Texas Historical Foundation announces grant

Dan Perry, assistant vice president, University Advancement; Steve Davis, literary curator, Wittliff Collections; Eric Griffin, board member, Texas Historical Foundation (THF); Ramona Kelly, senior director of development, University Advancement; Dr. Clark Wernecke, board member, THF; Dr. David Coleman, director, Wittliff Collections.

The Texas Historical Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant in support of The Wittliff Collections’ new book project. Rivers of Texas: A Literary Companion will showcase writing on Texas rivers and waterways from a number of the state’s writers. The elegantly designed, but slim and portable anthology will feature excerpts from full-length books, classic magazine articles, and selected poetry and historical views. Rivers of Texas will also include selections from Texas songwriters as well as photography of the state’s iconic waterways. 

The book will be edited by The Wittliff’s literary curator, Steve Davis, a PEN USA-winning author and past president of the Texas Institute of Letters. Texas A&M University Press plans to publish the book in 2021. 

“We are grateful to the Texas Historical Foundation for supporting this important new book project,” said David Coleman, director of The Wittliff Collections. “The foundation has helped fund nearly $2 million in worthwhile causes related to preserving and sharing the heritage of Texas, and we are proud to be among their partner projects.”

In 2018, the Susan Vaughan Foundation awarded a $25,000 grant in support of Rivers of Texas: A Literary Companion, and the Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation supported the project with a $10,000 grant.