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 09.27.2020
Please scroll down for the story time section!
SPECIAL EVENTS
Houston SCBWI 2020 Virtual Conference, October 1-4, ONLINE
El Paso Community College Literary Fiesta, October 2-3, ONLINE
2nd Annual Houston Literary Awards, October 3, ONLINE
Boerne Book & Arts Festival, October 3-4, ONLINE
Banned Books Week, September 27-October 3, ONLINE
Texas Tribune Festival, September 1-30, ONLINE
Waco
*WordFest, October 3, COVID-19 ATTENDANCE RESTRICTIONS APPLY
EXHIBITIONS
*College Station, Texas A&M, “The Eternal Passion: Nicholas A. Basbanes and the Making of A Gentle Madness,” through November 30
Ransom Center, Gabriel García Márquez: The Making of a Global Writer, through January 3, 2021 ONLINE
*Canyon, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Amarillo Flights: Aerial Views of Llano Estacado Country, through January 23, 2021
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27:
Murder By the Book, C. J. Cooke discussing The Nesting, 2PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Museum of South Texas History, Sunday Speaker Series: The Escuelitas of South Texas: An Educational History with Dr. Philis M. Barragán Goetz, 2PM FACEBOOK LIVE
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28:
WITS Houston, Youth Poetry Workshop and Open Mic with Outspoken Bean, 5:30PM ZOOM
Blue Willow Bookshop, Garth Nix discussing The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, 6PM ZOOM [ticketed event]
Arts & Letters Bookstore, Granbury Writers Bloc meeting: Bud Humble will present “Spec Fiction for the Masses, a Reader/Writer Guide,” 6:30PM ZOOM [hybrid format: meeting will also take place in person]
BookPeople, Alyssa Rosenheck discussing The New Southern Style (in conversation with Paige and Smoot Hull), 7PM ZOOM
Austin Library Foundation, Mayor’s Book Club presents a Reading & Roundtable: Great Texas Novels with local authors Nancy Wayson Dinan, Myra Hargrave McIlvain, and Scott Semegran, 7PM ONLINE
Barbed Wire Open Mic Series, Stay At Home open mic, 8PM ZOOM (YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29:
World Affairs Council – DFW, webinar: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin discussing The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, 11:30AM
BookPeople, Leila Sales discussing The Campaign (with special guests, illustrator Kim Balacuit and Texas House candidate Celina Montoya), 4PM ZOOM
Blue Willow Bookshop, Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney discussing Loretta Little Looks Back (in conversation with Brandy Colbert), 5PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Dallas Morning News, Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All with PEN America’s Suzanne Nossel and Ben Fountain, 5PM ONLINE
BookWoman, Teresa Fazio discussing Fidelis (in conversation with Brian Van Reet), 7PM ZOOM
Brazos Bookstore, poet Joy Priest reading from Horsepower (with Sasha Banks and Nikki Wallschlaeger), 7PM ZOOM
National Black Book Festival, Black Authors Matter TV with Gabrielle Sessoms, Shellice Belhari, James Kelly, and Kimberley Jones (moderated by Rhonda Lawson), 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Austin SCBWI, Webinar: Minutiae and You: How Details Add Depth To A Story with Jo Whittemore, 7PM ONLINE
North Texas SCBWI, Webinar: Nurturing Your Artistic Voice featuring author Meg Medina, 7PM ONLINE
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
Amarillo
* Rockin OT, Dr. Amy Von Lintel signing Georgia O'Keeffe’s Wartime Texas Letters, 6PM
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30:
Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Dr. Dwight Watson discussing Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930–1990: A Change Did Come, 12PM ZOOM
Murder By the Book, Jasper Fforde and Matt Haig discussing The Constant Rabbit and The Midnight Library, respectively, 1PM FACEBOOK LIVE
BookPeople, Kate the Chemist celebrating The Great Escape, 4PM ZOOM
University of Houston Libraries, Poetry & Prose, 5:30PM ZOOM
Brazos Bookstore, bestselling-author Chelsea Clinton discussing She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game (with Nicole Jeter West), 6PM ZOOM [ticketed event]
BookPeople, Rachel Hollis discussing Didn't See That Coming (in conversation with Brit Barron), 6:30PM CADENZA TV [ticketed event]
Dallas Public Library, PLP Podcast Live with Brandy Colbert discussing The Voting Booth, 6:30PM ONLINE
Brazos Bookstore, Duff Goldman, celebrity chef and host of Food Network’s Ace of Cakes and The Kids Baking Championship, launches first cookbook for young readers, Super Good Baking for Kids, 7PM CROWDCAST
Murder By the Book, Wendy Walker and Aimee Molloy discussing Don’t Look for Me and Goodnight Beautiful, respectively, 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Deep Vellum Publishing, Writers on BIPOC and Disability Inclusion: Accessibility in the Literary Arts, 7PM ZOOM [donations for participants are welcomed]
JCC Dallas, Book Fest In Your Living Room Presents Deepak Chopra discussing Total Meditation: Practices In Living the Awakened Life (with guest host Nadia Bilchik), 7PM ZOOM
Gemini Ink & Writing Workshops Dallas, The Big Texas Read: Edgar-winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale’s Edge of Dark Water, 7PM ZOOM
Sun Poet's Society, Open-Mic Poetry Readings, 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Write About Now, online poetry open mic, 8PM FACEBOOK LIVE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1:
Texas Woman’s University, Paup Lecture featuring Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames, authors of Money, 5PM ONLINE
Voices de la Luna, Elements of Poetry with Dario: Scenic View: Viewpoint in Poetry, 6PM ZOOM
Harris County Public Library, HCPL Gulf Coast Reads: Silvia Moreno Garcia, author of Gods of Jade and Shadow (in conversation with David Bowles), 6:30PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Malvern Books, celebrating the recent release of Liliana Valenzuela’s Codex of Love: Bendita ternura (with poets jo reyes-boitel and Edward Vidaurre), 7PM ZOOM
LBJ Library, An evening with Bob Woodward discussing Rage, 7PM ONLINE
Austin Library Foundation, MBC Poetry Workshop: Violence / Joy / Chaos by Jane Marshall Aman, 7PM ONLINE
Texas State Historical Association, award-winning author Art Martínez de Vara discussing Tejano Patriot: The Revolutionary Life of Jose Francisco Ruiz, 1783-1840 (moderated by TSHA Press Managing Editor Ryan Schumacher), 7PM ONLINE
Blue Willow Bookshop, Gena Showalter discussing The Glass Queen (in conversation with Jill Monroe), 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Brazos Bookstore, Syndey Sadick discussing Aim High (in conversation with Lela Rose), 7PM ZOOM
Murder By the Book, James Rollins discussing Unrestricted Access (in conversation with The Real Book Spy's Ryan Steck), 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live: Ken Follett discussing The Evening and the Morning, 7PM ONLINE
Texas Tech, Creative Writing Reading Series presents Texas Poet Laureate Emmy Pérez, 7:30PM YOUTUBE
Laredo BorderSlam, virtual open mic, 7:30PM FACEBOOK LIVE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2:
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Radical Cartographies: Faculty Book Presentation, 1PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Blue Willow Bookshop, meet and greet Marie Lu for her new book, Skyhunter, 7PM ZOOM [ticketed event]
The Blah Poetry Spot, Flowersong Press presents a reading from Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out, 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE [all proceeds benefit MOVE Texas]
Dallas
*Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam, 7PM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3:
Book Festival Network, 3rd Indie Book Fest, 9AM ONLINE
Austin Library Foundation, MBC Book Crush Workshop: A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat, 10AM ONLINE
Writers’ League of Texas, "Anatomy of a Scene: Getting Intimate" with Tracy Wolff, 10AM ZOOM
Laredo Public Libraries, One City, One Book: Irish author Colin Broderick discussing That's That: A Memoir, 10:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Fort Worth Public Library, Marjorie Lewis discusses When the Men Were Gone, 11AM ZOOM
Austin Library Foundation, MBC Book Crush Workshop: Hood by Jenny Elder Moke, 1PM ONLINE
Tumblewords Project, writing workshop, 1PM ZOOM
Houston Public Library, Public Poetry’s October Virtual Library Reading with Erin Belieu, Randall Watson, Patricia McMahon, and Winston Derden, 2PM ZOOM
Austin Book Arts Center, Bookbinding workshop, 2PM ZOOM [teachers earn CPE]
The Writing Barn, Frozen Moments: Going from Prose to Graphica with David Bowles, 2PM ONLINE
The Writing Barn, Art Class for Kids 8-12 with Anneke Swanson, 2PM ZOOM
Blue Willow Bookshop, town hall with Chris Colfer to celebrate A Tale of Witchcraft (with surprise guests, audience Q&A, games of trivia and “Stump the Author,” and the chance for a virtual meet-and-greet), 3PM ZOOM [ticketed event]
Katy Budget Books, Entangled Teen Virtual YA Event featuring Pintip Dunn author of Dating Makes Perfect, and Tracy Wolff, author of Crush, the second book in her Crave trilogy, 4:30PM ZOOM
Interabang Books, Becky Wallace discussing Far from Normal (in conversation with Ishita Kent), 6PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Malvern Books, celebrating the launch of Scott Semegran’s The Benevolent Lords of Sometimes Island (with readings from Scott and special guest Charlotte Gullick), 7PM ZOOM
San Antonio
*The Twig Book Shop, Carolyn Leiloglou reading and signing Library's Most Wanted, 11AM OUTDOOR EVENT
Dallas
*Pan African Connection, The PH Balance "When Doves Cry" An Artistic Examination of Family Violence Lunch & Learn Writing Workshop, 12PM
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4:
Malvern Books, The Lion & the Pirate Unplugged Open Mic (with featured reader Edith Tapia “Blackbird”), 1PM ZOOM
BookPeople, Cynthia Levinson and Sanford Levinson discussing Fault Lines in The Constitution: The Graphic Novel, 3PM ZOOM
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.
