• Bayou City Book Festival, Houston, April 3-8
• 34th Annual Richland College Literary Festival, Dallas, April 4-6
• 25th Annual Austin International Poetry Festival, April 6-9
• Texas Institute of Letters annual meeting & awards, El Paso, April 7-8
• 17th Annual Battle of San Jacinto Symposium, La Porte, April 8
• 5th Annual San Antonio Book Festival, April 8
• WORDfest, Hurst, April 8
• DEAR Texas, statewide, April 8-9

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
• The Art of Dr. Seuss: A Retrospective Exhibition, Austin, March 4–April 2
• Everyday People: The Art of James E. Ransome (a National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature exhibition), Abilene, March 9-May 8

Sunday, April 2

Abilene

• Abilene Public Library – South, Texas Author Series: Rachel Caine will discuss Ink and Bone and Paper and Fire from her new series, The Great Library, 2PM

Austin

• 4th Tap Brewing Co-Op, Revel Unclassified: arts-infused Sunday brunch and collaborative storytelling with musicians, writers, and artists, 12:30PM
• B&N – Arboretum, Anna LeBaron discusses and signs The Polygamist’s Daughter, 2PM
• BookPeople, Lawyer & NFL Coach DARON K. ROBERTS speaking and signing Call An Audible, 2PM
• BookPeople, DAN CHAON speaking and signing Ill Will, 5PM
• Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged inclusive open mic with David Borden, author of And Yet We Rise, 2PM
• Malvern Books, An Afternoon with poets Dan Boehl, Katy Chrisler, and Cindy St. John, 4PM

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, Neil A. White signs Closure, 2PM

Houston

• Discovery Green, Writers in the Schools (WITS) presents the Space City Grand Slam!, 3PM

San Antonio

• SAY Sí, Voices and Vibes poetry and live music, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Cynthia Leonor Garza reads and signs Lucia the Luchadora, 2PM
  

Monday, April 3

Austin

• BookPeople, LILLY SINGH Photo Meet & Greet and signing of How To Be A Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life, 7PM [SOLD OUT]

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Christina Baker Kline discussing and signing A Piece of the World, 7:30PM

Houston

• Alley Theatre, Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series presents poets ADA LIMÓN and GREGORY PARDLO, 7:30PM
• Houston Children’s Museum, author appearance by Paige Clough, 10:30AM
• Tracy Gee Community Center, SCBWI program: Focus on Illustrators: A Road Less Traveled: Illustrations in Motion with Bruce Foster, 7PM

San Antonio

• San Antonio Public Library – Central, Notable Writers honors Wings Press publisher Bryce Milligan with a reception featuring readings from local poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Rosemary Catacalos, and Robert Bonazzi, 6:30PM

Tuesday, April 4

Austin

• BookPeople, Musician JOHN OATES speaking & signing Change of Seasons, 7PM [TICKET REQUIRED]
• Chez Zee American Bistro, Author Series: Brittani Sonnenberg, author of Home Leave, 6:15PM
• Harry Ransom Center, Award-winning poet, editor, and translator Matthew Zapruder reads selections of his poetry and from his forthcoming book, Why Poetry, 7PM
• Malvern Books, launch of Michael Anania’s poetry collection, Continuous Showings, 7PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam: New Shit Slam featuring UT Spitshine, 7PM
• The North Door, Owen Egerton’s One Page Salon, 7:30PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents children’s book authors and illustrators Erin and Philip C. Stead, 11:30AM (workshop 3:30PM)

Fort Worth

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

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Lauren Myracle will celebrate literacy and discuss her newest book, THE FORGETTING SPELL, 6PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Gish Jen discusses and signs THE GIRL AT THE BAGGAGE CLAIM, 7PM

San Antonio

• Gemini Ink, Creative Nonfiction Boot Camp with David Shields, 6PM
• Senor Veggie, Poetry Group regulars Bryce Milligan, Glover Davis, Jim LaVilla Havelin, Sharon Olinka, Natalia Treviño, and guest readers Ann Cefola and Linda Simone come together for readings in observance of National Poetry Month, 7PM
• The Korova, PuroSlam with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM

San Marcos

• TSU – Alkek Library, The Wittliff Collections presents a discussion, reading, and book signing with Ben Fountain, 3:30PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodland Mall, Drew Daywalt signs The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors, 7PM

Wednesday, April 5

Austin

• BookPeople, Baker JOY WILSON speaking & signing Joy the Baker Over Easy: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Leisurely Days, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: editor Jesus F. de la Teja discusses Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: Other Sides of Civil War Texas, 12PM
• Congregation Agudas Achim, Book launch of Almost a Minyan by Lori S. Kline, 6:30PM
• Malvern Books, A night with Typewriter Rodeo!, 7PM

Bee Cave

• Bee Cave Public Library, Writing in the Hill Country with author Nikki Loftin, 12PM

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, Carolyn Glenn Brewer will discuss and sign Changing the Tune + live jazz, 7:30PM

El Paso

• Ann Weisgarber reading in conjunction with the Texas Institute of Letters, Memorial Park Library 2 pm
• Christne Granados reading in conjunction with the Texas Institute of Letters, Sergio Troncoso Library 4:30 PM

Houston

• Asia Society Texas Center, panel discussion with Jieun Baek, author of North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society, Hyeonseo Lee, author of the memoir The Girl with Seven Names – A North Korean Defector’s Story, and Jieun Baek, author of North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society, 7PM (reception at 6PM)
• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Benjamin Moser discusses and signs WHY THIS WORLD: A BIOGRAPHY OF CLARICE LISPECTOR, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Jon Land will sign and discuss The Rising, 6:30PM

Thursday, April 6

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Austin International Poetry Festival Reading, 7PM
• Central Presbyterian Church, BookPeople and the Texas Book Festival present ANTHONY DOERR speaking & signing his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See, 7PM [TICKET REQUIRED]
• Malvern Books, Austin International Poetry Festival City Read Day One, 12PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night with Ron Seybold & S.R. Bond, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Ernie Johnson, Jr. of Inside the NBA discusses and signs Unscripted: The Unpredictable Moments That Make Life Extraordinary, 7PM
• B&N – Preston/Royal, Rebekah Gregory signs Taking My Life Back: My Story of Faith, Determination, and Surviving the Boston Marathon Bombing, 6PM
• Dallas Public Library – Preston/Royal, Len Bourland discusses and signs Normal’s Just a Cycle on a Washing Machine, 6:30PM
• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Author’s LIVE!: Bruce Feiler discusses and signs The First Love Story: Adam, Eve and Us, 7PM
• Hotel Crescent Court, DFW World Affairs Council hosts Dr. Frédéric Bozo signing A History of the Iraq Crisis: France, the United States, and Iraq, 1991-2003, 6:30PM
• Painting with a Twist, Fresh Fiction: painting and The Promise Girls with author Marie Bostwick, 6:30PM
• SMU – Dedman, Scott Hawkins Lecture: Professor Janek Wasserman, author of Marginal Revolutionaries: Austrian Economics from Coffeehouse to Tea Party, 6PM
• SMU – McCord Auditorium, Gilbert Lecture Series: Professor Dana D. Nelson, author of Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States, 6PM
• SMU – Tower Center, The Security and Strategy Program: “After ISIS” with Professor James L. Gelvin, author of The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know, 12PM
• South Dallas Cultural Center, African Diaspora: New Dialogues presents a reading by poet Tyehimba Jess, 7:30PM

Denton

• UNT – Kenton Hall, Join Carolyn Glenn Brewer for a night of reading, discussion, and book signing of Changing the Tune + live jazz by the Colleen Clark Collective, 8PM

El Paso

• Sergio Troncoso reading in conjunction with the Texas Institute of Letters, Sergio Troncoso Library, 11 am
• Ann Weisgarber workshop in conjunction with the Texas Institute of Letters, Memorial Park Library, 1:30 pm
• David Bowles, Robert Flynn, and Carmen Tafolla reading in conjunction with the Texas Institute of Letters, Sergio Troncoso Library, 11 am

Fort Davis

• Jeff Davis County Library, CELEBRATE NATIONAL POETRY MONTH: El Paso poet Sasha Pimentel will sign her poetry books and offer a sneak peak at her next book, For Want of Rain, 6:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Joy Wilson (aka Joy the Baker) will discuss and sign her newest cookbook JOY THE BAKER OVER EASY, 7PM
• Holocaust Museum Houston, Dr. Mireya Loza discusses and signs Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom, 6:30PM
• Katy Budget Books, Mystery Book Club with Guest Author Colleen Thompson, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, K.J. Howe will sign and discuss The Freedom Broker, 6:30PM
• River Oaks Theatre, Cheech Marin discusses and signs CHEECH IS NOT MY REAL NAME…BUT DON’T CALL ME CHONG, 7PM

• Heritage House, Lunch with Texas author Karen Witemeyer, 11:30AM

San Antonio

• Gemini Ink, Creative Nonfiction Boot Camp with David Shields, 6PM

San Marcos

• TSU – Alkek Library, The Wittliff Collections presents Tim Z. Hernandez discussing, reading, and signing All They Will Call You, 5:30PM

Victoria

• University of Houston, American Book Review Reading Series presents poet Martha Serpas, 12PM

Friday, April 7

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, DEAR Texas Author Event, 10AM
• BookPeople, DREW DAYWALT speaking & signing his picture book, Legend of Rock Paper Scissors, 6PM
• Casa de Resistencia Books, Cafe Libro: Ghettos, Barrios, Gentrification and Writing Our Existence in Resistance featuring Rocío Villalobos, Kellee Coleman, Manuel G Galaviz, and José Rodríguez, 7:30PM
• Malvern Books, Austin International Poetry Festival City Read Day Two, 12PM
• Malvern Books, launch of new books from poets Andrew Wessels (A Turkish Dictionary), James Meetze (Phantom Hour), and Kelli Anne Noftle (Adam Cannot Be Adam), plus special guest John Fry, 7PM

Dallas

• The Kessler Theater, Echoes and Reverberations: An Evening of Storytelling and Songwriters with writer and spoken word artist Jeffrey Liles (aka Cottonmouth, Texas), 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Kathryn E. O’Rourke discusses and signs MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN MEXICO CITY, 7PM
• Houston Public Library – Stanaker, El Dia de los Ninos featuring Cynthia Leonor Garza and her book, Lucia the Luchadora, 1PM
• Inprint House, First Friday Poetry with Autumn Hayes, 8:30PM
• Katy Budget Books, Rebekah Gregory signs Taking My Life Back: My Story of Faith, Determination, and Surviving the Boston Marathon Bombing, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Philip Kerr will sign and discuss his newest Bernie Gunther novel, Prussian Blue, 6:30PM

Plano

• B&N – Preston/Park, DEAR Texas event with Texas author L.A. Starks, 6PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, special story time: James Russell will read Dragon Hunters, 10:30AM

Saturday, April 8

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Carver, Susan Schorn discusses and signs Smile at Strangers, 10:30AM
• B&N – Arboretum, DEAR Texas Author Event, 10AM
• B&N – Sunset Valley, Historic Movie Houses of Austin book signing with Susan Rittereiser and Michael C. Miller, 1PM
• BookPeople, Special guest story time: MARY SULLIVAN reading Frankie, 11:30AM
• BookPeople, CINDA WILLIAMS CHIMA speaking & signing Shadowcaster, 2PM
• BookPeople, PHILIP KERR speaking & signing Prussian Blue (in conversation with MARK PRYOR), 6PM
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Jim and Lynne Weber discuss and sign Nature Watch Big Bend, TBA
• Malvern Books, An evening of poetry with Bucolics Anonymous, 7PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Three-Act Structure for the Novel” with Carolyn Cohagan, 9AM

Corpus Christi

• B&N, Mary O. Parker discusses and signs Explore Texas: A Nature Travel Guide, 2PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, K. S. Johnson signs Release the Fear of the IRS, 3PM
• B&N – Preston/Royal, Julie Dill signs Bluff, 1PM

El Paso

• B&N – Fountains at Farah, Mary Lou Montez signs Angel Bear and Bear, 2PM
• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: “Letters to Familiar Strangers” with Sarah Walker, 12:45PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, N.B. Grant signs A Journey to Freedom Through Prayer, 1PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Tom Angleberger will discuss and sign his novel ROCKET AND GROOT: KEEP ON TRUCKIN’!, 2PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Cynthia Leonor Garza reads and signs LUCIA THE LUCHADORA, 10:30AM
• Houston Public Library – Jungman, El Dia de los Ninos featuring Cynthia Leonor Garza and her book, Lucia the Luchadora, 3PM
• Murder By the Book, C.S. Harris will sign and discuss the new Sebastian St. Cyr book, Where the Dead Lie, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, poet Saleem Peeradina reads and signs Final Cut, 3PM

• Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, book launch for Wes Ferguson’s The Blanco River, 6:30PM

Lubbock

• B&N, Rose Cherami: Gathering Fallen Petals book signing with Michael Marcades, 2PM

Plano

• B&N – Preston/Park, DEAR Texas event with Texas author JoAnn Wagner, 12:30PM

Port Neches

• Fleur Fine Books, Author Dr. Mark Kubala Meet & Greet, 3PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Simon Singh reads and signs The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, 10AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Alysson Foti Bourque reads and signs Alycat and the Thursday Dessert Day!, 11AM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Kathleen M. Rodgers signing Seven Wings to Glory, 2PM

Sugar Land

• Half Price Books, local author Sonya Hurst will sell and sign Prayers That Open the Portals of Heaven, 1PM

• B&N, Paula Deen signs Favorite Recipes of The Lady & Her Friends, 7PM

Webster

• B&N, Gulf Coast Poets meeting featuring Cedric Avery, 10:30AM

Sunday, April 9

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, DEAR Texas Author Event Cathy G. Nickell, author of Arthur Zarr’s Amazing Art Car, 1PM
• BookPeople, Illustrator DAN HANNA speaking & signing Pout Pout Fish Far From Home, 11:30AM
• BookPeople, DAVID SAMUEL LEVINSON speaking & signing Tell Me How This Ends Well (in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken), 2PM
• BookPeople, KELLY JENSEN speaking & signing Here We Are: 44 Voices Write, Draw, and SpeakAbout Feminism for the Real World (in conversation with Rebecca Sexton, Allison Peyton Steger,and Jessica Luther), 5PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Pretense Is Underrated,” 4PM
• The Writing Barn, Workshop: Pitch Perfect Pacing with PJ Hoover, 3:30PM

Dallas

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

El Paso

• B&N – Sunland Park, Christine Granados signs Fight Like a Man & Other Stories We Tell Our Children, 2PM

El Paso

• Main Library, Alan Birkelbach and Karla K. Morton reading in conjunction with the Texas Institute of Letters, 3:30 pm

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Steve Copling launches Sage Alexander and the Hall of Nightmares, 2PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Inprint Prize Winners Reading and reception, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Susan Wittig Albert will sign and discuss the new China Bayles mystery, The Last Chance Olive Ranch, 2PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Cengiz Sisman discusses and signs The Burden of Silence: Sabbatai Sevi and the Evolution of the Ottoman-Turkish Deonmes, 3PM
• Unity of Houston, The Tom Bird Method Workshop: Writing in the Divine Author State, 1:30PM

Plano

• B&N – Preston/Park, DEAR Texas event with Texas authors Jan Sikes and Mike Hawron, 2PM

San Antonio

• K23 Gallery, Bookworm: A Fair for Book Lovers, 12PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Eduardo Rabasa reads and signs A Zero Sum Game, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, poet Joseph Trombatore reads and signs My Master’s Palette, 2PM

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