Category: Awards
Awards 2020-2029
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
Awards 2010-2019
Awards 2000-2009
Awards 1980-1989
Awards 1990-1999
Elizabeth Crook Wins Lifetime Achievement Award from TIL
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…
TIL Literary Contest Guidelines for 2024
Carmen Tafolla Wins Lifetime Achievement Award from TIL
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…
Awards 1960-1969
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…
Awards 2020-2029

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
Awards 2010-2019
Awards 2000-2009
Awards 1980-1989
Awards 1990-1999
Elizabeth Crook Wins Lifetime Achievement Award from TIL

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…
TIL Literary Contest Guidelines for 2024
Carmen Tafolla Wins Lifetime Achievement Award from TIL

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…
Awards 1960-1969
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…