The Texas Institute of Letters is pleased to announce that the governing council, at the suggestion and with the funding of member Bryan Burrough, has voted unanimously to create of the Beverly Lowry Award for Best First Book of Nonfiction. Submissions for the inaugural $1,000 prize will be accepted starting September…
[PDF version of guidelines] The latest slate of TIL literary contests is now open with prizes adding up to $25,750. In addition, the TIL will bestow a lifetime achievement award ($7,000) and the Jones Fellowship ($9,000), for a total of more than $41,000 in annual awards. The Texas Institute of…
William Kip Stratton – friends call him by his middle name – is the Los Angeles Times bestselling author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film and eight other books. He is also the award winner of the Western Heritage Award for Last Red…
The lower Río Grande Valley was originally home to more than 50 bands of what are collectively referredto as the “Carrizo Cluster” of the regional Indigenous Coahuiltecan culture. These nearly 10,000 native American souls were joined by other groups displaced by colonial westward expansion, such as the Lipan Apache community…
Here are links to the land acknowledgments / calls to action from TIL conferences, beginning in 2025 when then-president David Bowles began the tradition. 2025 Land Acknowledgment for Brownsville
The Texas Institute of Letters is happy to announce the recipient of the 2025 Jesse H. Jones Fellowship: Rubén Degollado. The full press release can be found below.
1980 March 29 – Austin, Driskill Hotel President: Shelby Hearon, AustinVice-President: William Broyles, Austin Secretary-Treasurer: Marshall Terry, Dallas Councilors: James Early, Dallas John Graves, Glen RoseA. C. Greene, Dallas Beverly Lowry, HoustonC. W. Smith, Dallas William D. Wittliff, Austin 1981 April 11-12 – Austin, Friday Mountain, former ranch of Walter…
1970 March 20-21 – Dallas, Baker Hotel Officers President: A.C. Greene, Dallas Vice President: UnknownSecretary-Treasurer: John Edward Weems, Waco Councilors: Laura Furman, Lockhart Elmer Kelton, San Angelo Beverly Lowry, San MarcosC.W. Smith, Dallas Marshall Terry, Dallas William D. Wittliff, Austin 1971 March 13 – Austin President: A. C. GreeneVice President:…
