• ConDFW XVI, February 10-12
• Black History Month Writer’s Showcase, Cedar Hill, February 11-12
• Houston Authors Bash, February 11-12
• Teen Bookfest By the Bay, Corpus Christi, February 18
• Inprint Poets & Writers Ball, Houston, February 18
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Children’s Book Fair, Austin, February 18-19

Ongoing Exhibits

• Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, February 6–July 16
• The Lost Generation: World War I Poetry, Denton, January 17-May 11
• Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites, Fort Worth, January 21-May 7
• The Human Experience: From Texas to the World literacy initiative, Houston, January 18-May 18
• Of Texas Rivers & Texas Art (an exhibition from the book of the same title), San Angelo, February 16-April 9

Sunday, February 12

Austin

• 4th Tap Brewing Co-op, Revel Unclassified Sunday Brunch: musicians, writers, and artists will collaborate to tell stories through music, spoken word, and visual art, 12:30PM
• BookPeople, DEBBIE PEARSON speaking & signing The Blueprint to Age Your Way, 3PM
• Half Price Books – North Lamar, local author Rudy Leeman will sell and sign For Everything a Season: A Historical Novel of an Immigrant Family, 1PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Romance and Other Patriarchal Fantasies,” 4PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, M.J. Dougherty discusses and signs Life Lessons from a Total Failure, 3PM
• Dallas Public Library – North Oak Cliff Branch, lecture with Dr. Kendall Brown, author of Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America (followed by a guided tour of the Japanese garden in Kidd Springs Park), 3PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, all day

Houston

• Brazilian Arts Foundation Cultural Center, “Pablo Neruda and Flamenco Rhythms” – An afternoon of music and poetry with Randy Cordero and Reyes Ramirez, 3PM
• Murder By the Book, Sophie Jordan will sign and discuss her newest novel Rise of Fire, and Lily Blackwood will sign and discuss The Rebel of Clan Kincaid, 2PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, February Sunday Storytime: Guest Author H. Rick Goff, 12PM
• B&N – La Cantera, Valentine’s Day Romance Author Panel with San Antonio Romance Authors Writer’s Organization members Jolene Navarro, Lynn Lorenz, Sasha Summers, Camille Di Maio and Teri Wilson, 2PM
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• The Twig Book Shop, Jim May will discuss and sign Trail Guide for a Crooked Heart: Stories and Reflections for Life’s Journey, 11AM

Monday, February 13

Dallas

• King of Glory Lutheran Church, a talk with Janice Holden, author of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation, 12PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Sarah Jio will discuss and sign ALWAYS, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Chase Untermeyer will discuss and sign ZENITH, 7PM

Irving

• Irving Public Library: Valley Ranch, a theatrical evening with romance author Eloisa James, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• Jandro’s Garden Patio, Wat Dat Mouf Do Erotic Poetry Slam, 8:30PM

Tuesday, February 14

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Windsor Park, Stephen Harrigan will discuss A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, 7PM
• BookPeople, KATIE KITAMURA speaking & signing A Separation (In Conversation With Antonio Ruiz-Camacho), 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Kevin W. Burke, 8PM

Cedar Hill

• Zula Bryant Wylie Library, “Romance 101: Adding Romance to Your Story”: Dallas Area Writers Group meeting with Amanda Arista, 7PM

Dallas

• AT&T Performing Arts Center, #HearHere lecture series presents Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour, ?
• Hyatt Regency Dallas, “Learning to Lead in the New Washington” with former Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert M. Gates, author of A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service, 12PM
• The Wild Detectives, Spiderweb Salon Love You: POETRY! MUSIC! ART! ZINES! BOOKS! COFFEE! BEER! LOVE!, 7PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Power of Love: An Evening of Poetry, Spoken Word and Music, 8PM

Houston

• Murder By the Book, Mark Greaney will sign and discuss Gunmetal Gray, 6:30PM

Irving

• La Madeleine, Fresh Fiction presents breakfast with romance author Eloisa James, 9AM

San Angelo

• First Place, San Angelo Writers Club meeting featuring Mike Thompson, author of Wolf Point, 6:30PM

San Antonio

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

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Author Series: local author Susan LeMiles presents “Shenanigans on the Rio Grande,” 1PM

Wednesday, February 15

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Manchaca Road, Workshop: The Power of Memoir: Bringing your life stories to the world with author Sharon Lippincott, 1PM
• BookPeople, K.J. HOWE speaking & signing The Freedom Broker (In Conversation With JEFF ABBOTT), 7PM
• Malvern Books, An Evening with poets Bruce Willard & Joe Brundidge, 7PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Chris Bohjalian discussing and signing The Sleepwalker, and Katie Kitamura reading and signing A Separation, 7:30PM

Fort Worth

• TCU – Moudy North, Live Oak Reading Series featuring Johnny Simons, 6:30PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Cullen Theater, a rare and historic evening with Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Eva Schloss, step-sister of Anne Frank and author of After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank, 7PM
• Houston Museum of Natural Science, HMNS Distinguished Lecture Series with Melvin Konner, author of Women After All (followed by book signing), 6:30PM
• Lone Star College – North Harris, Book Discussion with author and professor Mignette Dorsey – Speak Truth to Power: The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer, 11:30AM
• Murder By the Book, Ian Rankin will sign and discuss Rather Be The Devil, 6:30PM

Killeen

• TYKU, Marlon Powe launches his new book Writing With a Broken Pen, 8PM

San Antonio

• Rebar, Kinyo Poetry Live: “My SAless,” 8:30PM
• San Antonio Public Library – Encino, Jan Jarboe Russell will discuss The Train to Crystal City, 6:30PM
• Trinity University, Douglas Brinkley will discuss and sign Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America, 7PM

Thursday, February 16

Arlington

• UTA College Park Center, Maverick Speakers series presents Kevin O’Leary, author of Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life. 7:30PM

Austin

• BookPeople, IAN RANKIN speaking & signing Rather Be The Devil, 7P
• BookPeople, Writers’ League of Texas Third Thursday: How to Unite, Ignite, and Get It Right: Writing about Social Justice with Nan Cuba, Vive Griffith, Alejandro Puyana, and Daniel Oppenheimer, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM
• Recycled Reads, Workshop: The Power of Memoir: Bringing your life stories to the world with author Sharon Lippincott, 6PM
• UT – Avaya Auditorium, Michener Center presents an evening with visiting writer-in-residence Margot Livesey, 7:30PM

Dallas

• Hotel Crescent Court, Richard N. Haass will discuss and sign A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order, 12PM
• The Wild Detectives, Dave Romanelli discusses and signs Happy Is the New Healthy, 7:30PM

El Paso

• 501 Bar & Bistro, Frontera Poetry Slam featuring Soularae, 7:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Harriet Lerner will discuss and sign WHY WON’T YOU APOLOGIZE?, 7PM
• The Heritage Society, Jerry & Marvy Finger Lecture Series with Raul A. Ramos, author of Recovering the Hispanic History of Texas, 12PM
• Holocaust Museum Houston, Dr. Lori Flores will discuss and sign Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants and the California Farmworker Movement, 6:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Charles Todd will sign and discuss Racing the Devil, 6:30PM
• RockStar Art Gallery, Open house, reception, art, music, and poetry with Vena Ashley, 6:30PM

Lindale

• Lillie Russell Memorial Library, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: Texas Writes with Jeramey Kraatz and Liz Garton Scanlon, 10AM

San Antonio

• San Antonio Public Library – Central, Jan Jarboe Russell will discuss The Train to Crystal City, 6:30PM

Tomball

• Lone Star College, 2016 Texas State Poet Laureate, Laurie Ann Guerrero, will be reading her works, answer questions, and signing books, 12:30PM

Victoria

• University of Houston, American Book Review reading series presents Vivian Gornick, 12PM

Friday, February 17

Arlington

• UTA Central Library, ANDRÉS RESÉNDEZ will discuss and sign The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, 7:30PM

Austin

• BookPeople, JOEL BERG speaking & signing America, We Need to Talk, 7PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Pandora’s Box Poetry Group featuring Opalina Salas, Joaquín Zihuatanejo, and Gabe Mamola, 7PM
• Heroes Lounge, WordSpaceDallas and Dallas Poetry Slam present Featured Reader Readers with Melania-luisa, 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, David Romanelli will discuss and sign HAPPY IS THE NEW HEALTHY, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Alexandra Burt will sign and discuss The Good Daughter, and Hester Young will sign and discuss her debut novel, The Shimmering Road, 6:30PM
• Rudyard’s Pub, Gulf Coast Journal reading series featuring Tim Z. Hernandez, Charlotte Wyatt, Rhianna Brandt, and Matthew Salesses, 7PM
• University of Houston – Central Campus, UH Ethics in Science Lecture Series with Theodore M. Porter, author of The Unknown History of Human Heredity, 11AM

Midland

• B&N, David Bryant Perkins discusses and signs Hitler’s Astrologer, 5:30PM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Author Series: Mary “Norski” Gorball discusses and signs Where My Dolly Lives, 2PM

Saturday, February 18

Austin

• Austin Community College – Highland, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “The Craft of Short Fiction: Telling the Story with Fewer Words and More Punch” with Lindsey Lane, 9AM
• Austin Public Library – Windsor Park, Spoken word poetry with Ebony Stewart, 6PM
• Austin Public Library – Yarborough, Austin Poetry Society meeting featuring Anne McCrady, 1:30PM
• BookPeople, SARAH PINBOROUGH speaking & signing Behind Her Eyes, 3PM
• Half Price Books – North Lamar, local author Cynthia Flynn will sell and sign her new Christian living book God, the Financial Genius, 1PM
• Sharp Noggin, Workshop: Legacy Writing I: The Memoir and the Autobiography, 10AM

Dallas

• African American Museum, The Texas Writers’ Workshop, ?
• B&N – Preston/Royal, E.R. Bills signs Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, 2PM
• Margo Jones Theatre, Lyn Liric: A poet’s tribute to Nina Simone, 8PM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: Nancy Lorenza Green presents Inspirational Voices: Langston Hughes, 12:45PM

Houston

• Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, all day
• Murder By the Book, Charles Cumming will sign and discuss The Divided Spy, 5:30PM
• University of St. Thomas, Duo La Note Bleue: Powers of Music, a lecture-recital with Marcelo Zigaran, author of Powers of Music, 7:30PM
• Writespace, Workshop: Introduction to the Writing Life with Elizabeth White Olsen, 9:30AM

Midland

• Susie’s South (S/40) Forty Confections, Join Jaden and McKinley Evans at the book signing and reading of Jaden’s books, The Rain and The Magical Block Tower, 10AM

Port Neches

• Fleur Fine Books, Steven Brust Meet & Greet and Book Signing, 4PM

San Antonio

• B&N – Bandera Pointe, Pamela Humphrey signs The Blue Reboza and Finding Clair, 1PM
• Red Balloon Bookshop, local author Mary Losure launches Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton Reveal’d, 2PM
• San Antonio Public Library – Igo, San Antonio Romance Authors meeting featuring Cathy Maxwell, 10:30AM
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• The Twig Book Shop, Sharon Falk reads and signs One Time I Went to Grammy’s, 11AM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre Boulevard, discussion and book signing with rodeo historian and author Gail Hughbanks Woerner, 1–3 pm

Sugar Land

• Half Price Books – Sugar Land, Rosalie King will be signing and promoting her book “Deadly Transformation,” 1-3 pm

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Zeola Jackson signs Lizzy The Bear Has Feelings Too!, 2PM

Sunday, February 19

Austin

• 4th Tap Brewing Co-op, Revel Unclassified Sunday Brunch: musicians, writers, and artists will collaborate to tell stories through music, spoken word, and visual art, 12:30PM
• Austin History Center, discussion and book signing with the editors of Celebrating the Rag: Austin’s Iconic Underground Newspaper, 2PM
• BookPeople, Poet FRANCES SCHENKKAN speaking & signing Mr. Stevens’ Secretary, 3PM
• Half Price Books – North Lamar, local author Heather Schwartz will sell and sign Darkness Falls, 1PM
• Malvern Books, An Afternoon with poets Ginny Wiehardt, Julie Poole & Drea Brown, 2PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Dr. Brian King signs The Laughing Cure, 1PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Author Visit: Joel Berg discusses and signs America, We Need to Talk: A Self-Help Book for the Nation, 4:30PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, all day
• Omni Dallas Hotel at Park West, Jane Austen Society of North Texas meeting with Dr. Gillian Dow, author of Chawton House Library, 2PM

Houston

• Murder By the Book, Sarah Pinborough will sign and discuss Behind Her Eyes, 2PM

Irving

• Irving Public Library: South, African American Read-In 2017: One World, Many Tales with Varian Johnson, 1:30PM

San Antonio

• B&N – Bandera Pointe, Author Signing: From the Barrio to the Board Room with Dr. Laura Nobles Banks-Reed, 2:30PM
• B&N – La Cantera, February Sunday Storytime: Guest Joy Fisher Hein, 12PM
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• The Twig Book Shop, Charles Parish discusses and signs The Groom Wore White Socks, 11AM

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