TOMORROW: Don't miss seeing National Book Award-winning author @ImaniPerry in conversation with President of the Holdsworth Center Dr. Lindsay Whorton. 🎟️ Purchase tickets: eventbrite.com/e/place-the-la… 🗓️ Monday, February 3, 2025 ⏰ 5–7 PM 📍 The Holdsworth Center

Applications are now open for our Texas Library Grants program! Every year, we award these collections enhancement grants to Texas public libraries. Learn more and apply: texasbookfestival.org/programs/libra…

Hablemos, escritoras. supports the Texas Book Festival in its 30 anniversary and in all its efforts to spread literacy and literature in our beloved state. Come and join us in this celebration with your donations. @amplifyaustin #AmplifyAustinDay Adriana Pacheco

We’re looking for three summer interns to help support our literary programming, development, and event production & logistics efforts. Summer internships span from early June to late August, with a 10-hour-per-week commitment. 🔗 Full details: texasbookfestival.org/internships.

Help us write our next chapter! 📖 Your #AmplifyAustin donation will support libraries, literacy, and literature across Texas. Plus, use #LoveTitos at checkout, and @titosvodka will add $25 to your gift! Donate: Amplifyatx.org/organizations/…

Save the dates for the biggest book party in Texas! We're back Nov. 8–9 in downtown Austin. See you there! 😎 For the latest, subscribe to the TBF newsletter at the link in our bio or at texasbookfestival.org/subscribe.

Join Texas Book Festival ransomcenter Evan Smith for book launch of Freedom Season on May 13. So excited to share this book with the world. Center for the Study of Race and Democracy The LBJ School Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights JFK Library Foundation Basic Books Hachette Book Group

Looking forward to discussing the way in which this book touches upon so much that is unfolding around the world right now. ⁦Evan Smith⁩ ⁦Smithsonian’s NMAAHC⁩ ⁦Lark & Owl⁩ ⁦Pratt Library⁩ ⁦Politics and Prose⁩ ⁦Texas Book Festival⁩ ⁦The New York Historical⁩

I enjoy ROCKING OUT at FES today!🤘🏾 Fondren Elementary, thank you for being an AWESOME audience! #vangpoet #vantastic #vanggarrett #readingrockstars Texas Book Festival

📚Today we hosted Anne Wynter, Jennifer Ziegler, Greg Foley for Reading Rock Stars in partnership with Texas Book Festival. So much fun!

The deadline to apply for a Texas Library Grant is today! Texas public libraries, don't miss out on this opportunity to expand your collections.

So honored to be announced as the recipient of the 2025 Texas Writer Award from Texas Book Festival Center for the Study of Race and Democracy The LBJ School UT History Department Black UT Longhorns Network UT Austin Carnegie Corporation of New York Hutchins Center The New York Historical Smithsonian’s NMAAHC ransomcenter Center for the Study of Race and Democracy

The Texas Book Festival has announced Austin-based photographer, cinematographer, and film producer Sarah Wilson as its 2025 poster artist. Read more below: . . . Texas Book Festival buff.ly/B2dBFfo

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📚 The Haltom City Library has received a 2025 Texas Library Grant! Funding will expand our health & wellness collection in English & Spanish—supporting informed, healthy living for all. Thank you @TexasBookFest & Texas Library Assn.! haltomcitytx.com/news #HaltomCity #LibraryGrant

Fans of #DogMan and #ZipsAndEeloo rejoice! 🙌 The Victoria Public Library has received a grant from Texas Book Festival and Texas Library Assn. to purchase more than 200 juvenile graphic novels. 📚📚 Read more: victoriatx.gov/CivicAlerts.as…

Y'all read? 👀 📚 We're partnering with Texas Book Festival to bring you the Texas Book Club. Whether you’re a longtime reader with a towering to-be-read pile or someone who hasn’t hit a rhythm turning pages in a while, the Texas Book Club is for you. texasmonthly.com/press-room/tex…

Larry McMurtry’s LONESOME DOVE is the inaugural pick for the new Texas Book Club, a collaboration between Texas Monthly and Texas Book Festival. McMurtry’s novel, published in 1985 by Simon & Schuster, is one of the most iconic Texas books in literary history. ow.ly/orji50WzyTK

This week's #TBFRecommends comes from Chief Operations Officer, Dalia Azim: "I love the blend of history and invention that Karen Russell has brought to her latest novel, The Antidote... Their stories weave together in thrilling and unexpected ways ..."