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TCU Texas Book Award


The Friends of the TCU Library and the TCU Press co-sponsor the 2011 TCU Texas Book Award, a prize of $5,000 given to the author of the best book about Texas. Fiction, nonfiction, art and photography books, and others will be considered; juvenile and young-adult works are excluded, as are dramatic works. Deadline for entries is December 31, 2010.


To enter: please send three copies of the book to the TCU Press, Box 298300, Fort Worth, Texas 76129, clearly marked for the "TCU Texas Book Award.” Please send books to arrive after September 1, 2010. Books must be postmarked by December 31, 2010 to be eligible. Author, publisher, agent, or any interested party may make submissions. No acknowledgement of entries will be sent, and books cannot be returned. Each entry must include the entrant's address and phone number. Only one book by any author will be considered. Books must have been published between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2010. The winner will be notified by February 15, 2011.

Works published by TCU Press are not eligible for this competition, nor are works by TCU faculty and personnel.

The presentation of $5,000 and a certificate will be made at the annual Friends of the TCU Library Banquet at TCU on March 21, 2011. The author of the winning title is expected to attend and deliver remarks.For more information:
Dr. Dan Williams, TCU Press, Box 298300, Fort Worth, TX 76129
Ph: 817-257-7822 • email: d.e.williams@tcu. 31, 2006.



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