• Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States (a Humanities Texas exhibit), San Antonio, September 1 – October 8
• Waco Wordfest, September 26 – 27
• Banned Books Week, September 27 – October 3
• Georgetown Poetry Festival, October 2 – 4
• The Edgar Allan Poe Victorian Festival (OkPoeberfest), Dallas, October 3–31
• Author Extravaganza, Llano, October 3
• Evening with the Authors, Lockhart, October 3
• LibroFEST, Houston, October 3
• Tweens Read, Pasadena, October 3
• Buns and Roses: Romance Tea for Literacy, Richardson, October 4

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

Monday, Sept. 28

Austin

• BookPeople, MysteryPeople Presents Lone Star Crime: REAVIS Z. WORTHAM speaking & signing Dark Places, BEN REHDER speaking & signing Bum Steer, and BILL CRIDER speaking & signing Between the Living and the Dead, 7PM
• Brookdale at Beckett Meadows, Austin Poetry Caravan reading, 6PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Kevin Henkes will discuss and sign his new picture book, WAITING, 5PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Rodrigo Hasbún reads and signs LOS AFECTOS, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Martin Walker will sign and discuss the latest Bruno book, The Patriarch, 6:30PM
• University of Houston, Fiston Mwanza Mujila will read from his debut novel, Tram 83, assisted by his translator, Roland Glasser, 1PM

Irving

• Irving Public Library – South, Author Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows Launch Party, 7PM

Tuesday, Sept. 29

Austin

• BookPeople, The Magic and Mayhem Tour: Bestselling Author LEIGH BARDUGO speaking & signing Six of Crows (in conversation with YA author of Dumplin’ JULIE MURPHY), 7PM
• Hole in the Wall, Bat City Review’s fall kickoff featuring Nick Almeida Miller, John Fry, & David Schaefer, 6:30PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

• HKS, Inc., photo-essayist Loli Kantor presents work from her new book, Beyond the Forest, 6:30PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic, 8PM
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Tuesday Evenings at the Modern: poet and author Latasha N. Nevada Digg, 7PM
• TCU, The Daryl D. Schmidt Lectureship of Religion in Public Life presents Jonathan L. Walton, author of Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism, 7PM

Houston

• AWTY International School, Fiston Mwanza Mujila will read from his debut novel, Tram 83, assisted by his translator, Roland Glasser, 9:30AM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Ransom Riggs will appear in conversation with Tahereh Mafi (SHATTER ME) to discuss and sign LIBRARY OF SOULS, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Roland Glasser read & sign TRAM 83, 7PM
• Writespace, Rev Up Your Scenes with Conflict: An IndieFest Hands-On Workshop with Fern Brady, 7PM

San Antonio

• Briscoe Museum of Western Art, Marian Haddad poetry reading, 6:30PM
• The Korova, PuroSlam! with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM

Wednesday, Sept. 30

Austin

• BookPeoople, MysteryPeople Presents Bestselling Author MARK PRYOR speaking & signing The Hollow Man, 7PM
• University of Texas, Fiston Mwanza Mujila will read from his debut novel, Tram 83, assisted by his translator, Roland Glasser, 3:30PM
• Malvern Books, an evening with Congolese writer Fiston Mwanza Mujila, author of Tram 83, and the novel’s translator Roland Glasser, 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Six Sisters’ Stuff to Discuss and Sign Sweets and Treats, 7PM

Denton

• Murchison Performing Arts Center, Anshel Brusilow will speak and sign Shoot the Conductor: Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy, 5PM

Houston

• Christ Church Cathedral, Nadia Bolz discusses and signs Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People, 7PM
• The Printing Museum, Banned Books theme linoleum block printed postcards workshop, 6PM

Irving

• Irving Public Library – Valley Ranch, S. A. Bodeen celebrates the launch of her latest book, The Detour, 7PM

Thursday, Oct. 1

Austin

• Half Price Books – N. Lamar, Juli Bauer and Vanessa Barajas will discuss and sign Juli Bauer’s Paleo Cookbook and Clean Eating with a Dirty Mind, 7PM
• Scholz Garten, Austin Public Library Friends Foundation presents Banned Books Bash 2015 featuring Badgerdog Teaching Artists who will read from banned and challenged books, 6PM

Bulverde

• Bulverde/Spring Branch Library, Writers’ League of Texas program: Texas Writes with authors Amanda Eyre Ward and Carol Dawson, 1PM

Dallas

• Wordspace (RSVP for location), Salon & Book Launch Celebration: Mourner’s Bench, debut novel by Sanderia Faye, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, celebrate Deep Vellum Publishing’s release of Congolese poet Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s first work of fiction, Tram 83, with the author and the translator, Roland Glasser, 7:30PM

El Paso

• Ardovino’s Desert Crossing, El Paso Public Library Foundation Fall Fundraiser: Stories of El Paso with Sergio Troncoso, Rus Bradford, Joe Hayes, Linda Francis Lee, and Dan Wetzel, 6PM

Houston

• Murder By the Book, Karin Slaughter will sign and discuss Pretty Girls, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Kathleen Winter reads from and signs Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, 5PM
• The Twig Book Shop, H. Palmer Hall Commemorative Reading, 7PM

San Marcos

• Wittliff Collections, reading by poet and author Tracy K. Smith, 3:30PM

Friday, Oct. 2

Austin

• BookPeople, Local Author Night: Austin Novelist DWAINES LAWLESS speaking & signing Cajun Moon, 7PM
• Brave New Books, Unspoken: Voluntaryist open mic for speakers, thinkers and artists, 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Texas Author George Arnold Book Signing, 4PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, C. Alexander London will discuss and sign his new middle grade book The Wild Ones, 5PM
• Richland College Library, Fiston Mwanza Mulila will read from his debut novel, Tram 83, assisted by his translator, Roland Glasser, 11AM
• SMU, Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke will discuss their project The Additivist Manifesto and their upcoming publication, The Additivist Cookbook, 9AM
• SMU, Fiston Mwanza Mujila reads from his debut novel, Tram 83, assisted by his translator, Roland Glasser, 2PM

El Paso

• Sergio Troncoso Library, Sergio Troncoso will sign books at the renaming of the library, 2PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, J. Kastely discusses and signs THE RHETORIC OF PLATO’S REPUBLIC, 7PM

• The Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, reading by poet and author Tracy K. Smith, 7:30PM

Saturday, Oct. 3

Austin

• ACC Highland Campus, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “How to Workshop Your Writing” with John Pipkin, 9AM
• BookPeople, Special Storytime with ADAM RUBIN, author of Dragons Love Tacos!, 11:30AM

Bellaire

• Bellaire City Library, 2015 Gulf Coast Reads Program: local author and expert on Gulf Coast food, Arch Andrus, 3PM

Cedar Hill

• B&N – Hillside Village, Kena Sosa Reads & Signs Rey Antonio and Rey Feo: Rey Antonio y el Rey Feo, 1PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Texas Author George Arnold Book Signing, 10AM
• Common Desk Oak Cliff, Wordspace presents Looped: installations of prose and poetry readings and roving writers, 7PM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: The Art of Improvisation with author Nancy Green, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• American Airlines C.R. Smith Flight Museum, Buzz Aldrin signs Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet, 10AM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, Signing Event With Tessa Dare and 15 Romance authors, 2PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Celebrate Banned Books with Arte Público, Gulf Coast Journal, Houston Public Library, Tony Diaz, Eloísa Pérez-Lozano, and Jesús Salvador Treviño, 7PM (reception at 6PM)
• Writespace, Haunted Authors Ball, 7PM (character costumes encouraged)

McAllen

• Valencia Event Center, 7th annual Historias de la Vida Gala of the South Texas Literacy Coalition featuring children’s author Pat Mora, 6PM

Plano

• B&N – Creekwalk Village, Meet Author Peggy Consolver, 2PM

Round Rock

• B&N – La Frontera, Betty Starr Kirkpatrick signs Strothio, 2PM
• San Antonio
• B&N – San Pedro, Oscar the Osprey: The Bird Who Was Afraid of Heights – Author and Illustrator Discussion and Signing, 1PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Beth Ann Stifflemire reads and signs Fate’s Betrayal, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Paul Pineda reads and signs Valley of Tears, 6PM
• Viva! Bookstore, Sally Wester Weismann reads and discusses August 26, 2013: The Day of Understanding, 1PM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Book signing, discussion and reception with Timothy Woodward, author of IF I TOLD YOU SO, 1PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Local Author Vivek Pandit signing We Are Generation Z, 3PM

Webster

• B&N – Baybrook, Gulf Coast Poets presents 2015 Poetry Out of Bounds featuring Jerry Hamby, 1PM

The Woodlands

• B&N, Denise Dennis signs Classical Feng Shui for Romance, Sex and Relationships, 2PM

Sunday, Oct. 4

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Julie Bauer discusses & signs PALEO COOKBOOK & Vanessa Barajas discusses & signs CLEAN EATING WITH A DIRTY MIND, 5PM
• Murder By the Book, Jim Butcher will sign and discuss The Aeronaut’s Windlass, 4:30PM
• Museum of Fine Arts, The Promise: A Conversation with Author Ann Weisgarber and the Houston Chronicle’s Lisa Gray, 3PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Joe McKinney signing The Dead Won’t Die and Zombie Costume Contest, 1PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Local Author Mark Fadden signing Colleyville, 2PM

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