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AROUND THE TOWN Clifton author Lisa Wingate wins 2015 Christy Award, Mills of Houston a finalist Texas novelist Lisa Wingate has won the 2015 Christy Award for Contemporary Fiction, announced in conjunction with the International Christian Retail Show last week in Orlando, Florida. The Clifton resident was recognized for her novel The Story Keeper (Tyndale…

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,…

Jamie Brickhouse has been published in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Lambda Literary Review, The Fix, Addiction/Recovery eBulletin, and the Latin American travel magazine Travesía. He is also a guest blogger for the Huffington Post. Brickhouse spent more than two decades in the publishing industry, most recently at two major houses as…

Western Writers of America Convention, Lubbock, June 23 – 28 Writers’ League of Texas Agents and Editors Conference, Austin, June 26 – 28 David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum Exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Exhibition, Austin, February 10–July 6, 2015 Armadillo Rising: Austin’s Music Scene…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.5.15   Authors trace story of Fort Hood massacre Texas authors Anita Belles Porterfield and John Porterfield have written Death on Base: The Fort Hood Massacre, tracing the story of Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan gunning down twelve soldiers and a civilian at Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009. “Perhaps the most…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor In honor of Willie Nelson’s annual Fourth of July Picnic, which will take place this year on Sat., July 4, at the Circuit of the Americas’ Austin360 Amphitheater, we’re featuring writer Rod Davis’s take on why we like Willie—and why his life story matters. MEMOIR Willie Nelson, with…

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,…

AROUND THE TOWN Mad Dogs, Texas Monthly colleagues, and literary friends gather for Gary Cartwright memoir signing Longtime friends, former coworkers, and literary lights poured into Scholz Garden in downtown Austin Saturday afternoon, June 27, 2015, to congratulate journalist and author Gary Cartwright on the publication of his memoir The Best I Recall (University of…