Special Events

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Exhibition, Austin, February 10–July 6, 2015
  • Armadillo Rising: Austin’s Music Scene in the 1970s, Wittliff Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, February 9 – July 3, 2015
  • ARCHIZINES celebrates the resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing around the world, Houston, January 29 – April 17
  • Texas Writers: a Humanities Texas Exhibition, San Antonio, April 1 – 29
  • A Hemispheric Conversation: Queer/Feminist Independent Publishing Projects ‘Belleza y Felicidad’ and ‘Belladonna’ exhibit, Austin, April 14 – May 9
  • Poetry at Round Top Festival, April 17 – 19
    Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, McAllen, April 23 – 26
  • Austin Food & Wine Festival (includes book signings), April 24 – 26
  • Houston Writers Guild Annual Spring Conference, April 24 – 26
  • New Fiction Confab, Austin, April 25

Sunday, April 19

Austin

  • BookPeople, Nobel Laureate STEVEN WEINBERG speaking & signing To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science, 3PM
  • Malvern Books, Free Minds Presents an Afternoon with the Tuesday Night Writers and Class of 2015, 2PM

Houston

  • Brazilian Arts Foundation Cultural Center, The Flamenco Poets Society presents Poetry & Dance: Celebrating Julia de Burgos & Nancy Morejón Poetry, 3PM
  • Katy Budget Books, Crimson Romance Author Signing with Karen Sue Burns, Andrea R. Cooper, Nicole Flockton, Elizabeth Meyette, and Shelley K. Wall, 3PM
  • Rienzi Center, A Parade of Books, 1PM

San Antonio

  • Gemini Ink, La Voz de San Antonio, 3PM
  • The Twig Book Shop, JJ Persis reads and signs Zodiac Lovers I Remember, 2PM

Monday, April 20

Austin

  • BookPeople, JENNIFER TEEGE speaking & signing My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past, 7PM

Dallas

  • Magnolia Lounge, Pandora’s Box Presents : Bruce Bond, Lisa Huffaker and Chris George, 8PM
  • Wyly Theatre, Oral Fixation Presents “Happy Camper”, 8PM

Frisco

  • B&N – Stonebriar Mall, Katherine Applegate:The One and Only Ivan, 6PM

Houston

  • Birraporetti’s Downtown, BOOKS & BELLINIS: INPRINT’S YOUNG PROFESSIONALS MIXER, 6PM
  • Cullen Theater – Wortham Center, Inprint Reading Series: Christina Henriquez and Marlon James, 7:30PM

Tuesday, April 21

Austin

  • BookPeople, Bestselling Author HEIDI JULAVITS speaking & signing hew new memoir, The Folded Clock: A Diary, 7PM
  • Spider House Cafe & Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

  • Park Cities Club, 2015 International Perspectives Series: Fiona Hill, co-author of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin, 12PM

Houston

  • River Oaks Bookstore, Karen Kasmauski reads and signs NURSE: A World of Care, 5PM

San Antonio

  • B&N – San Pedro, John Quinones: What Would You Do? Words of Wisdom About Doing the Right Thing, 7PM

Wednesday, April 22

Austin

  • BookPeople, Food Network Star SIMON MAJUMDAR speaking & signing Fed, White, and Blue, 7PM
  • Cheer Up Charlies, Five Things presents: Cruelty!, 8PM

Dallas

  • Rosewood Crescent Hotel, Bill Browder presents Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice, 12PM

Houston

  • Brazos Bookstore, Ryan Gattis – ALL INVOLVED, 7PM

Thursday, April 23  SHAKESPEARE’S BIRTHDAY

Abilene

  • Abilene Writers Guild, Rose Park Senior Center, Kay Ellington & Barbara Brannon present “Circles of Desire: Six Steps to a Stronger Story” and sign copies of their Texas novel, The Paragraph Ranch, 7 PM

Austin

  • Asian American Resource Center, The Train to Crystal City Reading and Discussion with Jan Jarboe Russell, 6:30PM
  • BookPeople, Bestselling Author GEOFF DYER speaking & signing Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, 7PM
  • Malvern Books, W. Joe’s Poetry Corner, 7PM
  • UT Poetry Center, Singing the Body: CantoMundo Poets ire’ne lara silva, Octavio Quintanilla, Celeste Guzmán Mendoza and Barrio Writers, 6PM

Dallas

  • Majestic Theatre, A Way with Words at the Majestic: An Intimate Evening with Martha and Grant, 7:30PM
  • SMU – Dallas Hall, Professor Louis Warren presents The Rising of God’s Red Son: The Making of an American Religion and the Road to Wounded Knee, 5:30PM
  • South Dallas Cultural Center, Vievee Francis Reading, 7PM
  • The Wild Detectives, Reading by Award-Winning Poet Cyrus Cassells, 7:30PM

Houston

  • 14 Pews, An Evening with Nixon (book reading & screening), 7PM
  • Blue Willow Bookshop, Connor Franta will meet and greet fans as they receive pre-signed copies of his book, WORK IN PROGRESS, 6PM
  • Brazos Bookstore, An Evening of Poetry: Kevin Prufer & Michael Morse, 7PM
  • Kaboom Books, Martha Serpas Book Release and Reading of The Diener (with Audrey Colombe), 7:30PM
  • Museum of Fine Arts Houston, MFAH/Public Poetry ARTlines Poetry Competition: Award Winners Showcase, 6:30PM

San Marcos

  • Wittliff Collections, reading with Adam Johnson, 3:30PM

Friday, April 24

Austin

  • BookPeople, PAUL OTREMBA WITH TOMAS Q. MORIN – Pax Americana & Heights of Maccu Piccu (Translated), 7PM
  • End of an Ear, Alan Schaefer signing Homegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982, 6PM
  • Malvern Books, An Evening with Daniel Wolff & Bob Ayres, 7PM
  • Resistencia Bookstore, Cafe Libro with Amanda Johnston, 7PM

Houston

  • Brazos Bookstore, James Bradley – THE CHINA MIRAGE, 7PM
  • MECA, An Evening with Houston Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Zepeda, 7:30PM
  • Murder By the Book, Duane Swierczynski will sign and discuss Canary and Dennis Tafoya will sign and discuss The Poor Boy’s Game, 6:30PM
  • River Oaks Bookstore, Chase Untermeyer reads and signs Inside Reagan’s Navy: The Pentagon Journals, 5PM
  • Rudyard’s, Gulf Coast Reading Series: April 2015, 7PM
  • Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, reading with Adam Johnson, 7:30PM

Saturday, April 25

Austin

  • B&N – Arboretum, Michael Lanning: Tony Buzbee Defining Moments, 2PM
  • grayDUCK Gallery, Fun Party reading series with poets Michael Morse and Layne Ransom, 8PM
  • Half Price Books – Southpark Meadows, local author Marge Wood signs her kids’ book The Secret Buzzard Society, 2PM
  • Malvern Books, An Evening with Lucas Jacob & Michael Anania, 7PM

Cedar Hill

  • B&N – Uptown, Kelly K. Lavender signs Beautiful Evil Winter, 11AM

Corpus Christi

  • B&N, Sarah Norkus Signing Treasure of the Battersea Bluffs, 12PM

Dallas

  • Dallas Public Library – Central, readings with poets Edyka Chilomé and R. Flowers Rivera, 2PM
  • Nasher Sculpture Center, Sebastian Paramo and Scott Davison present Booker T. Washington School for the Visual and Performing Arts annual reading, 12PM
  • Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Verse and Rhythm with Tom Brown, 7PM

Fort Worth

  • B&N – Hulen Center, Amanda Stone Norton signs Muddy Madeleine meets an Arach-A-Doo, 1PM

Houston

  • Blue Willow Bookshop, Joy Preble will discuss and sign her newest novel for teens, FINDING PARIS, 2PM
  • Murder By the Book, Terry Shames will sign and discuss The Last Death of Jack Harbin and James Anderson will sign and discuss The Never-Open Desert Diner, 4:30PM
  • Silver Street Studios, Writespace presents a Writers of Faith Reading and Open Mic, 7PM

Round Rock

  • B&N – La Frontera, Sandra Lott signs The Wind Has a Voice, 2PM

San Antonio

  • Half Price Books – Broadway, local author Jerry Williams signs his suspense thriller Graystone, 1PM
  • Half Price Books – Huebner, author Matthew Cothran signs his children’s book Always Use the BIG Spoon, 2PM
  • The Twig Book Shop, Ebony Aiken reads and signs A Ray of Hope, 11AM

Sugarland

  • B&N – First Colony Mall, Omar Shahid Hamid signing The Prisoner, 1PM
  • Half Price Books, local authors Madeleine & Britt Howard sign their parenting book Little B’s Safety Coaching, 1PM

Sunday, April 26

Austin

  • Malvern Books, An Afternoon with Issa Nyaphaga, 4PM

Dallas

  • Horchow Auditorium, Harry Bliss & Barney Saltzberg: Imaginative Illustrating, 3PM

Houston

  • Discovery Green, Space City Grand Slam, 3PM
  • Johnston Middle School, Chris Grabenstein visits Houston as part of Inprint’s “Cool Brains” series, 3PM
  • Murder By the Book, Susan Wittig Albert will sign and discuss the new China Bayles mystery, Bittersweet, 2PM

San Antonio

  • SAY Sí, La Voz de San Antonio, 3PM

The Woodlands

  • B&N – Woodlands Mall, Dana Perino: And the Good News Is… Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side, 1PM

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