PEN Texas president (and regular Dallas Morning News critic) Tim Redman notes that the deadline for the PEN Southwest Writing Contest is coming up Oct. 1. The awards, offered every other year, are open to PEN members in the Southwest...
The Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History , given annually by the The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association, has been awarded to Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier, by Sophie Burton...
The North Texas Book Festival presented its annual awards, which honor excellence in small press and self-publishing, earlier this month. Here's a list of the winners:...
Columbia University last month announced winners of the coveted Bancroft Prize, which is given to authors of "books of exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy." The winners were Thomas G. Andrews for Killing for Coal:...
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Ragtime" novelist E.L. Doctorow and Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul were among the 14 finalists announced Wednesday for the Man Booker International Prize, given every two years for lifetime achievement by a fiction writer who writes...
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