• Lone Star Zine Fest, Austin, September 2
• Langdon Review Weekend, Granbury, September 5-8
• 30th Annual National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration, Lubbock, September 7-9
• Hay Festival – Bogotá 39, Dallas, September 8
• STAPLE! Independent Media Expo, Austin, September 8-9

Ongoing Exhibits

• Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene, June 7-September 30
• “Dawoud Bey: Forty Years in Harlem” photography exhibition (from the book Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply), Austin, August 29-December 8
• The Texas Liberator: Witness to the Holocaust exhibition (from the book The Texas Liberators: Veteran Narratives from World War II), Houston, September 7-October 28

Sunday, September 2

Dallas

• Half Price Books – Mother Ship, local author George Dalton will sell and sign Following The Dream, the third book in his Western Dream series, and local author Sunni Rain will sell and sign her novel, After Winter Spring Must Come, 1PM

Edinburg

• Museum of South Texas History, Sunday Speaker Series: “Texas or Territory? The 1850 Brownsville Separatist Movement” featuring Joseph Fox, 2PM

Mansfield

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

Monday, September 3

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Valerie Felder discussing and signing Life in Sturdy Stitches: The Making of a Close-Knit Family, 4PM

Tyler

• Half Price Books, 1st anniversary celebration: live music, birthday cake and a donation to The Literacy Council of Tyler, all day

Tuesday, September 4

Austin

• BookPeople, KYLE LONGLEY speaking & signing LBJ’s 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America’s Year of Upheaval, 7PM
• Hill’s Cafe, Hearsay Poetry Night, 8PM
• The North Door, 5th anniversary party for Owen Egerton’s One Page Salon, 7:30PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam: New Shit Slam featuring Horn Colt Comedy, 7:15PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Luisa Muradyan reading from and signing her new poetry collection, AMERICAN RADIANCE, 7PM
• Tracy Gee Community Center, Houston SCBWI meeting: National SCBWI Conference Review – Panel Discussion by Attendees, 7PM

Dallas

• Klyde Warren Park, The Wild Detectives hosts the Locals Only book club featuring Will Clarke and The Neon Palm of Madame Melançon, 6PM

San Antonio

• The Mix, PuroSlam Season Opener, 9:30PM

Wednesday, September 5

Austin

• BookPeople, ALEX BEARD speaking & signing The Lying King, 6:30PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talks: Ricardo Palacios discussing Tío Cowboy, 12PM
• The Christian-Green Gallery, exhibition launch party: Dawoud Bey will be signing copies of his book, DAWOUD BEY: Seeing Deeply, 5PM
• Malvern Books, an evening with Elliott Turner, who will be reading from The Night of the Virgin, his award-winning debut novel, 7PM

Dallas

• Checkered Past Winery, Dallas Poetry Slam presents El Jefe: Workshop, 6:30PM
• SMU – McCord Auditorium, God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State with Pulitzer-Prize Winning author Lawrence Wright, 6PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, YA author event with Kendare Blake, Katharine McGee, and Sara Raasch, 7PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write about Now hosts HPF Performance Poet of the Year Finals featuring Gawd Slam, 7:30PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Roger D. Hodge will discuss and sign his book TEXAS BLOOD, 7PM
• MATCH Houston, LIREC Movement Creative & Invisible Lines Present A Houston Fringe Festival Event: Maraposa with “Mariposa: The Poetry and Chrysalis of Sharon Olson,” 7:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Joseph G. Munisteri discussing and signing Born in Rome: From Italy to the Energy Empire, 5PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Celia Aily Carranza discussing and signing The Golden Butterfly: My Journey to Heaven on Earth, 5PM

Thursday, September 6

Abilene

• Main Library, Al Pickett discussing and signing Brother’s Keeper: The Story of the 2009 Abilene High State Championship and Mighty, Mighty Matadors, 6:30PM

Addison

• Metrocare, Writer’s Garret workshop: Truth or Fiction: An Introduction to Prose for Veterans and Military Families, 6PM

Austin

• BookPeople, RICHARD KADREY speaking and signing Hollywood Dead, NICKY DRAYDEN speaking and signing Temper, and ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT speaking and signing Foundryside (moderated by Daniel A. Cohen), 7PM
• Malvern Books, a reading from final-year students in The Michener Center for Writers and the New Writers Project M.F.A. programs in creative writing at UT Austin, 7PM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, James Forman discussing and signing LOCKING UP OUR OWN, 7PM
• SMU – Underwood Law Library, Irving L. Goldberg Endowed Lecture Series presents Professor James Forman Jr., 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, 12:15PM

Denton

• Spiderweb HQ, Zine Workshop: Reasons to F@*&ing Vote: Vol. 1!, 6PM

Edinburg

• Dustin Michael Sekula Memorial Library, Write Stuff Club’s Fourth Annual Reading Presentation, 6PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, Welcome Wilson signing Always Welcome: Nine Decades of Great Friends, Great Times & (Mostly) Great Deals, 5PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Leonardo Gonzalez reading and signing NANAS, 7PM
• MATCH Houston, LIREC Movement Creative & Invisible Lines Present A Houston Fringe Festival Event: Maraposa with “Mariposa: The Poetry and Chrysalis of Sharon Olson,” 7:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Peter Blauner will sign and discuss Sunrise Highway, 6:30PM

Lubbock

• Texas Tech, TTU Creative Writing Reading Series presents William Wenthe, Jessica Smith, and Robby Taylor, 7:30PM

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, Author and illustrator Don Tate Book reading and signing Strong as Sandow, 7PM
• The Barshop JCC, The Author & Speaker Series presents Katherine Reynolds Lewis, author of The Good News about Bad Behavior, 7PM

Sugar Land

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

Friday, September 7

Austin

• BookPeople, KENDRA FORTMEYER speaking & signing Hole in the Middle (co-sponsored by the New Writers Project), 7PM
• BookWoman, H.R. Young-Lira & Susan Post of Bookwoman partner for an evening of dialogue on a myriad of topics surrounding the life and times of the survivor on whom the fictionalized memoir The Truth About Sunday Minor is based. The real-life Sunday Minor will attend, 7PM
• Malvern Books, celebrate the recent release of Hazem Fahmy’s debut chapbook, Red//Jild//Prayer, winner of the 2017 Diode Editions Contest. Hazem will be joined by Jasmine C. Bell, Jordan Cooley, and Mark Cugini, 7PM

Dallas

• Wyly Theatre, Interabang Books presents an evening with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to celebrate the release of her two new children’s books, Turning Pages: My Life Story (available in English and Spanish) and The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor, 6:30PM

Harker Heights

• B&N, Robert Lovelle Rooks reading and signing Filipina, 5PM

Houston

• Inprint House, First Friday Reading Series featuring poet Michael J. Galko, 8:30PM

Saturday, September 8

Austin

• ACC Highland, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Book Publicity and Marketing 101” with Colleen Devine Ellis, 10AM
• Austin Public Library, SARAH BIRD speaking & signing Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen, 7PM [ticketed event]
• BookPeople, Austin SCBWI Monthly Meeting: All About Agents Panel, 10AM
• First Baptist Church, BookPeople presents SONIA SOTOMAYOR in conversation with Mariana Montejano, 2PM [ticketed event]

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Dellandra Adams signing Twenty-three Years of Lessons, 2PM
• Downtown – Texas Stage, Award-winning author Ben Fountain discusses his forthcoming book, Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution (part of Texas Monthly’s The Edge of Texas Fest), 12PM
• Interabang Books, Sean Easley presents THE HOTEL BETWEEN, 1PM
• Preston Royal Library, Poetry Society of Texas meeting featuring Steve Sanders, 2:30 PM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: “The Eighth of September” with Donna Snyder, 12:45PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, The poet Atticus will discuss and sign his new book of poetry, THE DARK BETWEEN STARS, 3PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Samantha Clark reading and singing THE BOY, THE BOAT, THE BEAST, and Jennifer Ziegler reading and signing REVENGE OF THE TEACHER’S PETS, 3PM
• Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Cell Lust | a body: Emilý Æyer and Traci Lavois Thiebaud partner with music, poetry, light installation and animated collage, 2PM
• 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, Ashley Weaver will sign and discuss An Act of Villainy (joined by her editor Catherine Richards for a Q&A), 4:30PM
• Writespace, Workshop: “Processing Harvey through Writing” with Leslie Contreras Schwartz, 10AM

Pflugerville

• Wild Magnolias, NeoSoul Poetry Slam TGS Qualifier featuring Houston VIP Slam, 8PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Alex Beard signing The Lying King, 11AM

Webster

• B&N, Gulf Coast Poets meeting featuring Johnathan Moody, 10:30AM

Sunday, September 9

Austin

• BookWoman, Naomi Shihab Nye will read from her recent collection of poems, Voices in the Air, followed by a book signing, 3PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Out of Tune,” 4PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents artist and activist Kimothy Joy discussing and signing That’s What She Said, 4PM (preceded by a portraiture workshop at 1:30 PM)
• Half Price Books – Mother Ship, local author Leah Frazier will sell and sign her motivational book The Success Factor: Stories from Successful Entrepreneurs who Thrived After Facing Failure!, and local author Sharon Hudgins will sell and sign her cookbook T-Bone Whacks and Caviar Snacks: Cooking with Two Texans in Siberia and the Russian Far East, 1PM
• Interabang Books, Alex Beard presents THE LYING KING, 1PM
• Omni Dallas at Park West, Jane Austin Society Fall meeting: lecture and discussion celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication of Persuasion, 2PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Meg Cabot reading and signing ROYAL CROWN, 5PM
• Murder By the Book, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White will sign and discuss The Glass Ocean, and Kristina McMorris will sign and discuss Sold On A Monday, 2PM

Richmond

• George Memorial Library, Fort Bend County Libraries presents “The Arts of Russell Autrey: Artist, Photographer, Raconteur” opening day, 2PM

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