Austin
- BookWoman, Book Signing & Wine Event with Stella Mowen, author of Until the Beat Stops, 4PM
- Malvern Books, J. Scott Brownlee launches his first full-length poetry collection, Requiem for Used Ignition Cap, joined by poets John Fry and Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, 2PM
Fort Worth
- The Dock Bookshop, Kwanzaa Celebration
Monday, Dec. 28
Fort Worth
- The Dock Bookshop, Kwanzaa – Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility): GET TOGETHER, 7PM
Tuesday, Dec. 29
Austin
- Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM
Fort Worth
- The Dock Bookshop, Kwanzaa – Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): BUSINESS MIXER, 7PM
- The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic, 8PM
San Antonio
- The Korova, PuroSlam! with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM
Wednesday, Dec. 30
Fort Worth
- The Dock Bookshop, Kwanzaa – Nia (Purpose): FILM & FOOD, 12PM
Houston
- AvantGarden, Write About Now poetry reading, 7:30PM
Thursday, Dec. 31 New Year’s Eve
Fort Worth
- The Dock Bookshop, Kwanzaa – Kuumba (Creativity): KUUMBA ART & BOOK SHOW, 12PM
Friday, Jan. 1 Resolve to read more Texas books in 2016!
Austin
- BookPeople, Customer Appreciation Day, 11AM
Saturday, Jan. 2
McAllen
- B&N – Northcross, Santos Vallejo signs Little Santos: Against All Odds, 2PM
Sunday, Jan. 3
San Antonio
- The Twig Book Shop, Lili Mahoney reads and signs Barefoot Pastures, 11AM
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MAJOR BOOK EVENTS BY MONTH
Use this calendar of recurring events and cultural emphases in Texas and those other states to plan ahead in your bookish life. We’ll add dates for each year as we learn of them.
January
- National Book Month
- National Book Week (third full week of January)
- Book Publishers Day (Jan. 16 annually)
- Pulpwood Queen’s Girlfriend Weekend (Nacogdoches, Jan. 14-17, 2016)
February
- Black History Month
March
- Women’s History Month
- Children’s Picture Book Day (March 28 annually)
April
- National Poetry Month
- D.E.A.R., “Drop Everything and Read” Month
- National Library Week (April 10-16, 2016)
- International Children’s Book Day (April 2 annually)
- Children’s Book Day, El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Día) (April 30, 2016)
- World Book Day (Shakespeare’s birthday, April 23 annually)
- NETWO Spring Conference
- Houston Writers’ Guild Conference
- San Antonio Book Festival (Sat, April 2, 2016)
- Texas Institute of Letters Annual Meeting (April 15–16, 2016)
- Texas Writers Month
- National Independent Bookstore Day (Sat., April 30, 2016)
- O. Henry Pun-off (Austin, Sat., May 7, 2016)
- BookExpo America (Chicago, May 11-13, 2016)
- GLBT Books Month (starting annually in 2015)
- Bloomsday (James Joyce’s Ulysses, June 16 annually)
- CALF (Children’s Art & Literacy Festival), Abilene (June)
- Western Writers of America Convention (Cheyenne, Wyoming, June 21-25, 2016)
- Writers’ League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference (Austin, June 24-26, 2016)
- International Christian Retail Show (Cincinnati, Ohio, June 26-29, 2016)
- Writers’ League of Texas Summer Writing Retreat (Alpine, July 17-21, 2016)
August
- East Texas Book Fest (Tyler, Aug. 26–27, 2016)
September
- Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15–Oct. 15 annually)
- Banned Books Week (last week of September annually)
- National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration (Lubbock, second weekend in September annually)
- West Texas Book Festival (Abilene, Sept. 19-24, 2016)
October
- LGBT History Month
- National Friends of Libraries Week (late October annually)
- Books in the Basin (Odessa, Oct. 11–12, 2016)
November
- Native American Heritage Month
- National Novel Writing Month
- University Press Week (November 2016)
- Texas Book Festival (Austin, Nov. 5–6, 2016)
December
- World AIDS Day (Dec. 1 annually)
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