• Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States (a Humanities Texas exhibit), San Antonio, September 1 – October 8
• American Christian Fiction Writers Conference, Dallas, September 17 – 20
• West Texas Book Festival, Abilene, September 21 – 26
• David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25
• First Annual Indiepalooza, Houston, September 25 – 26
• Inside Books Project Book Sale & Work Party, Austin, September 25 – 26
• Waco Wordfest, September 26 – 27
• Texas Teen Book Festival, Austin, September 26
• Banned Books Week, September 27 – October 3

Sunday, Sept. 20

Austin

• Austin History Center, Jesse Sublett will perform a few songs followed by a presentation about his most recent book, 1960s Austin Gangsters: Organized Crime that Rocked the Capital, 2PM
• B&N – Sunset Valley, Booksigning: The Angst of Adolescence: How To Parent Your Teen and Learn to Laugh About It, by Sara Villanueva, 2PM
• BookPeople, Bestselling Author BUZZ BISSINGER speaking & signing Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, A Dream 25th Anniversary Edition, 2PM
• BookWoman, Paths to Publishing (A Story CircleNetwork event) with authors Susan Wittig Albert, Debra Winegarten, and Susan Spittler, 3PM
• Malvern Books, inclusive open mic – The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged: International Peace Day Edition, 1PM
• Malvern Books, An Afternoon with poets Kathleen Winter & Jenny Browne, 3PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Tracy Lawson will sell and sign her new YA novel, Resist, 1PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, for Houston Design Week – Printspiration Jam: presentation and discussion of print design, 12:30PM
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston, author Annie Cohen-Solal discusses and signs Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel, 2PM

The Woodlands

• B&N, Audrey Wood signs The Full Moon at the Napping House, 2PM

Monday, Sept. 21

Austin

• BookPeople, Bestselling Children’s Authors DON & AUDREY WOOD speaking & signing The Full Moon at Napping House, Puppet Show & Pajama Party, 5:30PM
• Glickman Conference Center, New Writers Project presents Maggie Nelson Reading from The Argonauts and in conversation with Ann Cvetkovich, 3:30PM
• Huston-Tillotson University, Hispanic Heritage Month reading with Texas Poet Laureate Carmen Tafolla and Octavio Quintanilla, 12:30PM

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, Pandora’s Box presents Banned Poetry Night, 8PM
• Houston
• Cullen Theater, Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series presents Jonathan Franzen, 7:30PM
• Rice Media Center, Houston Design Week 2015 presents neuroscientist and author David Eagleman, 7PM

Round Rock

• B&N – La Frontera, The Round Rock New Neighbors’ Book Club Welcomes Taylor Stevens, Author of The Mask, 1PM

Tuesday, Sept. 22

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin Author KELLY BENNETT SEILER speaking & signing Shifting Time, 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

College Station

• George Bush Presidential Library & Museum, Allan Andrade discusses and signs Leopoldville – A Tragedy Too Long Secret, 7PM

Dallas

• Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff, The Writers’ Garret Stone Soup Showcase featuring Roy Howell, Paul Koniecki, and Zach Schrotter, 7PM
• Fort Worth
• The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic, 8PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar Mall, The Full Moon at the Napping House book discussion and signing with Audrey and Don Wood, 6PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, E.R. Bills discusses and signs BLACK HOLOCAUST, 7PM
• The Jung Center, Virtue and Vice in Narnia and Middle-earth with professor and author Louis Markos, 7:30PM
• Katy Budget Books, I’ll Take Romance Book Club with Guest Author Marissa Clarke, 7PM
• The Lift, September Story Slam: “RISK”, 7PM

Lubbock

• Caprock Writers Alliance presents Texas Tech University creative writing professor Katie Cortese, Mahon Library, 7-9 pm

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Zack Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth discussion and signing with Jeff Anderson, 7PM
• The Korova, PuroSlam! with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM

Wednesday, Sept. 23

Austin

• BookPeoople, Blogger & Bestselling Author JENNY LAWSON speaking & signing her new memoir, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, 7PM
• BookWoman, Faint Promise of Rain Reading and Signing with Anjali M. Duva, 7PM
• Malvern Books, W. Joe’s Poetry Corner with Ricardo Acevedo, 7PM

Dallas

• Kettle Arts, Pegasus Reading Series featuring Richard Bailey, R. Flowers Rivera, and Horace Bray, 7PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar Mall, Acclaimed Children’s Author PJ Hoover discussing and signing Tut: The Story of My Immortal Life, 7PM

Huntsville

• HEARTS Veterans Museum, Allan Andrade discusses and signs Leopoldville – A Tragedy Too Long Secret, 11AM

The Woodlands

• B&N, Rae Carson signs Walk on Earth a Stranger and Sophie Jordan signs her second book in the Uninvited Series, Unleashed, 7PM

Thursday, Sept. 24

Angleton

• Brazoria County Historical Museum, Allan Andrade discusses and signs Leopoldville – A Tragedy Too Long Secret, 6:30PM

Austin

• Blanton Auditorium, Michener Center Reading Series featuring Jesmyn Ward, 7:30PM
• BookPeople, Award-Winning Food & Nutrition Journalist TONI TIPTON-MARTIN speaking & signing The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks, 7PM
• UT – Fine Arts Library, Charles Ramírez Berg signs THE CLASSICAL MEXICAN CINEMA, 5PM

College Station

• Texas A&M University – Rudder Theater, GRADY GAINES AND  THE TEXAS UPSETTERS concert followed by a signing of Gaines’ autobiography, I’ve Been Out There, 7:30PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Tucky Jo and Little Heart book signing by Patricia Polacco, 7PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Kaui Hart Hemmings will discuss and sign her first young adult novel, Juniors, 7PM
• Southern Methodist University, Andrew Delbanco, author of College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be?, discusses the American college, 5:30PMThe Wild Detectives, Wordspace First Hearings: Harry Hunsicker presents The Grid, 7PM

Fort Worth

• Fort Worth Public Library, Wordslingers 2015: Kathy Reichs Author Visit, 6:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Carolyn Mackler will discuss and sign her new YA novel, THE INFINITE IN BETWEEN, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Pierre Lemaitre discusses and signs THE GREAT SWINDLE, 7PM
• Houston Maritime Museum, Allan Andrade discusses and signs Leopoldville – A Tragedy Too Long Secret, 12PM
• Murder By the Book, Tom Abrahams will sign and discuss his new thriller, Allegiance Burned, 6:30PM
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Artist’s Talk: Photographer and writer Duane Michals Presents “A Socratic Dialogue”, 6:30PM
• Poison Girl Bar, Poison Pen Reading Series featuring Kevin Mofett, Henk Rossouw, and Martha Serpas, 8:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Anjali Duva discusses and signs Faint Promise of Rain, 5PM
• United Way/Grtr. Houston Community Resource Center, Writers’ League of Texas Panel: Being A Good Literary Citizen, 7PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Kathleen Winter poetry reading, 7PM
• Trinity University, DeCoursey Lecture Series presents Dr. Jane Goodall + book signing, 7:30PM

Friday, Sept. 25

Austin

• Malvern Books, I Scream Social poetry reading series featuring Allyson Whipple and Tu-Uyen Nguyen, 7PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Ian Doescher will discuss and sign William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of the Sith’s Revenge: Star Wars Part the Third, 7PM
• Frisco
• B&N – Stonebriar Mall, The Balance Keepers, Book 2: The Pillars of Ponderay discussion and signing with Lindsay Cummings, 7PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, George Arnold signs Beijing Ding-a-Ling: Mao of the CIA, 4PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Jenny Lawson will discuss and sign her new book, FURIOUSLY HAPPY, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Diane Mott Davidson will sign and discuss Goldy’s Kitchen Cookbook, 6:30PM
• Rudyard’s, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts reading series featuring Kathleen Winter, Jonathan Meyer, Will Burns, and Yerra Sugarman, 7PM

San Antonio

• Our Lady of the Lake, Letras en la Frontera featuring Erika Said, Juan Miguel Pérez Gómez, Javier Tinajero, Mariano Morales, and Horacio Mancilla, 11AM
• San Marcus
• Texas State University, Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award Conference, 8:45AM

Saturday, Sept. 26

Abilene

• Abilene Civic Center, Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon launch the second book in The Paragraph Ranch series, A Wedding at the Paragraph Ranch, 1PM

Arlington

• Half Price Books – Lincoln Square, Carla Butler will sell and sign her memoir, This Little Girl’s Journey: My Lifelong Search for my Biological Father and Family, 2PM

Austin

• Half Price Books – S Lamar, Gary L. and Glenn K. Cook will sell and sign Peace on Earth and the Millennium of King Jesus: Futuristic World Government, 2PM
• Monkeywrench Books, Author and historian Aaron J. Leonard will be giving a talk and slide show presentation on his book, Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War On America’s Maoists, 2PM
• SafePlace, Poetry Caravan of Austin reading, 10:30AM [women only, please]
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Playing with Time: Planning Your Story from Past to Future” with Greg Garrett, 9AM

College Station

• B&N, Tom Icon Book Signing and Discussion, 4PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Jenny Lawson will discuss and sign Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, 3PM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: Sheela Wolford and 100 Thousands Poets for Change, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• B&N – Hulen Center, Local Author D.D. Ayres discusses and signs Primal Force with Fort Worth Police Department K-9 expert Officer Brad Thompson, 1PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Max the Brave discussion and signing by Ed Vere, 2PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Jim Sanderson signs Hill Country Property, 2PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, George Arnold signs Beijing Dina-a-Ling: Mao of the CIA, 10AM
• Murder By the Book, Katherine Howe will sign and discuss The Appearance of Annie Van Sinderen, 1PM
• Murder By the Book, Beth Cato will sign and discuss The Clockwork Crown, Richard Kadrey will sign and discuss Killing Pretty, and Chuck Wendig will sign and discuss Zer0es, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Cathy Dionne discusses and signs The Empowerment of Self: Inspiring You Through Hidden Knowledge, 4PM
• University of Houston – Clear Lake, Biennial Comics Symposium: comiCulture, 10AM

Hurst

• B&N – NE Mall, Samantha Gollakner signing Man of the House, 1PM

Lubbock

• Tornado Gallery, The Lubbock Poetry Movement hosts 100 Thousand Poets for Change, 6PM
• Round Rock
• B&N – La Frontera, The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer–The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb signing with James Kunetka, 2PM

San Antonio

• Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, Josie Mendez-Negrete, Ph.D. reads from and discusses her new book, A Life on Hold: Living with Schizophrenia, 7PM
• Gemini Ink, Workshop: Creating Memorable and Unconventional Characters for Film/TV with Marilyn Atlas, 10AM
• Gemini Ink (call for location), an evening with Marilyn Atlas, author of How to Date Your Character, 6:30PM
• Half Price Books – Huebner, READING IS MAGIC Show and Book Signing, 1PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Rod Van Wyngarden Book Signing, 11AM

Sugar Land

• Half Price Books, Cindy M. Wu will sell and sign Our Global Families; Christians Embracing Common Identity in a Changing World, 1PM

The Woodlands

• B&N, Children’s Book Illustrator Cheryl Pilgrim signs Hound Dawg, 2PM

Sunday, Sept. 27

Austin

• Half Price Books – N Lamar, Andy Skyrzynski will sell and sign his new sci-fi adventure, The New World: A Step Backward, 1PM
• Malvern Books, The Freedom to Read Foundation’s Read Out for Banned Books featuring readings by Tish Hinojosa, Sarah Bird, and Mark Smith, 3PM

Fort Worth

• Fort Worth Public Library – Diamond Hill/Jarvis, Writing a Book that Rocked the World – Alex Sanchez Author Visit, 2PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, George Arnold signs Beijing Ding-a Ling Mao of the CIA, 11AM
• The Lift, kickoff Banned Books Week with a Grapes of Wrath (a.k.a. white wine) Happy Hour, 4PM

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