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Texas Teen Book Festival announces 2017 lineup<\/h1>\n

Young Adult book festival will Feature award-winning authors Francisco X. Stork, E. Lockhart, Adam Silvera, and More<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span>AUSTIN \u2014 The Texas Teen Book Festival has announced its 2017 lineup,<\/span> featuring New York Times bestselling authors E. Lockhart, Francisco X. Stork, Adam Silvera, Stephanie Perkins, Zac Brewer, <\/span>and more. The 2017 Festival will take place on Saturday, October 7, at St. Edward\u2019s University in Austin. TTBF is in its ninth year and remains free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

“From high fantasy to high tech to high drama, TTBF’s Class of \u201917 offers a little something for everyone,\u201d says Meghan Goel,<\/span> TTBF Programming Director. \u201cWith thirty-eight featured authors, terrific programming partners like We Need Diverse Books, and a brand-new interactive space, this is shaping up to be our best Festival yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s slate will feature a wide array of notable and award-winning authors. Among others, New York Times<\/span> bestselling author Adam Silvera<\/span> will present his book They Both Die at the End, <\/span>and E. Lockhart<\/span> will discuss her latest psychological suspense novel, Genuine Fraud,<\/span> which tells the story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life.<\/p>\n

Francisco X. Stork,<\/span> author of Marcelo in the Real Word<\/span> and winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for Teens, will join the lineup to discuss his new fiction work, Disappeared.<\/span> TTBF will also showcase international bestselling author Stephanie Perkins<\/span> and her novel There\u2019s Someone Inside Your House,<\/span> as well as bestselling author of The Slayer Chronicles Zac Brewer<\/span> and his latest novel, Madness.<\/span><\/p>\n

YA-genre enthusiasts will be able to enjoy sessions and panels throughout the one-day Festival, including a panel presented by Fierce Reads, the Young Adult initiative launched by Macmillan Children\u2019s Publishing Group. The Fierce Reads panel will feature authors Mitali Perkins, Caleb Roehrig, Anna-Marie McLemore,<\/span> and Jennifer Mathieu.<\/span><\/p>\n

TTBF authors will join previously announced keynote speakers Mayim Bialik, <\/span>actress, neuroscientist, and author of Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular, <\/span>and Marie Lu,<\/span> author of the #1 New York Times<\/span> bestselling series The Young Elites and the blockbuster bestselling Legend series. At TTBF, Lu will present her latest work, Warcross. <\/span>Author Jason Reynolds<\/span> will be the closing keynote speaker. Reynolds will launch his narrative verse novel, Long Way Down,<\/span> at the 2017 Festival.<\/p>\n

The full lineup of authors and their featured books for the 2017 Texas Teen Book Festival is available on the organization\u2019s website, www.texasteenbookfestival.org<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

A program of the Texas Book Festival, the TTBF is presented in collaboration with BookPeople, a dedicated team of librarians, and venue sponsor St. Edward\u2019s University. The program is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The 2016 TTBF boasted more than 4,000 attendees and an all-star lineup representing the best in literature for teens with more than 25 celebrated authors including New York Times<\/span> bestselling authors Sabaa Tahir, A.J. Hartley, Ally Carter, Leigh Bardugo,<\/span> and celebrity author, actress, and comedian Mindy Kaling.<\/span><\/p>\n

The one-day TTBF will take place on October 7 from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at St. Edward\u2019s University, 3001 South Congress Avenue. TTBF remains free and open to the public thanks to generous donors, sponsors, and dozens of committed volunteers. For more information, please visit www.texasteenbookfestival.org and keep up with announcements at Facebook.com\/TexasTeenBookFestival, and on\u00a0 Twitter and Instagram @TXTeenBookFest.<\/p>\n

About the Texas Teen Book Festival<\/p>\n

The Texas Teen Book Festival is a one-day event that celebrates the teen reading experience by inviting fans to visit with some of the most popular and critically acclaimed young adult authors in the country. The Texas Teen Book Festival was born as the Austin Teen Book Festival in 2009, when librarian Heather Schubert partnered with BookPeople to organize a gathering at Westlake High School. Five hundred guests and sixteen authors attended the first year and the event grew every year thereafter. From 2011 to 2013, the Festival was sponsored by the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation, and in 2014, the Festival became a program of Texas Book Festival and was renamed the Texas Teen Book Festival. One of the largest gatherings of its kind anywhere, the annual TTBF takes place in the fall on the campus of St. Edward\u2019s University.<\/p>\n

(Information from organization\u2019s press release<\/span>)<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>Texas Book Festival and BookPeople announce new partnership<\/h1>\n

AUSTIN \u2014 Texas Book Festival staff have announced that BookPeople, Texas\u2019s leading independent bookstore,<\/span> will serve as the official and main bookseller for the Texas Book Festival. BookPeople will partner with TBF year-round as the bookseller for literary events, including the 2017 Festival Weekend, the Texas Book Festival Gala, and any TBF events in Austin at which book sales will occur.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very excited to work with BookPeople, not only for the annual Festival Weekend, but throughout the year,\u201d says TBF executive director Lois Kim.<\/span> \u201cWe\u2019ve been so impressed by the work BookPeople has done in the community to champion books and support literacy, and we can\u2019t wait to join forces to reach even more readers in Austin and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019re also excited to announce that, for the first time ever, people who cannot attend the Festival will be able to pre-order signed copies of select Festival authors\u2019 books and pick them up at BookPeople after the Festival Weekend, or have them shipped anywhere in the world. A percentage of book sales from the Festival Weekend will go back to TBF to support its mission and programs.<\/p>\n

The 22nd annual Texas Book Festival will take place November 4-5 in and around the State Capitol grounds in downtown Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n

(Information from organization\u2019s press release)<\/p>\n

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Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference awards $18,000 in cash prizes in writing competitions<\/h1>\n

DENTON \u2014 Kim Horner of Richardson, communications manager at the University of Texas at Dallas,<\/span> received the top prize of $3,000 and a provisional book contract with the University of North Texas Press in the Book Manuscript competition sponsored by the 2017 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.<\/p>\n

In her manuscript, \u201cProbably someday cancer,\u201d Horner wrote about her decision to undergo a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery after discovering that she has a gene mutation that significantly increases odds of developing breast cancer. She was tested years ago when she was a reporter at the Dallas Morning News<\/span>, and she later wrote about breast cancer and genetic testing in an article that was printed during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October 2010.<\/p>\n

The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference is hosted each July by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism in UNT\u2019s Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism. The conference, held July 21\u201323 this year, brings together more than 400 participants who are interested in writing narrative nonfiction to learn from renowned journalists and storytellers in different genres.<\/p>\n

From its first years, the conference has held its Personal Essay, Book Manuscript and Reported Narrative contests to recognize extraordinary literary journalism and creative nonfiction from writers of unpublished works. This year\u2019s conference awarded $3,000 each to the first-place winners of the Personal Essay and Reported Narrative, as well as in the Book Manuscript competition. The second-place winners in all three categories each received $2,000, while the third-place winners in all three categories each received $1,000. The winners were announced July 22 at the conference\u2019s Literary Lights Dinner, which featured Sebastian Junger, author of \u201cThe Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea,\u201d as speaker.<\/p>\n

The first-place Book Manuscript prize was sponsored by Voice Media Group. The second- and third-place winners of the Book Manuscript competition, sponsored by Joe Dealey Jr. of Dallas, are:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Second place \u2014 Seema Yasmin,<\/span> Dallas Morning News medical reporter and contributor to CNN. In \u201cThe Professor and the Virus,\u201d Yasmin tells the story of Joep Lange, a Dutch physician and trailblazer in research on HIV\/AIDS. Lange fought for access to life-saving medicines before being killed by pro-Russian rebels in 2014. Yasmin previously won the second-place Book Manuscript prize in 2015, and the third place Personal Essay prize in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Third place \u2014 Ione Hunt von Herbing,<\/span> UNT associate professor of biological sciences and director of UNT\u2019s Marine Conservation and Aquatic Physiology Laboratory. In \u201cSaving Neptune\u2019s Children,\u201d Hunt von Herbing tells of her life\u2019s work as a female marine biologist, her struggle to rise to the top in the patriarchal academic world, and how she found success through learning compassion for herself and others.<\/p>\n

All six winning Personal Essay and Reported Narrative entries and four runners-up selected from these two categories will be published in Ten Spurs, <\/span>a literary nonfiction journal published by the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism. The edition featuring this year\u2019s contest winners will be published just before the 2018 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The winners are:<\/p>\n

Reported Narrative<\/h1>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 First place, sponsored by the Dallas Morning News<\/span> \u2014 Adam Rhew<\/span> of Charlotte, North Carolina, the associate editor for Charlotte<\/span> magazine. In \u201cMs. Judy the Comforter,\u201d Rhew relates how Judy Williams started Mothers of Murdered Offspring, a Charlotte organization, to help a friend whose daughter was murdered by a serial killer nearly 25 years ago. \u201cMs. Judy\u201d has since mourned with the families of hundreds of murder victims.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Second place, sponsored by Anna and Nick Ricco & Ricco Family Partners \u2014 Meagan Flynn<\/span> of Houston, a staff writer for the Houston Press, <\/span>for \u201cLife After Deportation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Third place, sponsored by Joe Dealey Jr. \u2014 Richard Rejino<\/span> of Carrollton, account manager for Madeleine Crouch & Company, for \u201cThe Reluctant Soldier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Personal Essay<\/h1>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 First place, sponsored by the Dallas Morning News<\/span> \u2014 Debbie Williams<\/span> of Abilene for \u201cDuet.\u201d Williams, a professor of language and literature at Abilene Christian University, describes her experiences as a caregiver for her parents and other family members while also attaining her educational goals, getting married and raising three children, including an adopted child.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Second place, sponsored by Anna and Nick Ricco & Ricco Family Partners and Dorothy Bland, dean of the Mayborn School of Journalism \u2014 Brent Jones<\/span> of Flower Mound for \u201cPictures Worth a Thousand Silences.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Third place, sponsored by Joe Dealey Jr. \u2014 Christina Hughes Babb<\/span> of Dallas, publisher and editor of the Lakewood\/East Dallas Advocate<\/span>, for \u201cKarma Police.\u201d Hughes Babb previously won first place in the Personal Essay category in 2011.<\/p>\n

The four runner-up entries that will be published in Ten Spurs<\/span> are:<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cLidice, Remembered\u201d by Elizabeth Clark<\/span> of San Marcos<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cBrony Up\u201d by Jamie Friedlander<\/span> of Dallas<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201c150 Banana Slugs\u201d by Rick Jurgens<\/span> of White River Junction, Vermont<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cUntethered\u201d by Jen Tota McGivney<\/span> of Charlotte, North Carolina<\/p>\n

(Information from organization\u2019s press release)<\/p>\n

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First Texas Independent Bookstore Day slated for Sat., Aug. 5<\/h1>\n

Managers at several bookstores across the state<\/span> are preparing to launch Texas Independent Bookstore Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cParticipating stores come from all over the state\u2014not only from Austin and Houston, but also from Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth, New Braunfels, Alpine, Weslaco, Brenham, South Padre Island, and more,\u201d said Benjamin Rybeck, manager of Brazos Bookstore, quoted in Publishers Weekly<\/span> this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo say thank you for supporting your local, independent bookstore all year \u2019round, we\u2019re teaming up with Indies around the state like Brazos Bookstore and Interabang Books to have one day where we celebrate all things literary in Texas!,\u201d reads the website of BookPeople in Austin, where \u201cthe party starts at 11:30am with a special storytime and continues throughout the day with giveaways, a scavenger hunt, cake, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blue Willow Books in Houston has also posted a Facebook event for the day, and Texas author Melissa Lenhardt<\/span> reports that she will be signing books at Dallas\u2019s new Interabang Books.<\/p>\n

Rybeck adds, on the Brazos Bookstore website, \u201cThe goal is to turn this into an annual statewide event that takes place on the first Saturday of August.\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas is increasingly becoming more relevant to the national bookselling scene, reports Publishers Weekly.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Compiled from media reports)<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>ArmadilloCon39 scheduled for Aug. 4-6 in Austin<\/h1>\n

The 39th annual ArmadilloCon is set for August 4\u20136, 2017,<\/span> in Austin. All sessions will be held at the Omni Southpark Hotel at 4140 Governors Row.<\/p>\n

Admission can be purchased at the door for day and weekend rates and will be<\/p>\n