presents A Special #TTBF Screening of The Outsiders featuring Penguin Teen Authors Sabaa Tahir, David Arnold, and Renée Ahdieh For the first time ever, #TTBF is partnering with Austin’s own Alamo Drafthouse Cinema for a very special pre-TTBF event! On the evening of Friday, September 30, the Texas Teen Book Festival, Alamo South Lamar, and Penguin Teen will host a…
Category: TTBF 2016
Mindy Kaling to speak at TTBF 2016!!!
Mindy Kaling, creator and star of the critically acclaimed series “The Mindy Project,” will join this year’s stellar lineup of authors at the 2016 Texas Teen Book Festival on Saturday, October 1 at St. Edwards University. Kaling will discuss both of her comedic memoirs with Sarah Pitre of Alamo Drafthouse and Forever YA Book Club. Admission to Kaling’s discussion is free…
Congratulations to our 2016 #TTBF Delacorte Fiction Contest Winners!!
We are proud to congratulate this year’s winners of the Fiction Writing Contest! Lily S. for Glory and Metal Layla P. for The Rose Alliance, and Sabrina H. for King of Monsters These young writers will receive $150 and guidance and critique from a Delacorte editor. Thank you to all of the young writers who submitted to the 2016 contest!…
Are you ready for the Throwdown?
Once again the infamous Texas Throwdown Game Show will ruthlessly pit TTBF author against TTBF author in a hair-raising, death-defying battle for the ages to determine which team will do the dance of VICTORY and which team must suffer inglorious defeat! This year six worthy authors will brave the gladiatorial arena. Sabaa Tahir Rene S. Perez II David Arnold Caleb…