Tag: News Brief
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Houston judge rules in favor of Drag Queen Story Hour
Houston—Inside the library, the storytellers sang songs and mimicked the noises of crickets and rainfall while reading The Armadillo’s Dream, a picture book written by Dennis Arrowsmith, touring programs manager for the Houston Grand Opera. Outside the library, two groups faced each other behind sets of barricades. Rainbow flags wrapped around one set, inside of which activists for the LGBTQ community held up signs…
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Colleyville-based poet Tarfia Faizullah awarded major artist grant
CHICAGO—The Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists (USA) announced its 2019 USA Fellows last week. Among the forty-five artists and collectives, working across disciplines, is Tarfia Faizullah, a poet who is based in Colleyville, Texas and grew up in Midland, Texas. Each grantee will receive an unrestricted $50,000 cash award. Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf, 2018)…
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Texas Institute of Letters announces new members
The seventeen newly elected members of the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL) are: three-time-Oscar-nominated screenwriter-director Wes Anderson (Houston); playwright and Broadway actor Eugene Lee (San Marcos); poets Rosa Alcalá (El Paso), Robin Davidson (Houston), and Carrie Fountain (Austin); fiction writers Tim Z. Hernandez (El Paso), Wendell Mayo (Corpus Christi/Ohio), and Ito Romo (Laredo/San Antonio); scholars…
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New York Times bestselling authors descend on Fort Worth for final ConDFW
New York Times bestselling authors descend on Fort Worth, February 15-17, 2019 for final ConDFW Fort Worth—Hugely popular writer Charlaine Harris (HBO’s “True Blood,” NBC’s “Midnight, Texas”), who lives in Central Texas, and author Yoon Ha Lee (Dragon Pearl from Disney-Hyperion), who was born in Houston, headline the eighteenth and final ConDFW Conference (www.condfw.org) at…