• Black & Latino Playwrights Conference, San Marcos, September 4-10
• Langdon Review Weekend, Granbury, September 6-9
• 29th Annual National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration, Lubbock, September 8-10
• Children’s Book Sale and International Literacy Celebration!, Houston, September 9
• Writespace Writers’ Family Reunion, Houston, September 9

Ongoing Exhibits

• George Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, San Antonio, June 23-September 4
• In His Own Words: The Life and Work of César Chávez (a Humanities Texas exhibit), Plano, August 7-September 15
• Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States (a Humanities Texas exhibit), Plano, September 1-29
• Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, San Antonio, September 2-November 27
• FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA!, San Antonio, September 6–26

Sunday, September 3

Dallas

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

Mansfield

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

Monday, September 4     Happy Labor Day, y’all!

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tuesday, September 5

Abilene

• Texas Star Trading Co., Penny Parker Klostermann signs her newest children’s book, A Cooked-Up Fairy Tale, 4PM

Austin

• BookPeople, SHERRY THOMAS speaking and signing A Conspiracy in Belgravia, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Meghan Lamb reading and signing Silk Flowers (with readings from J.Scott Brownlee and Bridget Brewer), 7PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam: NEW SHIT Slam hosted by Peter Nevland, 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Nancy Churnin reads and signs Manjhi Moves a Mountain, 6PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic, 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Stephanie Elizondo Griest discusses and signs ALL THE AGENTS AND SAINTS, 7PM
• Fix Coffeebar, Poetry Fix featuring Michael Galko & D. E. Zuccone, 6:30PM
• Tracy Gee Community Center, SCBWI-Houston meeting: “Best of Books –Early Childhood through Teens” with Cathy Berner of Blue Willow Bookshop, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, PuroSlam Epic Season Opening: Individual World Poetry Slam Showdown, 9:30PM
• Trinity Holt Center, Kelly Grey Carlisle celebrates the release of her memoir, We Are All Shipwrecks, 6:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, S.C. Gwynne discusses and signs The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football, 5PM
  

Wednesday, September 6

Austin

• BookPeople, FINN MURPHY speaking and signing The Long Haul!, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Patricia Bernstein discusses and signs Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan, 12PM
• Central Presbyterian Church, Bestselling Author LOUISE PENNY speaking and signing GLASS HOUSES, 7PM [sold out]

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• B&N – River Oaks, Randi Rubenstein signing The Parent Gap, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Michael H. Rubin will sign and discuss Cashed Out, 6:30PM

Taylor

• Moody Museum, Patricia Bernstein discusses and signs Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan, 6PM

Thursday, September 7

Austin

• BookPeople, CHRIS BARTON speaking and signing Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion, 6:30PM
• BookWoman, Getting to Know The Goddess Series: “Faery Queens of the Tarot” with Suzanne McAnna, author of Tarot through the Witch’s Eye: Tarot Wisdom for Magical and Personal Transformation, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Finn Murphy discusses and signs THE LONG HAUL: A TRUCKER’S TALES OF LIFE ON THE ROAD, 7PM
• Scardello Artisan Cheese, Ari Weinzweig will discuss and sign The Power of Beliefs in Business (plus CHEESE), 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, Wordspace Dallas annual Season Kick-Off Party featuring Inferno Texino, Brian Alan Carr, and TACOS, 7PM

Frisco

• Frisco Public Library, Tess Gerritsen will read and sign her newest book, I Know a Secret (a Rizzoli & Isles novel), 7PM [ticketed reception 6PM]

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Katharine McGee will discuss and sign her new novel for teens, THE DAZZLING HEIGHTS, 7PM
• Christ Church Cathedral, Louise Penny will sign and discuss Glass Houses, 7PM [ticketed event]
• Cullen Performance Hall, Brené Brown discusses BRAVING THE WILDERNESS, 7PM [sold out]

North Richland Hills

• North Richland Hills Library, Behind the Book hosts Tess Gerritsen reads and signs I Know a Secret (a Rizzoli & Isles novel), 1PM [ticketed lunch 12PM]

San Marcos

• Texas State – Alkek Library, The Center for the Study of the Southwest presents Stephanie Elizondo Griest discussing and signing All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands, 11AM
• Texas State – Alkek Library, The Wittliff Collections presents Ocean Vuong reading and signing Night Sky with Exit Wounds, 3:30PM

Sugar Land

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

Victoria

• UHV – Alcorn Auditorium, American Book Review Reading Series presents Lacy M. Johnson, author of The Other Side, 12PM

Friday, September 8

Austin

• BookPeople, STEPHANIE ELIZONDO GRIEST speaking and signing All the Agents and Saints, 7PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, “Poetic Perspectives: Identity, Adversity, and Love”: Free Chigger Matthews presents Poets Emery Diercks and Eric “Cire Luey” Maldonado with local favorites Ofelia “MexMama” Faz-Garza, Niko Ortiz, and Nadia Wolnisty, 7PM
• Hotel Crescent Court, World Affairs Council of DFW hosts Dr. Meghan O’Sullivan discussing and signing Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power, 5PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Alex McElroy reads and signs DADDY ISSUES, 7PM
• Cullen Performance Hall, The Moth presents “Out On A Limb” – the GrandSLAM Championship, 7:30PM
• Inprint House, First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Reyes Ramirez, 8:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Tess Gerritsen will sign and discuss her new Rizzoli and Isles novel, I Know a Secret, 6:30PM

• Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, Ocean Vuong reading and signing Night Sky with Exit Wounds, 7:30PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Jim LaVilla-Havelin reads and signs West: Poems of a Place, 6:30PM
  

Saturday, September 9

Amarillo

• B&N, Reavis Z. Wortham signing Hawke’s Prey, 2PM

Austin

• [location supplied at registration], “Feeding the Tiger: Women Writing Graphic Sex in Literary Fiction” workshop led by ire’ne lara silva, 10AM [half of your registration fee will be donated to Hurricane Harvey relief]
• Apanas Coffee & Beer, NeoSoul Slam: Return of the Soul (Individual World Poetry Slam qualifier), 6PM
• BookPeople, SCBWI-Austin Monthly Meeting: “Face your Fears and Write Horror” with Chandler Baker, 10AM
• BookPeople, DON TATE speaking and signing Strong as Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth, 2PM
• BookPeople, LARRY SMITH speaking and signing Six Words Fresh Off the Boat: Stories of Immigration, Identity, and Coming to America, 6PM
• Malvern Books, Prudence Arceneaux reads and signs Dirt, 7PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Rock Star Publicity: Book Promotion for the Bold and Bashful” with Marika Flatt and Elena Meredith, 10AM

Burleson

• Half Price Books, local author Tank Gunner will sell and sign his books Prompts and Prompts, Too, collections of fictional war stories based on real accounts, 1PM

Dallas

• Dallas Public Library – Audelia Road, Eldercare Seminar with Suzanne Asaff Blankenship, author of How to Take Care of Old People Without Losing Your Marbles, 2PM
• Dallas Public Library – Preston/Royal, Ann Howells, winner of the 2017 William D. Barney Memorial Chapbook Contest, will discuss creating a manuscript, and will read from her winning chapbook, Softly Beating Wings, 2:30PM

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: “The Suprasegmental of Narrative” with Felípe de Ortego y Gasca, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• Fort Worth Central Library, “My Corner Bookstore”: In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, Dr. Alex Hidalgo will examine the work of one rare book dealer in Fort Worth who specializes in early publications of the Americas, 10:30AM
• Half Price Books – Ridgmar, local author Caroline Barthen will sell and sign her children’s book, Growing Up Tobey: The First Year, 1PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, Joan Murray signs I MUST Pray, 2PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Story time: Aaron Reynolds and Matt Davies will read their newest picture book, NERDY BIRDY TWEETS, 11AM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Gabrielle Zevin will sign her new novel, YOUNG JANE YOUNG, 2PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Brian Allen Carr reads and signs SIP, 7PM
• Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
• River Oaks Bookstore, Vietnam War veteran and Houston doctor Dr. Samuel Axelrad will discuss and sign his memoir, Peaceful Bones, 3PM

Hurst

• B&N – NE Mall, The Wayward Astronomer book signing with Geoffrey Thomas, The Other Side of the Mic book signing with Cecil Miller, and The Daring World War II Raid on Ploesti book signing with William Bradle, 1PM

Irving

• The Irving Arts Center, DFW Writers Workshop 40th anniversary celebration dinner, 6:30PM

Nacogdoches

• The Bosslight/Main Street Pecan, Debra Mina Chidakwa-Akue discusses and signs The Forgotten Child of Zimbabwe, 1PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Susan Mayfield signs “Hi”-ku for You, 11AM
  

Southlake

• B&N – Town Center, Story time: Krystal Granzow reads and signs Maddy Lou and Mack at the State Fair of Texas, 11AM
• B&N – Town Center, Bridgid Coleman signing Sawyer’s Visit to the Pumpkin Patch, 1PM

Webster

• B&N – Baybrook II, Gulf Poets Society meeting featuring poets from Weasel Press publications, 10:30AM
• B&N – Baybrook II, Meet the Author: E. Paige Burks signs Return to Royalty: A Gexalatian Tale Series, Book I, 1PM

Sunday, September 10

Austin

• BookPeople, CORY PUTMAN OAKES speaking and signing Witchtown, 3PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Ol’ School Soul Food”, 4PM
• The Writing Barn, Workshop: “Humor and Surprise: A How-To Guide for Turning up the Fun Faucet in Picture Books” with Cate Berry, 3PM

Bellaire

• Southwestern Presbyterian Church, Houston Writers House workshop: “How to Successfully Pitch to an Agent/Editor in 15 Minutes” with Shelley K. Wall, 1PM

Corpus Christi

• B&N, Stephanie Elizondo Griest signs All the Agents and Saints, 1PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, local author Wyatt McDowell will sell and sign his sci-fi novel, Locker 439, and local author Gale Jackson will sell and sign her self-help book, The Boss from Hell, 1PM

El Paso

• B&N – Fountains at Farah, Mama’s Leche book signing with author Michelle Hackney and illustrator Mia Ortiz, 2PM

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