• Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States, a Humanities Texas exhibit, Fort Worth, September 15-October 15
• Xu Bing: Book from the Sky, a meditation on the nature of language, by celebrated Chinese artist Xu Bing, Austin, June 19-January 22
• The Alchemy of Mind and Spirit: Intersections of Science and Poetry, Austin, September 26-January 13

Special Events

• Banned Books Week, nationwide, September 25-October 1
• NF4NF Children’s Nonfiction Writers Conference, Rosenberg, September 22-25
• FenCon XIII, Irving, September 23-25
• Wizard World Comic Con, Austin, September 23-25
• Lone Star Book Festival, Austin, September 24-25
• Texas Grand Slam Poetry Festival, Bryan/College Station, September 29-October 2
• Waco WordFest, September 30-October 2
• Boerne Book Festival, October 1
• Evening with the Authors, Lockhart, October 1
• 5th Annual Houston LibroFEST, October 1
• Texas Teen Book Festival, Austin, October 1

Sunday, September 25

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin Author Debbie Pearson speaking & signing Age Your Way, 3PM
• BookWoman, Megan Whitmarsh and Ariel Evans read from Pastelegram no. 6, “Women on the Edge of Time,” 4PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Susie Wolbe signs The Empowered Teacher, 1PM
• Half Price Books Mothership Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!
• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Authors LIVE! presents S.C. Gwynne, author of The Perfect Pass, 6PM

Fort Worth

• Will Rogers Memorial Center, Paige Clough reads & signs Nosey Rosey and The Jumping Orie Story, and Molly Whitney reads & signs Thistle Downe, 1:15 & 4PM

Houston

• Writespace, Workshop: Introduction to Flash Fiction with Patricia Flaherty Pagan, 3PM

Monday, September 26

Austin

• BookPeople, Music Journalist CHUCK EDDY speaking &; signing Terminated for Reasons of Taste:Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Ananda Devi reads and signs Eve Out of Her Ruins, 7PM
• UT, Ananda Devi lectures from Eve Out of Her Ruins, 4PM

Fort Worth

• LaMancha Business Centre, Let’s Read Into This reading series: Tammy Gomez presents About Place Journal, 7:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Josefine Klougart reads and signs ONE OF US IS SLEEPING, 7PM

Tuesday, September 27

Austin

• BookPeople, Bestselling Author & journalist S.C. GWYNNE speaking &signing The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football, 7PM [ticket required]
• Malvern Books, Francois Pointeau hosts Malvern’s Multi-Verse reading series featuring poets from the Barrio Writers program, 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

College Station

• Texas A&M University-Annenberg Presidential Conference Center, Pivotal U.S. Elections: American Democracy at Issue panel with authors/scholars H. W. Brands, Katherine R. Unterman, George C. Edwards III, and Terry Anderson, 4PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, It’s Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn’t Choose book signing with Melanie Dale, 7PM
• Center for BrainHealth, Andrea Wildenthal Hanson lectures from her book about multiple sclerosis, Live Your Life, Not Your Diagnosis, book signing follows, 6:15PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Josefine Klougart reads, discusses, and signs One of Us Is Sleeping, 6:30PM
• Lucky Dog Books-Oak Cliff, Soup’s On: Stone Soup Showcase, 7PM
• SMU-McCord Auditorium, presentation of the annual David J. Weber-William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America to historian Andrew J. Torget for Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850, followed by a lecture and book signing, 5:30PM

Fort Worth

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

Houston

• Bohemeo’s, Glass Mountain Reading, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Ananda Devi reads and signs EVE OUT OF HER RUINS, 7PM
• Houston Museum of Natural Science, Distinguished Lecture Series: Brian Matthew Jordan discusses and signs Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, 6:30PM
• Kaboom Books, Kick off the fall reading season with Failure to Identify and Tintero Readings featuring Rodrigo Toscano and Charles Alexander, 7PM

San Antonio

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

Webster

• B&N-Baybrook, Fourth Tuesday Poetry: contributing poets, featuring Chuck Taylor, read from The Beatest State in the Union, 7:30PM

Wednesday, September 28

Austin

• BookPeople, YA Author KRISTEN-PAIGE MADONIA speaking & signing Invisible Fault Lines, 7PM
• North Door, Austin Book Arts Center First Birthday Bash!, 6PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, happy hour reading, book signing, and celebration with Ananda Devi, author of Eve Out of Her Ruins, 4PM
• Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art’s Arts &Letters Live presents Candice Millard, author of Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill, 7:30PM
• The Wild Detectives, Ananda Devi reads and signs Eve Out of Her Ruins (with Will Evans of Deep Vellum Publishing), 7:30PM

Denton

• University of North Texas-Sage Hall, Visiting Writers Series: New Faculty reading with Jehanne Dubrow, Ian McGuire, and Jill Talbot, 8PM

Fort Worth

• LifeWay Store, prayer event and visit with authors Becky Wade and Karen Witemeyer, 6PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:15PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Ridley Pearson will discuss and sign his new novel for kids, LOCK AND KEY: THE INITIATION, 5PM
• Memorial Wine Cellar, iWrite Luncheon Kick Off Party, 6:30PM
• Murder By the Book, William Kent Krueger will sign and discuss Manitou Canyon, 6:30PM

Irving

• South Irving Library, A Big Read 2016 event: a reading and book signing with Meg Medina, Cuban-American award-winning author of the children’s book Mango, Abuela and Me, and YA novels Burn Baby Burn, and Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, 7PM

Thursday, September 29

Austin

• BookPeople, New York Times Bestselling Author RIDLEY PEARSON speaking & signing Lock & Key: The Initiation, 6PM
• Farewell Books, “Just the Few of Us” group poetry reading with ADRIENNE HERR, DION JAMES, JOOLS MCKNUCKLES, and ZOE DARSEE, 6PM
• Harry Ransom Center, 2016 Burnshaw Lecture: a reading by Naomi Shihab Nye, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish &More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM

Dallas

• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Book Signing, Lecture, Reception with Craig Nelson, author of Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness, 6PM
• UT-Dallas, Ananda Devi lectures from Eve Out of Her Ruins, 5PM
• The Wild Detectives, Cruzando el Border series: Daniel Saldaña París reads and signs Among Strange Victims, 7:30PM [bilingual event]

Fort Worth

• Texas Christian University, Ananda Devi lectures and discusses Eve Out of Her Ruins, 9:15AM

Houston

• Poison Girl, Poison Pen Reading Series 10th Anniversary Reading featuring Mat Johnson, Adrienne Perry & Rob Wilder, 8:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Chris Holmes reads and signs his poetry collection, Just Another Black Voice, 4PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Emmy Perez reads and signs her poetry collection, With the River on Our Face, 6PM

Friday, September 30

Austin

• Alamo Drafthouse Cinema-South Lamar, Texas Teen Book Festival screens The Outsiders with Penguin Teen authors Sabaa Tahir, David Arnold, and Renée Ahdieh, 6:30PM
• BookPeople, Performance Coach CORT DIAL speaking &signing Heretics to Heroes: A Memoir on Modern Leadership, 7PM
• Malvern Books, International Translation Day Celebration with a reading featuring renowned translators Kurt Heinzelman, Liliana Valenzuela, and Jamey Gambrell, 7PM

Dallas

• Lucky Dog Books-Oak Cliff, “Paradise is Burning” poetry with Randall Garrett and Lauren Belmore (part of Freefall Festival), 8PM

Houston

• B&N-River Oaks, George Arnold signs Pharaohs’ Follies: Kits of the CIA, 2PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Banned Books, Banned Lives: A Celebration of All Voices with readings by Caroline Leech (WAIT FOR ME), Anna Meriano (LOVE SUGAR MAGIC), Varsha Bajaj (THIS IS OUR BABY, BORN TODAY), as well as Houston area librarians,7PM
• University of Houston Downtown – Academic Building, Three acclaimed authors—Luis J. Rodríguez, Javier O. Huerta, and Henry A. J. Ramos—will speak at the Latino Young Men and Boys in Search of Justice: A My Brother’s Keeper Forum (Presented by Arte Público Press), 8AM

Saturday, October 1

Austin

• Austin Book Arts Center, Fall Open House, 10AM
• Austin Community College-Highland, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Developing Characters: Make Readers Root for Your Protagonist” with Jennifer Ziegler, 9AM
• Casa de Resistencia Books, Pariahs book release and signing with Sarah Rafael García and Mónica Ortiz, 7PM
• Malvern Books, James Dennis reads and sign his debut poetry collection, CORRESPONDENCE IN D MINOR, plus a reading by Kirk Wilson, 7PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, reading, reception, and book signing with Fabiana Elisa Martinez, author of the bilingual collection 12 Random Words / 12 Palabras Al Azar, 7PM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop with Gene Keller: “Hope and Other Chores”, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• Art on the Boulevard, Art & Words Collaborative Show 2016, 6:30PM
• The Last Word Bookstore, launch of Panther City Review, 4PM

Frisco

• Frisco Heritage Museum, Museum Lecture Series: Rusty Williams discusses and signs The Red River Bridge War: A Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle, 9:30AM

Houston

• B&N-River Oaks, B&N-River Oaks, George Arnold signs Pharaohs’ Follies: Kits of the CIA, 11AM
• Half Price Books-North Oaks Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!
• Institute of Hispanic Culture, Literary Round Table with Dr. Lorenzo Martinez, author of Cuba, Adiós: A Young Man’s Journey to Freedom, followed by book signing, 4PM
• MATCH Houston, 2016 Houston History Conference: The History of Houston’s Musical Soul with keynote address by Texas author Joe Nick Patoski, 9AM
• Murder By the Book, William Dylan Powell will sign and discuss Untimely Demise, 4:30PM
• The Printing Museum, Workshop: BINDING A CLASSIC HARD COVER BOOK, 12PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Jacory Wiley reads and signs Vision to Dream, 3PM
• Writespace, Workshop: Indie Publishing 101 with D.L. Young, 10AM

Round Rock

• Half Price Books Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!

San Antonio

• B&N – Bandera, Author Signing: Lose the Diet, Lose the Weight with Carl E. Coppock, 4PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Adrianne Hemenway reads and signs Path to Enlightenment, 11AM

Southlake

• B&N, Scott Ayars signing Triton Rising, 1PM

Webster

• B&N-Baybrook, Gulf Coast Poets 2016 Poetry Out of Bounds featuring Elina Petrova, 1PM

The Woodlands

• B&N-Woodlands Mall, Monte Akers and Nathan Akers sign Tower Sniper: The Terror of America’s First Active Shooter on Campus, 2PM

Sunday, October 2

Austin

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

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!

Houston

• B&N-River Oaks, George Arnold signs Pharaohs’ Follies: Kits of the CIA, 11AM
• MATCH Houston, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Love Poems: Music and Poetry, 6PM

Huntsville

• Texas Prison Museum, Dr. Mitchel Roth reads and signs Convict Cowboys: The Untold Story of the Texas Prison Rodeo, 2PM

Mansfield

• Half Price Books Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!

San Marcos

• Texas State University-Wittliff Collections, Rocky Schenck signs The Recurring Dream, 2PM

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