• Anime Matsuri Convention, Houston, March 29-April 1
• 16th Annual Austin Edible Book Festival, April 1
• Mega Corazón 2018 Spoken-Word Marathon, San Antonio, April 2
• Texas Library Association Annual Conference, Dallas, April 3-6
• Dallas Lit Hop 2018, April 5-29
• 26th Annual Austin International Poetry Festival, April 5-8
• Latinx Shakespeare: A Borderlands Drama Symposium, San Antonio, April 6
• Fan Expo Dallas, April 6-8
• 30th Annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence in Book Publishing Ceremony and Dinner, Austin, April 6
• Texas Institute of Letters Annual Meeting & Banquet, San Antonio, April 6-7
• 10th Annual Lone Star LesFic Festival, Austin, April 7
• 2018 North Texas Book Festival, Denton, April 7
• 2018 Dallas Book Festival, April 7
• 6th San Antonio Book Festival, April 7

Ongoing Exhibits

• 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
• In His Own Words: The Life and Work of César Chávez (Humanities Texas), Del Rio, March 24-May 4

Sunday, April 1

Austin

• BookPeople, PAULA DISBROWE speaking & signing Food52 Any Night Grilling, 5PM

Dallas

• The Foundry Club, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: “Writing Villains as the Mirror of Heroes” with Amber Royer, 4PM
• Half Price Books – The Mother Ship, local writer and poet Michael Neil will sell and sign his poetry book Voices from a Hanging Cliff, and local writer and poet Brittany Griffiths will sell and sign her poetry collection, 1PM

Mansfield

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

Monday, April 2

Austin

• BookPeople, MICHAEL BARNES speaking & signing Indelible Austin: More Selected Histories, 7PM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Elizabeth Smart discussing and signing WHERE THERE’S HOPE, 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Avery Neal discussing and signing IF HE’S SO GREAT, WHY DO I FEEL SO BAD?, 7PM
• Houston Public Library, Wayne Wiegand presents his book The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, C.J. Box will sign and discuss the newest Joe Pickett novel, The Disappeared, 6:30PM
• Tracy Gee Community Center, SCBWI-Houston meeting: “Demons and Better Angels: Finding the Path to Our Truest Stories (and a Little Bit of Peace of Mind)” with Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, 7PM

Tuesday, April 3

Austin

• Central Presbyterian Church, Film Icon SEAN PENN presents his first novel, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff (in conversation with Douglas Brinkley), 7PM[ticketed event]
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam Semi-Finals Hosted by Tova Charles, 7PM

Canyon

• First United Bank Center, WTAMU Distinguished Lecture Series presents Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York, 7PM

Cleburne

• The Published Page Bookshop, Ribbon Cutting and Open House for The Published Page Bookshop, 10AM

Dallas

• The Adolphus, SCBWI-North Dallas meeting: School Visit Tips with Baptiste & Miranda Paul, 7PM
• B&N – SMU, Professor MARC I. STEINBERG book release for THE FEDERALIZATION OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, 5PM
• Interabang Books, Jonathan Evison reading and signing LAWN BOY, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, Service Storytelling Night honoring National Service Recognition Day, 6:30PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Thunderhead (B&N Exclusive Edition) book signing with Neal Shusterman, 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, 100 Black Men of Metropolitan Houston hosts 3rd “100 Black Men, 100 Stories” book event; the theme will be “Slavery Stories” featuring books by writers that focus on American slavery, with a discussion, Q & A, and signing (A percentage of proceeds benefits 100 Black Men of the Houston Metropolitan Area’s community programs), 7PM
• Christ Church Cathedral, JUNOT DÍAZ reading & signing his children’s picture book, Islandborn, 7PM [ticketed event]
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, William Middleton discussing and signing Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil, 6:30PM
• Rice University, Bill Fulton, Director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, will discuss his book, Talk City: A Chronicle of Political Life in An All-American Town, with Lisa Gray of the Houston Chronicle, 7PM

North Richland Hills

• North Richland Hills Library, Behind the Book: C.J. Box reading and signing The Disappeared, 1PM [ticketed reception 12PM]

Plano

• Haggard Library, C. J. Box, who will talk about his new novel, The Disappeared, 6PM

San Antonio

• City Council chambers, Investiture Ceremony of the 2018-2020 San Antonio Poet Laureate, Octavio Quintanilla, PhD, 6:30PM
• The Mix, PuroSlam Team Finals, 9:30PM

Wednesday, April 4

Austin

• BookPeople, JUNOT DÍAZ speaking & signing Islandborn, 6:30PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talks: Mitch Roth discusses Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo, 12PM
• Malvern Books, celebrate the release of Montreux Rotholtz’s collection Unmark with a reading with Rotholtz, Sid Miller, Katy Chrisler, and Stephanie Goehring, 7PM
• Resistencia Books, Writing Workshop: “Face Your Fears” with Ana Castillo, 6PM
• UT – Avaya Auditorium, The Michener Center for Writers presents a reading with award-winning short story writer and author Amy Hempel, 7:30PM

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, “Inner Moonlight,” a new monthly poetry reading series, featuring local poets Gayle Reaves-King and Dan Collins (curated by Logen Cure), 7:30PM

Fort Worth

• B&N – Hulen, Local Author Isabella Allen signing Through the Barbed Wire, 2PM
• April 4, Deep Vellum Books, Dennis Abrams reading and signing I Was Cleopatra, 7PM
• TCU, Dr. Birute Galdikas presents “Saving the Orangutans of Borneo and Their Forest Home”, followed by a book signing, 7PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• The Ballroom at Bayou Place, the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston presents Sean Penn reading and discussing his new novel, BOB HONEY WHO JUST DO STUFF, 7:30PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) will sign her newest picture book, LITTLE REE: BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, 5PM [ticketed event]
• The Houstonian Hotel, featured speaker Amy Dickinson will sign her memoir, Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things, at Houston Hospice 17th Annual Butterfly Luncheon, 11AM
• Katy Budget Books, Jesse Andrews, the New York Times bestselling-author of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, signs Munmun, 6PM
• The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Sujatha Gidla reading and discussing her first book, Ants Among Elephants, with Houston-based author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, 7PM

Hurst

• B&N – NE Mall, Thunderhead (B&N Exclusive Edition) book signing with Neal Shusterman, 7PM

Lubbock

• Lubbock Public Library, the family of Crazy Horse join author William Matson in a discussion and signing of their book, Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior’s Life and Legacy, based on the family’s oral history, 5:30PM

San Antonio

• San Antonio Garden Center, Lewis Fisher will be discussing the conservation of San Antonio in honor of the Tricentennial, followed by a book signing and sale, 12PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Matthew Longo discussing and signing The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen After 9/11, 5PM

San Marcos

• Texas State – The Wittliff Collections, Clark Fiction Prize Reading: Colson Whitehead will be awarded the 2018 award for his most recent novel, The Underground Railroad, which has also won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, followed by a reading and book signing, 6PM

Thursday, April 5

Abilene

• Grace Museum, Jason Dean of Southwestern University will deliver a public lecture on iconic publisher and book designer Carl Hertzog: “The Work of Carl Hertzog: Bearing Witness to the Western Word,” 7PM
• NCCIL, Gallery Artist Talk by award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney, 6:30PM

Austin

• BookPeople, JONATHAN EVISON speaking & signing Lawn Boy, 7PM
• BookWoman, an evening of poetry and prose with Amanda Johnston, ANOTHER WAY TO SAY ENTER, and Alexis Paige, NOT A PLACE ON ANY MAP, 7PM

Dallas

• Bowl & Barrel, Readers 2 Leaders presents Lanes 2 Literacy, 6PM
• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Friends of SMU Libraries present Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms and NEW POWER: How Movements Build, Businesses Thrive, and Ideas Catch Fire, 7PM
• SMU – McCord Auditorium, The Gilbert Lecture Series hosts Dr. Wayne A. Wiegand and “Hidden Figures in Civil Rights History: The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South,” 6PM
• The Wild Detectives, Verónica Gerber Bicecci reading and discussing Empty Set with translator Christina MacSweeney, 7:30PM

El Paso

• UTEP, 33rd Annual Literature Lecture with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner Dr. John Matteson, author of Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, 7:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Lisa See will discuss and sign her novel THE TEA GIRL OF HUMMINGBIRD LANE, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, William Middleton discussing and signing DOUBLE VISION: THE UNERRING EYE OF ART WORLD AVATARS DOMINIQUE AND JOHN DE MENIL, 7PM
• Match 2, That is Not to Say We Have No Regrets: A Reading, with Songs, Peter Turchi reading excerpts from his novel in progress with music and sound design by his son, Reed Turchi, 7:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Kevin Hearne will sign and discuss Scourged, the final Iron Druid book, 6:30PM

Midland

• B&N, author William Matson and the Edward Clown family discussing and signing Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior & Legacy, 5:30PM

Odessa

• Ellen Noël Art Museum, UTPB Sandstorm students will read accepted poems, 6PM

San Antonio

• Bibliotech East, the San Antonio Book Festival hosts award-winning children’s and YA author Jason Reynolds, 5PM
• The Library at Hotel Emma, Twig’s Evening with the Author: Nancy G. West, author of River City Dead, the fourth book in her humor mystery series, 6PM
• UTSA, First Generation Poetry Slam!, 8PM

Sugar Land

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

Friday, April 6

Abilene

• NCCIL, Join artist Jerry Pinkney and other special guests and celebrate the opening of  the “Our Voice” exhibition and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award-winning artists, 6PM

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Old Quarry, Adult Writing Workshop with Bernadette Noll, 7PM
• BookPeople, DANIEL KILDAY speaking & signing Molly Warner, School Reporter, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Austin International Poetry Festival City Read, 12:30PM
• Malvern Books, Citizen Stories: Viewing Claudia Rankine’s Citizen through the lens of Black Panther with host Joe Brundidge and guests Daria Howard and Kelene Blake-Fallon, 7PM
• Renaissance Austin Hotel, BookSpring presents 6th Annual Storybook Heroes Luncheon honoring SaulPaul, “Musician with a Message” and 2017 Austinite of the Year (literacy benefit), 11:30AM

Dallas

• First United Methodist Church of Dallas, Arts & Letters Live presents Lidia Bastianich discussing My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food with Paula Lambert, founder of Mozzarella Company and Viaggi Deliziosi, 7:30PM
• Interabang Books, Leah Stewart reading and signing WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT CHARLIE OUTLAW, 7PM
• Texas Theatre, World Affairs Council of DFW hosts writer, journalist, and winner of 10 Emmy Awards Jorge Ramos, discussing and signing Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era, 7PM

Denton

• UNT, POSTWAR FACULTY COLLOQUIUM with Deborah Jaramillo, author of Ugly War, Pretty Package: How CNN and Fox News Made the Invasion of Iraq “High Concept”, and Christopher Loss, author of Between Citizens and State: The Politics of American Education in the Twentieth Century, 9:30AM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, By a Charm and a Curse book signing with Jaime Questell, 7PM

Gilmer

• Gilmer Flowers Etc, book signing with Dana Wayne, local author of Whispers On the Wind, 2PM

Houston

• B&N – Houston, Unsuccessful Thug: One Comedian’s Journey from Naptown to Tinseltown book signing with Mike Epps, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Theodora Bishop reading and signing ON THE ROCKS, 7PM
• Inprint House, Inprint’s First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Adrienne Perry, 8:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Kathryn Casey will sign and discuss her newest book, In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• Majestic Theatre, The San Antonio Book Festival presents The MOTH Mainstage 2018, 7PM
• Witte Museum, Book Appétit: a San Antonio Book Festival Literary Feast with Paula Poundstone, 11AM

Webster

• B&N – Baybrook, J.P. MacFarland signing Hope Alive, 6PM

Saturday, April 7

Austin

• BookPeople, CHARLIE ROSE and DAN PEELER speaking & signing Dragons of Romania Book Three: Star of Doom, 2PM
• BookPeople, LEAH STEWART speaking & signing What You Don’t Know about Charlie Outlaw, 6PM
• BookWoman, Austin International Poetry Festival> GLBTQ + Woman Read, 1:30PM
• Half Price Books – North Lamar, local author H.R. Young-Lira will sell and sign her book The Truth About Sunday Minor, 1PM
• Half Price Books – South Lamar, local author Magnus Leijon will sell and sign his thriller Off Grid: A True Story, 1PM
• Malvern Books, celebrating the launch of the novel Collision Theory by Adrian Todd Zuniga, with readings from Adrian and Jason Neulander, 7PM
• Paramount Theatre, Cecile Richards speaking about her new book, Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead, 3PM
• Paramount Theatre, Chrissy Metz (Kate Pearson on the NBC family drama This Is Us) will discuss and sign her memoir, This Is Me, with Tim Gunn, 8PM
• Stateside at the Paramount Theatre, Austin Poetry Slam Off: Top 10 slam poets of Austin will vie for five spots in Austin’s nationally ranked slam team, 8PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Crafting Prose for Memoirs that Brings Your Memories to Life” with Katherine Catmull, 10AM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Jim West signs Genocide by GMO, 1PM

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project workshop: Jim Sparks Billie Holiday 103rd Birthday Celebration with blues poetry, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• Fort Worth Central Library, Wayne Wiegand discussing and signing The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism, 3PM

Houston

• B&N – Champions, Pastor John W. Gray III signing I Am Number 8, 4PM
• B&N – River Oaks, Nick Anthony Russo signing Quiver of Eros, 2PM
• Body, Mind & Soul, psychic medium and author Jane de Forest discussing and signing Love Never Dies, 2PM (followed by an Intuition Workshop and Gallery Readings with author Jane de Forest, 3PM)
• Brazos Bookstore, This spring, Inprint awarded 10 prizes ranging from $1,000 – $10,000 to students studying creative writing in Houston. Winners of these prizes will give short readings from their work, followed by a reception, 5PM
• Half Price Books – North Oaks, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
• Murder By the Book, Sonali Dev will sign and discuss A Distant Heart, 4:30PM
• Williams Sonoma Highland Village, Giada De Laurentiis celebrates the launch of her new book, Giada’s Italy, 1PM
• Writespace, Workshop: “How to Be Genuinely Funny in Your Writing” with Adam Holt, 9:30AM

Irving

• South Irving Library, El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), 2PM

Laredo

• Cafe Dolce Del Mar, Laredo Border Slam writing workshop, 11AM

San Antonio

• Kathleen Sommers, Lonn Taylor signing Marfa for the Perplexed, 1PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Lance Alston signing Wealthfulness: Simple Steps to Financial Health and Happiness, 2PM

• Magnolia Market, Chrissy Metz (Kate Pearson on the NBC family drama This Is Us) will sign her memoir, This Is Me, 1PM

Sunday, April 8

Austin

• BookPeople, LAUREN HILGERS speaking & signing Patriot Number One, 2PM
• Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged: Austin International Poetry Festival City Read, 1PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Drugs & Fantasies,” 4PM
• Malvern Books, celebrating the release of award-winning author Anna Maria Hong’s first poetry collection, Age of Glass, and her novella, H & G, with readings by Hong and award-winning poet Roger Reeves, 6:30PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live hosts Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels, and Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border, 2:30PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Rivers and Beasts book launch, 2PM
• The Foundry Club, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: “How to Self-Edit: 50 Essential Tips for Honing Every Manuscript” with Blake Atwood, 3PM
• Half Price Books – The Mother Ship, local author Rose Chivers will sell and sign her book Faith Talk Fear Walk: Life Lessons and Reflections Along the Journey to Starve Fear and Embrace Faith, and local author Becky Villareal will sell and sign copies of her children’s book Gianna the Great, 1PM
• Williams Sonoma NorthPark Center, Giada De Laurentiis will celebrate the launch of her new book, Giada’s Italy, 1PM

Fort Worth

• Half Price Books – Ridgmar, local authors Trevor Griffin, Phill Hampton, and Geoffrey Vibert will sell and sign their book, The 6 Phases of Building Wealth: The Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Financial Freedom, 1PM

Houston

• The Ballroom at Bayou Place, Cecile Richards speaking about her new book, MAKE TROUBLE: STANDING UP, SPEAKING OUT, AND FINDING THE COURAGE TO LEAD –– MY LIFE STORY (in conversation with Commissioner Rodney Ellis), 3PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Stephanie Elizondo Griest discussing and signing ALL THE AGENTS AND SAINTS, 5PM
• Cafe Brasil, The Flamenco Poets Society & Café Brasil present an afternoon of storytelling, flamenco guitar, and Cante, 6PM
• Discovery Green, WITS presents 2018 Space City Grand Slam, 3PM

San Antonio

• Headwaters at Incarnate Word, Art of the Sacred Texas Springs: Poetry Reading & Closing Ceremony, 4:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Seamus McGraw signing A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis, 12PM

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