• Writefest, Houston, February 22-28
• Festival of International Books & Arts (FESTIBA), Edinburg, February 29-March 6
• Austin Book Fest, March 5
• Sin Fronteras Independent Book Festival, McAllen, March 5
• Staple 2016, Austin, March 5-6

Ongoing Exhibits

• Shakespeare in Print and Performance, Austin, December 21 – May 29
• Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press and Twentieth Century Latina/o Literature, Houston, January 18 – June 30
• In His Own Words: The Life and Work of César Chávez, Wichita Falls, February 1 – March 5
• African American Literature, Modern and Contemporary, Houston, February 1–29
• In His Own Words: The Life and Work of César Chávez, Wichita Falls, February 1 – March 5
• Texas Writers Exhibition, Johnson City, February 8 – March 4
• Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America, Honey Grove, March 1 – 31

Sunday, Feb. 28

Austin

• BookPeople, Award-Winning Austin Author BABETTE HUGHES speaking & signing Searching for Vivian, 2PM
• Monkeywrench Books, Dawn Paley discusses her book, Drug War Capitalism, 4PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Dallas Cowboys Hall of Famer Mel Renfro will sell and sign his autobiography, Mel Renfro: Forever a Cowboy, 1PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Marvin O’Bryant discusses and signs Life Without a Father, 4PM
• Half Price Books – Ridgmar, local author James Howell will sell and sign Countdown to Atomgeddon: The Race to Build the First Atomic Bomb, 1PM

Houston

• Christ Church Cathedral, From a literary perspective, historian and artist Kayleen Asbo will speak on healing and wholeness in the pages of Dante’s Divine Comedy, 10AM and 7PM
• Katy Budget Books, #FantasYA Event: Susan Dennard, Veronica Rossi and Sophie Jordan, 6PM

Mansfield

• Half Price Books, local author James Brumley will sell and sign The Curse of Madam, 1PM

Monday, Feb. 29

Austin

• Companion, launch of Issue 61, the first issue of American Short Fiction’s 25th anniversary year, 7PM

Beaumont

• Lamar University, Lamar Literary Festival: Lisa Sandlin presents The Do-Right, 7PM

Houston

• Menil Collection, Curator Discussion: Copley, Comics, and Alternative Figures in American Art with Dan Nadel, author of Art Out of Time, and Houston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, 7PM
• Rice University – Stude Concert Hall, Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series presents a reading with Tracy K. Smith, 7:30PM

Tuesday, Mar. 1

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin author J.K. GEORGE speaking & signing Contact Sport: A Story of Champions, Airwaves, and a One Day Race Around the World, 7PM
• Resistencia Bookstore, poetry reading with Urayoán Noel, 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM
• The North Door, One Page Salon presents: John Erler, Carlotta Stankiewicz, Bill Passalacqua, Michael Noll, Johnny Holden & Jamie Harris, 7PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, 3 YA author signings: Veronica Rossi, Susan Dennard, and Kathleen Baldwin, 7PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic, 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Bartee Haile discusses and signs TEXAS BOOMTOWNS, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis will sign and discuss The Considerate Killer, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, PuroSlam! with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM

Wednesday, Mar. 2

Austin

• BookPeople, award winning graphic designer DJ STOUT speaking & signing Variations on a Rectangle: Thirty Years of Graphic Design from Texas Monthly to Pentagram, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Ron J. Jackson, Jr. and Lee Spencer Wright discuss Joe: The Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend, 12PM
• LBJ Library Auditorium, Bob Woodward and Alexander Butterfield, deputy to White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, discuss Woodward’s new book The Last of the President’s Men, 6PM

Houston

• AvantGarden, Write About Now poetry open mic, 7:30PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Obert Skye will discuss and sign LOST & FOUND, the second book in the WITHERWOOD REFORM SCHOOL series, 5PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Kevin Douglas West discusses and signs CUBA BEHIND OPEN DOORS, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Caroline Kepnes will sign and discuss Hidden Bodies, 6:30PM
• University of St. Thomas – Cullen Hall, The Easter 1916 Rising: An Historical Perspective with Professor Joe Lee, author of Ireland 1912-1985: Politics and Society, 7PM

San Antonio

• Our Lady of the Lake University, Literary Talk by Urayoán Noel: “Was There a Latin@ Sixties Poetry?”, 7PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Manning Wolfe reads and signs DOLLAR SIGNS: Texas Lady Lawyer vs. Boots King and Bill Rodgers discusses and signs History Retweets Itself Texas Edition, 5PM

Thursday, Mar. 3

Austin

• Avaya Auditorium, Michener Center for Writers Reading Series featuring Annie Baker, 7:30PM
• BookPeople, Austin author JOSE SKINNER speaking & signing The Tombstone Race: Stories, 7PM
• Harry Ransom Center, Poetry on the Plaza: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 4PM
• Malvern Books, Fantastical Fictions with Marshall Ryan Maresca, 7PM

Dallas

• Aaron Family Jewish Community Center – Schultz Rosenberg Campus, Steven Pressman presents 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany, 7PM
• South Dallas Cultural Center, African Diaspora: New Dialogues presents poet Tim Seibles, 7:30PM
• SMU – McCord Auditorium, Michael Horowitz, author of The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics, and Christopher Jenks discuss “Killer Robots,” moderated by Joshua Rovner, author of Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence, 5:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Derick Burleson & Allen Gee poetry readings, 7PM
• Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory of Houston, 2016 Space City Poetry Slam Series: Constellation Preliminary, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Michelle Gable will sign and discuss her new novel I’ll See You In Paris, 6:30PM

Lubbock

• Texas Tech, Creative Writing Program Reading Series presents Mat Johnson, 7:30PM

San Antonio

• Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Urayoán Noel Poetry Reading/Book Signing, 7PM

Friday, Mar. 4

Austin

• BookPeople, bestselling children’s author OBERT SKYE speaking & signing Lost & Found, 6PM
• BookPeople, Local Author Night: Austin author ANNE ODOM speaking & signing The Duchess of Bristol, 7PM
• Resistencia Bookstore, Cáfe Libro open mic featuring Olivia Romo, 7PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Michelle Gable will discuss and sign her novel I’LL SEE YOU IN PARIS, 11AM
• Brazos Bookstore, Kayt Sukel discusses and signs THE ART OF RISK, 7PM
• Inprint House, First Friday Poetry Reading Series 40th Anniversary presents Robin Davidson, 8:30PM
• Kaboom Books, Dennis Abrams presents The Play’s the Thing, 7PM
• University of Houston – Cullen Performance Hall, The Houston Moth GrandSLAM II, 8PM

Lubbock

• Texas Tech, Creative Writing Program Reading Series presents Joey Franklin & Landon Houle, 4PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Michael P. O’Connor discusses and signs The Wild West Meets the Big Apple, 6PM

Saturday, Mar. 5

Amarillo

• B&N – Westgate Mall, Vicki Schoen signing Inherit the Texas Earth, 2PM

Austin

• BookPeople, local poet and novelist ANDREA EAMES speaking & signing The Making of Stones, 3PM
• BookWoman, Poetry Chapbook Launch – Abe Louise Young’s Heaven to Me, 7PM
• Recycled Reads, 7 year anniversary party!, 12PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “How to Write Literary Genre Fiction” with Michael Noll, 9AM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Nancy Churnin to sign The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game, 4PM

El Paso

• B&N – Fountains at Farah, Catherine Chagra signs Dirty Darlings, 2PM
• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop:”The Poetry of Dance” with Celia Aguilar , 12:45PM

Friendswood

• Friendswood Public Library, Off the Page Poetry Series presents former Texas Poet Laureate Larry D. Thomas and Pushcart Prize nominee Chip Dameron, 7PM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, Austin Wells signs Heath, Texas (Images of America Series), 2PM

Houston

• B&N – Centre at Copperfield, Robert Jacobus signs Houston Cougars in the 1960s, 3PM
• B&N – River Oaks, Marci Izard signs Nourishing Your Whole Self, A Cookbook with Feelings, 2PM
• B&N – Vanderbilt Square, Realms of Fantasy and Spirituality author event with Lindsey Scholl and Cindy Wu, 2PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Speak Poet! with Marcell Murphy and Jasminne Mendez, 2PM
• Katy Budget Books, Justina Page signs The Circle of Fire: In the Midst of the Ashes an Ember of Hope Flickered, 2PM
• Murder By the Book, Marshall Ryan Maresca will sign and discuss The Alchemy of Chaos, 1PM
• Murder By the Book, Manning Wolfe will sign and discuss Dollar Signs: Texas Lady Lawyer vs Boots King, 4:30PM

Killeen

• Killeen Civic and Conference Center, Debra Winegarten presents Oveta Culp Hobby at the Take 190 Festival, 10AM

Lubbock

• B&N, Chuck Bailey signs Picturing Texas Politics: A Photographic History from Sam Houston to Rick Perry, 1:30PM
• B&N, Paris Modigiliani & Me book signing with Jacqueline Kolosov, 3:30PM

San Antonio

• Gemini Ink, Performalist Poetics: An Exploratory Workshop with Urayoán Noel, 10AM
• Leon Valley Community and Conference Centers, Judy Barrett, author of Easy Edibles: How to Grow and Enjoy Fresh Food, will be a guest author at the 27th Annual Earthwise Living Day, 9AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Linda Brooks reads and signs The Calling of Ella McFarland, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Heribert Von Feilitzsch discusses and signs The Secret War Council: The German Fight against the Entente in America in 1914, 5PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, William Vargas signs A Family Living in Darkness, 1PM

Spring

• Spring Creek Oaks Clubhouse, Northwest Houston Romance Writers of American workshop with Pamela Fagan Hutchins, 10AM

Sugar Land

• B&N – First Colony Mall, Crystal Allen signs The Magnificent Mya Tibbs Series, 2PM

Washington

• Washington-on-the-Brazos Historic Sight, Richard B. McCaslin signs Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic during the 180th Texas Independence Day Celebration, 10AM

Sunday, Mar. 6

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin children’s author CARMEN OLIVER speaking & signing Bears Make the Best Reading Buddies, 2PM
• Malvern Books, an afternoon with poets Chip Dameron & Larry D. Thomas, 2PM
• Waterloo Records and Video, Bruce T. Atkinson and Jenni Finlay sign Kent Finlay, Dreamer: The Musical Legacy Behind Cheatham Street Warehouse, ?

Midland

• B&N, Midland Postcard History Series book signing with James Collett and Doug Page, 1PM

Pasadena

• B&N – Fairway Market Place, Tarif Youssef-Agha signs A Journey Around the Arab Spring Revolutions, 12PM

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