• Children’s Book Week, May 2 – 8
• Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Austin 2016 Writers & Illustrators Working Conference, May 14 – 15

Special Events

• Author Con, Sachse, May 21

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
• Necessary Work: Bryce Milligan’s World of Words and Design, San Antonio, April 9 – May 21

Sunday, May 8  CELEBRATE MOTHER’S DAY: GIVE YOUR MOM A GOOD BOOK!

Austin

• BookPeople, Award-winning YA Authors AMIE KAUFMAN & JAY KRISTOFF speaking and signing Illuminae, and Local YA Author AMY TINTERA speaking & signing Ruined, 2PM
• Malvern Books, Mother’s Day Reading with Revolution Writing Workshop, 1PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Saying the Magic Words,” 4PM

Monday, May 9

Austin

• BookPeople, JUAN THOMPSON, son of Hunter S. Thompson, in conversation with Douglas Brinkley about Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson, 7PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Flagship, New York Times Bestselling author Ace Atkins will discuss and sign Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn, 7PM [numbered pass required]
• The Mercury, Friends of SMU Library annual dinner & meeting: Skip Hollandsworth will discuss “The Story of Bernie: The Strangest Murder Case in Modern Texas History,” 6PM [RSVP required]
• Sixth Floor Museum, Former Secret Service agent Clint Hill will discuss and sign Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, performative reading of the epic poem, Brand New Ancients, by Kate Tempest, 7:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Corinna Nicolaou discusses and signs A NONE’S STORY, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Camille Perri will sign her novel, The Assistants, 6:30PM

Tuesday, May 10

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Unofficial Hatsune Mix with Hatsune Miku, 7PM
• BookPeople, Writer CORINNA NICOLAOU speaking & signing A None’s Story: Searching for Meaning Inside Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam, 7PM
• BookWoman, Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta reads and signs Refusing to be Enemies, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, The Path to the Presidency: From Lincoln to the Present: panel discussion followed by a signing of A Friend of Mr. Lincoln with Stephen Harrigan, 7PM
• Home Slice Pizza, Eat Your Words fundraiser for Austin Bat Cave: true stories from celebrity foodies + 4-course dinner, 6PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Cedar Hill

• Cedar Hill Library, Dallas Area Writers Group meeting featuring Reavis Z. Wortham, 7PM

Dallas

• Dallas City Performance Hall, Oral Fixation Storytelling: “Icing on the Cake,” 8PM
• The Wild Detectives, women galore: readings of new work by Merritt Tierce and Kendra Greene, 7:30PM

Fort Worth

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

Houston

• Katy Budget Books, Melanie Chrismer discusses and signs Lone Star Legacy, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Paul Charles will sign and discuss St. Ernan’s Blues, 6:30PM
• Warehouse Live, Houston Moth StorySLAM: Siblings, 7:30PM

Richardson

• Charles W. Eisemann Center, Arts & Letters Live! presents Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic, 7:30PM

San Antonio

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

Wednesday, May 11

Austin

• BookPeople, MYSTERYPEOPLE PRESENTS Austin author MILES ARCENEAUX speaking & signing North Beach and novelist PAUL CHARLES speaking & signing St. Ernan’s Blues, 7PM
• Elisabet Ney Museum, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho talks with filmmaker Juan Pablo González about LOS PERROS DESCALZOS, 7PM
• Malvern Books, release of the Spring 2016 edition of Austin Community College’s journal, The Rio Review, 7PM

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, women galore: Claudia Kalb discusses and signs Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History’s Great Personalities, 7:30PM

McAllen

• B&N – Palms Crossing, Meet the Authors: P.J. Hoover and Mari Mancusi, 9:30AM

Thursday, May 12

Austin

• BookPeople, YA Authors SHANNON MESSENGER speaking & signing Let the Wind Rise and CHRIS HOWARD speaking & signing Night Speed, 7PM
• BookWoman, Second Thursday Open Mic featuring Anis Shivani, 7:15PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night with Gudjon Bergmann & Richard Lee Price, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM
• Monkeywrench Books, Cristen Smith discusses and signs Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil, 6:30PM
• Threadgill’s, MysteryPeople Presents NOIR AT THE BAR featuring authors LES EDGERTON – Genuine, Imitation, Plastic Kidnapping, JORDAN HARPER – Love and Other Wounds: Stories, CON LEHANE – Murder at the 42nd Street Library, and JESSE SUBLETT – 1960S Austin Gangsters, 7PM

Boerne

• Patrick Heath Public Library, reception and book signing for David Langford’s two books about Hillingdon Ranch, 6:30PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Miku Expo Let’s Draw! workshop with Hatsune Miku, 7PMHighland Park United Methodist Church, Authors Live!: Angela Duckworth presents GRIT: The Power and Passion of Perseverance, 6PM
• The Wild Detectives, First Hearings: Melissa Ginsburg in discussion with Merritt Tierce about her debut novel Sunset City, 7:30PM

Fort Worth

• Fort Worth Women’s Club, Debra Winegarten discusses and signs OVETA CULP HOBBY, 10AM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses and signs THE ROMANOVS, 6PM
• House of Blues, Floetry, 8PM
• Kaboom Books, a reading from Leslie Contreras Schwartz’s debut poetry collection, Fuego, 7:30PM
• Museum of Fine Art, Glassell School Core Program Lecture: Jennifer Doyle, author of The Athletic Turn: Contemporary Art and the Sport Spectacle, 7PM

Friday, May 13

Arlington

• UT Arlington – Central Library, Debra Winegarten discusses and signs Oveta Culp Hobby, 7:30PM

Austin

• Bookpeople, Award Winning Author ADAM HASLETT speaking & signing Imagine Me Gone, 7PM
• BookWoman, Lambda Award-winning poet Valerie Wetlaufer reading and signing Call Me by My Other Name, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, book release and signing for How to be a Texan: The Manual by Andrea Valdez, 7PM [members only event]
• in.gredients, join the Austin Public Library and the Texas Center for the Book for Books and Beer Friday the 13th Edition: Bad Luck Story Hour and the unveiling of in.gredients’ very own Little Free Library, 6PM
• Malvern Books, a reading with three acclaimed Texas novelists: Mary Helen Specht, Elizabeth Harris, and Thomas McNeely, 7PM

Dallas

• Horchow Auditorium, Arts & Letters Live! presents Kate Tempest: Musician, Poet, Playwright, and Author of The Bricks That Built the Houses, 7:30PM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, George Arnold signs Mulligan: Justice Reclaimed, 4PM
• Houston
• Brazos Bookstore, Judy Frost discusses and signs LET HEAVEN AND NATURE SING, 7PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Sagebrush Volume XI release party!, 7PM
• Trinity University, a reading and conversation with novelist David Shields, genre-bending author of Reality Hunger, 7PM

Saturday, May 14

Arlington

• Half Price Books – Lincoln Square, Kathie Truitt will sell and sign False Victim, 1PM
• Half Price Books – South, local author S. Courtney Killian will sell and sign Days of the Kill, 12PM

Austin

• BookPeople, Local Author BERNADETTE NOLL speaking & signing Look at Us Now, 3PM
• Malvern Books, a reading to celebrate the launch of the latest issue of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 3PM
• Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged inclusive open mic, 7PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Losing Yourself, Finding Your Voice: The Art of Revision” with Thomas McNeely, 9AM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Our Great Big Backyard book signing with Laura Bush and Jenna Bush Hager, 10AM [wristband required]
• B&N – Preston/Royal, Risa Leigh signs Surrender at the Border, 2PM
• The Wild Detectives, women galore: join Caroline Gnagy, author of Texas Jailhouse Music, along with Dallas-based musicians singer-songwriter Carolina Armstrong and underground synth-pop act, Rat Rios for an evening of music and literature, 3PM

Denton

• B&N – Golden Triangle Mall, Meet Heather Patterson, Author of Passing the Bone: America’s Next POTUS, 1PM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop with Adriana López Villarreal: “Engaging: From the Page to the Stage,” 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• LaMancha Business Centre, Fort Worth Writers Boot Camp workshop: Finish That Book! with Michael H. Price, 9AM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Eileen M. Benitz Wagner signs The Ghost City of San Luis Island, 2PM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, George Arnold signs Mulligan: Justice Reclaimed, 11AM

Houston

• B&N – Westheimer, Thistle Downe book signing with Molly and Gary Whitney, 10AM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, YA authors Chris Howard, Shannon Messenger and Amy Tintera talk about their new books for teens, 3PM
• Houston Public Library – Central, Books Alive! 7th Annual Children’s Book Celebration with Dan Santant, 12PM
• Murder By the Book, Hannah Dennison will sign and discuss A Killer Ball at Honeychurch Hall and Con Lehane will sign and discuss Murder at the 42nd Street Library, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Ruby Wicked discusses and signs Gold Boys, 3PM

Hurst

• B&N – North East Mall, Cooking on the Broken Road Farm with Lauren Boehm Lynch, 1PM

Lewisville

• B&N – Vista Ridge, R. R. Ford and C. T. Ford sign Rainbow Wings, 1PM

Lubbock

• B&N, Pablo De Leon signing Limitless, 2PM

Plano

• B&N – Creekwalk Village, Meet Author Polly Holyoke: The Neptune Challenge, 2PM

San Antonio

• B&N – Bandera, Book signing: Under the Watchful Eye by C.J. Roberson, 1PM
• Gemini Ink, Literary Collage: An Evolution Beyond Narrative workshop with David Shields, 10AM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Gale Chance signing The Angel Knows My Name, 1PM

Sugar Land

• B&N – First Colony Mall, Barnes Carr signing Operation Whisper, 3PM
• Sunday, May 15

Sunday, May 15

Arlington

• Half Price Books – South, local author Jeannie Ruth will sell and sign Something of Value, 1PM

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Yarborough, Sisters in Crime Twelfth Annual Barbara Burnett Smith Aspiring Writers’ Event, 2:15PM
• Austin Public Library – John Henry Faulk, Stephen Harrigan will read from A Friend of Mr. Lincoln and discuss the novel with KUT’s Jennifer Stayton, signing to follow, 2PM
• BookPeople, New York Times Bestselling Author MARY ALICE MONROE speaking & signing A Lowcountry Wedding, 3PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Flagship, Ericka Ellis will sell and sign Misguided by Love, Redirected by Faith: My Journey to Freedom, 1PM

Denton

• B&N – Golden Triangle Mall, Meet Bill Vargas, author of A Family Living in Darkness, 2PM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, George Arnold signs Mulligan: Justice Reclaimed, 11AM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, Unofficial Hatsune Mix with Hatsune Miku, 2PM

McKinney

• Myers Park and Event Center, Judy Barrett signs Easy Edibles: How to Grow and Enjoy Fresh Food, TBA

Midland

• B&N, Book Signing: Jim Henry and Jimmy Patterson of the New The Adventures of Willy Nilly & Thumper Children’s Series, 1PM

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