• Humanities Texas presents Texas Storytime: A Family Reading Program, Midland, February 8-March 15
• 122nd Annual Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Marcos, March 8-10
• The Medieval World in a Spanish Context, Dallas, March 8-9
• 33rd Annual Texas Storytelling Festival, Denton, March 8-11
• Houston Writers House Spring Event: How to Write a Bestseller with Robert Dugoni, Bellaire, March 10

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, 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

Monday, March 5

Austin

• BookPeople, JACQUELINE JONES speaking & signing Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Community College Creative Writing Department’s Literary Coffeehouse, hosted by John Herndon, followed by open mic, 7PM
• UT, Joynes Reading Room Literary Speaker Series: award-winning poet Tarfia Faizullah, 7PM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, C. C. Hunter reading and signing THIS HEART OF MINE, 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, An Evening with Kayla Cagan (PIPER PERISH) and Marie Marquardt (DREAM THINGS TRUE), 7PM
• Tracy Gee Community Center, Houston SCWBI meeting: “Presentation Skills for Authors & Illustrators” with Caroline Leech, 7PM

Huntsville

• Sam Houston State University, Jodi Thomas speaking on “Writing Your Own Destiny” for Women’s History Month

Odessa

• UTPB Library, Public Lecture: Professor Dominic Boyer and Associate Professor Cymene Howe present “What Is Energy Humanities”, part of “Boom or Bust: A Collection and Study of Energy Narratives”, 12PM

Tuesday, March 6

Austin

• St. Edward’s University, The Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series: poet TARFIA FAIZULLAH is the author of Registers of Illuminated Villages and Seam, 6PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam Grand Slam Finals Hosted by Glori B., 7PM

Dallas

• Temple Emanu-El, Arts & Letters Live hosts Maria Shriver discussing her new book, I’ve Been Thinking. . .: Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life, with Krys Boyd of KERA’s “Think”, 7:30PM

El Paso

• The Black Orchid Lounge, Barbed Wire Open Mic featuring Jesus Gomez, Jr., Rebel Agnostic of Ribo Flavin, 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Stephanie Wittels Wachs discussing and signing EVERYTHING IS HORRIBLE AND WONDERFUL, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex, Worth Repeating storytellers honor St Patrick’s day with stories of luck, both good and bad, 7PM
• The Mix, Puroslam with DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM
• Presidio Gallery, Lecture and Book Signing with Bill Neeley, author of A TEJANO KNIGHT: THE QUEST OF DON JUAN SEGUIN, 6pm
• The Twig Book Shop, J.L. Wright reading and signing Unadoptable Joy: A Memoir in Poetry and Prose, 5PM

Wednesday, March 7

Austin

• BookPeople, JOE HOLLEY and PETER BROWN speaking & signing Hometown Texas, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talks: author and historian Kyle Shelton discusses how highways have driven every aspect of Houston’s postwar growth in Power Moves: Transportation, Politics and Development in Houston, 12PM
• LBJ Library, a conversation between Joseph Califano, Jr. and Bob Schieffer, who will be discussing Califano’s new book, Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act, 6PM [a Friends event]
• Malvern Books, a reading from poets Heather Tone, Grace Ortman, and Joanna Kaminski, 7PM

Dallas

• Aaron Family JCC, Robert Gandt discussing and signing Angels in the Sky, 7PM
• SMU – Tower Center, Paul B. Stares discusses his new book, Preventive Engagement: How America Can Avoid War, Stay Strong, and Keep the Peace, 12PM

Denton

• UNT, Dr. Ivy Schweitzer (Dartmouth) presents “Writing and Beyond in Indigenous North America: The Occom Network”, 3:30PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Katy Budget Books, Adult Spelling Bee Benefiting Creech Elementary, which was flooded by Hurricane Harvey, 5PM

Odessa

• UTPB, Creative nonfiction writing workshop with Dr. Jason Lagapa, part of “Boom or Bust: A Collection and Study of Energy Narratives”, 7PM

San Antonio

• OLLU, “Mujeres en Acción/Women in Action: Grassroots Scholars & Intellectuals in San Antonio” symposium featuring Sr. Diane Langford, Dr. Norma Elia Cantú, and spoken-word artist Ariana Brown, 6PM [an #SA300 tricentennial event]
• Witte Museum, San Antonio Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Hope For Humanity Benefit: Jennifer Teege, who is half-Nigerian, half-German, speaking about the memoir she and co-author Nikola Sellmair wrote, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, 6PM

Thursday, March 8

Austin

• BookPeople, BRAD PARKS speaking and signing Closer Than You Know, and CHAD ZUNKER speaking & signing Shadow Shepherd, 7PM
• BookWoman, Second Thursday OPEN MIC featuring Katrinka Moore, 7:15PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night: Sandra Fox Murphy (That Beautiful Season) and J. Michael Dolan (The Trumpets of Jericho: A Tale of the Holocaust), 7PM
• UT, Joynes Reading Room Literary Speaker Series: award-winning author Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, 7PM

Burnet

• The Herman Brown Free Library, Coffee Talks Series VII: Karen Casey Fitzjerrell reading and signing Forgiving Effie Beck, 1:30PM

Dallas

• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Friends of the SMU Libraries present Mark Weinberg and MOVIE NIGHTS WITH THE REAGANS, 7PM [RSVP-required author reception 6PM]
• SMU – Fondren Library, Friends of the SMU Libraries and the DeGolyer Library invite you to an evening of murder, mystery, and mirth as distinguished professor of art history emerita Alessandra Comini solves The Kandinsky Conundrum, her latest Megan Crispi mystery series novel, 5:30PM
• The Wild Detectives, Despina Stratigakos will present her book Where Are the Women Architects? (in conversation with Jessica Stewart Lendvay), 7:30PM

Fort Worth

• Central Library, Janice Branch Tracy discussing Adopted in Texas: The Story of Homestead, 6PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, The Case for Jamie book signing with Brittany Cavallaro, 7PM

Houston

• B&N – Champions, Rise and Grind: How to Out-Perform, Out-Work, and Out-Hustle the Competition book signing with Daymond John, 7PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Special Story Time: Mary Sullivan reads her picture book, Nobody’s Duck, 10AM
• Brazos Bookstore, Elise Broach reading and signing MY PET WANTS A PET, 4PM
• Murder By the Book, Patricia Briggs will sign and discuss the newest book in the Alpha and Omega series, Burn Bright, and Anne Bishop will sign and discuss Lake Silence, the first in her World of the Others series, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• Trinity University, Gemini Ink Autograph Series: Margaret Atwood, world-renowned novelist and author of The Handmaid’s Tale, will present a public reading, Q&A, and book signing, 7PM

San Marcos

• Texas State – Alkek Library, The Wittliff presents PEN USA-winning authors Steve Davis (the Wittliff’s literary curator) and Bill Minutaglio discussing their acclaimed new book, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD (moderated by Dr. Mark Busby), 3:30PM

Sugar Land

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

Webster

• B&N – Baybrook, Meet Leonard Zwelling, M.D., author of Congressional Malpractice: Is Affordable Healthcare A Right Or A Privilege?, 4PM

Friday, March 9

Austin

• Malvern Books, “Borderless: Conversations on Art, Action, and Justice”: Chaitali Sen (The Pathless Sky) interviews scientist and author Juli Berwald (Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone), 7PM

Denton

• Wine Squared, Spiderweb Salon hosts Coast to Coast: live music plus Colin Winnette and his frightening new book, The Job of the Wasp, 7PM

Houston

• Murder By the Book, Brad Parks will sign and discuss Closer Than You Know, 6:30PM
• St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Steven Pinker reading from his book ENLIGHTENMENT NOW, 7PM

Irving

• West Irving Library, Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre discussing and signing their latest YA book, Honor Among Thieves, 7PM

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, Rise and Grind: How to Out-Perform, Out-Work, and Out-Hustle the Competition book signing with Daymond John, 7PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Ben Longoria reading and signing The Hound of Endtown and Hello Defiant, 5PM

Saturday, March 10

Arlington

• Half Price Books – South Cooper, local author Sheryl Grace will sell and sign her novel He Calls Her Blue, 3PM

Austin

• Apanas Coffee & Beer, NeoSoul Poetry Slam featuring 310 Brown Street, 6PM

Corpus Christi

• Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi Literary Reading Series: New York Times best-selling writer Ron Rash will read from recent works, answer audience questions, and sign books, 7PM

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop:”Making Revisions” with Robin Scofield, 12:45PM

Houston

• Baker-Ripley Neighborhood Center, WITS 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, 10AM
• Brazos Bookstore, Spring Break Kickoff: Houston author and 5th generation Texan Melanie Chrismer entertains with her Western tall tale, PHOEBE CLAPSADDLE, and teaches some roping skills, 10:30AM
• 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, Saralyn Richard will sign and discuss Murder In The One Percent, 1PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Paul Petronella discussing and signing Paulie’s: Classic Italian Cooking in the Heart of Houston’s Montrose District, 7PM

Richardson

• Chocolate Angel, Fresh Fiction Afternoon Tea Book Club with debut author Amber Royer, 3:30PM

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, Special Story Time with Patrice Loge, author of The Learning Buddies, 12PM
• Dead Tree Books, Meet the Author: Brian Mata, 2PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Lee Wedlake signing Whisper From the Alamo, 11AM

Sugar Land

• First Colony Branch Library, Houston Writers Guild workshop: “Enhance Plot w/Theme” with Fern Brady, 1PM
• Half Price Books, local author Keya Briscoe will sell and sign her parenting book Lessons for our Daughters, 1PM

Webster

• B&N, Gulf Coast Poets meeting featuring Savannah Blue, 10:30AM

Sunday, March 11

Austin

• BookWoman, Sarah Webb launches her new book of poetry, Red Riding Hood’s Sister, 4PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Like Night and Day”, 4PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Rise and Grind: How to Out-Perform, Out-Work, and Out-Hustle the Competition book signing with Daymond John, 3PM
• The Foundry Club, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: “Writing Characters People Get Attached To” with Amber Royer, 4PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, local author Jay Gibson will sell and sign his book Men = Responsibility: What It All Means and Why Men, Young and Old, Should Always Embrace Being Responsible, and local author Leonard Critcher will sell and sign his book Welcome to the Metroplex!, a complete guide to DFW, 1PM

El Paso

• Ardovino’s Desert Crossing, Kermit “Kim” Schweidel discussing and signing Folly Cove: A Smuggler’s True Tale of the Pot Rebellion, 5:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Madame Nielsen reading and signing THE ENDLESS SUMMER, 5PM
• EQ Heights Coffee & Social House, Spider Road Press presents “A Celebration of Women’s Words” in honor of Women’s History Month, 3PM
• Lawndale Art Center, a conversation with “Intersections and Interactions on Language” artist Daniela Antelo and writer Georgeanne Boardman, 1PM
• Murder By the Book, Rachel Caine and Ann Aguire will sign and discuss Honor Among Thieves, 2PM

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