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Memorial Day is nearly here — and with it plans for rest, relaxation, travel, and a good book. What Texas reads will be going in your carry-on or beach bag? What new Texas books, or classics, have you been dying to crack open, whether in print, on your e-reader, or via audiobook? Let the staff…

Texas Poets Laureate named for 2015, 2016 Last week the 84th Texas State Legislature announced its appointments to the position of state poet laureate. Carmen Tafolla of San Antonio, an associate professor at UT–San Antonio, was named Texas Poet Laureate for 2015. Tafolla is the author of more than twenty acclaimed poetry and prose books,…

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 ARCHIZINES celebrates the resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing around the world, Houston, January 29 – April 17 Texas Writers: a Humanities Texas…

Born and raised in Texas, Merritt Tierce worked in various secretarial, retail, and restaurant  positions until 2009, when she moved to Iowa City to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop as the Meta Rosenberg Fellow. After graduating in 2011 with her MFA from Iowa, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and she is a…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 5.10.15   Friendship theme runs through Madigan books Tim Madigan has republished his popular book, first offered in 2006, about TV’s Mister Rogers. I’m Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers is now available in paperback from Madigan’s imprint, Ubuntu Books. Madigan has also published a novel, Every Common Sight which…

Let’s start celebrating again: May Is Texas Writers Month Barbara Brannon, Managing Editor For some time in the late 1990s, and stretching into the twenty-first century, May was declared to be Texas Writers Month. Just who declared it wasn’t always clear. Some years it was the Texas legislature. Some years it was Austin screenwriter Cary…

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Northeast Texas Writers Organization Conference makes convert of a first-timer Story and photos by Patrick Hanford I decided a month ago to attend the April 2015 conference of NETWO, the Northeast Texas Writers Organization. It was my first. I must start somewhere and this year was it. So I picked a place in Texas. I…

Let’s start celebrating again: May Is Texas Writers Month Barbara Brannon, Managing Editor For some time in the late 1990s, and stretching into the twenty-first century, May was declared to be Texas Writers Month. Just who declared it wasn’t always clear. Some years it was the Texas legislature. Some years it was Austin screenwriter Cary…