• 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 Festival Book for San Fernando: Celebrating Sainthood in Baroque Seville, Dallas, through January 29
• Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites, Fort Worth, January 21-May 7

Special Events

• Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend, Nacogdoches, January 12-15
  12th Annual MLK Symposium, Dallas, January 16
• The Tom Bird Method Retreat: Write Your Book in a Weekend, Houston, January 19-21
• Bookworm Festival, Houston, January 21

Sunday, January 15

Austin

• BookPeople, Entrepreneur RICHARD GARRIOTT speaking & signing EXPLORE/CREATE: My Life in Pursuit of New Frontiers, Hidden Worlds, and the Creative Spark, 3PM
• BookPeople, Austin #WritersResist A Counter-Inauguration: readings with Sarah Bird, Elizabeth McCracken, Cyrus Cassells, Sasha West, Tammy Gomez, Chaitali Sen and many more including surprise guests, 6PM
• Malvern Books: National Poets Protest Against Trump – Austin, Texas, Jan. 15 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Dallas

• Bishop Arts Theatre Center, DFW #WritersResist readings, 7PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, all day

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Main, El Paso #WritersResist readings, 2PM

Houston

• Holocaust Museum Houston, Tintero Projects’ “We Too Sing America” #WritersResist readings with 70+ Houston poets and writers, 5PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Mallary McKinzie LVT discusses and signs How to Train a Husband: A Vet Tech’s Guide to Love and Marriage, 2PM
• Rothko Chapel, Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.: “The Fierce Urgency of Now,” a lecture by Leonard Pitts, Jr., author of Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood, joined by Jackson Neal, 2016 Meta-four Houston Youth Poetry Slam team member, and Fareena Arefeen, City of Houston’s second Youth Poet Laureate, 5PM

San Antonio

• Alamo Brewery, San Antonio #WritersResist readings, 1PM

Monday, January 16

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, David Eric Tomlinson reads and signs The Midnight Man, 7:30PM

Spring

• World Champions Centre, Simone Biles signing “Courage to Soar,” 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m

Tuesday, January 17

Austin

• BookPeople, MANJULA MARTIN speaking & signing Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living (in conversation with Austin Kleon and Sarah Smarsh), 7PM
• BookWoman, “Getting to Know the Goddess” series featuring Tarot Through The Witch’s Eye, presented by Suzanne McAnna, 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic featuring four-time World Poetry Slam Champion Ed Mabrey, 8PM
• The Last Word Bookstore, Melinda Massie discusses and signs From Hot Mess to Hot Damn!, 6PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, National Book Award-winner Neal Shusterman signs Scythe, 7PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, James Riley will discuss and sign his STORY THIEVES series for kids, 5PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Chris Tusa reads and signs IN THE CITY OF FALLING STARS, 7PM

• World Champions Centre, Simone Biles signing “Courage to Soar,” Books-A-Million in Katy Mills Mall, 7 pm

San Antonio

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

The Twig Book Shop, Jason Hill reads and signs Social Hill, 5PM

Wednesday, January 18

Austin

• BookPeople, CHANELLE BENZ speaking & signing The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead (in conversation with author Kirk Lynn), 7PM
• Long Center, an evening with, Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, award winning- astrophysicist, author, and host of FOX’s Cosmos, 7:30PM
• The North Door, Bedpost Confessions: storytelling featuring Sadie Smythe, Magdalene Burger, Holly Lorka, and Elle G, 8PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, newspaper reporter, author, and editor Bill Sanderson will discuss and sign Bulletins From Dallas: Reporting the JFK Assassination, 7PM
• Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art’s Arts & Letters Live presents Geoff Dyer, author of White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World, 7PM
• Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff, OPEN MIC STORYTELLING: FIGURES OF SPEAK hosted by Jeanine B, 7PM
• Parish Episcopal School, David Smick discusses and signs The Great Equalizier: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone (a DFW World Affairs Council event), 6:30PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Story Thieves: Secret Origins book signing with James Riley, 6PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM

Hurst

• B&N – NE Mall, National Book Award-winner Neal Shusterman signs Scythe, 7PM

San Antonio

• One Drop Reggae Shop & Juice Bar, Poetry: Crazyless Kinyo Live “What Is Mental Health,” 8:30PM

Thursday, January 19

Austin

• BookPeople, WRITERS’ LEAGUE OF TEXAS presents “BECOME A MORE-INVOLVED LITERARY CITIZEN: How to Create Literary Discussions and Support Journals and Literary Events” with Nora Comstock, Owen Egerton, Rebecca Markovits, and Richard Santos, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM
• The North Door, Bedpost Confessions: storytelling featuring Sadie Smythe, Magdalene Burger, Holly Lorka, and Elle G, 8PM

Dallas

• Wordspace Dallas, celebrate the release of Greg Brownderville’s third poetry collection, A Horse with Holes in It (hosted by Sanderia Faye), [private residence, RSVP for location]

Frisco

• Stonebriar Country Club, David Smick discusses and signs The Great Equalizier: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone (a DFW World Affairs Council event), 7:30AM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Chanelle Benz reads and signs THE MAN WHO SHOT MY EYE OUT IS DEAD, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Gregg Hurwitz will sign and discuss The Nowhere Man, 6:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Kathryn Haueisen reads and signs Asunder, 4PM

Weslaco

• The Storybook Garden, Award-winning author David Bowles will read from and sign GHOSTS OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY, 6:30PM

Friday, January 20

Austin

• BookPeople, Author & Businessman JT MCCORMICK speaking & signing I Got There, 7PM

Dallas

• Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam featuring Lady B Smoove, 8PM

Houston

• MECA, Orbit Slam Series, 6PM
• St. Paul’s United Methodist, Tintero Projects presents #WritersResist/Houston: “Let Us Gather” with more than 70 Houston poets and writers of diverse backgrounds, 7PM

San Antonio

The Twig Book Shop, Emily Esfahani Smith discusses and signs The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters, 6PM

Saturday, January 21

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Yarborough, Austin Poetry Society meeting featuring Alan Berecka, Poet Laureate of Corpus Christi, 1:30PM
• BookPeople, Pastry Chef PASCAL SIMON speaking & signing Bake Austin Kids, 2PM
• BookPeople, JASON DIAMOND speaking & signing Searching for John Hughes (in conversation with MICHAEL SCHAUB), 6PM
• Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged inclusive open mic, 7PM
• Resistencia Books, readings from the 7th edition of the Barrio Writers Anthology, 2PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Better Prose Through Poetry: Using Rhythm, Repetition and Other Poetic Tools in Your Writing” with Charlotte Gullick, 9AM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Oliver F. Chase signs Levant Mirage, 1PM

Denton

• B&N – Golden Triangle Mall, local author Jeff Miller signs The Game Changers: Abner Haynes, Leon King, and the Fall of Major College Football’s Color Barrier in Texas, 2PM

El Paso

• B&N – Sunland Park, Man With the Black Box book signing with Colin P. Cahoon, 2PM
• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: Rex Waide presents Streaming Consciousness: Expressionism vs Realist Writing , 12:45PM

Houston

• Lawndale Art Center, Gulf Coast 30th anniversary party featuring Danez Smith, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Terry Shames will sign and discuss An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock, and Laura Elvebak will sign and discuss A Matter of Revenge, 1PM
• Murder By the Book, Beatriz Williams with sign and discuss The Wicked City, 4:30PM
• The Pilot on Navigation, WITS Workshop with world-renowned poet Danez Smith, 4PM
• The Pilot on Navigation, Space City Poetry Slam Series Kickoff, 7PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Darrell Lee reads and signs The Gravitational Leap, 3PM
• Rudyard’s Pub, Public Poetry presents The PM Show, 8PM

Moody

• Mother Neff State Park, Arts in the Parks: Haiku Hike, 2PM

Plano

• B&N – Creekwalk Village, Lonna Enox signs Striking Blind: A Sorrel Janes Mystery, 2PM
• B&N – Preston/Park, Lauren Freeman signs The New Boss, 2PM

San Antonio

• B&N – Bandera Pointe, Beverly Shaw signing God’s Glory Revealed, 1PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Martha Miller discusses and signs Times New Roman: How We Quit Our Jobs, Gave Away Our Stuff & Moved to Italy, 11AM
  
• The Twig Book Shop, Nancy West reads and signs River City Dead: An Aggie Mundeen Mystery, 2PM
  

Weslaco

• The Storybook Garden, Rebecca Luna reads and signs BORN TO BE FAST!, 11AM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Kim Parker signs East Meets West: Parenting from the Best of Both Worlds, 2PM

Sunday, January 22

Austin

• BookPeople, EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH speaking & signing The Power of Meaning, 3PM
• Malvern Books, An Afternoon with Michael Bunker & Forbes West, 1PM
• Malvern Books, a reading from acclaimed poets Steve McCaffery and Karen Mac Cormack, 3PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, all day
• Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art’s Arts & Letters Live presents Levison Wood, author of Walking the Nile and Walking the Himalayas, 4PM

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