• Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, June 29–July 30
• The LaNana Creek Press Summer Letterpress and Book Art Intensive, Nacogdoches, July 8-August 5
• Barrio Writers Summer Workshop, Austin, July 10-15
• 10th Annual Wild West History Association Roundup, Fort Worth, July 12-15
• Archer City Story Center Weekend Workshop: Writing the Nonfiction Book Proposal, July 14-16
• ArlingCon: Arlington Public Library’s Comic, SciFi & Fantasy Convention, Arlington, July 15
• East Texas Writers Guild’s 14th Annual Writer’s Conference, Tyler, July 15
• Texas Sports Hall of Fame 1st Annual Book Festival, Waco, July 15
• 2017 North Texas Comic Book Show, Irving, July 15-16

Ongoing Exhibits

• Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, February 6–July 16
• Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Austin, June 5–August 13
• Illustrator of the Century Garth Williams, Abilene, June 8–September 1
• George Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, San Antonio, June 23-September 4

Sunday, July 9

Austin

• 4th Tap Brewing Co-Op, 2017 REVEL Solstice Fest: “Through the Windshield” featuring poet Nathan Brown, 12:30PM
• BookPeople, MANDY LEN CATRON speaking & signing How to Fall in Love with Anyone, 3PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Sound & Flight,” 4PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last

Houston

• Murder By the Book, Brad Thor will sign and discuss Use of Force, 2PM
• Rudyard’s Pub, Houston VIP Poetry Slam presents the Texas Tea Regional Poetry Slam, 5PM

Monday, July 10

Austin

• BookPeople, DARYL GREGORY speaking & signing Spoonbenders, 7PM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Beatriz Williams reads and signs COCOA BEACH, 7PM

Houston

• The Ballroom at Bayou Place, Brazos Bookstore presents Roxane Gay reading from HUNGER: A MEMOIR OF (MY) BODY (in partnership with the Houston Public Library), 8PM
• Tracy Gee Community Center, SCBWI-Houston meeting: “Writing & Submitting a Book Series” with Dotti Enderle, 7PM

Tuesday, July 11

Austin

• BookPeople, Story time: Local author Emma Virján is here to read her newest Pig in a Wig book, What This Story Needs is a Vroom and a Zoom, 10:30AM
• BookPeople, ROXANE GAY speaking & signing Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, 7PM [ticket required for signing line]
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Professor J, 7PM

Cedar Hill

• Zula Bryant Wylie Library, Dallas Area Writers Group meeting with guest speaker Russell C. Connor, author of Good Neighbors, 7PM

El Paso

• The Black Orchid, Barbed Wire Open Mic Series featuring Phobia the Prophet, 8PM

Harker Heights

• B&N, The Confusion of Languages book signing with Siobhan Fallon, 7PM

Houston

• Fix Coffeebar, Poetry Fix featuring Loueva Smith and Elina Petrova, 6:30PM
• Houston Museum of Natural Science, Kathy Reichs reads and signs Two Nights (in partnership with Murder By the Book), 6:30PM
• Warehouse Live, Houston Moth StorySLAM: Beauty, 7:30PM

Wednesday, July 12

Austin

• BookPeople, DREW MAGARY speaking & signing The Hike, 7PM

Dallas

• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Authors Live!: Becky Aikman discusses and signs Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma and Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge (in conversation with Chris Vognar of the Dallas Morning News), 7PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Alexandra Fuller reading and signing QUIET UNTIL THE THAW, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Keith McCafferty will sign and discuss Cold Hearted River, 6:30PM

Thursday, July 13

Austin

• BookPeople, ALEXANDRA FULLER speaking & signing Quiet Until the Thaw, 7PM
• BookWoman, Second Thursday Poetry Open Mic featuring Jonathan Moody, hosted by Cindy Huyser, 7:15PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night with Anna Castle, author of Publish and Perish, and Karen MacInerney, author of Mother’s Little Helper, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Poetry Reading: Christopher Stephen Soden, 7PM

Houston

• Indigo at Midtown, 1st Annual Bayou City Group Slam (fundraiser), 7:30PM

San Antonio

• The Plaza Club, World Affairs Council of San Antonio hosts Ali Noorani discussing There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration, 11:30AM
  
• The Twig Book Shop, David Tomlinson reads and signs The Midnight Man, 5PM

Seabrook

• Harris County Public Library – Evelyn Meador, Storyteller Jean Donatto presents “This Train is Bound for Story,” 2:30PM

Sugar Land

• B&N – First Colony, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM

Friday, July 14

Austin

• BookPeople, CHRISTOPHER BROWN speaking and signing Tropic of Cancer, and NICKY DRAYDEN speaking & signing The Prey of Gods, 7PM
• Malvern Books, celebrate the launch of the debut issue of Kallisto Gaia Press’ literary journal, The Ocotillo Review, 7PM

Dallas

• Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam presents the GNO Show, 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Anis Shivani discussing and signing LITERARY WRITING IN THE 21ST CENTURY, 7PM

Port Neches

• Fleur Fine Books, Rachel Caine meet & greet and book signing, 5PM

Saturday, July 15

Amarillo

• Chase Tower, Texas High Plains Writers meeting: Ryan McSwain, author of Four Color Bleed, speaks on “How to Publish on Amazon like a Pro,” 9:30AM

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Karen Norton signing Mom, God’s Got This: Jamie’s Story, 2PM
• BookPeople, SCBWI-Austin Monthly Meeting: Online Writing Contests and the Twitter Book Community with Kit Rosewater and Lindsay Leslie, 10AM
• BookPeople, VICTOR EMANUEL speaking & signing One More Warbler: A Life with Birds, 4PM [followed by a bird-watching walk at 6PM]
• Half Price Books – North Lamar, local author D.M. Williams will sell and sign her novella Love In, Air In, 1PM
• Half Price Books – South Lamar, local author Bruce Henderson will sell and sign his Techno-thriller White Pages, 1PM
• Malvern Books, celebrate the launch of poet Dylan Krieger’s Giving Godhead (with poet Cindy Huyser), 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Tracy Lawson signs Revolt: Book Four of the Resistance Series, 3PM

El Paso

• B&N – Sunland Park, C.C. Long signing Connected Minds, 1PM
• B&N – Sunland Park, The Broken Spoke signing and talk with Donna Marie Miller, 2PM
• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: “No Direction Home” with Sandy Torrez, 12:45PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Kimber Fountain signing Galveston Seawall Chronicles, 3PM

Houston

• B&N – Westheimer Crossing, Diana J. Noble discusses and signs Evangelina Takes Flight, 1PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Story time: Local writer Erin Nelsen Parekh reading from BEHOWL THE MOON, 10:30AM
• Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, while supplies last
• Murder By the Book, Rachel Caine will sign and discuss Ash and Quill and Stillhouse Lake; Martha Wells will sign and discuss All Systems Red and The Harbors of the Sun, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Laura Lyles Reagan discusses and signs How to Raise Respectful Parents, 3PM

Pasadena

• B&N – Fairway Market, E. Paige Burks signs Return to Royalty, 1PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Amelinda Casias signs Into the Light of Jesus, 11AM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Author Series: J.T. Lozano, 1PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Lucille Williams signing From Me to We, 1PM

Sunday, July 16

Austin

• BookPeople, DUNCAN JONES speaking & signing The Zebra Just Couldn’t Decide, 3PM
• Half Price Books – North Lamar, Unicorn Princess Storytime: Local literary and performance phenom Andrea Eames, a.k.a. Unicorn Princess, will share fables, fairy tales, and original stories, 2PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last

Houston

• Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, Daniel Silva discusses and signs House of Spies (in conversation with Houston Public Media’s Andrew Schneider), 5PM
• MATCH Houston, Meta-Four Houston vs Houston VIP: Send off Poetry Slam, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Daniel Silva will sign and discuss House of Spies, 2PM [line number required]

Pearland

• B&N – Broadway, Jessika Hearne signing Growing Up: Life Behind the Chalkboard, 2:30PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Holly Castillo reads and signs Texas Conquest, 11AM

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