Writers' League of Texas Book AwardThe
Writers' League of Texas Book Awards recognize outstanding published books each
year in five categories, Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry & Literary Prose, Children's
books (long works) and Children's books (short works). 2010 ContestThe
2010 Writers' League of Texas Book Awards will recognize outstanding books published
in the following categories: - Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
& Literary Prose
- Children’s books (short works)
- Children’s
books (long works)
The 2010 contest is open to American authors
of books published in 2009. (Note: The Book’s copyright page must show the
2009 date.) Authors are not required to be members of the Writers’ League
of Texas.
Entry fee: $35 per title / $25 per title for WLT members
only Deadline extended: March 15, 2010
Prize: Winners
in each category receive a $1000 cash prize, a commemorative award and an appearance
at the 2010 Texas Book Festival. For detailed guidelines and entry form
please click here. 2009
Winners & Finalists |
|
Nonfiction Winner A Terrible
Glory: Custer and the Little Big Horn, the Last Great Battle of the American West
James
Donovan, Dallas, TX (Little, Brown, March 2008) Finalists
The
Texas Rangers, Mike Cox, Austin, TX
The Death of Raymond Yellow
Thunder, Stew Magnuson, Arlington, VA
Island Journeys,
Patti Marxsen Camden, ME
The Texas Hill Country, Terry Thompson-Anderson,
Fredericksburg, TX
The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, Marion Winik,
Baltimore, MD | | 
| Fiction
Winner The Story of Forgetting
Stefan Merrill Block,
Brooklyn, NY (Random House, April 2008) Finalists
The Condition,
Jennifer Haigh, Hull, MA
The Theory of Light and Matter, Andrew
Porter, San Antonio, TX
Purple Hearts, C.W. Smith, Dallas, TX
Northline, Willy Vlautin, Scappoose, OR |
| |
Children's Book Winner The
Underneath,
Kathi Appelt
College Station, TX
(Atheneum,
May 2008) Finalists
Man in the Moon,
Dotti Enderle, Richmond, TX
Charro Claus and the Tejas Kid,
Xavier Garza, San Antonio, TX
How Not to Be Popular, Jennifer
Ziegler, Austin, TX | | 
|
Poetry & Literary Prose Winner Meditations
on Rising and Falling
Philip Pardi
Phoenicia, NY
(University
of Wisconsin Press, February 2008)
Finalists
Shadow
Mountain, Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, Houston, TX
A Poetry
of Remembrance, Levi Romero, Albuquerque, NM
Wild Flight, Christine
Rhein, Brighton, MI | Learn about other 2010
Writers' League contests. 2009
Book Awards Press Release 2009
Book Awards Poster Previous Winners - Violet
Crown Award Previous Winners - Teddy Children's
Book Award This project is funded and supported in part by the City
of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas
Commission on the Arts and an award from the National
Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great
art. |
