The Codex app works so well, it just co-won the $2.5 million XPrize Literacy award. The team behind it is People for Words, made up of educators from LIFT and Southern Methodist University. The challenge—create a smartphone app that helps adults learn to read.
Lone Star Literary Life announces Michelle Newby Lancaster (aka Texas Book Lover) as managing editor.
Vote for your favorites on the 2018 Reading the West shortlist.
Winners, runners-up, honorable mentions, and short-listed titles have been announced in twelve categories
100W Corsicana, an international artists and writers residency based in Corsicana, Texas, has announced the recipients of its 2019 residencies.
A new independent bookstore, located in a historic home at 408 W. Forrest Street, opened in Victoria on Thursday with plans to provide a community-oriented space for local readers.
The Whiting Awards jury has announced this year’s ten winners in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama. Two winners picking up the $50,000 prize are from Texas.
The Texas State Legislature, in partnership with the Texas Commission on the Arts, will make appointments on Monday, March 25, 2019 to the positions of state poet laureate, state musician, state two-dimensional artist, and state three-dimensional artist.
The Texas Institute of Letters has announced the selection of thirteen recipients of their Annual TIL Literary Awards based on the careful review of exemplary, recently published works. More than $21,000 in award monies will be given to the recipients at the annual TIL Awards Banquet, which this year is scheduled to take place April 27th in McAllen, Texas.