Babette Fraser Hale a Winner in Texas Institute of Letters 2022 Literary Awards

The Texas Institute of Letters has announced the winners of the thirteenth Annual TIL Literary Awards, including Winedale’s Babette Fraser Hale.

In a year with a record number of contest entries, the TIL will award more than $26,000 in prizes to these writers at the TIL Awards Ceremony and Presentation in El Paso, Texas on April 23.

The Texas Institute of Letters is a nonprofit Honor Society founded in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and recognize distinctive literary achievement. The TIL’s elected membership consists of the state’s most respected writers including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Man Booker Prize, Academy Award, International Latino Book Award, Americas Award, Lambda Literary Award, MacArthur Fellowship, and Guggenheim Fellowship.

The winners of the 2022 TIL Literary Awards are Heath Dollar, Babette Fraser Hale, Lise Olsen, Rodney Gómez, César L. de León, Nicholas Keefauver Roland, David Bowles and Raúl the Third, Varian Johnson, Di vya Srinivasan, David Bowles, Dagoberto Gilb, and Skip Hollandsworth. The titles of the winning works and awards are listed below. Celeste Bedford Walker will also receive the Texas Institute of Letters’ prestigious Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement, the highest honor given by the TIL.

Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction winner was “A Wall of Bright Dead Feathers: Stories” by Babette Fraser Hale, Winedale Publishing.