Bookish Texas • Events Around the State
The most comprehensive listing of book and author events, festivals, readings, lectures, and signings in the Lone Star State
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Bookish goings-on in Texas
compiled exclusively for Lone Star Literary Life
FOR THE WEEK OF 03.01.2020
SPECIAL EVENTS:
Association of Writers & Writing Programs annual conference, San Antonio, March 4-7
SMU’s 55th annual Women’s Symposium, Dallas, March 4
Angelo State University Writers’ Conference, San Angelo, March 5-6
Women of the World Poetry Slam 2020, Dallas, March 5-7
Victoria TX Book Festival, March 6
North Texas Teen Book Festival, Irving, March 6-7
Novel Ideas Art Book Fair, San Antonio, March 6-7
#DignidadLiteraria Read-In at AWP, San Antonio, March 7
Women of Wonder Con 2020, Dallas, March 7
EXHIBITS:
Yuyi Morales: Soñadora, Abilene, November 14-May 28
Cuban Comics in the Castro Era, Austin, December 6-March 1
Gabriel García Márquez: The Making of a Global Writer, Austin, February 1-July 19
Blue Star Contemporary's Exhibitions Highlight the Written Word, San Antonio, February 7-May 3
The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion, Fort Worth, February 18-May 17
SUNDAY, MARCH 1:
Austin
B&N – Arboretum, Casey Chapman Ross signing her new coloring book, I Am an Activist, 2:30PM
BookPeople, Marissa Meyer discussing and signing the Lunar Chronicles series, 5PM [ticketed event]
Malvern Books, Sarah Harris Wallman releases her story collection, Senseless Women, winner of the 2019 Juniper Prize for Fiction (with guests Ashleigh Pedersen and Jaime DeBlanc-Knowles), 1PM
Malvern Books, Poet-Scientists: Lisa Rosenberg discussing and signing A Different Physics, and Adrienne Drobnies discussing an signing Salt and Ashes, 4PM
Malvern Books, a bilingual reading with Kim Yideum and Jiyoon Lee, author and translator respectively, of the novel, Blood Sisters, 6PM
Dallas
Half Price Books Mother Ship, Jonathan Johnson signing his children’s book, Stars of the Bible, and Misty Hayes signing the newest book in her Blood Dagger series, Tree of Souls, 1PM
Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, Interabang Books presents Karen Blumenthal discussing and signing Jane Against the World, and Melanie Sumrow discussing and signing The Inside Battle, 2PM
Mansfield
Half Price Books, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
McAllen
B&N – Palms Crossing, local author J.T. Lozano signing his science-fiction books, 3PM
Richardson
The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: “Write Your Business Book Outline” with Jennifer Locke, 3PM
MONDAY, MARCH 2:
Austin
BookPeople, Panache Desai discussing and signing You Are Enough, 7PM [ticketed event]
Dallas
Interabang Books, Bea Johnson discussing and signing Zero Waste Home, 4:30PM
Interabang Books, Soniah Kamal discussing and signing Unmarriageable: Pride & Prejudice in Pakistan, 6PM
Houston
Project Row Houses, Brazos Bookstore presents Sandra Bolzenius discussing and signing Glory in Their Spirit, 7PM
Tracy Gee Community Center, SCBWI-Houston meeting: “The A-Zs of Writing Children’s Stories for TV & Picture Books” with Jennifer Hamburg, 7PM
Waco
Fabled Bookshop & Café, Kate Winkler Dawson signing American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI, 7PM
TUESDAY, MARCH 3:
Abilene
National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, Meet the Illustrator: Yuyi Morales, 6PM
Austin
BookPeople, Russ Thomas discussing and signing Firewatching, 7PM
The George Washington Museum, BookWoman presents the release of Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era with the coeditors & an all-star cast of poets, 7PM
Malvern Books, the launch of acclaimed poet Gillian Conoley’s A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems (with Julie Carr and Micah Bateman), 7PM
Native Hostel, Austin Poetry Slam, 7:15PM
The North Door, Owen Egerton’s One Page Salon with Erin Pringle, Emily Franklin, Tammy Stoner, Robin Chotzinoff, and Vernon Rust, 7:30PM
Dallas
Half Price Books Mother Ship, Don Bentley discussing and signing his debut novel, Without Defense, 7PM
Interabang Books, Sheryl St. Germain discussing and signing 50 Miles, 7PM
The Writer’s Garret, “The Body Politic” workshop with Desiree Dallagiacomo, 6PM
Fort Worth
The Dock Bookshop, Open Mic Poetry Night, 8PM
TCU, The Live Oak Reading Series featuring Sidney Thompson, 6:30PM
Houston
Rice University, The Latin American Writer-in-Residency Series Lecture with Claudia Salazar Jiménez, 5PM
San Antonio
The Mix, PuroSlam, 9:30PM
San Antonio Central Library, After Rubén: a book launch for Francisco Aragón with fellow Macondo readers, 6:30PM
The Twig Book Shop, AWP reading: City of Asylum authors, 6PM
University of the Incarnate Word, lecture with Caldecott Award-winning author Juana Martinez-Neal, 6PM
Witte Museum, Anthony Head discussing and signing Spirit: The Life and Art of Jesse Treviño, 11AM
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4:
Austin
BookPeople, StacyPlays signing Wild Rescuers: Expeditions on the Tundra, 6:30PM [ticketed event]
BookWoman, an evening of poetry with Zania Alsous, 7PM
Bullock Museum, High Noon Talks: author and historian Raúl Ramos discussing Beyond the Alamo, 12PM
Malvern Books, Bonnar Spring discussing and signing Toward the Light, 7PM
Cedar Park
Half Price Books, Graphic Novel & Comic Book Creation Workshop with Bryan Douglas, 7PM
Dallas
Half Price Books Mother Ship, New York Times bestselling author Pam Muñoz Ryan discussing and signing her new YA novel, Mañanaland, 6PM
Houston
Avant Garden, Write About Now, 7:30PM
Blue Willow Bookshop, Isaac Fitzgerald discussing and signing his new picture book, How To Be a Pirate, 5PM
Brazos Bookstore, Megan Fernandes discussing and signing Good Boys (with Theodora Ziolkowski and Houston poet Analicia Sotelo), 6:30PM
Murder By the Book, Russ Thomas discussing and signing Firewatching, and John McMahon discussing and signing The Evil Men Do, 6:30PM
San Antonio
Brick at Blue Star, Lit Down the I-35 Corridor, 7PM
San Antonio Central Library, Take a Stand: Art Against Hate community reading by the Raven Chronicles, 6PM
San Antonio Central Library, Meet the Author: Gabino Iglesias, 6:30PM
The Twig Book Shop, AWP Poetry Reading with Saint Julian Press, 5PM
The Twig Book Shop, AWP Event: Neon Lit Alumni Reading, 7PM
THURSDAY, MARCH 5:
Austin
BookPeople, Isaac Fitzgerald discussing and signing How to Be a Pirate (in conversation with Summer Anne Burton), 6PM
Canyon
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, West Texas A&M University’s Center for the Study of the American West (CSAW) reception and lecture with James E. Sherow, winner of its first CSAW Award for Outstanding Western Book, The Chisolm Trail: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble, 7PM
Dallas
Aaron Family JCC, Mary Morris discussing and signing Gateway to the Moon, 7PM
Interabang Books, John Freeman discussing and signing Dictionary of the Undoing (in conversation with Ben Fountain), 6PM
SMU, Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State with author Eboo Patel, 11:30AM
The Wild Detectives, poet Detrick Hughes reading from Unsuitable for Fools, 7:30PM
Denton
Texas Woman's University, The Power of Books: Inspiring Hope and Fighting for Social Justice with Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give, and Rose Brock, founder of the North Texas Teen Book Festival, 7PM
Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Amanda Eyre Ward discussing and signing The Jetsetters, 7PM
Katy Budget Books, Sharon Cameron signing The Light in Hidden Places, 4:30PM
Murder By the Book, C.J. Box discussing and signing Long Range, 6:30PM
Rice University, Poet Eli Clare lectures on “Notes on Cure, Disability, and Natural Worlds,” 4PM
San Antonio
Cody Branch Library, Olga Munoz Rodriquez discussing and signing Texas Town Legends, 6PM
The Friendly Spot Ice House, EcoTheo Review and LOGOS present Li-Young Lee and Jericho Brown, 7:30PM
San Antonio Central Library, One Poem Festival with Macondo, CantoMundo, and Letras Latinas, 6PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 6:
Austin
BookPeople, Emily Beyda discussing and signing The Body Double, 7PM
Paramount Theatre, Ross Mathews: Name Drop book tour, 8PM
Dallas
Half Price Books Mother Ship, Penguin Teen on Tour: Marie Lu, Melissa de la Cruz and Astrid Scholte participating in a panel discussion, audience Q&A, and book signing for their latest fantasy novels, The Kingdom of Back, The Queen’s Assassin, and The Vanishing Deep, 6PM
Houston
Contemporary Arts Museum, Lance Scott Walker discussing and signing Houston Rap Tapes: An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop, 12PM
Discovery Green, WITS Youth Performance Poetry Session, 6:30PM
Inprint House, First Friday Reading Series featuring poet Sara Henning, 8:30PM
Murder By the Book, Don Bentley discussing and signing his debut thriller, Without Sanction, 6:30PM
Huntsville
Sam Houston State, Brian Kilmeade discussing and signing Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers, 2PM
San Antonio
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, Queer Voices: Nuestra Voz, Nuestro Cuerpo, Nuestro Tiempo—Our Voice, Our Bodies, Our Time, 7PM
Francis Bogside, 3x3: reading with American Literary Review, The Pinch, and The Arkansas International, 6PM
San Antonio Central Library, Johnnie Bernhard discussing and signing Sisters of the Undertow, 3PM
The Twig Book Shop, AWP Reading Voices from the Working-Class, 5PM
SATURDAY, MARCH 7:
Austin
Austin Book Arts Center, bookbinding workshop, 9AM [teachers earn CPE]
B&N – Arboretum, David Galindo Rivera signing Tales of the Marked Hand, 2PM
BookPeople, Colin O'Brady discussing and signing The Impossible First, 5PM
Half Price Books – Southpark Meadows, Angela Castillo signing her Texas Women of Spirit series, 12PM
Malvern Books, the recent release of Arielle Greenberg’s I Live in the Country & other dirty poems (with E.C. Belli, Julia Guez, LiAundra Grace, and Julie Kantor), 7PM
Dallas
Dallas Public Library, New Media Mini-Camp: Audio & Your Book, 11AM
Interabang Books, Martha MacCallum discussing and signing Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima, 2PM
Interabang Books, Grace Talusan discussing and signing The Body Papers: A Memoir, 6PM
Texas Theatre, Ross Mathews: Name Drop book tour, 7PM
El Paso
UTEP Centennial Museum, Tumblewords Project workshop: “Inner Voices” with Nancy Lorenza Green, 1PM
Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Cassandra Clare discussing and signing Chain of Gold (in conversation with Rena Barron), 1PM
Bohemeo’s, Space City Slam Prelim #2, 5PM
Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
Houston Public Library, Public Poetry reading with Mike Alexander, Katherine Hoerth, Audrey Schwartz Rivers, and Dulcie Veluthukaran, 2PM
River Oaks Bookstore, Mannette Morgan discussing and signing Finding Your Voice: A Path to Recovery for Survivors of Abuse, 3PM
Writespace, workshop: “Everyone Has Everything in Them: Creating Complex Characters” with Matthew Hefti, 7PM
Lubbock
B&N, a book signing with Heath Daniels, 2PM
New Braunfels
The Book Haus, Local Author Visit: Celia Hayes, 10AM
The Book Haus, Local Author Visit: Ann Noble, 2PM
San Antonio
B&N – La Cantera, Ansu Kamara signing Driven by Hope, 12PM
San Antonio Central Library, Meet the Poet: Yesika Salgado, 2PM
Watauga
Half Price Books, James Cooley signing Country Boy, City Boy: A Journey that Ain’t Over Yet, 1PM
SUNDAY, MARCH 8:
Austin
BookPeople, Rachel Renée Russell and Nikki Russell discussing and signing Dork Diaries 14: Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever, 11AM
BookPeople, Ally Carter discussing and signing Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor, 2PM
BookPeople, Erin Pringle discussing and signing Hezada! I Miss You (in conversation with Owen Egerton), 5PM
BookWoman, International Women’s Day Extravaganza, 3PM
Malvern Books, the launch of David Cavanagh’s new poetry collection, The Somnambulist and The Good Life (with Sharon Webster and Steven Ray Smith), 2PM
Malvern Books, an afternoon of poetry with Jenny Molberg, Roger Reeves, and Kathryn Nuernberger, 4PM
Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Louise Erdrich discussing and signing The Night Watchman, 7PM
Half Price Books Mother Ship, Regina Brown signing her interactive devotional journal, Level Up, 1PM
The Writer’s Garret, Writer's Block Writing Workshop with Ebony Stewart, 1PM
Edinburg
Museum of South Texas History, Sunday Speaker Series: Dr. Armando C. Alonzo discussing Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900, 2PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, bilingual reading from Blood Sisters with the author, Kim Yideum, and the translator, Jiyoon Lee, 4:30PM
Hurst
B&N, Neal Shusterman signing The Toll (B&N Exclusive Edition) (Arc of a Scythe Series #3), 2PM
San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Hays Gray signing Hays' Type One-derful Journey, 12PM
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