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5.1.16 News Briefs
Houston Writers wraps up annual conference May 1 The 2016 Houston Writers Guild annual conference will be held April 29–May 1, 2016 at the Marriott Houston Westchase, 2900 Briarpark Drive, Houston, Texas 77042. Registration and event times vary each day. Friday night, April 29, the HWG Press will hold a Book Launch/Cocktail Reception. Conference attendees…
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Lone Star Book ReviewsBy Michelle Newby, NBCCContributing Editor
Michelle Newby is contributing editor at Lone Star Literary Life, reviewer for Foreword Reviews, freelance writer, member of the National Book Critics Circle, and blogger at www.TexasBookLover.com. Her reviews appear or are forthcoming in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, World Literature Today, South85 Journal, The Review Review, Concho River Review, Monkeybicycle, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Atticus Review,…
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Special Events
Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, various locations, April 21 – 24 DFW Writers Conference, Fort Worth, April 23 – 24 Houston Writers Guild Annual Conference, April 29 – May 1 Celebration of Authors Conference and Dinner, April 30 Children’s Book Day/El día de los niños/El día de los libros, April 30 Dallas Book Festival,…
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Leila Meacham 050116
5.1.2016 Leila Meacham: “I sort of crashed into the back door of the party without meaning to and found myself invited to stay” Leila Meacham has all but defined the historical Texas saga for the twenty-first century, with her 500-plus-page-count novels Roses, Tumbleweeds, Somerset, and her newest, Titans,released recently to huge acclaim. But even…
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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 5.1.16 Cookbook features healthier Mexican cuisine Lubbock food writer Angelina LaRue has produced a wonderful full-color cookbook, The Whole Enchilada: Fresh and Nutritious Southwestern Cuisine (Pelican, $27.95 hardcover). LaRue includes about a hundred Tex-Mex and Southwestern recipes, and nearly half of them are accompanied by compelling color photos. Several even have…
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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,
Contributing Editor POETRYDavid M. Parsons Reaching for Longer Water: Selected & New Texas Review Press Paperback, 978-1680030327, 200 pgs., $12.95 Reviewed by Mary Newport, Norman Transcript Dave Parsons, 2011 Texas State Poet Laureate, visited our neighbor state to the north last fall for readings at the Full Circle Bookstore in Oklahoma and the Depot in…
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4.24.16 News Briefs
Texas indies celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, Sat., April 30 “Last year’s inaugural national Independent Bookstore Day, which coincided with Free Comic Book Day on May 2, was a huge success,” reported Publishers Weekly following the American Booksellers Association’s January announcement that the promotion would return in spring 2016. The (slightly earlier) April 30 date for…
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Special Events
CounterCurrent Festival, Houston, April 12 – 17 Poetry at Round Top, April 15 – 17 Story Circle Network 8th Women’s Writing Conference, Austin, April 15 – 17 DEAR Texas, statewide, April 16 – 17 Texas Library Association Annual Conference, Houston, April 19 – 22 Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, various locations, April 21 –…
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4.24.2016 Poetry Gone Digital: Interviews with editors Ann Howells, Illya’s Honey, and Michelle Hartman, Red River Review
Texas is fortunate to lay claim to a bounty of top-quality outlets for creative writing, including many notable publications devoted exclusively to poetry. Among them, in the 1990s, two Texas magazines, one paper and the other digital, were launched to showcase poetry. Illya’s Honey (the paper publication), was founded by Stephen Brodiein 1995, and came…
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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 4.24.16 Epic novel probes early days of Texas oil Titans, the fourth Texas epic from San Antonio novelist Leila Meacham, features twins separated at birth who find their lives intertwined in the early days of Texas oil (Grand Central Publishing, $26 hardcover). Nathan Holloway is content with life on the family…