Due to COVID-19 cancellations and closings,
most events in this week’s calendar are online.
(* Denotes nonvirtual, on-location events)
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
Don't see your book or literary event here? Email Events@lonestarliterary.com with your complete info two weeks in advance of the issue in which your event is scheduled, and we'll include it.
Bookish goings-on in Texas
compiled exclusively for Lone Star Literary Life
FOR THE WEEK OF 04.25.2021
Please scroll down for the story time section
SPECIAL EVENTS
Mega Corazón: San Antonio’s annual Poetry Month celebration, April 5-30, VIRTUAL
14th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, April 22-25, VIRTUAL
*A Celebration of Reading 2021, April 29, Houston HYBRID
Western States Virtual Book & Paper Fair, April 29-May 1, VIRTUAL
Children's Book Day, El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Día), April 30
*Winnsboro Festival of Books, May 1
Austin SCBWI 2021 Writers & Illustrators Working Conference, May 1-2, VIRTUAL
EXHIBITIONS
*Abilene, The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature: A David Small World, February 11-May 22
*Irving, Lonesome Dove, a Humanities Texas traveling exhibition, March 6–July 11
SUNDAY, APRIL 25:
UT Press, Architecture and the Art of Making: A Conversation with Ted Flato, Juan Miró, and Lawrence Speck, 5PM ONLINE
MONDAY, APRIL 26:
UTA, Hermanns Lecture Series: The Homesick Texan with cookbook author Lisa Fain, 12PM ONLINE
Harris County Public Library, workshop: local authors and HCPL librarians Amy Campbell and Molly McGinty as they answer your questions about editing your manuscript and getting it published, 4PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Austin Book Arts Center, case binding workshop, 6PM ONLINE
Interabang Books, Seamus McGraw presents From A Taller Tower (with Amye Archer), 6PM FACEBOOK LIVE
BookPeople, Michelle Zauner presents Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, 7PM ZOOM
Murder By the Book, Cate Holahan presents Her Three Lives, and Mindy Mejia presents Strike Me Down, 7PM FB & YT LIVE
Barbed Wire Open Mic Series, Stay at Home open mic, 8PM (MST) ZOOM (YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM)
Granbury
*Langdon Center, April meeting of Granbury Writers Bloc featuring Joy Massenburge speaking on audiobooks, 6PM
TUESDAY, APRIL 27:
Morgan James, Louis Bodnar launches El Paso Sunset, 10AM (CST) ONLINE
Meadows Museum, Learning@Lunch: The Book as Art & Artifact at Bridwell Library Special Collections, 12:15PM
Blue Willow Books, Bruce Coville launches The Thief of Worlds (in conversation with Valerie Koehler), 5PM ZOOM
BookPeople, Ursula Pike presents An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir, 6PM ZOOM
BookPeople, Trent Preszler presents Little and Often (in conversation with Nick Offerman), 6PM ZOOM
Author Michael S. Clifton, cover reveal for A Witch’s Brew, book three in the Conquest of the Veil series, 6PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Brazos Bookstore, Greg Gerke presents See What I See, and Garielle Lutz presents Worsted, 7PM ZOOM
National Black Book Festival, Black Authors Matter TV, 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live: Abi Daré presents The Girl with the Louding Voice, and Andrea Lee presents Red Island House (in conversation with Jaina Sanga), 7PM ONLINE
The Writing Barn, Craft Webinar: The Ins and Outs of Graphic Novel Writing with Varian Johnson, 7PM ZOOM
Austin Poetry Slam, virtual open mic, 8PM INSTAGRAM LIVE
The Dock Bookshop, virtual poetry open mic, 8PM INSTAGRAM LIVE, ZOOM
Puroslam, virtual poetry slam, 10PM ZOOM
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28:
TCU, Tandy Executive Speaker Series: Tom Morris, author of Plato's Lemonade Stand, 8AM ONLINE
Conversations from a Page, Online Literary Salon Under the Southern Sky by Kristy Woodson Harvey and The Last Night in London by Karen White, 11AM ZOOM
Austin Bat Cave, Writing Complicated Children’s Heroes and Villains with Carol Mitchell, 12:30PM ZOOM
BookPeople, Cynthia Levinson and Evan Turk present The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art, 4PM ZOOM
Writers’ League of Texas, “Everyday Poetics: Creating Modern Forms” ONLINE with Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, 6:30PM
BookPeople, Brooke Baldwin presents Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power, 7PM ZOOM
Blue Willow Bookshop, Emma Straub celebrates the paperback release of All Adults Here, with guests Leah Johnson, Monica Gomez-Hira, and Tobly McSmith, 7PM ZOOM
Brazos Bookstore, Rikki Ducorent presents Trafik (in conversation with Mark Haber), 7PM ZOOM
Murder By the Book, C. S. Harris presents What the Devil Knows, and Victoria Thompson presents Murder on Wall Street, 7PM FB & YT LIVE
Fresh Fiction, Video Book Club with author Cynthia Ruchti, 7PM ONLINE
Sun Poet's Society, Open-Mic Poetry Readings, 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Write About Now, online poetry open mic, 8PM FACEBOOK LIVE
THURSDAY, APRIL 29:
BookPeople, Bruce Sterling presents Robot Artists & Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories, 2PM ZOOM
Ransom Center, Renaissance Humanism between Islamic Covers: conservator Andrea Knowlton and curator Aaron T. Pratt will discuss an exciting new Ransom Center acquisition, 4:30PM FB & YT LIVE
BookPeople, Lauren Hough presents Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays, 6PM ZOOM
BookPeople, Sadhguru launches Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny (in conversation with Deepak Chopra, MD), 6PM ONLINE [ticketed]
Interabang Books, Jeffery Eisner presents The Lighter Step-By-Step Instant Pot Cookbook + cooking demo, 6PM FACEBOOK LIVE
The Twig Book Shop, Virtual Book Signing with New York Times Bestselling Author Raymond Arroyo, 6PM ZOOM
Malvern Books, Hoa Nguyen launches her new poetry collection, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (with Roberto Tejada), 7PM ZOOM
Texas Book Festival, TBF Book Club: Nepantla Familias with Sergio Troncoso, Francisco Cantú, Diana López, and José Antonio Rodriguez, 7PM CROWDCAST
Blue Willow Books, Justin Baldoni presents Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity (in conversation with Ted Bunch), 7PM ZOOM [ticketed]
Austin
*Hearth & Soul, Katie Russell Newman discussing and signing A Season with Mom, 4:30PM
FRIDAY, APRIL 30:
Murder By the Book, Christina Sweeney-Baird, author of The End of Men, in conversation with Christina Dalcher, author of Femlandia, 1PM FB & YT LIVE
Houston Public Library, A Poetry Month Celebration Featuring the New Houston Poet Laureate, 1:30PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Pflugerville Library, poetry writing workshop presented by creative-writing professor Tracey Lander-Garrett, 2PM ONLINE
Inprint, Comité Permanente: Trans-escrituras featuring Raquel Salas Rivera, Isa Saturno, and Migueltzinta Solís, 6PM ONLINE
Dallas
*The Wild Detectives, Poetry & Performance: a backyard celebration of Deep Vellum’s newest chapbooks, featuring readings by Sherrie “Candy” Zantea, Leah Tieger, and Melania Luisa Marte (in conversation with Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi), 7PM
*Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam, 8PM
Fort Worth
*Monkey & Dog Books, Jennifer Bristol discussing and signing Parking Lot Birding; A Fun Guide to Discovering Birds in Texas, 11AM
SATURDAY, MAY 1:
Writers’ League of Texas, “Finding Your Voice” ONLINE with Heather Harper Ellett, 10AM
Gemini Ink, master class: Poems for the Future — Myth and Spirit Make for Vision and Community with Jackson Poetry Prize Winner Patricia Spears Jones, 10AM ZOOM
TCU, Saving a Great Neighborhood: Oakhurst and its History, Architecture, and Sense of Place with author Libby Willis, 10:30AM ONLINE
The Writing Barn, Writing Within or Outside Your Experience in Picture Books with Meera Sriram, 1PM ZOOM
Tumblewords Project, workshop: “ART SEEDS-Cultivating Vision, Hope and Possibilities” with María R Pérez and Victoria R Meek, 1PM (MST) ZOOM
Brazos Bookstore, debut novelist Ashaye Brown and Reni K Amayo of Onwe Publishing, 3PM ZOOM
Malvern Books, the Lion & the Pirate Unplugged open mic, 7PM ZOOM
Brazos Bookstore, Theodora Ziolkowsky presents On the Rocks (with Will Burns and Lauren Berry), 7PM ZOOM
Abilene
*Texas Star Trading Co., cookbook signing with Johnnie Lou Avery Boyd, 11AM
San Antonio
*The Twig Book Shop, Alvin Strane discussing and signing The Jersey, 11AM OUTDOORS
Midland
*Haley Memorial Library, Patrick Dearen signing Haunted Border, 3PM
SUNDAY, MAY 2:
JCC Dallas, Book Fest In Your Living Room Presents Hadassah Lieberman, author of Hadassah: An American Story (in conversation with Holly Firfer), 7PM ZOOM
San Antonio
*The Twig Book Shop, Bob Ross reading and signing Billy Above the Roofs, 12PM OUTDOORS
ONLINE STORY TIME
Texian Books, tiny Texians story time, F, 10:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Harris County Public Libraries - Fairbanks Branch: a variety of story times throughout the week
San Antonio Public Library, children’s story times throughout the week
El Paso Public Library, a variety of children’s programming throughout the week FACEBOOK LIVE
Houston Public Library, virtual story time, daily, times vary
Lark & Owl Booksellers, Super Silly Story Time, M, W & F, 9:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Leaves Books & Tea, read-aloud story time, T-Th, 2PM FACEBOOK LIVE
The Doseum, virtual story time, days & times vary
Dallas Public Library, children’s story time, T & Th, 10:30AM ZOOM
North Richland Hills Library, virtual story time, T, 10:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Old Town Books, children’s story time, T & F, 10:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Laredo Public Libraries, story time live, days & times vary, YOUTUBE
Irving Public Library, online story time, days & times vary, YOUTUBE
The Twig Book Shop, Miss Anastasia online story time, F, 10:30AM INSTAGRAM LIVE
Brazos Bookstore, virtual story time, Sat, 11AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Don't see your book or literary event here? Email Events@lonestarliterary.com with your complete info two weeks in advance of the issue in which your event is scheduled, and we'll include it.
