TEXAS: PAST & FUTURE with WRITERS’ LEAGUE OF TEXAS

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
| Location of Session: Launch SA Center
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 2:00 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

Join Writers’ League of Texas for a conversation with Fernando A. Flores (Brother Brontë) and James Wade (Hollow Out the Dark) about their works of fiction about Texas’s past and future – and what commonalities we see in the present.

About the Author

Photo Credit: Steven Ray Martinez

Fernando A. Flores

Fernando A. Flores was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and grew up in South Texas. He is the author of the short story collections Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas and Valleyesque. His novel Tears of the Trufflepig was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named a best book of 2019 by Tor.com. His fiction has appeared in the LARB Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, Frieze, Porter House Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Austin, Texas. His new novel is Brother Brontë.

Photo Credit: Madelinne Grey

James Wade

James Wade is the award-winning author of Beasts of the Earth, All Things Left Wild, and River, Sing Out. He is the youngest novelist to win two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, and the recipient of the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers’s Reading the West Book Award. James’s work has appeared in Southern Literary Review, Texas Highways, Writer’s Digest, and numerous additional publications. James lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and children. His new book is Hollow Out the Dark.

Moderator

Sarah Renee Beach

Sarah Renee Beach is the Program Director for the Writers’ League of Texas. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the New School, and she is an alum of the Tin House Summer Workshop. Her poetry chapbook Impact won Sundress Publication’s 2022 Chapbook Contest, and her personal essay “Memento Mori” was a finalist for Ninth Letter’s 2024 Literary Awards in Creative Nonfiction and Sewanee Review’s Seventh Annual Nonfiction Contest where its publication is forthcoming.