2008 UIL Fiction Writing Contest Winners

Winners of the 2008 7th Annual University Interscholastic League (UIL) Fiction Writing Contest - from left to right - are Ashley Haynie of Henrietta High School (11-12 grade), Alex Gonzalez of South Texas Preparatory Academy (7-8 grade), and Micaela Marini Higgs of Carnegie Vanguard High School (9-10 grade).  First-place winners were presented with plaques, invited to read their works during the Festival, and awarded $250 by the One Skye Foundation, the 2008 corporate sponsor of the contest. Click here to read the 2008 winning compositions.

Reading Rock Stars Goes to San Antonio

With support from TARGET, we took the Festival's Reading Rock Stars program to two Title I schools in San Antonio for the first time on Friday, November 21. Two San Antonio children's writers, Lupe Ruiz-Flores and Carmen Tafolla, presented their latest books to students at Will Rogers and Ira Ogden Elementary Schools. Every student at both schools received a brand new signed book.

Learn more about our Reading Rock Stars Program.

Click here to see pictures from the event! 

Sunday Schedule Change

David Hajdu's appearance at the Festival is now from 2-2:45pm on Sunday in room E2.010 (it had been from 1-1:45pm). In The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America, Hajdu vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art.