woostify domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/latestwordpress/lonestar.a1professionals.net_public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131The seventeen newly elected members of the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL) are: three-time-Oscar-nominated screenwriter-director Wes Anderson (Houston); playwright and Broadway actor Eugene Lee (San Marcos); poets Rosa Alcal\u00e1 (El Paso), Robin Davidson (Houston), and Carrie Fountain (Austin); fiction writers Tim Z. Hernandez (El Paso), Wendell Mayo (Corpus Christi\/Ohio), and Ito Romo (Laredo\/San Antonio); scholars Patrick Cox (Wimberley), Betty Sue Flowers (Austin\/New York), and Ellen Clarke Temple (Lufkin); nonfiction writers Wes Ferguson (Austin) and John MacCormack (San Antonio); songwriter and children\u2019s book author Tish Hinojosa (San Antonio\/Austin); documentary and feature filmmaker Jes\u00fas Salvador Trevi\u00f1o (El Paso\/Los Angeles); children\u2019s book author Xavier Garza (Rio Grande City\/San Antonio); and theater critic\/playwright Robert Faires (Austin).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “We are very proud of the great diversity of exceptional talents in this year\u2019s honorees,\u201d said TIL President Carmen Tafolla. \u201cThese seventeen exemplars of literary innovation span the creative gamut from stage plays to song lyrics and from history to poetry, fiction, journalism, children\u2019s works, and filmmaking. The Institute has again picked the very finest representatives of what it means to be outstanding, productive, and dynamically engaged in the advancement of the letters.” <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The TIL has chosen Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the prestigious Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement, the highest honor given by the TIL. The award will be presented to Nye at the TIL\u2019s annual meeting and banquet. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The next annual meeting and awards banquet will be held at Casa De Palmas in McAllen, Texas on April 26-27, 2019. The banquet is open to the public; tickets may be purchased at the TIL website.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n