C.W. Smith is the author of the novels Thin Men of Haddam, Country Music, The Vestal Virgin Room, Buffalo Nickel, Hunter’s Trap, Gabriel’s Eye, Understanding Women, Purple Hearts, Steplings, and Girl Flees Circus. He has also published a collection of short stories (Letters from the Horse Latitudes), a collection of essays (A Throttled Peacock: Observations on the Old World), and a memoir (Uncle Dad). He has twice won the “best novel” Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and he has received the Southwestern Library Association Award for Best Novel, as well as Border Regional Library Association Award for Outstanding Book about the Southwest. Other accolades include the Dobie-Paisano Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of Texas, National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships in 1976 and 1990, the Texas Headliner’s Feature Story award, the Frank O’Connor Memorial Short Story Award from Quartet magazine, the John H. McGinnis Short Story Award from Southwest Review; a Pushcart Prize Nomination from Southwest Review, and an award for Best Nonfiction Book by a Texan in from the Southwestern Booksellers Association. He is also a recipient of the Lon Tinkle award for lifetime achievement from The Texas Institute of Letters. Smith lives in Dallas and is a Dedman Family Distinguished Professor (emeritus) at Southern Methodist University.
His website - https://www.cwsmiththeauthor.com
He is on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._Smith
And on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CWSmiththeauthor

Babette Fraser Hale’s story collection, A Wall of Bright Dead Feathers received the 2022 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her stories previously have been awarded the Meyerson Prize from Southwest Review in 2011, shortlisted for the Texas Institute of Letter’s Catarulla Award, and included among the “Other Distinguished Stories” in Best American Short Stories, 2015. Other work has received a Creative Artist Award from Houston’s Cultural Arts Council and been anthologized. Until his death last year, she was married to longtime Texas newspaper columnist and novelist, Leon Hale.

For more information, or to order books, please visit: https://www.brazosbookstore.com/event/person-cw-smith-girl-flees-circus