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{"id":1591,"date":"2019-05-05T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2019-05-05T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T10:00:59","slug":"tcu-texas-book-award-entry-deadline-may-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=1591&lang=ar","title":{"rendered":"TCU Texas Book Award Entry Deadline May 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

The TCU Texas Book Award is open for entries.<\/p>\n

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The Friends of the TCU Library and TCU Press are co-sponsors of the TCU Texas Book Award<\/a>. A prize of $5,000 is given to the author of the best book about Texas. Fiction, nonfiction, art, photography, and other books will be considered; juvenile, young-adult, drama, film scripts, and self-published works are excluded. Deadline for entries for 2019 will be May 31, 2019.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The award is made on a three-year cycle.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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To enter, send three copies of the book to TCU Press, 3000 Sandage, Fort Worth, Texas 76109, clearly marked for the “TCU Texas Book Award.\u201d Books must be postmarked by May 31, 2019 to be eligible. Authors, publishers, agents, or any interested party may make submissions. No acknowledgement of entries will be sent, and books cannot be returned. Each entry must include the entrant’s address, phone number, and email. Only one book by any author will be considered. Books must have been published between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2018 to be eligible for the 2019 award.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Works published by TCU Press, or by TCU faculty and personnel, are not eligible for this competition.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The presentation of $5,000 and a certificate will be made at a dinner hosted by the Friends of the TCU Library at TCU on Thursday, October 17, 2019. The author of the winning title is expected to attend and deliver remarks.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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For more information, please contact Dr. Dan Williams, Director of the TCU Press, at (817) 257-5907 or <\/span><\/span>d.e.williams@tcu.edu<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Previous winners<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> of the TCU Book Award include Jeff Guinn for <\/span><\/span>Buffalo Trail: A Novel of the American West (A Cash McLendon Novel)<\/span><\/em><\/span> (2016), Rick Bass for A Thousand Deer: Four Generations of Hunting and the Hill Country (2013), S.C. Gwynne for Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (2011), and Joe Nick Patoski for Willie Nelson: An Epic Life (2009).<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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