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TCU Texas Book Award

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For Best Books About Texas
PRESS Book
The Friends of the TCU Library and TCU Press are co-sponsors of the 2016 TCU Texas Book Award. A prize of $5,000 is given
to the author of the best book about Texas. Fiction, nonfiction, art, photography and other books will be considered; juvenile,
young-adult, drama or film scripts, and self-published works are excluded. Deadline for entries is Friday, June 10, 2016. Honors & wo TCU Press publications received literary awards

To enter, send three copies of the book to the TCU Press, 3000 Sandage, Fort Worth, Texas 76109, clearly marked for the “TCU New Releases T from the Texas state historical association.
Texas Book Award.” Books must be postmarked by June 10, 2016 to be eligible. Authors, publishers, agents, or any interested
party may make submissions. No acknowledgement of entries will be sent, and books cannot be returned. Each entry must The Garden of Eden: The Story of a Freedmen’s Community
include the entrant’s address, phone number, and email. Only one book by any author will be considered. Books must have been in Texas, written by Drew Sanders, is a history of a
published between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2015. The winner will be notified by September 9, 2016. neighborhood located just minutes from downtown Fort
Worth where freed African-American slaves lived for well
Works published by TCU Press, or by TCU faculty and personnel, are not eligible for this competition. over a century. Sanders received the Al Lowman Memorial
Prize for best book in Texas county and local history.
To learn more about the TCU Texas Book Award and to see a list of previous winners go to http://library.tcu.edu/friends/texas-
book-award. Weird Yet Strange: Notes from an Austin Music Artist, written
by Danny Garrett, one of the most prolific music poster
The presentation of $5,000 and a certificate will be made at a dinner hosted by the Friends of the TCU Library at TCU on artists in Austin in the 70s and 80s, received the Ron Tyler
Thursday, October 13, 2016. The author of the winning title is expected to attend and deliver remarks. Award for the best-illustrated book on Texas history and
culture. The book includes artwork for musicians Willie
For more information, please contact Dr. Dan Williams, Director of the TCU Press, at 817-257-5907 or d.e.williams@tcu.edu. Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughn, and iconic venues such as
Armadillo World Headquarters and Antone’s.

Previous TCU Texas Book Award Winners NEW RELEASES
Crossing the Line: A Marriage Across Borders, by Linda Valdez
2013 - Rick Bass
A Thousand Deer The Boar’s Head Festival: A Christmas Celebration by
LaLonnie Lehman

2011 - S. C. Gwynne
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History The Silent Shore of Memory, a novel by John C. Kerr

James Hoggard: New and Selected Poems, by James Hoggard
2009 - Joe Nick Patoski
Willie Nelson: An Epic Life

TCU Press has traditionally published the history and
2007 - Timothy Egan literature of Texas and the American West. As the
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl press has grown steadily in stature and in its ability

to bring credit to its parent university over the last
2005 - Scott Zesch sixty years, it has been praised for publishing regional
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier fiction and for discovering and preserving local
history.
2003 - Jeff Guinn
Our Land Before We Die: The Proud Story of the Seminole Negro TCU Press is also a member of the Texas Book
Consortium, a collection of university presses from
2001 - Stephen Harrigan around the state. Book sales and distribution are
The Gates of the Alamo handled by Texas A&M University Press, the leader
of the Consortium.

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