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{"id":3041,"date":"2023-04-08T09:45:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2023-04-08T10:17:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T10:17:33","slug":"lone-star-celebrates-til-award-winners-and-inductees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=3041&lang=ar","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Celebrates TIL Award Winners and Inductees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TIL award news<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{474e3144-ef83-4eb3-af8a-263954cd84f8}{193}\" paraid=\"983191180\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">The Texas Institute of Letters recently announced new inductees and named the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award recognizing \u201cdistinctive literary achievement.\u201d This year, TIL will award more than $27,000 in prizes to these writers at the TIL Awards Ceremony and Presentation in Corpus Christi, Texas on April 29, 2023.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{474e3144-ef83-4eb3-af8a-263954cd84f8}{193}\" paraid=\"983191180\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{474e3144-ef83-4eb3-af8a-263954cd84f8}{205}\" paraid=\"689754946\"><u><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong>Lifetime Achievement Award<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{474e3144-ef83-4eb3-af8a-263954cd84f8}{205}\" paraid=\"689754946\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{474e3144-ef83-4eb3-af8a-263954cd84f8}{211}\" paraid=\"1585118788\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">In announcing the unanimous vote to name <strong>Beverly Lowry<\/strong> as the recipient of the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/texasinstituteofletters.org\/beverly-lowry-wins-lifetime-achievement-award-from-til\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lifetime Achievement Award<\/a>, TIL president Diana L\u00f2pez noted, \u201cBeverly Lowry is most deserving of this award. She is an accomplished writer in both the fiction and nonfiction genres . . . Open any of her books, and you will see just how skillfully she imagines lives, allowing us, her readers, the gift of imagining them, too.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/node\/793\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click to read our Lone Star review of Lowry\u2019s <em>Who Killed These Girls<\/em>?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{474e3144-ef83-4eb3-af8a-263954cd84f8}{243}\" paraid=\"1973677114\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{474e3144-ef83-4eb3-af8a-263954cd84f8}{247}\" paraid=\"1692100973\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">In addition, TIL announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/texasinstituteofletters.org\/winners-of-the-2023-literary-awards\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2023 Literary Award Winners<\/a> in the following categories:&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{474e3144-ef83-4eb3-af8a-263954cd84f8}{247}\" paraid=\"1692100973\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{3}\" paraid=\"504688179\"><u><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong>Jesse H Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{9}\" paraid=\"744847826\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><em>Valley of Shadows<\/em> by Rudy Ruiz, Blackstone Publishing&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{21}\" paraid=\"1508747827\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{25}\" paraid=\"1672347268\"><u><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{35}\" paraid=\"437872021\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><em>It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories<\/em> by Ramona Reeves, University of Pittsburgh Press&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{47}\" paraid=\"1097781051\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{51}\" paraid=\"1591075939\"><u><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong>Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{61}\" paraid=\"1392929880\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><em>The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast<\/em> by Kirk W. Johnson, Viking&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{73}\" paraid=\"1435461481\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{77}\" paraid=\"311714053\"><u><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{83}\" paraid=\"124323134\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><em>City Without Altar<\/em> by Jasminne Mendez, Noemi Press&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{97}\" paraid=\"1288859245\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{85cbc7c9-0bdb-46b7-b939-93b676a113f8}{101}\" paraid=\"185674107\"><u><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">John A. 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