After the preliminary launch of the primary 16 featured authors on the 2023 Texas E-book Competition, the complete lineup of visitor authors and audio system is right here.
Greater than 300 authors might be on the twenty eighth annual competition, happening on the state Capitol and alongside Congress Avenue in Austin on November 11-12. The weekend might be filled with panel discussions, creator readings, e-book signings, and rather more.
“Our full lineup features a numerous array of writers from throughout the globe, in addition to a variety of voices and abilities from throughout Texas, which includes a couple of third of our full program,” stated Texas E-book Competition Literary Director Hannah Gabel in a launch. “As a corporation that helps the liberty to learn with out restriction or censorship, we’re proud to current a competition program that features one thing for everybody.”
A late addition, simply an hour earlier than the information breaks, is Roxanne Homosexual, one of many main voices in modern intersectional feminism. Identified for her tweets as a lot as her books like Dangerous Feminist, Homosexual represents a rarity in educational writing: relatability. She might be presenting her new e-book, Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Different Individuals’s Enterprise.
No. 1 New York Occasions bestselling creator Ali Hazelwood – who wrote romance novels Love, Theoretically and The Love Speculation – might be in attendance to current her upcoming younger grownup romance novel Verify & Mate.
2013 Pritzker Literature Award winner Tim O’Brien will debut his first e-book in practically 20 years: America Fantastica. The satirical fiction novel follows a disgraced journalist’s financial institution theft and subsequent chase throughout the nation.
Dork Diaries creator Rachel Renée Russell will showcase her fifteenth e-book in her internationally bestselling collection, Tales from a Not-So-Posh Paris Journey.
In alphabetical order, the primary 20 authors and audio system are as follows:
Wendi AaronsStacey AbramsAgatha AchinduNana Kwame Adejei-BrenyahSylvia Aguilar-ZélenyNicole AlbanoCharles AlcornAsale Angel-AjaniAndrea ArangoJohn Manuel AriasIsa ArsénRoxanna AsgarianAlex AsterBen AustenAaron BagleyJessixa BagleyChandler BakerRebecca BalcárcelMaya BaranDerrick Barnes
The Texas E-book Competition might be preceded by the twenty eighth annual First Version Literary Gala on November 9. The occasion will happen on the Fairmont Austin Resort, and might be hosted by NPR Morning Version co-host Steve Inskeep.
Extra details about the 2023 competition and the complete lineup of authors will be discovered on texasbookfestival.org.
