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Michelle Newby is contributing editor at Lone Star Literary Life, reviewer for Kirkus, freelance writer, member of the National Book Critics Circle, blogger at www.TexasBookLover.com, and a moderator at the 20th annual Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, World Literature Today, High Country News, South85 Journal, The Review Review, Concho…

Writer’s Garret 21st Birthday Celebration, Dallas, July 29-31 Summer Book Arts Studio, Houston, August 2-5 Friends of the Plano Library Book Sale, Plano, August 5-7 WordWyse Exposytion, Southlake, August 5-6 The Writer’s Garret 21st Birthday Celebration, Dallas, August 5-7 2016 Texas Christian Writers’ Conference, Houston, August 6 Ongoing Exhibits Xu Bing: Book from the Sky,…

Weina Dai Randel is the author of The Moon in the Palace and The Empress of Bright Moon, the historical novel series of Empress Wu, the first and only female ruler in China. Randel was born and raised in China. She received an M.A. in English from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas, where she…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 8.7.16    Books explore Texas nature, literary sites Explore Texas: A Nature Travel Guide by Mary O. Parker, with color photographs by Jeff Parker and foreword by Carter Smith, is an attractive and well-organized field guide to about one hundred nature-oriented sites and events that give visitors a feel for the biodiversity…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archivePhotographer presents portraits from the past Fort Worth fine art photographer Jack Knox spent eight years exploring and photographing images from the back roads of Texas. The result is his impressive full-color 12-by-12, 136-page collection of color photos, Texas: Ghost Towns, Gas Stations, and…

Remembering the Tower Shootings, Fifty Years Later special to Lone Star Literary Life by Dave Parsons, 2011 Poet Laureate of Texas It seemed like any predictable first of August in Austin, Texas: sunny and hot. I left my summer class in European History in the General Academics Building next to the University of Texas Tower…

Writers’ League announces 2015 book awards The Writers’ League of Texas recently announced winners, finalists, and Discovery Award winners of its annual book awards competition. Fiction Winner: Migratory Animals by Mary Helen Specht Finalists: See How Small by Scott Blackwood Barefoot Dogs by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska by Eileen Curtright Eight…

Michelle Newby is contributing editor at Lone Star Literary Life, reviewer for Kirkus, freelance writer, member of the National Book Critics Circle, blogger at www.TexasBookLover.com, and a moderator at the 20th annual Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, World Literature Today, High Country News, South85 Journal, The Review Review, Concho…

Gemini Ink Writers Conference, San Antonio, July 21-24 The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Grapevine, July 22-24 Summer Book Arts Studio, Houston, July 26-29 Writer’s Garret 21st Birthday Celebration, Dallas, July 29-31 Deep Ellum Lit Hop, Dallas, July 30 B&N Countdown to Midnight Party: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, all locations, July 30 Half Price…