The Writers’ League of Texas celebrates its 2010 awards with a shindig next week at BookPeople.
Austin authors Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith took the nonfiction prize for their biography Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life. Other awards include Susan B.A. Somers-Willett’s Quiver for best poetry collection, Phillip Hoose’s Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice for best children’s book, and Lorraine M. López’s Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories for best fiction.
All the awardees will be honored at the WLT’s monthly third Thursday meeting on Thursday, Jan. 20 at 7pm at BookPeople. Swing by, support Texas authors, and why not buy a book (or four) while you’re there?
This article appears in 2010.
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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...
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