Tag: News Brief
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30th Dallas library to be unique in city
Over the years, residents of the Vickery Meadow neighborhood of Dallas have turned to nonprofits and faith groups to get library-like services such as a computer lab or language lessons.
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Writespace Houston names first fellows
Beginning in 2019, as part of Writespace’s commitment to encourage and support new voices, every year they will award Emerging Writer Fellowships to two exceptionally talented writers selected from the Houston community.
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New indie bookstore opening in Paris, TX
The Blind Pig, a 3,500-square-foot bookstore, wine bar, and cafe, will open in Paris, Texas by the end of next month
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San Antonio poet and English professor named Fulbright Scholar
Jenny Browne will write and teach at Queen’s University Belfast as a Fulbright Scholar
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Texas school librarians left out of $5K pay raise proposal
School librarians would be excluded from legislation offering a $5,000 pay raise to Texas teachers
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Amy Poehler to direct MOXIE for Netflix
Texas author Jennifer Mathieu’s YA novel Moxie was inspired by Riot Grrrl
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UNT names $10,000 Rilke Poetry Prize-Winner
David Keplinger’s Another City (Milkweed Editions) has won the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize. The Rilke Prize is an annual award of $10,000 recognizing a book that demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision written by a mid-career poet and published in the preceding year. The prize is named after the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), a writer whose…
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San Antonio Book Festival announces 2019 lineup featuring more than 100 authors
Over 100 authors will appear at the seventh annual festival
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New Texas Literary Hall of Fame members announced
The Friends of the Fort Worth Public Library Texas Literary Hall of Fame will celebrate Texas’ literary heritage at a gala event Friday, March 15, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden Conservatory. Authors to be inducted into the 8th Biennial Texas Literary Hall of Fame include Susan Wittig Albert, Glenn Dromgoole,…
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Sandra Cisneros awarded 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature
From the judges: “Sandra Cisneros has said that she writes because ‘the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.’ In a formidable and awe-inspiring body of work, which includes fiction, memoir, and poetry, Cisneros brings us astounding and lyrical voices from burning, maligned, devastated, as well as…