• CounterCurrent Festival, Houston, April 12 – 17
• Poetry at Round Top, April 15 – 17
• Story Circle Network 8th Women’s Writing Conference, Austin, April 15 – 17
• DEAR Texas, statewide, April 16 – 17
• Texas Library Association Annual Conference, Houston, April 19 – 22
• Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, various locations, April 21 – 24
• 30th Annual Northeast Texas Writers’ Organizations Conference, Mt. Pleasant, April 22 – 23
• 2016 New American Voices Play Reading Series, Houston, April 22 – 24
• New Fiction Confab, Austin, April 23
• North Texas Teen Book Festival, Irving, April 22 – 23
• World Book Day, April 23
• DFW Writers Conference, Fort Worth, April 23 – 24

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, San Antonio, March 15 – April 30
• Humanities Texas Exhibit: Shakespeare, Hurst, April 1 – 30
• Necessary Work: Bryce Milligan’s World of Words and Design, San Antonio, April 9 – May 21
• Texas Writers Exhibition, Dallas, April 17 – May 14

Sunday, April 17

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, D.E.A.R. Texas book fair and author signings, 9AM
• Malvern Books, Texas Association of Authors’ fifth annual Book Awards Contest readings Day 2, 2PM

El Paso

• International Museum of Art, Tom Diamond will sign copies of his new book, Moon Spell, 2PM

Houston

• Johnston Middle School, Inprint presents Cool Brains with Kate DiCamillo, 3PM
• Silver Street Studios, Writespace Houston and FotoFest’s Literacy Through Photography program present FotoFun Family Day with readings by Marion Young, author of Love Circles the World, 12PM

McAllen

• B&N – Northcross, Steven Schneider reading and signing The Magic of Mariachi/La Magia del Mariachi, 2PM

Monday, April 18

Austin

• BookPeople, EMILY’s List Founder ELLEN R. MALCOLM speaking & signing When Women Win: Emily’s List and the Rise of Women in American Politics, 7PM

Dallas

• UT Dallas, Dr. Mohamed M. Keshavjee’s presents Into that Heaven of Freedom: The Impact of Apartheid on an Indian Family’s Diasporic History, 1PM

Houston

• M. D. Anderson Memorial Library, Inprint Houston craft talk with Sharon Olds, 1PM
• Murder By the Book, Stuart Woods will sign his new Stone Barrington novel, Family Jewels, 6:30PM
• Wortham Center, Inprint Houston’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series presents Tony Hoagland and Sharon Olds, 7:30PM

Tuesday, April 19

Austin

• The Cactus Cafe, Bat City Review reading featuring Taisia Kitaiskaia, Jenn Shapland, Gillian Barlow Graham, Sagnik Datta, Lara Prescott, & Chad Bennett, 6PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

• Aaron Family Jewish Community Center, Reading, “Writing and Religion? Talking About Tolerance in Public Schools” with Linda K. Wertheimer, author of Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance, 7PM
• Horchow Auditorium, Arts & Letters Live: Skip Hollandsworth presents The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer, 7:30PM
• The Wild Detectives, Nick Scott and Noa Gavin debut their sci-fi YA comedy novel, Practical Applications for Multiverse Theory, 7:30PM

Fort Worth

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

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Chitra Divakaruni will discuss and sign her new novel BEFORE WE VISIT THE GODDESS, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, a presentation of work from Borderlines Volume Two, the latest edition of Voices Breaking Boundaries, 7PM

Huntsville

• Sam Houston State, Publishing and Translation Roundtable featuring John Pluecker, co-founder of language justice collaborative Antena and author of Ford Over, and Maria Miranda Maloney, publisher of Mouthfeel Press, 11AM

San Antonio

• B&N – Northwoods, Titans book signing with Leila Meacham, 7PM
• The Korova, PuroSlam Finals! with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Poptropica: Book 1: Mystery of the Map book signing with Kory Merritt, 7PM

Wednesday, April 20

Austin

• BookPeople, Award Winning Journalist MASON INMAN, author of Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist’s Quest for a Sustainable Future, in conversation with RUSSELL GOLD, 7PM
• Jack Allen’s Kitchen’s (360 location), Local writer and fourth generation Texan Jessica Dupuy will celebrate the release of her latest cookbook, United Tastes of Texas: Authentic Recipes from All Corners of the Lone Star State, 5PM
• The North Door, Bedpost Confessions: Poetry and Storytelling, 8PM
• UT, Serhiy Zhadan, Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist and translator, will be reading excerpts from Voroshilovgrad, 3PM

Dallas

• Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff, Open Mic Storytelling: “Figures of Speak,” 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Amber Tamblyn reads from and signs DARK SPARKLER, 7PM
• Hilton Americas – Houston, Houston Storytellers Guild presents An Evening of Storytelling featuring Antonio Rocha, 7:30PM
• Houston Technology Center, “Pathway to the World” lecture by Hank Moore, author of Houston Legends and Pop Icons and Business Legends, 5:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Soho Teen Night with Robin Epstein, Adam Silvera, and Joy Preble, 7PM

Thursday, April 21

Austin

• Blanton Museum of Art, Perspectives Lecture Series: Dominic Smith discusses his new novel The Last Painting of Sara de Vos with University of Delaware art historian H. Perry Chapman and Kirkus Reviews editor Clay Smith, 6:30PM
• BookPeople, Poet & Actress AMBER TAMBLYN speaking & signing Dark Sparkler, 7PM
• BookPeople, Writers’ League of Texas Third Thursday Panel: Keeping it Brief: Writing and Publishing Short Stories with Michael Barrett, Jill Meyers, Chaitali Sen and Kirk Wilson, 7PM
• Monkeywrench Books, Book presentation: Circus Maximum, 6:30PM
• The North Door, Bedpost Confessions: Poetry and Storytelling, 8PM

Canyon

• West Texas A&M, Western Writers Series hosts Philipp Meyer, author of The Son, 7PM

Dallas

• SMU – Mack Ballroom, Reception for Leila Meacham followed by lecture and signing of Titans, 11AM
• South Dallas Cultural Center, African Diaspora: New Dialogues with poet Dawn Lundy Martin, author of Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, 7:30PM

Fort Worth

• B&N – Hulen Center, Standing Strong: An Unlikely Sisterhood and the Court Case that Made History book signing with Diane Reeve, 6PM
• TCU – Moudy Gallery, eleven40seven, TCU’s arts journal, celebrates the release of their first chapbook, 6PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, Wade Smith launches his first children’s book, Smitty Hits the Play Books, 5PM
• B&N – Town & Country, Poptropica: Book 1: Mystery of the Map book signing with Kory Merritt, 5:30PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Newbery award winning author Kwame Alexander will celebrate literacy and discuss his newest book, BOOKED, 6PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Sean Patrick Flanery will discuss and sign his new novel, JANE TWO, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, M.O. Walsh reads and signs MY SUNSHINE AWAY, 7PM
• Children’s Museum of Houston, Bilingual Story Time with award-winning author Diane Gonzales Bertrand, 5:10PM
• Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Imagining Life on Mars with Erika Jo Brown, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud, Henk Rossouw and Sehba Sarwar, 6:30PM
• Half Price Books – Westheimer/Montrose, New York Times bestselling author Raymond Arroyo will discuss and sign Will Wilder: The Relic of Perilous Falls, 7PM
• The Heritage Society, Finger Lecture Series: Bartee Haile presents Texas Oil Boom Towns of the Early 1900s, 12PM
• Murder By the Book, Tor Teen Night with Alan Gratz, P.J. Hoover and David Lubar, 6:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Ellen Ross discusses and signs The Moment Whispers: Nature in the Here and Now, 5PM
• Unity of Houston (Unity Church of Christianity), An Evening with Gabrielle Bernstein, author of Miracles Now, 7:30PM

Lubbock

• Texas Tech, Creative Writing Reading Series presents poet and journalist Christopher Merrill, 7:30PM

Montgomery

• Lone Star College, readings, discussions, and books signings with poets Carmen Tafolla and Robin Davidson, 7PM

San Marcos

• Texas State – Alkek Library, Wittliff Collections Reading Series presents , 3:30PM

Friday, April 22

Alpine

• The Rusty Rabbit, photographer Walter Nelson discusses and signs The Black Place, 6PM

Arlington

• UTA – Central Library, Kathleen Kent presents The Outcasts, 7:30PM

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Meet and Greet Book Signing With Jeff Burandt: Odd Schnozz and the Odd Squad, 7PM
• BookPeople, Actor, Director and Writer SEAN PATRICK FLANERY speaking & signing his debut novel, Jane Two, 7PM
• Malvern Books, I Scream Social Reading Series featuring poets Andrea Eames, Jenna Opperman, and Sarah Hackley, 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, The Road to Happiness Is Always Under Construction book signing with Linda Gray, 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Gulf Coast Reading Series presents Matvei Yankelevich, Rosa Alcalá and Carolann Madden, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Steve Martini will sign and discuss the paperback release of The Enemy Inside, 6:30PM
• Writespace, Anything Goes All-Genre Open Mic, 7:30PM

Saturday, April 23

Amarillo

• B&N, Death Under a Full Moon book signing with Dianne Smithwick-Braden, 2PM

Austin

• BookPeople, Ornithologist & Author LYNN E. BARBER speaking & signing Birds in Trouble, 3PM
• Half Price Books – South Lamar, Belle Chisholm will sell and sign her Forever My Love, 1PM
• Malvern Books, a reading with poet Lucas Hunt and friends, 7PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Who’s Telling Your Story – and How? Narrative Voice and Point of View in Fiction” with Sara Kocek, 9AM
• The Writing Barn, Workshop: The Story Hunter: Mining Life and History in Search of Story with Greg Neri, 10AM

Burleson

• Half Price Books, Betty Kilby Fisher will sell and sign copies of her memoir Wit, Will and Walls, 1PM
• Dallas
• B&N – Lincoln Park, Jane Two book signing with Sean Patrick Flanery, 3PM
• B&N – Preston/Royal, Gwen Kirkpatrick signs Diary of a Decade, 3PM
• Dallas Public Library – Central, North Texas Book Reviewers Preview, 1PM
• Deep Vellum Books, launch of David Olimpio‘s book, THIS IS NOT A CONFESSION, 7PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, award-winning film and television actress and acclaimed poet Amber Tamblyn will discuss and sign Dark Sparkler, 6PM [PASS REQUIRED]
• The Wild Detectives, World Book Day Celebration, all day

Denton

• B&N – Golden Triangle Mall, Meet Demi Prentiss, Author of Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve, 1PM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: “Shakespeare’s Birthday” with Robin Scofield, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Meet the Author: Phyllis Dixon presents Down Home Blues, 4PM

Houston

• B&N – Westheimer, Earl Wilson – A World War II Journal book signing with Suzanne Huffer, 1PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Out Brief Candle: A Celebration of Shakespeare’s Death Scenes, 2PM
• Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Gulf Coast presents Contemporary Translation with Matvei Yankelevich and Rosa Alcalá, 2PM
• East End Studio Gallery, workshop: Poetry, Publishing and Performance with Jasminne Mendez, 11:30AM
• Half Price Books – Westheimer/Montrose, Shelly Morrow Whitenburg will sell and sign her children’s book Angels are God’s Helpers, 1PM
• Murder By the Book, Karen Hanson Stuyck will sign and discuss Death by Dumpster, 4:30PM
• Outreach Center of West Houston, Dav Pilkey will discuss and sign his novels for kids, including his CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS series, 11AM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Storytelling with Walter Blanchard, 3PM
• Writespace, Workshop: How to Give Minor Characters Major Impact with KJ Russell, 1PM

Plano

• B&N – Preston/Park, Katrina McGhee signing Loving on Me!: Lessons Learned on the Journey from MESS to MESSAGE, 2PM

Round Rock

• B&N – La Frontera, Essential Tips for Coaching Youth Sports book signing with Dan Cowan, 2PM

San Antonio

• Bihl Haus Arts, “Independent Publishing and Book Design” a panel discussion with Bryce Milligan, Rosemary Catacalos, Roberto Bonazzi and Dave Oliphant, , 2PM

Sunday, April 24

Arlington

• Half Price Books – South, local author James Howell will sell and sign his book Countdown to Atomgeddon: The Race to Build the First Atomic Bomb, 1PM

Austin

• BookPeople, Bestselling Authors KATHI APPELT & JANET FOX speaking & signing Maybe a Fox & The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle, 2PM
• BookWoman, Shubh Bala Schiesser reads and discusses Sacred River: Poems from India, 4PM
• Cheer Up Charlie’s, Everything is Bigger Reading Series featuring poets Martin Rock, Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Amanda Johnston, Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, Austin Rodenbiker, and Sarah Janczak, 6:30PM
• Malvern Books, James S. Parker launches The Dark Side of the Cross, 2PM
• Resistencia Bookstore, Native Roots’ Open Mic Series featuring Rob Saw (Mohawk) and Lyla June Johnston (Navajo/Cheyenne), 4PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Jon Finkel signs Forces of Character: Conversations About Building a Life of Impact, 2PM
• Dallas Public Library – Central, Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsvath will talk about her memoir, When the Danube Ran Red, 1:30PM

Houston

• B&N – Vanderbilt Square, Brian McTaggart signs 100 Things Astros Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, 12PM
• Discovery  Green, 2016 Space City Grand Slam, 3PM
• Murder By the Book, Susan Wittig Albert will sign and discuss the new China Bayles mystery, Blood Orange, 2PM
• Writespace, Workshop: Crafting Flash Fiction with Patricia Flaherty Pagan, 3PM

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, 100 Things to Do in San Antonio Before You Die book signing with Denise Richter, 1PM

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