Festival & Author News
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2009 Library Grants Top $100,000
The Texas Book Festival is awarding more than $100,000 to 33 public libraries in 21 counties across Texas. The grants are made possible through the generosity of individual, corporate, and foundation sponsorships, funds raised from the annual Gala, and book sales during the annual Book Festival on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol. Texas Book Festival has awarded more than $2.5 million in library grants since 1996. “We are honored to support Texas public libraries and the invaluable services they provide to their communities in cultivating literacy.” said Heidi Marquez Smith, Executive Director for the Texas Book Festival.
Click here for a list of libraries receiving the 2009 Texas Book Festival grants.
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Arts & Letters Live: Texas Bound 2011 Call for Short Stories
Arts & Letters Live, a program of the Dallas Museum of Art, is a literary and performing arts series entering its 20th season in 2011. Texas Bound programs feature readings by Texas actors of short fiction by Texas-connected authors. Notable authors featured in past programs include Sarah Bird, Oscar Casares, John Bloom, Larry L. King, Steve Martin, Sandra Cisneros, and Larry McMurtry. The program is inviting authors to submit short fiction for consideration in the 2011 program. For more information on the program and how to submit your story, click here.
The deadline for submissions is June 4, 2010.
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Lidia Bastianich at the 2009 Texas Book Festival
In Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes, Lidia Bastianich takes us on a culinary journey off the beaten path. Bastianich is the author of six books, four of which are paired with her syndicated public television series. She has been a regular contributor to the PBS cooking show lineup since 1998. In 2007, she launched her third TV series, Lidia's Italy. Bastianich is the owner of two restaurants in Manhattan, Felidia and Becco, as well as two others in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Kansas City, Missouri. Watch the video of her appearance in the Texas Book Festival Cooking Tent in 2009 here.
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Sandra Brown at the 2009 Texas Book Festival
Sandra Brown is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers –
including the romantic thriller Smash Cut,
which earned a rare starred review from Publishers Weekly. At
the 2009 Festival, however, Brown launched her first novella, Rainwater,
a moving story set in Depression-era Texas, and based on a true story
Brown's father once told her. Brown is the recipient of the 2008 Thriller Master Award from
International Thriller Writers, Inc. She and her husband live in
Arlington. Check out Sandra Brown's session from the 2009 Texas Book Festival.
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