• One Day Jewish University, Dallas, February 26
• FESTIBA, Festival of International Books & Arts, Edinburg & Brownsville, February 27-March 5
• Odessa College, Odessa, Writers’ League of Texas presents Celebrating Texas Independents: Our Great Literary State’s Independent Presses, Journals, Bookstores & More (panel discussion), 7PM
• North Texas Teen Book Festival, Irving, March 3–4
• Odessa Shakespeare Festival, March 3–5
• Houston Writers Guild Annual One Day Conference, March 4
• Sin Fronteras Independent Book Festival, Brownsville, March 4

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
• Sandra Cisneros: A House of Her Own Exhibition, San Marcos, February 15–July 1
• Cartooning Texas: One Hundred Years of Cartoon Art in the Lone Star State, Del Rio, March 1–31
• Texas Writers: Humanities Texas Exhibition, Salado, March 3–31
• The Art of Dr. Seuss: A Retrospective Exhibition, Austin, March 4–April 2

Sunday, February 26

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, JON LASSER & SAGE FOSTER-LASSER speaking & signing Grow Happy, 2PM
• Malvern Books, poet G F Harper launches Savage Yard with Jenna Martin Opperman and Jim Trainer, 4PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Yvette Grove Reads and signs Lily’s Deliciously Different Day, 1PM
• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Adam Gidwitz, author of The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, 3PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Dark Moon Poetry, 7PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, all day

Frisco

• Frisco Public Library, Sisters in Crime North Dallas workshop: “Writing Powerful Emotions” presented by Kathleen Baldwin, 2PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, February Sunday Storytime: Guest Author Shanalee Sharboneau, 12PM
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• The Twig Book Shop, Rick Goff reads and signs A Gorilla Ridin’ on a Half a Hot Dog, 2PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission book signing with Britt Baier, 1PM

Monday, February 27

Austin

• BookPeople, Editors KIM GORSUCH and CARLEY WOLF speaking & signing Seduced By Sound Austin, 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Elliott Ackerman reads and signs DARK AT THE CROSSING, 7PM

Tuesday, February 28

Austin

• LBJ Presidential Library, An evening with journalist and author Cokie Roberts (preceded by book signing of Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 and Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies at 5PM), 6PM
• Malvern Books, Malvern’s Multi-Verse with Pen2Paper, 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Boatman (hosted by Christopher Michael), 8PM

Dallas

• SMU – Karcher Auditorium, Pia Orrenius, co-author of Beside the Golden Door: U.S. Immigration Reform in a New Era of Globalization, discusses “The Migration Challenge,” 5:30PM
• The Texas Theatre, screening of High Noon (1952), followed by a discussion with Dallas Morning News culture critic Chris Vognar and Glenn Frankel, author of High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, 8PM
• The Wild Detectives, Sofía Segovia reads and signs Hurácan, 7:30PM [bilingual event]

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and open mic!, 8PM

Houston

• The Black Labrador, Houston Writers House meeting with guest speaker Kimberly Newsome, 6:30PM
• Bohemeo’s, Glass Mountain reading series, 7PM
• Harris County Public Library – Evelyn Meador Branch, story time celebrating the National Endowment for the Arts program Read Across America, 10:30AM
• University of St. Thomas, Crossroads Cultural Center presents The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde with author and Professor Joseph Pearce, 6:30PM

San Antonio

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

Wednesday, March 1

Austin

• BookPeople, V. E. SCHWAB speaking & signing A Conjuring of Light, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Chris Tomlinson discusses and signs Tomlinson Hill: Sons of Slaves, Sons of Slaveholders, 12PM

Dallas

• Aaron Family Jewish Community Center, Dr. David Patterson discusses and signs A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad, 7PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Glenn Frankel discusses and signs HIGH NOON, 7PM
• University of Houston, Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts presents the Cargo and Carrier Lecture Series: Artist Talk with artist and writer Jill Magid, 1PM
• University of Houston, Poetry & Prose presents UH Creative Writing Program Professors Tony Hoagland & Nick Flynn, 5:30PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Sabra Moore discusses and signs Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992, 5PM

Thursday, March 2

Austin

• BookPeople, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist GLENN FRANKEL speaking & signing High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, 7PM
• The Elisabet Ney Museum, An Evening with writer-in-residence Lisa Olstein and author Edward Carey, 7PM
• Harry Ransom Center, Helen Shenton, Librarian and College Archivist of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, presents “The Library of the Future; the Future of the Library,” 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM
• Mitte Carriage House, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Make a Long Story Short: Writing a Novel Synopsis” with Jo Whittemore, 6PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Amy Poeppel discusses and signs Small Admissions, 7PM
• South Dallas Cultural Center, African Diaspora: New Dialogues 2017 featuring author DonJuan Hutchinson and Javon Rustin of Dallas Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• The Wild Detectives, Storytelling: Peace Corps Story Night, 6:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, V.E. Schwab will discuss her newest novel, A CONJURING OF LIGHT, 7PM
• Talento Bilingue de Houston, An Evening of Literary Tejana Power: Norma Cantu and Ines Hernandez read from the anthology Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art, 6:30PM

Lubbock

• Texas Tech, Creative Writing Reading Series hosts Edward Kelsey Moore, 7:30PM

Midland

• Midland Centennial Library, former First Lady Laura Bush will sign Our Great Big Backyard, 1:30PM

Odessa

• Odessa College, Writers’ League of Texas presents Celebrating Texas Independents: Our Great Literary State’s Independent Presses, Journals, Bookstores & More (panel discussion), 7PM

San Antonio

• The Movement Gallery, Writing Workshop featuring Polly Anna, 7PM
  
• The Twig Book Shop, Sofia Segovia reads and signs Hurácan, 6PM

San Marcos

• TSU – Alkek Library, Texas Music History celebrating the latest book in our Dickson Book Series, Pickers and Poets, with a panel discussion, book signing, and live music, 7PM

Friday, March 3

Austin

• BookPeople, KATHRYN SCOBLICK speaking and signing Ditch the Diets: It’s Not All About The Food, and JEREMI SURI, WILLIAM INBODEN, and JOSHUA BUSBY speaking & signing Sustainable Security: Rethinking American National Security Strategy, 7PM
• Casa Resistencia Books, Café Libro Open Mic: Celebrating Words and Verses of Michele Serros, featuring: Diana Gómez, Andrea Zarate, Marilyse Figueroa, Bianca Flores, Michelle Mejía, and Rachel Caballero, 7:30PM
• Malvern Books, a night of poetry to celebrate the kick-off of Mathias Svalina’s Dream Delivery Service, 7PM

Brownsville

• El Hueso de Fraile, Poesía en Atril, 6:30PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Banana Cream Pie Murder book signing with Joanna Fluke, 7PM

Denton

• University of North Texas, Claire Legrand reads and signs her 2017 Edgar Award-nominated Some Kind of Happiness, 3PM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, George Arnold signs Tragedy of the Commons: Dark Prophesies, 2PM

Houston

• Houston Astronomical Society, Amy Jackson discusses Cassandra and The Night Sky, ?
• Inprint House, First Friday Reading Series featuring poet Gerald Cedillo, 8:30PM

Saturday, March 4

Andrews

• Andrews County Library, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: Texas Writes with Chaitali Sen and Natalia Sylvester, 10AM

Austin

• BookPeople, PJ HOOVER speaking and signing Tut: My Epic Battle to Save the World, 2PM
• BookPeople, DEBBIE STANLEY speaking and signing The Organized Musician, 6PM
• Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged inclusive open mic, 7PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Establishing and Developing Convincing Characters in Narrative Fiction” with John Pipkin, 9AM
• The Writing Barn, Workshop: Shoplifting the Poem: Jumpstart Your Poetry with Found Text, 3:30PM

Corpus Christi

• The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi Literary Reading Series 30th Anniversary featuring Stephen Harrigan and Brett Anthony Johnston (moderated by Don Graham), 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors book signing with President George W. Bush, 9AM [wristband required]
• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Texas Bound II: Fish Out of Water featuring Octavio Solis, Luke Wilson, Lydia Mackay, and G. W. Bailey, 7:30PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Tim Dorsey signs Clownfish Blues, 5PM
• The Writer’s Garret, Workshop: “Finding Your Voice” with Melissa T. Schultz, 1PM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: “Fashion as Art & Film” with Sandy Torrez, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Writers and Readers Roundup, 11AM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, George Arnold signs Tragedy of the Commons: Dark Prophesies, 11AM

Houston

• Half Price Books – North Oaks, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, all day
• Murder By the Book, Dean “Miranda” James will sign and discuss Twelve Angry Librarians, and John Clement will sign and discuss The Cat Sitter and the Canary, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, William and Graham read and sign What I Cannot Abandon, 6PM
• Writespace, Workshop: Jumpstart Your Writing with Andreana Binder, 1PM

North Richland Hills

• North Richland Hills Library, Behind the Book: Joanna Fluke discusses and signs Banana Cream Pie Murder, 1PM [ticketed reception at 12PM]

Round Rock

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

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, local author Laura Johnstone signs Sesame the Miracle Cat, 12PM
  
• The Twig Book Shop, Jon Lasser reads and signs Grow Happy, 11AM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, George Dalton signing A Collision of Dreams, 12PM

Weslaco

• The Storybook Garden, Author Meet & Greet with Rebecca Luna, 11AM

Yorktown

• Yorktown Public Library, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: Texas Writes with Greg Garrett and Donna Johnson, 10AM

Sunday, March 5

Abilene

• Abilene Public Library – South Branch at Abilene Mall, 2017 Texas Author Series featuring Mary O. Parker, Johnnie Lou Avery Boyd, Rachel Caine, and Mike Cox, 2PM

Austin

• Austin History Center, Meet and talk with veterans and hear excerpts from the works they have created as part of Our Warrior Chorus, 2:30PM
• BookPeople, YVETTE GROVE speaking and signing Lily’s Deliciously Different Day, 2PM
• BookPeople, TIM DORSEY speaking and signing Clownfish Blues, 5PM
• The Writing Barn, Workshop: A Lonely Island: Finding Inspiration and Confidence in Writing for Clients, 1PM

Dallas

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

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, George Arnold signs Tragedy of the Commons: Dark Prophesies, 11AM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Reception for the launch of IN THE EYES OF OUR CHILDREN: HOUSTON, AN AMERICAN CITY, 5PM
• Martini Blu, Performance Poetry: Queen’s Night, 6PM

Mansfield

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

Midland

• B&N, The Adventures of George Pitts book signing with George Pitts, 1:30PM

San Antonio

The Twig Book Shop, Robert Seltzer discusses and signs Amado Muro and Me, 4PM

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