• WITS Winter Slam Camp (5th-8th grades), Houston, January 2–4, 2018

Ongoing Exhibits

• Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 31
• National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet, Abilene, November 9-January 27

Sunday, December 31

Dallas

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

Monday, January 1

Happy New Year! May 2018 bring you lots of amazing reading and writing.

Tuesday, January 2

Austin

• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Mix, PuroSlam with DJ Donnie Dee and Project Mayhem, 10PM

Wednesday, January 3

Austin

• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talks: Professor Kevin Sweeney discusses Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains, 12PM
• University of Texas Club, Writer and Filmmaker Turk Pipkin will discuss the Book of the every-other Month Club: six new books in a subscription series that’s funding new school libraries in Kenya, 7PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM

Thursday, January 4

Sugar Land

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

Friday, January 5

Austin

• BookPeople, Gene Ames Jr. speaking and signing A Wildcatter’s Trek, Boyd Taylor speaking and signing Necissities, and Catia Hernandez Holm speaking & signing The Courage to Become, 7PM

Dallas

• Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam, 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Kij Johnson reads and signs THE RIVER BANK, 3PM
• Inprint House, First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Joshua Nguyen, 8:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Thomas Perry will sign and discuss his newest book The Bomb Perry, 6:30PM

Plano

• B&N – Legacy West, John & Mackenzie Baldwin signing Almost Gone, 7PM

San Antonio

• Gemini Ink, a special talk, reading, and book signing featuring four California Latinx writers: Marisol Baca, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, poet Yaccaira Salvatierra, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, 6:30PM

Saturday, January 6

Austin

• BookPeople, SCBWI Austin Monthly Meeting: Making a Book with Jessica Lee Anderson, Madeline Smoot, and Jeff Crosby, 10AM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Campfireball Dallas: The Los Angeles-based existential variety show with host, Cory Howard, weaves together performances from local comedians, musicians and storytellers with an immersive, audience driven storyline, 7:30PM
• Interabang Books, Karen Harrington reading and signing MAYDAY, and Robin Roe reading and signing A LIST OF CAGES, 2PM

Denton

• Wine Squared, Party On! with Spiderweb Salon: meet the new editorial team + performances and open mic, 7PM

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: “Writing and Riding The Border: Poems From Your Spinning Wheels” with Lawrence Welsh, 12:45PM

Midland

• B&N, Tyler Frick signing Prevailing Soul, 12PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Dirk Weisiger discusses and signs Leave Tomorrow: My Ride to the Bottom of the World, 11AM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, April Houston signing From Damaged to Destined, 1PM

Sunday, January 7

Austin

• Malvern Books, an inclusive (mic-less) open mic for writers and musician in association with VSA Texas and the Pen2Paper Creative Writing Contest (a project of the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities), 1PM

• The Writing Barn, Workshop: “New Year, New You! Commit to Your Creativity” with Claire Campbell and Bethany Hegedus, 3PM

Dallas

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

Houston

• Murder By the Book, Robert Crais will sign and discuss The Wanted, 4PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Catherine Nixon Cooke discusses and signs Powering a City: How Energy and Big Dreams Transformed San Antonio, 12PM

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