Annual Book Awards - Writers League of Texas
Honoring that tradition, the Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards were established in 1991 (known first as the Violet Crown Awards before being renamed in 2008) to recognize the year’s best among those stories and to celebrate the exceptional writers behind them.
2023 Book Award Winners and Finalists – Writers League of Texas
Mr. Texas: A Novel by Lawrence Wright. DISCOVERY PRIZE WINNER. Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny
Past Book Award Winners – Writers League of Texas
A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles: A History of Politics and Race in Texas by Bill Minutaglio. Far From Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art by Daniel Oppenheimer. Discovery Prize Winner:
2024 Manuscript Contest Honorees - Writers League of Texas
WINNER Thresholds: Living on Fault Lines by Kate Blackburn. FINALISTS Night Mother: The Story of a Son And the Hollywood Mother He Blames for His Familicide by Peg Cannon Getting to We: A Heart Forward Wisdom to Expand Our “We Intelligence” to Achieve Justice, Equity and Unity! by AJ Ford Faith Ringgold: Biography by Sharon Langley It Never Happened: Four Women, Their Wrongful Imprisonment ...
WLT @ 2023 Texas Book Festival – Writers League of Texas
See our Sunday panel, starting at 2:45 PM at First United Methodist Church (1201 Lavaca St.), “Writers’ League of Texas Presents: Texas Debut Novelists” with Isa Arsén, Celia Bell, & Szilvia Molnar, moderated by Becka Oliver.
Events for January 2025 – Writers League of Texas
Heralded as a “Literary Genius” by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, D.E.E.P.’s recent memoir, Black Chameleon (Henry Holt & Co.), was named Best Nonfiction of 2023 by The Texas Institute of Letters.
Manuscript Contest – Writers League of Texas
All you need are the first (roughly) ten pages of the manuscript plus a synopsis that describes the rest of the book you have planned. This contest gives you the chance to… • Meet one-on-one virtually with a top literary agent in your category or genre if you’re one of our ten winners;
ABOUT – Writers League of Texas
The first WLT book award winners are announced, under the name Violet Crown Book Awards, honoring books by Texas authors.
Events for January 2025 – Writers League of Texas
Her 2019 poetry collection, Newsworthy (Bloomsday Literary), garnered her a Pushcart nomination, was named a finalist for the Writer’s League of Texas Book Award, and received honorable mention for the Summerlee Book Prize. A German translation, under the title "Berichtenswert," was released in the summer of 2021 by Elif Verlag.
2022 WLT Book Awards – Writers League of Texas
Mar 6, 2023 · The WLT Book Awards contest is now accepting submissions for books by Texas authors published in 2022. You’ll find the complete rules & guidelines for this year’s contest, along with an entry form, here.