Writers' League of Texas Book AwardThe
Writers' League of Texas Book Awards recognize outstanding published books each
year in five categories, Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry & Literary Prose, Children's
books (long works) and Children's books (short works). 2010 ContestContest
closed. Watch for announcements of the 2010 Texas Book Awards Contest Winner. 2011
Contest The 2011 Writers' League of Texas Book Awards will recognize outstanding
books published in the following categories: - Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Poetry & Literary Prose
- Children’s books (short works)
- Children’s books (long works)
The 2011 contest
is open to American authors of books published in 2010. (Note: The Book’s
copyright page must show the 2010 date.) Authors are not required to be members
of the Writers’ League of Texas.
Entry fee: $35 per title /
$25 per title for WLT members only Deadline: Thursday, January 31,
2011
Prize: Winners in each category receive a $1000 cash prize,
a commemorative award and an appearance at the 2011 Texas Book Festival. Download
2011 Texas Book Awards
Guidelines and Entry Form. Learn about other Writers'
League contests. 2009 Winners & Finalists
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Nonfiction Winner A Terrible
Glory: Custer and the Little Big Horn, the Last Great Battle of the American West
James
Donovan, Dallas, TX (Little, Brown, March 2008) Finalists
The
Texas Rangers, Mike Cox, Austin, TX
The Death of Raymond Yellow
Thunder, Stew Magnuson, Arlington, VA
Island Journeys,
Patti Marxsen Camden, ME
The Texas Hill Country, Terry Thompson-Anderson,
Fredericksburg, TX
The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, Marion Winik,
Baltimore, MD | | 
| Fiction
Winner The Story of Forgetting
Stefan Merrill Block,
Brooklyn, NY (Random House, April 2008) Finalists
The Condition,
Jennifer Haigh, Hull, MA
The Theory of Light and Matter, Andrew
Porter, San Antonio, TX
Purple Hearts, C.W. Smith, Dallas, TX
Northline, Willy Vlautin, Scappoose, OR |
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Children's Book Winner The
Underneath,
Kathi Appelt
College Station, TX
(Atheneum,
May 2008) Finalists
Man in the Moon,
Dotti Enderle, Richmond, TX
Charro Claus and the Tejas Kid,
Xavier Garza, San Antonio, TX
How Not to Be Popular, Jennifer
Ziegler, Austin, TX | | 
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Poetry & Literary Prose Winner Meditations
on Rising and Falling
Philip Pardi
Phoenicia, NY
(University
of Wisconsin Press, February 2008)
Finalists
Shadow
Mountain, Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, Houston, TX
A Poetry
of Remembrance, Levi Romero, Albuquerque, NM
Wild Flight, Christine
Rhein, Brighton, MI | 2009
Book Awards Press Release 2009
Book Awards Poster Previous Winners - Violet
Crown Award Previous Winners - Teddy Children's
Book Award This project is funded and supported in part by the City
of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas
Commission on the Arts and an award from the National
Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great
art. |
