Texas Teen Book Festival Is Here!

Celebration of YA lit moves north to Southwestern University

"...prone to low bank statements, sunburns, and claustrophobia, the Texas Teen Book Festival offers a nice alternative...."

Oct. 9, 2019 Arts Post by Addie Costello

Texas Teen Book Festival: This Weekend!

More books and authors than you can shake a dystopian future at

"...Here comes the Texas Teen Book Festival, a day-long feast for the relentlessly..."

Oct. 4, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

2018 Texas Teen Book Festival Lineup

Tenth fest brings YA stars Marissa Meyer, Patrick Ness, & more

"...The Texas Teen Book Festival turns 10 in 2018, and this..."

July 25, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Teen Book Festival: The 2015 Lineup

Sesame Street and Star Wars collide in the 2015 TTBF

"...about her life pre-PBS when she headlines the 2015 Texas Teen Book Festival. Sonia Manzano, who had generations of..."

Aug. 17, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Teen Book Festival

James Dashner, Oliver headline 2014 YA hullabaloo

"...We may be cracking the triple-digits still, but fall festival season will be here before you know it, and..."

Aug. 27, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

"What's Your Platform" at the Texas Teen Book Festival

Author panel explains how multiple mediums can feed success

"...has Twitter, Instagram, and their podcast, composing a well-written book might not be enough to earn readers' attention. This..."

Oct. 9, 2019 Arts Post by Addie Costello

Texas Teen Book Festival Announces Lineup

YA authors Adam Silvera, E. Lockhart, and more scheduled to attend

"...The Texas Teen Book Festival announced the authors for its ninth..."

Aug. 2, 2017 Arts Post by Jennifer Murphy

Texas Teen Book Festival Author Lineup Announced

Is your favorite among this year’s stellar array of writers?

"...The Texas Teen Book Festival announced its 2019 author lineup today,..."

July 26, 2019 Arts Post

Katherine Catmull at the Texas Teen Book Festival

Like a fairy in her YA novel The Radiant Road, Katherine Catmull keeps transforming the mundane into lovely art

"...her teeth into drafting what will be her third book. It hasn't left much time to celebrate the critical..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

2016 Texas Teen Book Festival: The Details

"...The Texas Teen Book Festival is always a starry affair, but..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Talkin' Austin Teen Book Festival

Uglies author, Nick and Norah, and more

"...crowd, for sure – but the third annual Austin Teen Book Festival has assembled a lineup that's sure to..."

Sept. 15, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival Goes Hybrid in 2021

October fest blends the virtual and a return of live events

"...The Texas Book Festival survived the pandemic in 2020 with a..."

May 17, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival Scales Back In-Person Programming

COVID puts the kibosh on State Capitol as a venue

"...The Texas Book Festival had already planned for a hybrid festival..."

Sept. 13, 2021 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

"...Texas Book Festival No. 25 – aka Virtual Texas Book..."

Sept. 16, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival Goes Virtual!

Annual literary event stretches from Halloween to Nov. 15

"...Have you ever wished the Texas Book Festival lasted more than one weekend? Well, this..."

June 24, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Texas Book Festival Unveils Its List of Participating Authors

In-person and virtual panels and discussions abound

"...The Texas Book Festival, one of the largest literary festivals in..."

Sept. 22, 2021 Arts Post by Adrienne Hunter

Texas Book Festival Announces 15 Authors for 2020

Virtual fest hosting Dean Koontz, Julia Alvarez, Kevin Kwan

"...cowgal astride a Hereford-sized horny toad in the 2020 Texas Book Festival's official poster – a hand tinted creation..."

Aug. 12, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival 2015: The Mighty 300

Authors for Fest 20 include Lethem, Lemony, Pitts, Diggs, Hart

"...and Leonard Pitts, Robert Christgau and Jessica Hopper? The Texas Book Festival, natch. And for its 20th edition, the..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival: Monsterator Keith Graves

Now your budding doctor-to-be can piece together their own...

"...sizing up colleges. “Both draw well,” he says. His Texas Book Festival entry Saturday, The Monsterator, goes one step..."

Oct. 23, 2014 Books Post by Raoul Hernandez

What They Always Tell Us

Required reading for all those awkward 16-year-olds – post-suicidal and gay or otherwise – who just don't fit in

"...underwear ... wait, what? I flip back to the book jacket, scanning for the words "young adult," but at..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Books Feature by Sofia Resnick

2002 Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...Saturday, Nov. 1610:30-11:15am House Chamber Bookend Award Ceremony Honoring Bud Shrake & Bill Wittliff, including..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Books Feature

Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...and locations of specific panels and readings or access http://www.austin360.com/texasbookfestival...."

Nov. 5, 1999 Books Feature

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...more reviews of films screened during the SXSW Film Festival 1998. Additional reviews can be found in last week's..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Faster Than Sound: How Two Years Off Made Oblivion Access Festival Even Better

An interview with the truly independent booking duo on their landmark lineup

"...Oblivion Access. For an absolutely landmark rebrand year, they'd booked Lil Ugly Mane – whose 2015 album inspired the..."

May 6, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Old Settler's Music Festival Preview

Bluebonnets and bluegrass: the Old Settler's Music Festival, still picking, still grinning

"...For 21 years now, the Old Settler's Music Festival has marked the arrival of spring to Central Texas..."

April 18, 2008 Music Feature

Featuring Texas

Films From Around the State

"...Finding North As in previous years, South by Southwest..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"..."She's About a Mover" branded the 1965 hit with Texas twang to his Grammy-winning work with the Texas Tornados,..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...his tax form. Master of both marshall arts and Texas Troubadorisms, Forsyth also plays a mean National Steel blues,..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

In Real Life in Real Life

Cory Doctorow brings his newest work to the Texas Teen Book Festival

"...from the UK to be at this Saturday's jam-packed Texas Teen Book Festival at St. Edward's University. The man's..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

YA Novelist Elizabeth Acevedo Has No Room for Hopelessness

How the author of Clap When You Land and keynote speaker at the 2020 Texas Teen Book Festival writes toward the positive

"...In 2018, Acevedo won the National Book Award for her novel in verse, The Poet X...."

Oct. 30, 2020 Arts Feature by Sara Hutchinson

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