Conference Date: July 20-22, 2012 - Register here!
Schedule & Speakers
See the full schedule here.
Friday
July 20th
Saturday
July 21st
Sunday
July 22nd
Schedule Highlights
Registration.
Writing workshops.
General Agents Session.
Southwest Soiree at Austin Ranch.
Close Encounters of the Literary Kind.
Literary Lights Dinner & Award Presentations.
Plenary sessions spotlighting some of our esteemed speakers.
Keynote Speakers
Check out the suggested reading list.
Luis Alberto
Urrea
A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and critically acclaimed author of 14 books including The Devil's Highway, The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America.
Richard
Rhodes
Author or editor of 26 works of fiction, history and memoir including the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which details the history of the bomb's creation spanning from the discovery of the energy trapped within an atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan.
Isabel
Wilkerson
A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Isabel Wilkerson is the author of The New York Times' bestseller, The Warmth of Other Suns, which tells the story of America's Great Migration through the eyes of three unforgettable protagonists.
This Year's Speakers
Assistant Professor at the Mayborn School of Journalism
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Documentary filmmaker and director of Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril
Author and editor of 16 books including The Glamour of Grammar and Help! For Writers
Award-winning documentary filmmaker
Travel Editor for Southern Living
Writer and senior editor at Our State magazine
A national correspondent for The New York Times
Award-winning editor
Author of Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea
Founder of Square Books and past president of the American Booksellers Association
Sunday & Enterprise Editer at The Dallas Morning News
Editor of Our State magazine
Award-winning magazine writer for Esquire
Controversial essay writer and long-form narrative contributor to Esquire
Senior writer for Sports Illustrated
Award-winning writer of Growing Girls, The Exact Same Moon, and Fifty Acres and a Poodle
Author of Houston's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Bayou City
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and photographer duo
Enterprise reporter for the Tampa Bay Times
Author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
Digital product developer at The Dallas Morning News
Senior writer for The Dallas Morning News
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Author of And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life
Senior Editor at Texas Monthly
Award-winning journalist and author of Car Camping
Deputy editor of Texas Monthly
2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame
Best-selling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club
Film critic at The Dallas Morning News
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Warmth of Other Suns