Deep Vellum Founder Will Evans Inducted into Texas Institute of Letters

We couldn’t be prouder of our founder and adopted Texan Will Evans! Texas Institute of Letters’ press release follows:

DISTINGUISHED WRITERS TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE TEXAS INSTITUTE OF LETTERS 2022

TEXAS INSTITUTE OF LETTERS ANNOUNCES FIFTEEN DISTINGUISHED WRITERS TO BE INDUCTED

For the 86th year, members of the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL) have decided on the induction of new members to join the ranks of the distinguished honor society founded in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and to recognize distinctive literary achievement.

The TIL’s membership consists of the state’s most respected writers – including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Academy Award, Americas Award, International Latino Book Award, Lambda Literary Award, MacArthur Fellowship, and Guggenheim Fellowship. Membership is based on ongoing and exceptional literary accomplishment. Members of the Texas Institute of Letters have overwhelmingly approved fifteen writers to join the ranks of the TIL.

The 2022 honorees include fiction and nonfiction writers Amanda Eyre Ward, Frederick Luis Aldama, and Shelley Armitage; award-winning poets Edward Vidaurre and Melissa Studdard; children’s and YA authors Christina Soontornvat, Francisco Stork, Don Tate, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Varian Johnson, Jennifer Ziegler, and Lupe Ruiz-Flores; journalist Carol Flake Chapman; publisher Will Evans; and historian Catherine Clinton.

Sergio Troncoso, President of the Texas Institute of Letters states, “The Texas Institute of Letters continues to identify and honor outstanding writers from all literary genres. Our newest members have expanded literary audiences to include diverse voices and readers, and have opened minds with books that reconsider history and scholarship. We are extremely proud of the outstanding work that these writers represent: children’s stories full of empathy and humor, poetry that breaks open the heart to imagine new perspectives, prose that challenges narrative forms and explores psychological complexities, and publishing that finds and amplifies voices on the margins of society. These fifteen masters of the word include novelists, short-story writers, poets, memoirists, publishers, children’s authors, and scholars.”

New members will be inducted at the upcoming TIL annual meeting and banquet in El Paso, Texas on April 22-23, 2022, which will also include the Annual TIL Literary Awards. For more information and details, please visit the TIL website: www.texasinstituteofletters.org.

From: TIL President, Sergio Troncoso

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To download the complete Press Release with bios and photos of all Fifteen New Inductees, click:

https://texasinstituteofletters.org/news/2022-TIL-Honorees-Press-Release.pdf