Join the Writers’ League of Texas for a conversation with LaToya Watkins (Holler, Child) and Amanda Churchill (The Turtle House) about their works of fiction about human nature, community, and the complexities of Texas.
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Amanda Churchill is a writer living in Texas. Her work has been featured in Hobart Pulp, Witness, River Styx, and other outlets. She was a Writers’ League of Texas 2021 Fellow and holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of North Texas. The Turtle House is her first novel.
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LaToya Watkins’s writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Sun, McSweeney’s, Kenyon Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and elsewhere. She has received grants, scholarships, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Hedgebrook. She was a 2018 A Public Space Emerging Writers Fellow. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her latest book is Holler, Child: Stories, which was Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction.
