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Nine Students Win Texas Letters About Literature Contest

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).

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Texas Indie Authors Contest

Bexar County’s BiblioTech is launching a contest designed to reward the best independently published authors in Texas.

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The 11 Most Challenged Books of 2018

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.

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BOOKISH TEXAS FOR THE WEEK OF 04.07.2019

The most comprehensive listing of book and author events, festivals, readings, lectures, and signings in the Lone Star State

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Lone Star Review: A Wise Collection Honoring a Brave Journalist

Natalia Trevin᷃o reviews San Antonio poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s newest poetry collection, The Tiny Journalist.

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Lone Star Review: Turning the Pages of Texas with a Master Storyteller

Si Dunn reviews historian and writer Lonn Taylor’s newest book, Turning the Pages of Texas.

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Texas Reads: It really, does matter where, you put those, commas

Author Glenn Dromgoole asks for writers to keep in mind the higher purpose of punctuation

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Lone Star Listens: Lupe Méndez and the Definition of a Poet

In our first interview for Poetry Month, Houston’s Lupe Méndez talks about writing, teaching, activism, and his new poetry collection, Why I Am Like Tequila.

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Dallas’s People for Words Wins $2.5 Million XPrize for Literacy App

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.

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