2021 Schedule

The 2021 festival was held entirely online from March 26th to March 28th. To view festival recordings, click on the panel you want to see and then press the button labeled “watch recording.” If you have any questions about the 2021 festival or about future events, please email us at info@dallasliteraryfestival.org.

 

Southwest Review Presents: The Last Picture Show + This World Won’t Break
Mar
20

Southwest Review Presents: The Last Picture Show + This World Won’t Break

Southwest Review presents an evening with two Texas films as part of the Dallas Literary Festival. The first film is The Last Picture Show, Directed by Peter Bogdanovich which earned universal acclaim, winning two Oscars, with six other nominations. On the second half of the bill is Josh David Jordan’s This World Won’t Break. A Q &A with the director and the novelist (and SwR movie columnist) William Boyle will follow the screening. The evening will close with a concert by Greg Schroeder, the actor and real-life musician who plays a Wes in the film.

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Translating the Surreal: A Conversation with Juan Cárdenas and Lizzie Davis
Mar
28

Translating the Surreal: A Conversation with Juan Cárdenas and Lizzie Davis

In partnership with the Southwest Review

Juan Cárdenas, author of El diablo de las provincias in conversation with Lizzie Davis, translator and editor at Coffee House Press, and Kevin Gerry Dunn, translator specializing in fiction, gender, art, and immigration.

With an introduction by Greg Brownderville, poet and editor of the Southwest Review

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Trends in Black Fiction
Mar
28

Trends in Black Fiction

Renee Simms, author of Meet Behind Mars (moderator) with Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies; Brian Gilmore, author of elvis presley is alive and well and living in harlem; and Desiree Cooper, author of Know the Mother

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LitNight Reading Series: Dallas Debut Authors
Mar
28

LitNight Reading Series: Dallas Debut Authors

In partnership with PEN America Dallas/Fort Worth

Sebastián H. Páramo, poet and founding editor of THE BOILER and Stacey Megally, writer and storyteller (moderators) with Jenny Bhatt, author of Each of Us Killers; A. Kendra Greene, author of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See; Seraphina Nova Glass, author of Someone’s Listening; Simon Han, author of Nights When Nothing Happened; Matt Morton, author of Improvisation Without Accompaniment; and Mike Soto, author of A Grave Is Given Supper

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What Does It Mean to Be an Adult?
Mar
28

What Does It Mean to Be an Adult?

In partnership with PEN America Dallas/Fort Worth

Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult and Your Turn in conversation with Laura Harris, Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of NBC 5 Today

With an introduction by Lauren Embrey, president of the Embrey Family Foundation

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Food, Music & History
Mar
28

Food, Music & History

Karen Thomas, journalist and professor of practice in the Division of Journalism at SMU (moderator) with Adrian Miller, author of The President's Kitchen Cabinet and Alexander Smalls, James Beard Award-winning chef and author of Meals, Music, and Muses

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Turbulent Choices: Publishing in 2021
Mar
28

Turbulent Choices: Publishing in 2021

Sebastian H. Paramo, founding editor of THE BOILER and poetry editor for Deep Vellum (moderator) with Saul Hernandez, managing director of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review; Lev Keltner, chapbooks editor at Newfound and author of the novel Goodnight; Alana King, associate editor for Your Impossible Voice and editor-in-chief for Reunion: The Dallas Review; Matthew Limpede, publisher of Carve, and Jenny Molberg, director of Pleiades Press and co-editor for Pleiades: Literature in Context

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Publishing on the Fringes: Small Presses and Decentralization During Covid
Mar
27

Publishing on the Fringes: Small Presses and Decentralization During Covid

Sara Balabanlilar, marketing and sales director at Deep Vellum and founder of paraspace books (moderator) with Laynie Bynum, publisher, Sword and Silk Books; Meg Reid, director, Hub City Press; Tatiana Ryckman, editor of Awst Press and author of The Ancestry of Objects (Deep Vellum); Jessica Powers, publisher of Catalyst Press and director of editorial and foreign rights at Cinco Puntos Press; and John Trefry, founder, In the Castle. Panelists chosen in collaboration with Darius Ajaai Frasure.

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Writing Groups: Providing Ground Cover and Support to Writers All Day, Every Day
Mar
27

Writing Groups: Providing Ground Cover and Support to Writers All Day, Every Day

Ann Fields, co-founder of Writer’s Block and author of Fuller’s Curse (moderator), with Aaron Glover, executive director of The Writer’s Garret and author of Bio Logic; Blake Kimzey, founder and executive director of Writing Workshops Dallas and author of Families Among Us; Arianne "Tex" Thompson, instructor for Writing Workshops Dallas and author of Children of the Drought; and Tamara Warner, president of Dallas Area Writers Group (DAWG)

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Big Texas Reads
Mar
27

Big Texas Reads

Mike Yawn, clinical professor of political science at Sam Houston State University (moderator), with Heather Harper Ellett, author of Ain't Nobody Nobody; Blake Kimzey, co-founder of Big Texas Reads and author of Families Among Us; David Samuel Levinson, author of Tell Me How This Ends Well; and Alexandra van de Kamp, executive director for Gemini Ink and author of Kiss/Hierarchy

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Winners of the 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards
Mar
27

Winners of the 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards

Rosalyn Story, classical violinist and author of Wading Home (moderator), with Jeffrey Colvin, author of Africaville, Legacy Award for Debut Fiction; Ladan Osman, author of Exiles of Eden, Legacy Award for Poetry; Melanie Farmer, Crossover Award for Literary Nonfiction for “Rolling: A Ladies’ Guide to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu”; Sadia Hassan, College Award for Poetry for “Black Girl Prayer Poems”; and Sakinah Hofler, College Award for Fiction for “The Gifts We Don’t Need”

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