, from Texas to New York to California to the Southeast and back again to…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 8.20.2017   Texas Rangers history compiled in single volume Do we really need another comprehensive history of the legendary Texas Rangers? Evidently, we do. The University of North Texas Press, probably the most prolific publisher of Texas Rangers biographies and anthologies, has published a new one-volume history, Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and…

FEATURED:  CALLS FOR ENTRIES 7.16.17  PEN Texas invites all writers in the Southwestern states to participate in the 2017 contest for excellence in writing in the categories of Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, and Literary Translation. The winner in each category will receive a $500 prize, co-sponsored by PEN Center USA and PEN Texas. >>READ MORE…

LONE STAR LIT’S BOOKISH TOUR OF TEXAS: DALLAS Dallas’s new indie bookstore comes in with a bang Lone Star Lit toured North Texas last week, with stops at a couple of university presses as well as the new independent bookstore on Preston Road that’s sending readers scrambling for their dictionaries. (Look it up — you’ll…

Michelle Newby is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and Foreword Reviews, writer, blogger at TexasBookLover.com, member of the Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop advisory committee, and a moderator for the Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, Concho River Review, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Atticus Review, The Rumpus, PANK Magazine, and The Collagist.…

ArmadilloCon 39, Austin, August 4-6 1st Annual Marfa Poetry Festival, August 9-13 Friends of the Dallas Public Library Book Sale, August 11-13 Grow-A-Reader Workshop, Frisco, August 12 Ongoing Exhibits Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Austin, June 5–August 13 Illustrator of the Century Garth Williams, Abilene, June 8–September 1 George Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio,…