• Summer Book Arts Studio, Houston, July 5–8
• North Texas Comic Book Show, Dallas, July 9

Ongoing Exhibits

• Xu Bing: Book from the Sky, a meditation on the nature of language, by celebrated Chinese artist Xu Bing, Austin, June 19-January 22

Sunday, July 3

Austin

• Recycled Reads, Open Mic Poetry, 3:30PM

Monday, July 4

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Tuesday, July 5

Austin

• The North Door, Owen Egerton’s One Page Salon with Carolyn Cohagan (author of TIME ZERO), Southpaw Jones, Amy Gentry (GOOD AS GONE), Curtis Lucianii, Tyson Midkiff, special Skype Guest the New York TImes Best Selling author Sarah Hepola, plus Bryan Green, 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, New York Times bestselling romance author Abbi Glines will participate in a Q&A and sign her book Up in Flames, 7PM [PASS REQUIRED]

Fort Worth

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

San Antonio

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

Wednesday, July 6

Austin

• BookPeople, New York Times Bestselling Author WILLIAM JOYCE speaking & signing Ollie’s Odyssey, 6PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Vicki Tongate discusses her new book, Another Year Finds Me in Texas: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Pier Stevens, 12PM
• HOST Publications, APLFF presents: Imagery & Specificity Workshop with Amanda North, 6:30PM
• Malvern Books, Brian Foley (The Constitution) reading with local writers Stephanie Goehring, Travis Tate, and Marlon Hedrick, 7PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, First Comes Love book signing with Emily Giffin, 7PM
• Holocaust Museum Houston, Gerald S. Kaplan Endowment Lecture presents Professor Lawrence R. Douglas, author of The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial, followed by book signing, 6PM

Plano

• B&N – Creekwalk, Peregrin Wildoak signs Go Gentle into That Good Night- The Esoteric Dimensions of Death, 7PM

Thursday, July 7

Austin

• BookPeople, Writers DAVID TODD & JONATHAN OGREN speaking & signing The Texas Landscape Project: Nature and People, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, Dr. Venugopal K. Menon signs My Mother Called Me Unni: A Doctor’s Tale of Migration, 4PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Leslie Contreras Schwartz reads from and signs FUEGO, 7PM
• Holocaust Museum Houston, “The Youth Diarists of ‘Salvaged Pages,’” with Alexandra Zapruder, editor of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers` Diaries of the Holocaust, followed by book signing, 6PM

Friday, July 8

Austin

• BookPeople, Avid Outdoorsman M. M. WOLTHOFF speaking & signing The West Texas Pilgrimage, 7PM

Houston

• Inprint House, First Friday Poetry featuring Stella Brice, 8:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Anna Silver will sign and discuss Songbyrd, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Donna Birdwell reads and signs Shadow of the Hare, 6PM

Saturday, July 9

Amarillo

• B&N, Walking the Llano book signing with Shelley Armitage, 2PM

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin SCBWI meeting: Expanding Your Toolbox: How NonFiction and Fiction Writers Use the Same Craft Tools Differently with Cynthia Levinson and Lindsey Lane, 10AM
• BookPeople, Austinite RED WASSENICH speaking &; signing Keeping Austin Weird: A Guide to the (Still) Odd Side of Town, 3PM
• Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Ken Wilson presents In Their Own Words: The Messages of Early 20th Century Texas Real Photo Postcards, 11:30AM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Park, César L. Baquerizo signing A Safe Place With You, 2PM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop with Zyme One: “Memories of My Melancholy Cholas,” 12:45PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Joy Jones signs The Last Madam: A Legend of the Chicken Ranch, 2PM

Highland Village

• B&N, Life Builders book signing, 1PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, Meet the Author and Illustrator James Martin and Catherine Compson: M.U.T.T.: Multiple Utility Tactical Teams, 1PM
• B&N – Westheimer, From Damaged to Destined book signing with April D. Houston, 12PM
• Murder By the Book, Sara Rosett will sign and discuss the newest Ellie Avery mystery, Marriage, Monsters-In-Law, and Murder, 4:30PM
• Writespace, Coptic Stitch Bookbinding: Create Your Own Notebook with Layla Al-Bedawi, 9:30AM
• Writespace, Jumpstart Your Writing with Andreana Binder, 2PM

Pearland

• B&N – Broadway, Tammy Hale signs The Burning Kiss, 12PM

Plano

• B&N – Preston/Park, From Mom to Me Again: How I Survived My First Empty-Nest Year and Reinvented the Rest of My Life book signing with Melissa Schultz, 4PM

Round Rock

• Half Price Books, local author Jodi L. Porter will sell and sign her children’s book Night and Day, 1PM

San Antonio

• Gemini Ink, Workshop: Life Becomes Art: Form in the Essay & Memoir with Debra Monroe, 10AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Maxam Waxaw reads from and signs his new poetry collection Canto. 1-4, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Debra Monroe discusses and signs My Unsentimental Education, 6:30PM

• Rufi’s Cocina, Waco Poets Society featuring Julieta Corpus, 7PM

Webster

• B&N, Gulf Coast Poets meeting featuring Speak!Poet veterans presentation, 10:30AM
• B&N, Melanie Chrismer signing Lone Star Legacy: The Texas Rangers Then and Now, 11AM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Carolyn Gray signs 365 Days of Gratitude, 2PM

Sunday, July 10

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Yarborough, Sisters in Crime panel discussion with Martha Carr, Noreen Cedeno, Doris Christian, and Francine Paino, 2:15PM
• BookPeople, SCHOLASTIC SUMMER READING ROAD TRIP featuring: Varian Johnson, Paige Britt, and Jennifer Ziegler, as well as Clifford the Big Red Dog and Geronimo Stilton!, 2PM
• BookWoman, Jenuine Poetess, founder of Waco Poets Society and ITWOW International, reading & signing Blood Stories, 3PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Twisted Legacy,” 4PM

Bedford

• Half Price Books, local author Nic Stevens will sell and sign Tripping Over Moonlight, 1PM

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, WordSpace presents Looped, featuring poems or prose by Jennifer Whalen, Darryl Ratcliff, Courtney Marie, Christopher Hughes, Fatima Hirsi, and Edyka Chilomé, 7:30PM

Houston

• The Landing Theatre Company, WRITING THE ADAPTATION, A Master Class with Alvaro Saar Rios, 6PM
• Sirrom Studio, Flamenco Poets Society presents Summer Flamenco Lectures 2016, 5PM

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