Writing Texan: A Discussion at Lockhart’s LitFest!

Join Pecantown’s Tess Coody-Anders at Lockhart LitFest for an insightful and engaging conversation with three Texas writers about the impact and influence on their work of living and writing in Texas. Stick around to meet the authors and get signed copies of their books!

Prudence Arceneaux, a native Texan, is a poet who teaches English and Creative Writing at Austin Community College, in Austin, TX. Her work has appeared in various journals, including The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, Limestone, New Texas, Hazmat Review, Texas Observer, Whiskey Island Magazine, African Voices and Inkwell. She is the author of Proprioception, and of two chapbooks of poetry—Dirt (awarded the 2018 Jean Pedrick Prize) and Liberty.

Stacey Swann’s debut novel Olympus, Texas (Doubleday) was a Good Morning America Book Club selection, an Indie Next Pick, and was longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Swann holds an M.F.A. from Texas State University and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her writing has appeared in LitHub, Electric Literature, Texas Highways, Epoch, and other journals. 

James Wade is the award-winning author of Beasts of the Earth, All Things Left Wild, and River, Sing Out – and his latest novel, Narrow the Road. He is the youngest novelist to win two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, and the recipient of the MPIBA’s prestigious Reading the West Award. James’s work has appeared in Southern Literary Magazine, the Bitter Oleander, Writers’ Digest, and numerous additional publications. James lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and children.