Loretta Diane Walker Honored
INDUCTION  INTO THE TEXAS INSTITUTE OF LETTERS 2020

The PST 2019 Annual Contests Results are on the Publications tab, under Bulletins, November 2019.

The contests are now closed. Our Annual Awards Banquet was on Nov. 9, 2019.

Congratulations to all of the 2018 Annual Awards Winners! Thank you to all who entered!

The 2017 Annual Contest Winners have been announced! Click to download the PDF list. Congratulations to all who placed!

Congratulations to Loretta Diane Walker on winning the 2016 Phyllis Wheatley Book Award in Poetry for her book In This House, by Blue Light Press.

This is a huge award and honor for Loretta.
PST is proud of her!

For more information about the award, visit the 2016 Harlem Book Fair website.

Congratulations to Budd Powell Mahan, winner of the first William D. Barney Memorial Chapbook Contest sponsored by the Fort Worth Poetry Society and the Poetry Society of Texas, for Names In A Book.

2nd place went to Charlotte Renk, of Athens, TX, for This Great Turtle Heart; 3rd place was Chet Taylor of Seguin, TX.