Your ultimate guide to writing in Texas. From events to contests to publishers, the Lone Star state has it all.

Writing Groups

•Writer’s League of Texas

•Texas writing groups by city

Contests & Rewards

•WLT Manuscript Contest

•WLT Texas Book Award

•Texas Review Press Contests

•Tomas Rivera Book Award

•Texas Library Association awards, scholarships & stipends

•Texas Institute of Letters awards

•West Texas Historical Association Richardson Award

•UNT Press Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction

•East Texas Historical Association Awards & Scholarships

•Writer’s Guild Texas Kathryn McClatchy Flash Fiction Contest

•Texas State Genealogical Society awards

•Texas State Historical Association awards & fellowships

•TCU Texas Book Award

Events

•Texas Book Festival

•Texas book events by month

Web Resources

•Texas Booksellers Association

•Texas literary magazines

•List of publishers in Texas

•Writers in the Schools

Writing Escapes

•Big Bend National Park Artist in Residence

•Writer’s Barn

•Win the Dobie Paisano Fellowship and write at J. Frank Dobie’s ranch

•Red Raku Press writing cottage

•WLT Summer Writing Retreat