2020 (The meeting was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.) 2021 April 17. The event was live on Zoom, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2022 April 23, Ardovino’s Desert Crossing and Hilton Doubletree, El Paso 2023 April 28-29 in Corpus Christi 2024 May 3-4, The Woodlands 2025 April 25-26, Brownsville
2010 April 30 – May 1 Radisson Hotel Downtown, Austin There were no winners of the following awards for 2010: 2011 April 29-30, Radisson Central, Dallas * This award is funded for five years by Wanda Baker Bush of Sherman in honor of her late husband, Robert (Bob) Bush, a…
2000 April 15 – San Antonio, Menger Hotel *First year awarded 2001 March 31 – Dallas, Doubletree Hotel *Award increased from $250 2002 March 23 – Austin, Radisson Hotel *New award; previous award for poetry is now for Best First Book of Poetry **New awards for best book for children…
1980 March 29 – Austin, Driskill Hotel * Prize increased to $1,000 this year. Blank award amounts unknown. 1981 April 11-12 – Austin Friday Mountain, former ranch of Walter Prescott Webb, near Austin 1982 April 3-4 – near Austin Friday Mountain, former ranch of Walter Prescott Webb, V * Award…
1990 April 28 – Austin, Four Seasons Hotel 1991 April 13 – Bandera, Mayan Guest Ranch *First year given. 1992 April 11 – Fort Worth, Worthington Hotel 1993 March 20 – Melrose Hotel, Dallas 1994 April 16-Melrose Hotel, Dallas * First Year Given 1995 April 8-San Antonio, St. Anthony Hotel…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | PDF VERSION Author Elizabeth Crook has been named the winner of the Texas Institute of Letters’ prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. This is the highest honor given by the TIL, which was established in 1936 to recognize distinctive literary achievement. The award will be presented to Crook…
[PDF version of guidelines.] The latest slate of TIL literary contests is now open with prizes adding up to $23,750. In addition, the TIL will bestow a lifetime achievement award ($7,000) and the Jones Fellowship ($9,000), for a total of more than $39,000 in annual awards. The Texas Institute of…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Author Carmen Tafolla has been named the winner of the Texas Institute of Letters’ prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. This is the highest honor given by the TIL, which was established in 1936 to recognize distinctive literary achievement. The award will be presented to Tafolla in The Woodlands…
1960 Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction ($1,000): Aristotle and the American Indian (Henry Regnery, 1959) by Lewis Hanke. Jesse H. Jones Award (Houston Endowment) for Best Book of Fiction ($1,000): The Poison Tree (Houghton Mifflin, 1959), by Walter Clemons. McMurray Bookshop Award for Best Texas First…
Years indicate when annual TIL meetings took place. Until 1955, eligible books were published betweenAugust 1 of the meeting year and the previous August 1. No awards were given in 1954, and beginning in 1955, eligible entries had to be published in the calendar year preceding the annual meeting. 1950 …
