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the TIL is based on literary accomplishments. Application for membership is not accepted. The rules governing the selection of members and officers are contained in the TIL By-Laws. The TIL annually elects new members, gives awards to recognize outstanding literary works, and awards the Jesse H. Jones
Fellowship for writers. The TIL offers awards to outstanding books written by Texas authors, or dealing with Texas subjects.
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Award for Best Middle Grade Book, Brigid Erin Flynn Award for Best
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is a non-profit Honor
Society founded by William Harvey Vann in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and to recognize distinctive literary achievement. The TIL’s elected membership consists of the state’s most respected writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, and scholarship. Induction into
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Fiction, the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, the Burdine Johnson Award for Best Book of Poetry, the Texas Institute of Letters Award For Best First Book of Poetry, Jean Flynn Award for Best Young Adult Book, Deirdre Siobhan FlynnBass
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