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…
Members of the Texas Institute of Letters have overwhelmingly approved twelve new writers to the TIL, a distinguished honor society established in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and recognize distinctive literary achievement. The TIL’s elected membership consists of the state’s most recognized and serious writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism,…
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…
1990-1991 President: Robert Flynn, San AntonioVice President: Bryan Woolley, DallasSecretary-Treasurer: James Hoggard, Wichita Falls Councilors:Don Carleton, AustinElizabeth Warnock Fernea, AustinLeon Hale, HoustonPrudence Mackintosh, DallasWalter McDonald, LubbockLawrence Wright, Austin 1991-1992 President: Bryan Woolley, DallasVice-President: Lawrence Wright, AustinSecretary-Treasurer: James Hoggard, Wichita Falls Councilors:Judy Alter, Fort WorthDon Carleton, AustinElizabeth Warnock Fernea, AustinLeon Hale,…
2000 April 15 – San Antonio, Menger Hotel President: Carolyn Osborn, AustinVice-President: Tom Zigal, Austin Secretary: Paula Marks, Buda Treasurer: James Hoggard, Wichita Falls Recording Secretary: Robert Compton Councilors: Mark Busby Kathleen Cambor Robert Compton Joe Holley Elizabeth Crook, AustinTerry DalrympleR.S. Gwynn Olive HerseyTom Pilkington, Stephenville Donley Watt 2001 March…
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 …
