• Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, McAllen, April 26-29
• Austin SCWBI 2018 Writers & Illustrators Working Conference, April 28-29
• Austin Short Short Fiction Festival, April 29
• Writefest, Houston, April 30-May 6
• Austin Book Awards, May 4
• Knot Your Average Folk Tale: WTAMU’s 2018 Storytelling Festival, Canyon, May 4
• Texas Frightmare Weekend, DFW Airport, May 4-6
• New Fiction Confab 2018, Austin, May 5
• Free Comic Book Day, various locations, May 5
• Voices de la Luna 21st Annual Texas Voices Award, San Antonio, May 6

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 29

Austin

• Malvern Books, celebrate the launch of Loren Stell’s new poetry collection, Topknot Analysis, with readings from Loren, and David Meischen will read from his memoir in progress, Crossing the Nueces: Reflections on a Divided Life, 4PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books – The Mother Ship, local author JB Bean will sell and sign Mister’s Garden, and local author Christine Crockett Smith will sell and sign 18 Master Values: Be the Parent You Wish You’d Had, 1PM
• The Kessler Theatre, Dallas Lit Hop 2018 headliner: Wordspace Dallas presents Walter Mosley – Social Commentary, Storytelling and Selected Readings, 8PM

Edinburg

• Museum of South Texas History, Sunday Speaker Series: Gerald A. Padilla discussing Pedro Larez and Aztectopia, 2PM

San Antonio

• SAY Sí, Voices, Vibes, and Visions with Martha Grant, 11:30AM
• Tobin Center, an afternoon with David Sedaris featuring all-new stories and observations as well as an audience Q&A and book signing, 3PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Zane Carson Carruth signing The World’s First Tooth Fairy… Ever, 12PM

Watauga

• Half Price Books, local photographer and author Farah Janjua sell and sign her photography book, Jerusalem – Three Souls in One City, 1PM

Monday, April 30

Amarillo

• Central Branch Library, “Genealogy: Family Stories Spark Imagination” with author Jodi Thomas, 6:30PM

Austin

• BookPeople, Spike Gillespie speaking & signing The Tao of Bob, 7PM

Dallas

• SMU – McFarlin Auditorium, Arts & Letters Live presents David Sedaris, author of Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977–2002, 7:30PM

Houston

• Midtown Arts and Theater Center, POETRY AND MUSIC: SARAH ROTHENBERG AND ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, 7:30PM
• Murder By the Book, T. Felder Dorn will sign and discuss The Downfall of Galveston’s May Walker Burleson: Texas Society Marriage & Carolina Murder Scandal, 6:30PM
• St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Lawrence Wright reading from his new book, GOD SAVE TEXAS: A JOURNEY INTO THE SOUL OF THE LONE STAR STATE (in conversation with Mimi Swartz), 7PM
• University of Houston – MD Anderson Library, Workshop: Filling in the Gaps: Historical Research in Creative Writing with Claire Fuqua Anderson, followed by a reading, 2PM

Tuesday, May 1

Austin

• BookPeople, MILES WILSON speaking & signing Woodswork, 7PM
• Malvern Books, a reading from participants of the Free Minds writing workshop: students will share their original works of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, 6PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam NEW SHIT Slam featuring Diamond Mason and Rayner Shyne, 7PM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Nina Lorez Collins discussing and signing WHAT WOULD VIRGINIA WOOLF DO?, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, Tracy Everbach and Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, co-editors of Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology and Harassment, will be joined by local journalists to discuss issues and best practices for dealing with the patriarchy on the Internet, 7:30PM

El Paso

• The Black Orchid Lounge, BorderSenses presents a Barbed Wire Open Mic, 8PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookstore, Jessica Day George will discuss and sign her novel THE ROSE LEGACY, 5PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Joe Holley discussing and signing HURRICANE SEASON, 7PM
• Midtown Arts and Theater Center, POETRY AND MUSIC: SARAH ROTHENBERG AND ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, 7:30PM
• Royal Sonesta Houston Hotel, The Hope and Healing Center & Institute will present the 7th annual Chrysalis Award Luncheon featuring keynote speaker Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author of No One Cares About Crazy People, 11:15AM

Kilgore

• East Texas Oil Museum, Texas oilman and author Gene Ames, Jr. signing A Wildcatter’s Trek: Love, Money and Oil, 2PM

San Antonio

• The Mix, PuroSlam, 9:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, James Loyd and David Matheson reading and signing Starter, 5PM

Wednesday, May 2

Austin

• BookPeople, NINA COLLINS speaking & signing What Would Virginia Woolf Do? (in conversation with Amanda Eyre Ward), 7PM
• BookWoman, Mindy Reed reading and signing Women of a Certain Age, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talks: author and anthropologist Daniel Gelo discussing Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier, 12PM
• Malvern Books, celebrate the release of the Spring 2018 edition of Austin Community College’s journal, The Rio Review, 7PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Marfa For the Perplexed with Lonn Taylor and Mark Lamster, 7PM
• Interabang Books, David Nelson Wren discussing and signing ARDROSSAN: THE LAST GREAT ESTATE ON THE PHILADELPHIA MAIN LINE, 3PM
• Latino Cultural Center, Wordspace Dallas presents International Impressions: YURI HERRERA-GUTIERREZ, award-winning author of Signs Preceding the End of the World, 7:30PM
• Moody Performance Hall, Storytelling: Oral Fixation presents “Broken Record,” 8PM
• The Wild Detectives, Inner Moonlight Reading Series: In keeping with the Women Galore events for May, we have two incredible women featured this month: Lauren Brazeal (Gutter) and Stevie Edwards (Sadness Workshop), followed by an open mic available to women only, 7:30PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Blue Willow Bookstore, Peter Brown will discuss and sign his novel THE WILD ROBOT ESCAPES, 5PM
• Brazos Bookstore, An evening of poetry with Carol Moldaw & J.S.A. Lowe, 7PM
• George R. Brown Convention Center, Storytelling: The Moth in Houston: GrandSLAM Championship, 7PM

Thursday, May 3

Austin

• BookPeople, JOE GROSS speaking & signing Fugazi’s in on the Kill Taker (33 1/3 #129), 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Obert Skye discussing and signing Wizard for Hire, 7PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Ladies Lazarus Poetry Reading, 7:30PM
• The Wild Detectives, Leni Zumas reading and signing Red Clocks, 7:30PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Katherine Applegate signs Endling, 9AM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Tom Perrotta reading and signing MRS. FLETCHER, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Lisa Jewell will sign and discuss Then She Was Gone, 6:30PM

Lubbock

• Texas Tech, Creative Writing Reading Series presents Katie Cortese, TTU creative writing instructor, fiction editor for Iron Horse Literary Review, and author of Make Way for Her and Other Stories, 7:30PM

Plano

• Haggard Library, Ace Atkins discussing and signing Robert B. Parker’s Old Black Magic, 7PM [ticketed reception 6PM]

Sugar Land

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

Victoria

• UH-Victoria, American Book Review reading series presents Michael Joyce, 12PM

Friday, May 4

Austin

• BookPeople, JOHN MOORE speaking & signing Undocumented (in conversation with Ricardo Ainslie), 7PM
• BookWoman, poet Lisa Moore launches 24 Hours of Men with readings from special guests Chad Bennett, Amanda Johnston, Cindy St. John, and Abe Louise Young, 7PM
• Half Price Books – N. Lamar, local author Dr. Ronald E. Bell II will sell and sign Reflections of God’s Provision from Genesis: A 30-Day Devotional, 1PM
• Malvern Books, celebrate the launch of a new issue of Echo Literary Magazine, 7PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Academy Award and Tony Award–winning actress Marcia Gay Harden, author of The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers, 7:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Reception: Meet the Agents: Writefest 18 Literary Agents Panel and Q&A, 7PM
• Inprint House, Inprint’s First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Marie Brown, 8:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Ace Atkins will sign and discuss Robert B. Parker’s Old Black Magic, 6:30PM

McAllen

• B&N – Palms Crossing, Local author Iona Cordero reads FireFighters to the Rescue with special guests the McAllen Fire Department, 10AM

San Antonio

• Imagine Books & Records, Dr. Kenneth Womack signing Maximum Volume with music by Vintage Pictures, 8PM

Saturday, May 5

Austin

• ACC – Highland Campus, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Pacing the Plot of Your Novel or Short Story” with John Pipkin, 9AM
• BookPeople, JOHN SHEPPHIRD speaking and signing Bottom Feeders, and RICKY BUSH speaking & signing The Oaxacan Kid, 2PM
• BookPeople, DONNALEE OVERLY speaking & signing The Trinity Knot, 5PM
• BookWoman, Andrea Eames reading and signing Rennies, 11AM
• Half Price Books – N. Lamar, local author Henry Nash will sell and sign Integrity Does Matter: Living a Life Above Reproach, 1PM
• Malvern Books, celebrate the launch of a new issue of Hothouse Literary Journal, 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Brittany Pate signs Fire’s Kiss, 2PM
• Interabang Books, Special story time: Brenda Maier reading THE LITTLE RED FORT, 10:30AM

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project workshop: “El Año Perro, Year of Reconnections” with Karla Nabil, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, 10th Anniversary Celebration Dinner, 5PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookstore, Newbery Award-winning author Katherine Applegate will discuss and sign her novel ENDLING, 11AM
• Brazos Bookstore, Ana Emilia Felker reading and signing AUNQUE LA CASA SE DERRUMBE, 7PM
• 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, Christina Lynch will sign and discuss The Italian Party, 4:30PM
• Ring Neighborhood Library, Public Poetry Reading Series featuring Robin Davidson, Paige Quiñones, Katherine Hoerth, and Daniel Peña, 2PM
• Space 25 Gallery, join writer and activist Jasminne Méndez for a reception and reading as she launches her new book, Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e, 6PM

Lewisville

• Lake Lewisville Environmental Learning Area, Culture & Cocktails on the Prairie with a poetry reading by David Taylor (a Fundraiser benefitting LLELA), 5PM

Lubbock

• B&N, Unconditional: Ever Changing Never Ending Family Love book signing with local author Gloria Davis, 2PM

San Antonio

• San Antonio Country Club, Lewis Fisher will join the Jamestowne Society chapter in San Antonio to discuss his newest book, Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Shane Crown signing Seeing Light With Darkness, 11AM

Sugar Land

• Fort Bend County Library – Sugar Land Branch, Ancient Empires Series: Greece with former architecture professor Sheba Akhtar, author of Of Colour and Form, 2PM

Sunday, May 6

Austin

• BookPeople, MICHAEL FRY speaking & signing How to Be a Supervillain: Born to Be Good, 2PM
• BookPeople, JENNY MOLBERG speaking and signing Marvels of the Invisible, and ERIN ADAIR-HODGES speaking & signing Let’s All Die Happy, 6PM
• BookWoman, B.C. Hatch reading and signing Beyond Pretty, 2PM
• Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged Open Mic with Special Guest Maria Palacios, 1PM
• Paramount Theatre, Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, interviewed by Evan Smith of The Texas Tribune, 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Dreux Antoine signs Soulful Chef: Cookbook Series Volume I, 1PM
• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live: Naomi Shihab Nye will debut a new poem inspired by a work of art in the DMA’s collection and juxtapose art in the collection with a live reading of her poetry, 3:30PM
• The Foundry Club, Writing Workshop Dallas seminar: “Claiming Your Territory: Fiction or Memoir?” with Eden Elieff, 3PM
• Half Price Books – The Mother Ship, local author Earlina Green will sell and sign The Beginner’s Guide to Finding Your Brave, and chef/co-host of PBS’s “Growing a Greener World” Nathan Lyon will sell and sign Great Food Starts Fresh: Simple, Innovative Cuisine Featuring Fresh, Seasonal Ingredients, 1PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Paul and Christiane Galvani discussing and signing LOST RESTAURANTS OF HOUSTON, 5PM
• First Christian Church, AFA Spring Concert Series Featuring Houston Youth Poet Laureate Rukmini Kalamangalam, 5PM

Mansfield

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

Plano

• B&N – Legacy West, Marshawn Evans Daniels signs Believe Bigger, 3PM

Richland

• George Memorial Library, Graphic Novel Day presented by Bedrock City Comic Company, including special guest appearances and book signings by popular graphic novelists Mike Maihack, Charise Harper, and George O’Connor, 1:30PM

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, Vincent Di Blasi signing Creating Cassandra, 2PM

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