TCU Press  ·  SXSW 2027 Community Voting

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Nine TCU Press sessions are up for community voting at SXSW 2027. The public decides what gets programmed — and a couple of minutes of your time is what puts our authors in front of the world.

Voting open through Aug 23 Free SXSW account required Vote for as many as you like
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Click any Vote button below. If you're not signed in, SXSW will ask you to create a free account first (about 30 seconds) — then your vote registers. Note: the main festival and SXSW EDU are two separate ballots, so vote on both lists below.

Main Festival

SXSW 2027

Culture, music, tech & ideas — Austin, March 2027

Shannon Houchin · TCU Press
AI Will Write the Book. It Can't Build the Author.
When content becomes infinite, the scarce thing is the human behind it. A working session on the one asset AI can't generate — you.
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Michael Cross
Blind Aerospace Engineer on Working at NASA and IBM
A blind mathematician who did the work behind Apollo and spent decades at IBM — on the career they said was impossible.
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David Stricklin
My Musical Godfather: Floyd Domino on Al Stricklin
A Grammy-winning pianist and the son of Bob Wills's piano player, on the roots of western swing — and the music that shaped American pop.
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Mike Farris
One Man's Search for the Hero Half-Brother He Never Knew
A buried CIA secret, a classified death, and two brothers who never met — uncovered decades later.
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Bob Buckel
Where Is She? Uncovering a Ghost Town's Buried Secrets
A vanished woman, a forgotten Texas town, and the secrets that don't stay buried.
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Education

SXSW EDU

Educators, authors & media literacy — four sessions

Shannon Houchin · TCU Press
Educator to Author: Meet, Ask, Get Published
A gathering for educators who want to become published authors — meet others on the path and get honest answers.
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Sue Young
Exploring the Intersection Between Educators and Authors
How teaching and storytelling feed each other — and how educators turn classroom expertise into published books.
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Dorothy Ward
The Write Stuff: From Educator to Author
A career in the classroom becomes a book — the leap from teaching a subject to writing one, from someone who made it.
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Gretchen McCullough
Snake Oil: Why We Still Fall for Miracle Cures
From 1930s tonics to wellness influencers and AI health advice — a rhetoric scholar on how to spot the persuasion playbook of medical scams.
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