• Friends of the Dallas Public Library gala, October 12
• Texas Grand Slam Poetry Festival, Bryan/College Station, October 12-14
• Lone Star Storytelling Festival 2017, Frisco, October 13-14
• Houston Poetry Fest, October 13-15
• Indiepalooza, Houston, October 13-15
• 1st Annual Fort Worth BookFest, October 14
• Boerne Book & Arts Fest, October 14
• Indie Author Day, Dallas, October 14
• National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature 20th Anniversary Gala, Abilene, October 14
• 9th Annual El Paso Community College Literary Fiesta, October 14
• Writers in the Field, Mansfield, October 14-15

Ongoing Exhibits

• National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature 20th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating 20 Years of Art, Abilene, September 14–October 27
• Bonfire of Liberties: Censorship of the Humanities (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Keene, September 18-October 13
• Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 1

Sunday, October 8

Austin

• BookPeople, TARA DAIRMAN speaking & signing The Great Hibernation, JEANNIE MOBLEY speaking & signing Bobby Lee Claremont and the Criminal Element, and CHRISTINA SOONTORNVAT speaking & signing In a Dark Land, 2PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “A Dark & Stormy Night,” 4PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, local author Angel Jonson will sell and sign her books, Who Kidnapped Holly Gold? and Lovers, Killers and Diamonds, and local author Roger Geiger will sell and sign his memoir, Face the Bear: Tales of Laugh’n, Cry’n & Learn’n, 1PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Melissa del Bosque discusses and signs BLOODLINES, 5PM
• Museum of Fine Art, MFAH Exhibition Opening Day Lecture: “A Conversation about Oscar de la Renta: Life, Influences, and Style” with André Leon Talley, former editor-at-large at Vogue and author of Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style, 3PM
• Writespace, Workshop: “Unleash the Writer in You with Unleash the Writer in You” with Leslie Contreras Schwartz, 3PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Pat Hammond signs Name Them-They Fly Better: Pat Hammond’s Theory of Aerodynamics, 12PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Laila Sanguras signing Grit In the Classroom: Building Perseverance for Excellence in Today’s Students, 2PM

Monday, October 9

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Manchaca, “Fall Into Doodling” with Carin Channing, MSW, author of 365 Days of Doodling, 6:30PM
• BookPeople, VAL BRAINS speaking & signing Hexes for the Modern Age, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Community College Literary Coffeehouse: Reading & Open Mic featuring poet/screenwriter Annar Verold, 7PM

Dallas

• Jones Day, World Affairs Council DFW hosts Dr. Robert H. Latiff discussing and signing Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield, 6:30PM

Huntsville

• Sam Houston State – Austin Hall, Hispanic Heritage Month: “Building Literary Community” craft talk with author Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, 3:30PM
• Sam Houston State – Austin Hall, Hispanic Heritage Month Poetry Slam hosted by Let’s Get Loud!, 5PM
• Sam Houston State – Austin Hall, Poetry & Prose Reading, book signing, and reception with Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge, 6PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Kate Silvas discusses and signs You Are Not Alone: A Book of Hope for Parents Dealing With Reactive Attachment Disorder, 5PM

Tuesday, October 10

Alpine

• Sul Ross University – Wildenthal Memorial Library, Sarah Cortez will be reading from and discussing her latest book, Vanishing Points: Poems and Photographs of Texas Roadside Memorials, 2PM

Austin

• BookPeople, MARIT WEISENBERG speaking & signing Select (in conversation with Amanda Eyre Ward), 7PM
• Bullock Museum, “Bootlegging in the Borderlands” panel discussion with George Díaz, author of the award-winning Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande, and Joseph Locke, author of Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion, 7PM
• Home Slice Pizza, Austin Bat Cave Story Department: “Witch Hunt” featuring Sxott Rogers-Crutchfield, Rudy Ramirez, and Austin Morgan, 8PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Christopher Michael (hosted by Tova Charles), 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Melanie Shankle discusses and signs Church of the Small Things: The Million Little Pieces That Make Up a Life, 7PM
• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Friends of the SMU Libraries present Roger D. Hodge discussing and signing TEXAS BLOOD, 7PM
• Interabang Books, Writers’ League of Texas panel discussion: How to Turn a Mess of Pages Into A Book with Sanderia Faye, Sarah Hepola, Jeramey Kraatz, and Michael Merschel, 7PM
• Latino Cultural Center, Bárbara Renaud González discusses and signs Las Nalgas de JLo/JLo’s Booty: The Best & Most Notorious Calumnas & Other Writings by the First Chicana Columnist in Texas 1995-2005, 7:30PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Ridley Pearson signs Lock and Key: The Downward Spiral, 5:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Chris Barton will discuss and sign his newest picture books for children, 5PM
• Congregation Emanu El, Preservation Houston’s History in Print author series presents Jim Parsons and David Bush discussing their new book, DFW Deco: Modernistic Architecture of North Texas, 6:30PM
• Half Price Books – Cypress Creek, Carolyn Ketchum signing Everyday Ketogenic Kitchen, 7PM
• Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, Eric Metaxas will discuss and sign his newest book, MARTIN LUTHER, 7PM
• Warehouse Live, Houston Moth StorySLAM: “Creepy,” 7:30PM

Irving

• South Irving Library, YA author Rae Carson (The Girl of Fire and Thorns series, Gold Seer Trilogy) meets fans and discusses and signs her books, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, PuroSlam featuring nationally recognized slam-poets Brennan Defrisco & Wil Gibson ( with DJ Donnie Dee), 9:30PM
• San Antonio Museum of Art, Worth Repeating presents “Because How I Am”, an evening of storytelling, 7PM

Tahoka

• City-County Library, Tea & Tales Series: Jodi Thomas, author of A Christmas Affair, 10AM

Tyler

• UT – Cowan Center, Distinguished Lecture series presents Greg Gutfeld, New York Times best-selling author of How To Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct, 7:30PM

Universal City

• Universal City Public Library, Writing for Life Series: Martha Miller, author of Times New Roman: How We Quit Our Jobs, Gave Away Our Stuff & Moved to Italy, 6:30PM

Wednesday, October 11

Arlington

• UTA – Bluebonnet Ballroom, CAAS October Power Hour Lecture: “Mapping Legacies of Colonialism in Paris Noir Fiction” with Dr. Laila Amine, 12PM

Austin

• BookPeople, ROGER D HODGE speaking & signing Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands, 7PM [ticketed event]

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live hosts New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast discussing her new graphic memoir, Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York, 7:30PM
• Interabang Books, Samantha Mabry reads and signs ALL THE WIND IN THE WORLD, 7PM

El Paso

• UTEP Library, Dr. Keith Polette reading from The New World, 6PM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, Fall Educator Appreciation Days: Grit in the Classroom Workshop with Laila Sanguras, 7PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Jeremi Suri discusses and signs THE IMPOSSIBLE PRESIDENCY, 7
• Center for the Healing of Racism, a dialogue about Tears We Cannot Stop with author Dr. Eric Dyson, 12PM
• MATCH Houston, RDA/RSA Fall 2017 Lecture Series: “Pliable” with fashion designer Yeohlee Teng, author of Yeohlee: Work, 7PM

North Richland Hills

• North Richland Hills Public Library, Behind the Book with Alice Hoffman, author of The Rules of Magic, 1PM [ticketed lunch at 12PM]

Plano

• Haggard Library, Alice Hoffman reads and signs The Rules of Magic, 7PM [ticketed reception at 6PM]

Thursday, October 12

Austin

• BookPeople, ALICE HOFFMAN speaking & signing Rules of Magic, 7PM [ticketed event]
• BookWoman, Poetry Open Mic featuring Huston-Tillotson Showcase (hosted by Cindy Huyser), 7PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night: Scott Semegran reads from Sammie & Budgie, and A. K. Fagan reads from Worldwalker, 7PM
• Mitte Carriage House, Writers’ League of Texas Intensive: “Make a Long Story Short: Writing a Novel Synopsis” with Jo Whittemore, 6PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Chicon Street Poets present CSP 2017 Anthology Ball, 7PM
• UT – Avaya Auditorium, Michener Center or Writers reading series presents poet Major Jackson, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, 7:30PM

Brownsville

• UTRGV – Clark Gallery, 2017 riverSedge Release Reading and Reception celebrating 40 years of publication, 6PM

Canyon

• West Texas A&M, Distinguished Lecture Series: “Languages of Displacement / The Displacements of Language” with Latina poets Emmy Perez, Jennifer Tamayo, and Iliana Rocha, 6PM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Misty Keasler discusses and signs HAUNT, 7PM
• Meadows Museum, Spanish poet José Ignacio Foronda will read works from Escrito en el aire, 6:30PM [Spanish event]
• Museum of Biblical Art, Art House Dallas’ 7 Year Anniversary Celebration: A LIGHT IN THE CITY, 6PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Amy Stewart reads and signs MISS KOPP’S MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS, 7PM
• Center for the Healing of Racism, a dialogue about Tears We Cannot Stop with author Dr. Eric Dyson, 12PM
• MECA, Savannah Blue Arts & Outreach presents Black Lines Poetry featuring Christopher Diaz and Erica Nicole, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Amy Stewart will sign Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions, 5PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Apple Gidley reads and signs Fireburn, 5PM
• The Rothko Chapel, Art and Incarceration: Poetry, Theatre and Music in and about Captivity, 7PM

Irving

• Valley Ranch Library, Newbery Honor-winning author Kirby Larson discusses and signs her novels about life in Montana, 7PM

Midland

• Blakemore Planetarium, Business of Art Lecture Series: An Evening with Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, and Françoise Mouly, author of Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See, 7:30PM

Odessa

• Noel Art Museum, a night of poetry about loss with Jason Lagapa, 6PM

San Antonio

• Trinity University, Latinx Heritage Month: award-winning playwright Virginia Grise reads from Your Healing is Killing Me, 5:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Roger Hodge discusses and signs Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands, 6PM

San Marcos

• Texas State University – Alkek Library, The Wittliff Collections presents a reading, discussion, and book signing with Philipp Meyer, author of The Son, 3:30PM

Sugar Land

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

Tyler

• UT Library, Human Library, 9AM

Friday, October 13

Arlington

• UTA – Central Library, Dr. David LeFevor presents “Traversing Cuba: Reflections on Writing History and Making Images,” 7:30PM

Austin

• BookPeople, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus speaking & signing A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions, 7PM
• Lewis Carnegie Gallery, Bat City Review Friday the 13th reading with Jessica Hincapie, Ally Glass-Katz, Julie Howd, Rachel Heng, and Danny Ruiz, 6PM [costumes HIGHLY recommended]
• Space 24 Twenty, No. 1 New York Times bestselling-poet Rupi Kaur will have a spoken word performance featuring The Sun and Her Flowers, her long-awaited second collection of poetry, 7PM

Benbrook

• Benbrook Public Library, poet J. Todd Hawkins reads and signs Ten Counties Away, 6:30PM

Dallas

• Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam presents The GNO Show with Godj Boladi, 8PM
• Interabang Books, Peter V. Brett reads and signs THE CORE: BOOK FIVE OF THE DEMON CYCLE, 7PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Editor Stephen M. Sloan signs Tattooed on My Soul, 6PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Roger Hodge discusses and signs Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands, 7PM

• Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, reading, discussion, and book signing with Philipp Meyer, author of The Son, 7:30PM

Laredo

• Texas A&M International University – Student Center, “Reading the Globe: Russia” with Lev Golinkin, author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir, 3PM

Marble Falls

• Marble Falls Public Library, Luncheon with Margie Crisp, author of The Nueces River: Río Escondido, followed by a Q&A and book signing, 11:30AM

San Antonio

• La Botanica, chifladazine volume 3 release party featuring poets Natasha Hernandez, Marilyse V. Figueroa, Samuel Coronado, and Rios de la Luz, 8PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Bernadette Nason reads and signs Tea in Tripoli, 5PM
• Viva Tacoland, Gemini Ink reading featuring Nicole Marie Moore, Nakita Reddic-McClure, and Todd Wright, 6:30PM

Saturday, October 14

Austin

• Austin Community College – Highland, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Crafting Nonlinear Narratives” with Varian Johnson, 9AM
• BookPeople, CHELSEY CLAMMER speaking and signing Circadian, and TATIANA RYCKMAN speaking & signing I Don’t Think of You Until I Do, 6PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus discusses and signs A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions, 3PM
• SMU – Mack Ballroom, Telling Our Stories: Women of Color and the Power of Narratives, 1PM
• The Writers Garret, Workshop: “Terrible Poetry: Editing and Revising Your Work” with Logen Cure, 12PM

Denton

• B&N – Golden Triangle, Local Author Krystal Granzow signing and story time: Maddy Lou and Mack at the State Fair of Texas, 1PM

Dripping Springs

• Sententia Vera Cultural Hub, Emerging Voices series presents Barbara Frances, author of LIKE I USED TO DANCE, 10:30AM

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: “No Things but in Ideas: Writing that Dares to Think” with Ann Birch, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• Half Price Books – Ridgmar/Westover Village, local author Hope Veroneau will sell and sign her fantasy book Ayanna, 1PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Coauthor George Wier signs Long Fall from Heaven, 3PM

Houston

• B&N – Westheimer Crossing, Former NFL Houston Texan Wade Smith signs Smitty Tackles Bullying, 12PM
• DiverseWorks, The Printing Museum letterpress workshop: “Print to Empower,” 1PM
• Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
• Kaboom Books, Sound, Readings, Art, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Laura Elvebak will sign and discuss The Past Never Dies, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Marsha Miller reads and signs Elena Finds Her BFF, 3PM
• Writespace, Workshop: “From the Page to the Stage: How to Read Your Writing Aloud” with Cynthia Childress, 9:30AM

Laredo

• Laredo Public Library, “Reading the Globe: Russia” with Lev Golinkin, author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir, 9:30AM

Plano

• B&N – Creekwalk Village, Fabiana Elisa Martinez signs 12 Random Words/12 Palabras al Azar, 2PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Terry Corrao signs Father Daughter, 11AM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Ray Pekowski signing Lessons of an Entrepreneur, 1PM

Sugar Land

• Half Price Books, local author Raquel Helm will sell and sign The Love Experience: The Poetry Journal, 1PM

• Jones Theatre – Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center, Society for Photographic Education Conference lecture by Charlotte Cotton, author of The Photograph as Contemporary Art, 6PM

Sunday, October 15

Austin

• BookPeople, CHAD CONINE speaking & signing Texas Sports: Unforgettable Stories for Every Day of the Year, 2PM
• Malvern Books, Kurt Heinzelman’s reads from his new book of poetry, Whatever You May Say, with Danielle Sellers, 4PM
• Resistencia Books, Virginia Grise reads and signs Your Healing Is Killing Me, 5PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, retired decorated combat cavalry soldier and local author Tank Gunner will sell and sign his books Prompts and Prompts, Too, and local author Wayne Peterson will sell and sign his sci-fi book Canopy of Hope, 1PM
• The Mix Co-Working Space, Writing Workshop Dallas Seminar: “How To Network Like A B.O.S.S.” with Whitney Davis, 3PM

Houston

• Rudyard’s Pub, Public Poetry’s PM Show: open auditions, 2PM
• Writespace, Workshop: “How to Start a Story-and Finish It!” with Jason Aydelotte, 3PM

Irving

• Valley Ranch Library, Cowboys Never Quit: Western Author Panel with Johnny Boggs and Clay Reynolds, 2PM

Killeen

• Black World Books, One-Year Anniversary At Black World Books, 1PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Laura Hudgens signs A Day at the BERns Family FARm, 11AM

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