• Waco WordFest, October 5-7
• Boerne Book & Arts Fest, October 6
• Evening with the Authors, Lockhart, October 6
• Texas Teen Book Festival, Austin, October 6

Ongoing Exhibits

• Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene, June 7-September 30
• Literary Frontiers: Historical Fiction & the Creative Imagination, San Marcos, August 1-December 14
• “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
• Texas Writers exhibition, Fort Stockton, October 1-22
• Traversing Dimensions: An Exploration of Diversity in Science Fiction, Austin, October 1-31

Sunday, September 30

Austin

• BookPeople, MATTHEW CORDELL speaking & signing King Alice, 3PM
• BookPeople, CLINT HARP speaking & signing Handcrafted: A Woodworker’s Story, 7PM [ticketed event]
• Half Price Books, local author Jonathan Dade will sell and sign his book The Church and the Community, 12PM
• Malvern Books, Lowell Mick White & Chip Dameron Book Launches, 1PM
• Malvern Books, International Translation Day Celebration, 5:30PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, How Not to Be Intimidated by Poetry with Lisa Huffaker, 12PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Poetry with Cristina Rivera Garza and Sabrina Orah Mark, 6PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, local author Kena Sosa will sell and sign her children’s book, The Unhuggables, 1PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Kyle Mills Book Signing, 5PM
• The Mayfair on Turtle Creek, Dallas author Jeffrey Eaton signing Murder Becomes Mayfair, 3PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Gabriela Wiener discussing and signing SEXOGRAPHIES, 4PM

Richardson

• The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: “Author Platform 101: Building Your Brand without Selling Your Soul” with JR. Forasteros, 3PM

Monday, October 1

Austin

• BookPeople, SYLVIA ACEVEDO speaking & signing Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist, 6:30PM [ticketed event]
• Central Presbyterian Church, LEIF BABIN speaking and signing The Dichotomy of Leadership, 7PM [ticketed event]

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Ben Fountain discussing and signing BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY BURN AGAIN, 7PM

Fort Worth

• TCU – Student Union, Professor Luci Tapahonso, the Navajo (Diné) Nation’s inaugural poet laureate, will have a poetry reading and book signing (part of TCU’s third annual Native American and Indigenous Peoples Day symposium), 5PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, An Evening with Dorothy Project: Cristina Rivera Garza & Sabrina Orah Mark, 7PM
• NOKturne, Back Alley Poems, 7:30PM
• Tracy Gee Community Center, Houston SCBWI Conference Recap – Panel Discussion by Attendees, 7PM

San Antonio

• San Antonio College, “Inspiring Radical Creativity: An Evening with Gabby Rivera,” 7PM

Tuesday, October 2

Austin

• B&N – Sunset Valley, The Way of the Shield book signing with Marshall Ryan Maresca, 7PM
• BookPeople, SHERRY THOMAS speaking & signing The Hollow of Fear, 7PM
• Malvern Books, An Evening with Sabrina Orah Mark & Elizabeth McCracken, 7PM
• The North Door, One Page Salon, 7:30PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam: New Shit Slam featuring SC Says, 7:15PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Nancy Churnin to siscuss and sign The Queen and the First Christmas Tree, 7PM
• Interabang Books, Melissa Lenhardt reading and signing HERESY, 7PM

El Paso

• The Black Orchid Lounge, Barbed Wire Open Mic Series, 8PM

Fort Worth

• The Fort Worth Club, World Affairs Council of DFW hosts Ken Starr discussing and signing Contempt, 5:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookstore, Lisa McMann will discuss and sign CLASH OF BEASTS, the final book in the GOING WILD series, 5PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Ches Smith reading and signing THE AUTHOR IS DEAD, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Mary Robinette Kowal will sign and discuss The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, and Martha Wells will sign and discuss Exit Strategy, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• The Mix, PuroSlam featuring DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, When the Men Were Gone book signing with Marjorie Herrera Lewis, 7PM

Wednesday, October 3

Austin

• BookPeople, ERIN HUNTER speaking & signing Bravelands #3: Blood and Bone, 6PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: THE CEDAR CHOPPERS, 12PM
• Central Library, Ben Fountain will read from and discuss his new book, Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution, 7PM
• St. Edward’s University, The Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series featuring Natalia Sylvester, 6PM

Dallas

• Crescent Club, World Affairs Council of DFW hosts Ken Starr discussing and signing Contempt, 12PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write about Now Poetry Slam featuring Shake the Poet, 7:30PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Patrick Ness will meet and greet fans as he signs his newest book, AND THE OCEAN WAS OUR SKY, 6PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Tillie Walden reading and signing ON A SUNBEAM, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Jennifer Weil reading and signing Coral Tree: A Costa Rican Canon, 5PM

Thursday, October 4

Austin

• BookPeople, ERIN & BEN NAPIER signing Make Something Good Today, 4PM [ticketed event]
• BookPeople, TILLIE WALDEN speaking & signing On a Sunbeam (REGISTER HERE for a zine-making workshop with Tillie before the signing), 7PM

Canyon

• WTAMU, Center for the Study of the American West’s Garry L. Nall Lecture Series: author David Wallace Adams presents “Coming of Age on a Southwest Cultural Borderland: A New Mexico Story,” 7 PM (author Q&A at 3PM, reception at 6PM)

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Protest Kitchen book signing with Carol J. Adams, 7PM
• Hotel Crescent Court, Suzy Hansen discussing and signing Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, 6:30PM
• Interabang Books, Patrick Ness reading and signing AND THE OCEAN WAS OUR SKY, 7PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Meet your favorite authors and discover new ones at the Epic Reads Meet Up with Elana K. Arnold, Kendare Blake, Anna Godbersen, Mackenzi Lee, and Claire Legrand, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Ben Fountain discussing and signing BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY BURN AGAIN, 7PM
• Holocaust Museum Houston, The Book Smugglers with David E. Fishman, 7PM
• Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston VIP Slam and VIP Arts Houston present EnlighTEN: Celebrating 10 Years of Poetry Slam, 6:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Melissa Lenhardt will sign and discuss Heresy, and Sherry Thomas will sign and discuss The Hollow of Fear, 6:30PM
• Reserve 101, Aaron Goldfarb for a one-night-only tasting of select Reserve 101 private barrel whiskies and signing of Goldfarb’s new book, Hacking Whiskey, 6:30PM
• Rice University,The Latin American Writer-in-Residency Series: Ensayar la Experiencia, Lecture by Gabriel Wiener, 5PM

Plano

• B&N – Legacy West, Handcrafted: A Woodworker’s Story book signing with Clint Harp, 7PM

San Antonio

• Central Library, “Three Centuries of Latino Writing and Resistance in San Antonio” a public conversation to discuss the history of Tejana writing and the role of news papers in the 19th century San Antonio, moderated by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto & Carmen Tafolla, with guest panelists Jerry Poyo, and Raúl Coronado, 6:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, David Margrave reading and signing When Fur and Feather Get Together, 5:30PM

San Marcos

• Texas State – Alkek Library, Wittliff Collections reading series hosts a reading and signing with Valeria Luiselli, 3:30PM

Sugar Land

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

Friday, October 5

Austin

• Austin Bat Cave, Writing Workshop with S. Kirk Walsh (part 1), 6PM
• BookPeople, DAVID PINTO speaking & signing Nemesis, 7PM
• BookWoman, I Don’t Belong Here: A Reading & Signing with Melissa Grunow and Chelsey Clammer, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Five Friends on Sunday Afternoons Book Launch, 7PM
• UT – Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Donna Marie Miller signing The Broken Spoke: Austin’s Legendary Honky-Tonk (with Broken Spoke owner James White and music by Ben Stafford Rodgers), TBA

Dallas

• Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam presents Wayne Henry Features, 8PM
• Interabang Books, Fierce Reads YA Tour, 7PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Former Ambassador for Children’s Literature Gene Luen Yang will discuss and sign his new book SECRET CODERS: MONSTERS & MANUALS, 5PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Alan Lightman discussing and signing SEARCHING FOR STARS ON AN ISLAND IN MAINE, 7PM

• Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, the KAP reading series hosts a reading and signing with Valeria Luiselli, 7:30PM

San Antonio

• UTSA, UTSA Creative Writing Reading Series presents poet Cyrus Cassells, 6PM
• Viva Tacoland, Gemini Ink presents Prose on the River with Marisela Barrera, Jasminne Mendez, and Larissa Hernandez, 6:30PM

Saturday, October 6

Austin

• Austin Bat Cave, Writing Workshop with S. Kirk Walsh (part 2), 1PM
• Malvern Books, the launch of Fernando A. Flores’ Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas, 7PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Plot and Conflict in Fiction” with Bill Cotter, 10AM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, New York Times bestselling science fiction author David Weber will discuss and sign copies of his new Honor Harrington novel, 6PM

El Paso

• Armijo Branch Library, Meet author Jose Ines Ureña Hernandez as he talks about his book El Crimen de Linda MacArthur, 4PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Builder Brothers: Big Plans event with Jonathan Scott and Drew Scott, 5PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Megan Shepherd will discuss and sign her novel GRIM LOVELIES, 11AM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston journalist Joy Sewing and her rescue dog Ava will visit to celebrate the release of AVA AND THE PRINCE, 3PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Erin Gibson discussing and signing FEMINASTY, 7PM
• Half Price Books – North Oaks, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
• Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Jodi Picoult reading and discussing A SPARK OF LIGHT, 7:30PM [ticketed event]

Laredo

• Cafe Dolce del Mar, Laredo Border Slam October Writing Workshop: Rehearsing and Preparing, 12PM
• Joe A. Guerra Library, One City One Book 2018: Loung Ung discussing First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, 10:30AM (reception at 9:30AM)

North Richland Hills

• Green Valley Park – NRH Road Runner 5K, pop-up Behind the Book event with 100 year-old Orville Rogers, author of The Running Man, world-record holding track runner, and WWII veteran, 7AM

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, Jennifer Coleman and Wade Dillon: The Texas Nutcracker discussion and signing, 2PM
• Central Library, Professor Gabriela Gonzalez for a unique presentation regarding her recent publication Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights, 2PM
• Dead Tree Books, book signing: The Inevitables, 2PM
• Gemini Ink, Voices of Recovery Storytelling Workshop, 1PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Jeremy Banas discussing and signing Pearl: A History of San Antonio’s Iconic Beer and San Antonio Beer: Alamo City History by the Pint, 12PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Lisa Lynn signing Unraveled, Time to Tell and Story Octopus: Writing Helper Extraordinaire, 1PM

Webster

• B&N – Baybrook, Gulf Coast Poets meeting featuring Edward Vidaurre, 1PM

The Woodlands

• B&N, Builder Brothers: Big Plans event with Jonathan Scott and Drew Scott, 10AM

Sunday, October 7

Austin

• BookPeople, DREW and JONATHAN SCOTT signing Builder Brothers: Big Plans, 4PM [ticketed event]
• The Writing Barn, Teen Writing Residency, 1PM

Dallas

• Adolphus Hotel, Jodi Picoult presents A SPARK OF LIGHT, 2PM
• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live hosts Lou Berney, author of November Road and Andre Dubus III, author of Gone So Long, 4PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, local author David Cary will sell and sign his memoir, Normandy: A Father’s Ship and a Son’s Curiosity, and local author Maureen Eno will sell and sign her children’s book, Koton & The Courageous King of Kindness, 1PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Muse of Nightmares book signing with Laini Taylor, 2PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman will discuss and sign DRY, their new novel for teens, 3PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Ace Passmore reading and signing RED STOCKING SOCIETY, 5PM

Mansfield

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

San Antonio

• B&N – Northwoods, Builder Brothers: Big Plans event with Jonathan Scott and Drew Scott, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Patrick J. McKallick discussing and signing The Face of the Iguana: Freedom from Toxic Beliefs: A Journey in Healing and Transformation, 12PM

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