The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) announced 43 NALAC Fund for the Arts grants today. Totaling $267,000, the awards provide funding to 26 Latinx artists and collectives and 17 Latinx arts organizations in 13 states and Puerto Rico.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES WINNERS FOR 2018 AWARDS
New York, NY (March 14, 2019)—Tonight, at the New School in New York, the National Book Critics Circle announced the…
2019 Texas Bluebonnet Award winner announced
The votes are in and Sergeant Reckless: The True Story of the Little Horse Who Became a Hero by Patricia McCormick,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…