• FronteraFest 2018, Austin, January 16-February 17
• Humanities Texas presents Texas Storytime: A Family Reading Program, Midland, February 8-March
• South By and By: Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference 2018, Austin, February 15-18
• ConDFW XVII, Fort Worth, February 16-18
• Teen Bookfest by the Bay, Corpus Christi, February 17
• Sur Fest 6, Houston, February 17

Ongoing Exhibits

• Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas Exhibition), Keene, January 29–February 23
  Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards (NCCIL exhibition), Abilene, February 8-May 19
• HOMETOWN TEXAS photography exhibition, Dallas, February 17-May 5

Sunday, February 11

Austin

• BookPeople, DELBERT McCLINTON and DIANA FINLAY HENDRICKS speaking & signing One of the Fortunate Few, 2PM
• BookPeople, BOX BROWN speaking and signing Is This Guy For Real?, 5PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Talk Dirty to Me”, 4PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Paul Auster, author of 4 3 2 1, in conversation with Will Evans of Deep Vellum Publishing, 7PM
• The Foundry Club, Writing Workshops Dallas presents: “Should I Self-Publish or Seek Traditional Publishing?” with Blake Atwood, 3PM
• Interabang Books, Alex Berenson reading and signing THE DECEIVERS, 3PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, local author Charity Marie will sell and sign copies from her children’s book series, Jason & Lizzy, and local author Ryan Armstrong will sell and sign his romance book, Back to the Start, 1PM

Houston

• House of Blues Houston, “wellRED Comedy Tour: From Dixie With Love” – Trae Crowder (The Liberal Redneck), Drew Morgan, and Corey Ryan Forrester touring nationally in support of their best-selling book, Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin Dixie Outta the Dark, 6PM
• Rudyard’s Pub, The Passion Series featuring poets Kevin Prufer, Mark Irwin, John Gorman, and Andrew Clegg, 1PM

Watauga

• Half Price Books, retired, decorated combat-cavalry soldier and local author Tank Gunner will sell and sign his military book, Cookie Johnson, 1PM

Monday, February 12

Austin

• BookPeople, FRANCISCO CANTÚ speaking & signing The Line Becomes a River, 7PM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Elizabeth Crook reading and signing THE WHICH WAY TREE, 7PM

Houston

• Alley Theatre, Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series presents PAUL AUSTER reading from 4 3 2 1: A Novel, 7:30PM
• Stages Repertory Theatre, Tintero Reading Series presents poets Jonathan Mendoza and Eloísa Pérez-Lozano de Castelan, 7PM

San Antonio

• One Trinity Place, Darwin Day: Lecture by Harry Greene, “Natural History and Aesthetics: Why Do We Care About Nature?”, followed by book signing, 6:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Bryan Mealer discussing and signing The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family’s Search for the American Dream, 5PM

Tuesday, February 13

Austin

• BookPeople, DELLA BARBATO speaking & signing Almost Della, 7PM
• Home Slice Pizza, Austin Bat Cave Story Department presents “Love Is in the Air”, 8PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam hosted by Tova Charles, 7:15PM

Cedar Hill

• Zula Bryant Wylie Library, Dallas Area Writers Group: guest speaker Jeaninne Stokes, a Christian poet, author, speaker, and educator, 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Nationally-recognized, award-winning psychiatrist and author Dr. Joe Bates will be sharing exact steps to have “The Best Valentine’s Day” (followed by a book signing), 3PM
• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Shawn Achor and Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being, 7:30PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, POWER OF LOVE: An Evening of Poetry, Spoken Word, and Music, 8PM

Houston

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston presents Chris Fussell, Former U.S. Navy SEAL Officer and Aide-de-Camp to General Stanley McChrystal, and One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams, 12PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Bryan Mealer will discuss and sign his new novel THE KINGS OF BIG SPRING, 7PM
• Brasil, Fuente Collective presents Bad Love: A Dark Valentine’s Eve Reading & Open Mic with Chelsey Clammer, Jasminne Mendez, and Adrienne Perry, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Elizabeth Crook reading and signing THE WHICH WAY TREE, 7PM
• The Junior League, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston presents Chris Fussell, Former U.S. Navy SEAL Officer and Aide-de-Camp to General Stanley McChrystal, and One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams, with retired Lt. Gen. Jim Huggins, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Mix, Puroslam with DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Naomi Shihab Nye launches Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners, 6PM

Wednesday, February 14

Dallas

• Moody Performance Hall, Oral Fixation presents “Stick Together,” 8PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Tom Sweterlitsch will sign and discuss The Gone World, 6:30PM

Thursday, February 15

Austin

• Benson Latin American Collection (UT Austin), celebrate the opening of the María Luisa Puga Papers with a lecture by Irma López, professor of Spanish at Western Michigan University and author of Historia, escritura e identidad: La novelística de María Luisa Puga, 4PM
• BookPeople, CAROLYN HELSEL speaking & signing Anxious to Talk about It: Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully about Racism, 7PM
• BookPeople, Writers’ League of Texas presents “Making the Most of the Author/Editor Relationship” with Carolyn Cohagan, Casey Kittrell, Sara Kocek, and Kate Rodemann, 7PM
• BookWoman, We Who March: conversation and signing with Ellen Feldman (all profits from this book donated to Planned Parenthood), 7PM
• Harry Ransom Center, The New Writers Project at UT Austin presents a reception and poetry reading by National Book Award-winner Nikki Finney, 6PM

Bryan

• SEAD Gallery & Bookshop, Author Talk with Teri Metcalf, 6:30PM

Conroe

• Lone Star College, Writers in Performance Series presents Skip Hollandsworth, author of The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer, 7PM

Dallas

• African American Museum, lecture by Dr. John Gruesser, Ph.D, editor of the scholarly edition of The Hindered Hand, and biographer of Dallas-born Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs, 7PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, a night of music, poetry and essays with Jimmy and Jane Baldwin, 7PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Emily Ecton will meet and greet customers and sign her new novel for children, THE AMBROSE DECEPTION, 5PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Bill Bentley discussing and signing SMITHSONIAN ROCK AND ROLL, 7PM
• Cullen Performance Hall, The Houston Public Library Quarterly Author Series presents A GOOD CRY with Nikki Giovanni, 7:30PM
• Fondren Library, Meet the Author: Diana Strassmann, founding editor of Feminist Economics, 6PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Dr. Michelle Fennick discussing and signing Her Story: Turning Pain Into Purpose, 5PM
• Under the Radar Brewery, Radar Talk: author Francois Pointeau hosts a live podcast on Houston’s indie theater scene with guests Traci Lavois Thiebaud and Greg Dean, 6PM

Sugar Land

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

Friday, February 16

Austin

• BookPeople, Bill Bentley and Alejandro Escovedo speaking and signing Smithsonian Rock and Roll (in conversation with Raoul Hernandez of the Austin Chronicle), 7PM
• Malvern Books, acclaimed poet Carl Phillips celebrates the recent release of his new collection, Wild Is the Wind (event sponsored by the Michener Center for Writers), 7PM

Dallas

• Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam featuring Lyrique Jaye, 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Peter Heller reading and signing CELINE, 7PM
• Rice University, 2018 Cagle Series speaker: Professor Nahum Chandler, author of The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, 4:30PM
• Rudyard’s Pub, Gulf Coast Reading Series featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Chelsea B. DesAutels, Dan Chu, and Kaj Tanaka, 7PM

Saturday, February 17

Austin

• BookPeople, author BETHANY HEGEDUS and illustrator ERIN MCGUIRE speaking & signing Alabama Spitfire: The Story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, 2PM
• BookPeople, EMILY ECTON speaking & signing The Ambrose Deception (in conversation with author Jo Whittemore), 6PM
• BookWoman, How to Write Visually: a conversation with Austin authors and illustrators Tillie Walden, Tammy Stanley, and Pamela Ellen Ferguson, 1PM
• Little Walnut Creek Library, Austin Poetry Society: guest poet Alan Berecka, poet laureate of Corpus Christi, 1:30PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Finding a More Natural Structure for Memoir” with Rachel Starnes, 9AM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Dark Moon Poetry & Arts, 7PM
• PDNB Gallery, artist reception and book signing for Peter Brown and Hometown Texas, 5PM
• Warwick Melrose Hotel, World Affairs Council of DFW presents Jeffrey Engel and When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War, 9:30AM

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: “Live, Love, Desire” with author Lucy Hopple, 12:45PM

Frisco

• Half Price Books, local author Amy Winfield will sell and sign her children’s book, Cautious Fred, 1PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Ann Leis and Gail Klein will sign their book, MUSIC OF THE BUTTERFLY: A STORY OF HOPE, 11AM
• Brazos Bookstore, poet Analicia Sotelo reading from and signing VIRGIN, 7PM
• 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, William D. Darling will sign and discuss Anahuac, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Anetral Hall discussing and signing Revelations: The Untold Truth and My Little Princess: Count with Teddy and Me from 1 to 20, 3PM
• Writespace, Workshop: “Turning Points in the Arc of Memoir” with Joyce Boatright, 1PM

• Maud Smith Marks Branch Library, Houston Writers Guild workshop: “Plotting with Theme” with Fern Brady, 12:30PM

Killeen

• Black World Books, Black History Celebration: storytelling, music, dance, genealogy, Geechie language history and demonstration, Ethiopia outreach, 2PM

Lubbock

• B&N, Days of Judgement book signing with Heath Daniels, 2PM

Midland

• B&N, Professor Douglas Spence signing Andrew Jackson Donelson, 12PM

Nacogdoches

• The Bosslight, Tim Bryant discussing and signing A World of Hurt, 1PM

San Antonio

• Carver Library, Black History Month: Telling Our History Our Way – Writers and poets speak out on why their perspective counts, 11AM
• San Antonio Central Library – Latino Collection & Resource Center, celebrate the release of All Around Us, an acclaimed new picture book by San Antonio natives Xelena González and Adriana Garcia, 2PM
• Trinity University, the Black Student Union presents Spoken Word with 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion Porsha Olayiwola, 5PM

Sugar Land

• Half Price Books, local author RD Vincent will sell and sign books from his Donbridge fantasy series, 12PM

• B&N, Joe Pappalardo discussing and signing Spaceport Earth, 6PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Lynn Wilson signing At Ease, 12PM

Sunday, February 18

Austin

• BookPeople, ELIZABETH H. CLARE speaking & signing The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900, 2PM
• BookPeople, poet ANALICIA SOTELO speaking & signing Virgin, 5PM
• BookWoman, Serving the Broccoli Gods: a reading with Mary Purdy, 4PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Sarah Beth Marr signs Dreaming with God: A Bold Call to Step Out and Follow God’s Lead, 1PM
• The Foundry Club, Writing Workshops Dallas presents: “Should I Self-Publish or Seek Traditional Publishing?” with Blake Atwood, 3PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, local author Tank Gunner will sell and sign his military fiction books, Cookie Johnson, Prompts and Prompts, Too, and local author Wayne Peterson will sell and sign his science fiction book, Canopy of Hope, 1PM

Houston

• Writespace, Workshop: “From the Page to the Stage: How to Read Your Writing Aloud” with Cynthia Childress, 9:30AM

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