Now - May 11: Dallas Jewish Bookfest, already in progress. Authors and books to provide a window to the Jewish experience. Next up: Jillian Cantor with In Another Time, January 29, 7-9 p.m., Aaron Family Jewish Community Center, 7900 Northaven Road, Dallas. See the site for ticket prices and other event venues.
Now – May 11: The 29th season of Arts & Letters Live is already in progress. Coming to you from the Dallas Museum of Art, it features literary and performing arts. Humorist Mo Rocca’s January 22 reading is already sold out but check the site for more programs to come. Most tickets $40 for public, $30 for DMA members, $20 for students. Most venues at the DMA, 1717 N. Harwood, Dallas.
Now – May 11: The 29th season of Arts & Letters Live is already in progress. Coming to you from the Dallas Museum of Art, it features literary and performing arts. Humorist Mo Rocca’s January 22 reading is already sold out but check the site for more programs to come. Most tickets $40 for public, $30 for DMA members, $20 for students. Most venues at the DMA, 1717 N. Harwood, Dallas.
January 24: Not a conference, but add #RevPit from Revise & Resub to
your contest lineup for a chance to polish those queries and early manuscript
pages! Authors have a chance to win feedback and full manuscript edits to get
queries ready for submission to agents.
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February 20: Highland Park Literary Festival features keynote speaker Hampton Sides at 7
p.m. in Highland Park High School’s Palmer Auditorium. Sides is best known for deeply
researched adventure stories set in war or on epic explorations, most recently,
On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of the Chosin Reservoir, the Korean
War’s Greatest Battle (named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington
Post). Following his address, he will sign books from 8 – 8:45 p.m. Free
and open to the public.
March 6-7: North Texas Teen Book Festival returns to the Irving Convention Center, 500
West Las Colinas, in Irving, Texas. March 6 is educator day, March 7 is open to
everyone festival day, featuring scores (literally) of middle grade and young
adult authors. Free. See the site for complete list of participating authors.
March 21: WORDfest 4.0, that “all-you-can-meet”
literary festival of connections returns to Tarrant County College’s Northeast Campus,
828 Harwood Road, Hurst. Last year 20 North Texas writing groups and more than
300 writers attended, providing information about fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting,
poetry and indie publishing. Lunch and snacks available for purchase at the college’s
student union cafeteria, but otherwise everything is free. Stay tuned to the
site for scheduling details.
May 4-10: This year’s Writefest, the week-long
literary festival at numerous venues in Houston, features poet Jericho Brown as
keynote speaker. Events include writing workshops, conference, book fair and
social events (readings, open-mics and a literary breakfast). Book fair and
socials are free and open to the public. Early bird registration for four-day
workshops and weekend festival is $350 (plus service charge) through April 1. Check
site for specifics and locations.
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What’s missing? North
Texas science-fiction/fantasy convention ConDFW ended its 19-year run in
(perhaps appropriately) 2019. Also, in 2019, SMU’s Writer’s Path program bit
the dust. But the Path’s long-time honcho, author Suzanne Frank, has announced
a wake of sorts for the beloved writing program, January 21, 7 p.m.-ish, at
Chocolate Secrets, 3926 Oak Lawn Avenue, Dallas. Come, connect, grieve and (she
promises) bring anything you have to promote.
Alert readers of this
blog may also have noticed a gap in last week’s post about contests – WRiTE
CLUB. The originator of the readers’ choice contest, D.L. Hammons, just landed
an agent for his MG book and is busy preparing a sequel! Will he be too busy to
host WRiTE CLUB again? Stay tuned!
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(Updated to include Dallas Jewish Bookfest)
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