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Western Writers of America Convention, Lubbock, June 23 – 28 Writers’ League of Texas Agents and Editors Conference, Austin, June 26 – 28 9th Annual Austin African American Book Festival, June 27 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,…

Kimberly Meyer holds a doctoral degree in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where she was the recipient of several fellowships and grants. She teaches in The Human Situation sequence for the Honors College at the University of Houston as well as courses in Creative Writing. Her essays and poetry have appeared…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 6.28.15   Twelve Texas novels for your summer reading list Okay, it’s warm and sunny, the days start early and end late, TV is in reruns, you can cook hamburgers outside only so many times, and it’s still a couple of months until the first football kickoff. How about some summer reading?…

Western Writers of America meets in Lubbock June 23-27 The Texas Panhandle beckons Western writers and anyone who writes about the American West for the 2015 Convention in Lubbock, Texas, June 23-27. Western Historian Robert Utley (right), a past winner of the Wister Award and a 2015 inductee into the Western Writers Hall of Fame,…

Western Writers of America to meet in Lubbock June 23-27 The Texas Panhandle beckons Western writers and anyone who writes about the American West for the 2015 Convention in Lubbock, Texas, June 23-27. Western Historian Robert Utley (right), a past winner of the Wister Award and a 2015 inductee into the Western Writers Hall of…

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,…

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Exhibition, Austin, February 10–July 6, 2015 Armadillo Rising: Austin’s Music Scene in the 1970s, Wittliff Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, February 9 – July 3, 2015 Humanities Texas Special Exhibition: Shakespeare, Longview, May 15 – July 25 Sunday, June 14 Austin BookPeople, YA Authors Tera Lynn Childs & Tracy Deebs…

Ann Weisgarber, author of The Promise and The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, grew up in Kettering, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. She graduated from Wright State University with a bachelor of arts in social work, then earned a master of arts in sociology from the University of Houston. For her first novel, Weisgarber was…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 6.21.15   Novel weaves stories from Honduras, Austin Austin novelist Amanda Eyre Ward visited immigrant shelters in Texas and California while researching her acclaimed new novel, The Same Sky (Ballantine Books, $25 hardcover). The story involves two principal figures, with alternating chapters written in their voices. Carla is a young girl in…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveWillie Nelson says “It’s a long story” Willie Nelson begins his 375-page autobiography with “The End” and ends it with “The Beginning,” and in between there is certainly plenty of straight talk about the various ups and downs and highlights and sidelights of his…