• Humanities Texas presents Texas Storytime: A Family Reading Program, Midland, February 8-March 15
• FESTIBA 2018: Festival of International Books & Arts, Brownsville, February 26-March
• 11th Annual Johnson City Library Writers Conference, February 28
• 32nd Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Alpine, March 2-3
• RGV Writers Conference, McAllen, March 3

Ongoing Exhibits

• OK, I’ll Do It Myself: Narratives of Intrepid Women in the American Wilderness, Selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection, Dallas, January 18-March 28
• 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 25

Austin

• BookPeople, DAVID NEFF speaking & signing Weird Homes, 2PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam presents The Battle of the South: A Southern Slam Team Brawl, 3PM

Bryan

• Brazos County Expo Center, Jeff and Mary O Parker, authors of Explore Texas: A Nature Travel Guide, will be appearing together for a signing and to teach a session at the Texas Bluebird Society’s annual “Bluebird Season Kickoff,” 9AM

Dallas

• The Foundry Club, Writing Workshops Dallas presents: “Writing Out of the Wilderness: A Publication Seminar – Survive Rejection, Forge a Path to Publication, & Make Yourself Findable” with Blake Kimzey, 3PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, local author William Venema will sell and sign his military thriller, Death in Panama, and local author Ray Sharp will sell and sign his children’s book, After All, Dogs Are Colorblind, Aren’t They?, 1PM

Houston

• B&N – Westheimer, poet Tarif Youssef-Agha signing his memoir, The Chronicles of the Syrian Revolution, 12PM
• Brazilian Arts Foundation, O Brasil Secreto: Brazilian Art, Prose, and Poetry in Translation featuring Gabriela Maya, poetry in translation by D.A. Smith, and a Q & A with Houston-based painter Tony Paraná, 4PM
• Rudyard’s Pub, Public Poetry presents “The Passion Series” featuring Mark Irwin, 1PM

Irving

• South Irving Library, Hope Nation book launch with Angie Thomas, Ally Carter, Julie Murphy, and Dr. Rose Brock, 3PM

Monday, February 26

Dallas

• Aaron Family Jewish Community Center, Paula Shoyer discussing signing The Healthy Jewish Kitchen (includes a cooking demonstration), 7PM
• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live hosts Amy Bloom and her new novel, White Houses, 7:30PM
• Deep Vellum Book, a thrilling night of conversation as we celebrate the re-launch of Joe Milazzo’s Crepuscule W/ Nellie (with Robin Myrick, Brenda Randall, and David Eric Tomlinson), 7PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, C.C. Hunter will discuss and sign her new teen novel, THIS HEART OF MINE, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Watt Casey Jr. discussing and signing MY GUITAR IS A CAMERA, 7PM
• Main Street Theater – Rice Village, Wordsmyth Theater Co. invites you to a reading of The Secretary, by Kyle John Schmidt, followed a moderated talk-back with the playwright, 7PM

Tuesday, February 27

Austin

• BookPeople, AMY BLOOM speaking & signing White Houses, 7PM [ticketed event]
• LBJ Library, Hulu series “The Looming Tower” Preview and Conversation with Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower, actor Michael Stuhlbarg, and former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan, 6PM [a Friends event]
• Malvern Books, Malvern’s Multi-Verse Reading Series meets I Scream Social Reading Series with Dr. Joe, Annar Veröld, and Schandra Madha, 7PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring UT Spitshine, 7:15PM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Kayleen Schaefer discussing and signing TEXT ME WHEN YOU GET HOME, 7PM
• Lucky Dob Books – Casa Linda, Book Reading & Live Music with Emily Ann Peterson, 7PM

Denton

• UNT, Visiting Writers Series presents a reading with Ruth Ellen Kocher, award-winning author of seven books of poetry, 8PM

Houston

• Black Labrador, Houston Writers House meeting: Guest Speakers Leigh Owen and Julie Grob, coordinators for instruction at UH libraries, will present about the Rare Books Collections, 6:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Steve Cavanagh will sign and discuss The Plea, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• The Mix, Puroslam with DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM
• Trinity University, The Stieren Arts Enrichment Series presents Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach, 8PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Elizabeth Crook reading and signing The Which Way Tree, 5PM

Seguin

• Texas Lutheran University, Brown Distinguished Lecture: Award-winning actress Diane Guerrero, author of In The Country We Love: My Family Divided (book signing follows), 7:30PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, No es por vista: Solo la fe abre tus ojos book signing with Cash Luna, 6PM

Wednesday, February 28

Austin

• BookPeople, BONNIE SIEGLER speaking & signing Signs of Resistance [with featured panelists:  Alicia Weigel, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Deeds Not Words; Xochi Solis, artist and member of the Chulita Vinyl Club; and Rebecca McInroy host of KUT’s “News & Brews”(NPR), moderator], 7PM
• Resistencia Books, Against the Deportation Terror: A Reading & Book Signing with Rachel Ida Bluff, 7:30PM
• Terrazas Branch Library, Chicon Street Poets Presents Aural Literature, 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Rickey Pittman to read Cajun ABC and Rio Grande ABC, 7PM
• Interabang Books, Chick Lit Luncheon Kick-Off Party: The Chick Lit Luncheon is Community Partners of Dallas’ largest fundraiser of the year, raising money to support the charity’s mission of ensuring safety, restoring dignity, and inspiring hope for the abused and neglected children served by Dallas County Child Protective Services, 6PM
• SMU – Cox School of Business, Dr. Deirdre Nansen McCloskey discussing Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World, 2PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• B&N – Westheimer, No es por vista: Solo la fe abre tus ojos book signing with Cash Luna, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Mutabilis Press Reunion Reading, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Rhys Bowen will sign and discuss her stand-alone novel, The Tuscan Child, 6:30PM
• Talento Bilingue de Houston, Celebrate 20 Years of Nuestra Palabra And The Expansion of the Showcase: The Latino Agenda Voting and the Upcoming Elections, 7PM

San Antonio

• Sabina’s Coffee House, The Ocotillo Review V2.1 Release Party & Reading, 6:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Cristy Nickel discussing and signing The Code Red Revolution, 5PM

Thursday, March 1

Austin

• BookPeople, MICHAEL NOLL speaking & signing The Writer’s Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction (in conversation with Bret Anthony Johnston, Director of the Michener Center for Writers), 7PM
• BookWoman, Dirt: A Reading with C. Prudence Arceneaux, 7PM

College Station

• Texas A&M – Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, opening of the exhibition, The Angel in the Marble: Selections from the Berger-Cloonan Collection of Decorated Papers: notable paper marbler and artist Tom Leech will deliver a keynote lecture entitled, “Your Brain on Paper: Musings from a Papermaker’s Vat,” 6:30PM (live demonstration of several methods of paper decoration, including marbling, suminagashi, and paste paper, 2:30PM)

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Tayari Jones reading and signing AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE, Oprah’s latest pick, 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Scott Ziegler discussing and signing ZIEGLER COOPER: 40 YEARS OF DESIGN INSPIRATION, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Ausma Zehanat Khan will sign and discuss A Dangerous Crossing, 6:30PM

Lubbock

• Texas Tech, Creative Writing Alumni Reading: poet Michael Shewmaker, award-winning author of Penumbra, and writer, translator, and former newspaper journalist Sarah Viren, award-winning author of Mine, 8PM

San Antonio

• Artpace, Book Publication: FIRST FAMILIES OF BEXAR (an SA300 Tricentennial Event), 8:30AM
• Love Shack Boutique, Unf#ck Your Brain Book Reading & Signing with Dr. Faith Harper, 7PM
• Barshop Jewish Community Center, JCC Author & Speaker Series: Sarge presents Black Boychik, 7PM
• Trinity University, MAS Alvarez Seminar: The Canción Cannibal Cabaret with Tejana poet and playwright Amalia Ortiz, 6PM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Book signing and discussion with poet PW Covington, author of The Motor Hotels of Central Avenue, 3PM

Sugar Land

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

Victoria

• UHV, American Book Review Reading Series hosts Carlin Romano, critic-at-large for The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12PM

Friday, March 2

Austin

• BookPeople, STEVEN W. HORN speaking and signing When They Were Young, CINDY LO speaking and signing Behind the Red Velvet Curtain, and DR. LYNN LATIFAH HOBIN speaking & signing Alchemy of Awakening, 7PM
• Resistencia Books, Celebrating Words & Verses of Black Women: A Café Libro Open Mic featuring Tonya Lyles, Chandra Washington, Cindy Elizabeth, and Amanda Johnston, 7:30PM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Jeffrey A. Engel discussing and signing WHEN THE WORLD SEEMED NEW, 7PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Dr. Seuss Bus Visit: Random House Children’s Books takes Dr. Seuss on the road, 5PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Thomas Pierce reading and signing THE AFTERLIVES, 7PM
• Discovery Green, Orbit Slam Series, 6PM
• Inprint House, Inprint’s First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Reyes Ramirez, 8:30PM
• Marriott Marquis, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Friends 12th annual Encore Luncheon: Pulitzer Prize-finalist and critically-acclaimed novelist Susan Choi will be honored as HSPVA’s 2018 Distinguished Alumna, 11:30AM
• Murder By the Book, Walter Mosley will sign and discuss Down The River Unto the Sea, 6:30PM

Humble

• Humble Civic Center, Space City Preliminary Slam: Houston poets, spoken word artists, and emcees, ages 13-19, compete for a spot on the Meta-Four Houston youth slam team, ranked #5 in the world, 6PM

Midland

• B&N, Cristy Nickel signing Code Red Revolution, 4PM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Book signing and discussion with poet Vladimir Swirynsky, 1:30PM

Saturday, March 3

Austin

• ACC Highland Campus, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Layering: A Structured Approach to Revision” with Chaitali Sen, 10AM
• Austin History Center, Meet the Author: Elizabeth Clare discussing and signing The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900, 3PM
• BookPeople, story time with Susan Kralovansky, local author of Counting Colors in Texas, 10:30AM
• BookPeople, WALTER MOSLEY speaking & signing Down the River Unto the Sea, 2PM [ticketed event]
• BookWoman, Book Talk & Self-Defense Demo with Wendy L. Rouse, author of Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement, Sun Dragon Martial Arts and Self Defense, and Sensei Joy Williamson, 4PM
• Harry Ransom Center, Explore UT Open House, 11AM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Short story writing workshop led by author Bret Anthony Johnston, Director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, 3PM
• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents “Texas Bound I”: Chamblee Ferguson reads “Preface to My Autobiography” and “The Grand Old Opera” by Steve Martin; Liza Marie Gonzalez reads “Everything is Far from Here” by Cristina Henríquez; Sally Vahle reads “Cleaning Your Gun” by Laurie Lynn Drummond; Actor to be announced reads “Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows About Horses” by Bret Anthony Johnston, 7:30PM
• Interabang Books, Analicia Sotelo reading from and signing VIRGIN: POEMS, 7PM

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: “Ars Poetica—Poetry about Poetry and a Look at the Writing Life” with Annette Velasquez, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• BOLD Library, workshop: Bam! Pow! Zoom! Create Your Own Graphic Novel, 2PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Paul Petronella discussing and signing PAULIE’S, 7PM
• Half Price Books – North Oaks, Local Author Saturday: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
• Hardy & Nance Studios, Illusions of Grandeur Presents “Life Is a Circus” with poet Chris Cantu, 6:30PM
• Jungman Neighborhood Library, Public Poetry Reading Series featuring Monica Teresa Ortiz, Rebecca Oxley, Nick Lantz, and Konnor Broussard, 2PM
• Murder By the Book, Dean “Miranda” James will sign and discuss Claws for Concern, 4:30PM
• Writespace, Workshop: “How to Publish Your Work” with Joshua Foster, 9:30AM

Jasper

• Jasper Public Library, Writers’ League of Texas presents “Texas Writes” with feature presentations from authors Suzy Spencer and Reavis Z. Wortham, 10AM

Kerrville

• Wolfmueller’s Books, Elizabeth Crook reading and signing The Which Way Tree, 3PM

Lubbock

• B&N, If You Were A Commandment book signing with S.R. Jackson, and Hen House Chronicles book signing with Sue Swinson, 1PM

Port Neches

• Fleur Fine Books, Meet & Greet with Beatrice Moore Luchin, author of The Shoe Fetish fiction book trilogy, 3PM

San Antonio

• UTSA – Downtown, Poetry to Provoke, 9AM

Sunday, March 4

Abilene

• National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, the NCCIL welcomes Dr. Claudette S. McLinn, Coretta Scott King Book Awards Chair, 5:30PM [members only]

Austin

• BookPeople, STORY PIRATES presenting Stuck in the Stone Age, 2PM
• BookWoman, The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900: A Book Talk with Elizabeth Clare, 4PM
• Malvern Books, an afternoon with poets David Cavanagh, Sharon Webster, and Steven Ray Smith, 4PM

Dallas

• The Foundry Club, Writing Workshops Dallas presents: “A Writer’s Blueprint for The Social Media Game” with Whitney Davis, 3PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, local author Robert Lovelle Rooks will sell and sign his novel Filipina, and local author Francia Noble will sell and sign her book Doing Business God’s Way: Devotions for the Entrepreneur, 1PM

El Paso

• Blackbird Cantina, Xelena Gonzalez and Adriana M. Gomez perform their award-winning debut picture book, All Around Us, 5:30PM

Fort Worth

• Central Library, workshop: Bam! Pow! Zoom! Create Your Own Graphic Novel, 3PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, S Shankar reading and signing GHOST IN THE TAMARIND, 5PM
• Rudyard’s Pub, Public Poetry presents “The Passion Series” featuring John Gorman and Kevin Prufer, 1PM

Mansfield

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

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