Two New York fiction agents will hear pitches at the West Texas Writers' Academy in Canyon June 10-14, 2019.
When a Ghost Talks, Listen: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story (Roadrunner Press) by Tim Tingle wins middle-grade category in 2018 Reading the West Awards.
Texas celebrates Independent Bookstore Day, a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April.
The Texas Book Festival (TBF) announced the winners of its 2019 Texas Library Grants at the Texas Library Association conference in Austin today. Forty-one public libraries across thirty-six Texas counties received grants totaling $100,500.
Bexar County’s BiblioTech is launching a contest designed to reward the best independently published authors in Texas.
The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has compiled its annual list of the most frequently challenged books in the U.S. in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools.
Nine students have won the state round of the 2019 Letters About Literature competition, sponsored in part by the Texas Center for the Book (TCFB).
Lone Star Lit is celebrating National Poetry Month this April with a brand new page dedicated to Texas poets and poetry.
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.