Special Events

• 25th Annual Austin International Poetry Festival, April 6-9
• DEAR Texas, statewide, April 8-9
• North Texas Book Festival, Denton, April 15

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
• Everyday People: The Art of James E. Ransome (a National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature exhibition), Abilene, March 9-May 8

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

Monday, April 10

Austin

• BookPeople, DAVID SHIELDS speaking & signing Other People: Takes & Mistakes (in conversation with Clay Smith), 7PM

Dallas

• Crescent Club, DFW World Affairs Council hosts Helene Cooper discussing and signing Madame President: The Extraordinary Story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 6:30PM
• SMU, Hughes Trigg Forum: “The Unpredicted: In Science, Literature & Politics” with Simon Dedeo, 5:30PM
• The Wild Detectives, Cruzando el Border – El Oficio del poeta: Arnulfo Vigil, 7:30PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, ALI NOORANI discusses and signs There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Dan Worrall discusses and signs PLEASANT BEND, 7PM

Huntsville

• Sam Houston State, Poet and cross-genre writer Dr. Ching-In Chen launches newest book, recombinant, 5:30PM

Tuesday, April 11

Austin

• BookPeople, TYLER KNOTT GREGSON speaking & signing Wildly Into the Dark: Typewriter Poems and the Rattlings of a Curious Mind, 7PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Bill Moran and book release of Oh God Get Out Get Out, Hosted by Tova Charles, 7PM
• UT – Fine Arts Library, A Conversation with Sarnath Banerjee, Indian graphic novelist, publisher, and visual artist, 12PM

Cedar Hill

• Zula Bryant Wylie Library, Dallas Area Writers Group featuring Tall Tales Told Short with Ann Fields, 7PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live hosts Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney discussing and signing The Nest, 7:30PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Melissa Lenhardt launches the paperback release of Sawbones, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, local writer Glen Pourciau reads from View, his latest collection of short stories, 7:30PM

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Dorris Van Doren, Christine Granados reads and signs Fight Like a Man & Other Stories We Tell Our Children, 4PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and open mic!, 8PM
• Fort Worth Area Book Club, Fresh Fiction presents JoAnna Grace discussing and signing Why the River Runs, 7PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Cinda Williams Chima will discuss and sign SHADOWCASTER, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, David Samuel Levinson reads and signs TELL ME HOW THIS ENDS WELL, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Dominic Smith will sign and discuss the paperback release of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, 6:30PM
• Warehouse Live, Houston Moth StorySLAM: Fresh, 7:30PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, PuroSlam Team Finals!, 10PM

Wednesday, April 12

Austin

• BookPeople, ANDY GRIFFITHS speaking & signing The 65-Story Treehouse, 6PM
• BookWoman, Jennifer Bloom reading & signing Brainstorms: Poems, 7PM
• Malvern Books, poet Caits Meissner launches Let It Die Hungry with Ebony Stewart & Amanda Johnston, 7PM

Dallas

• Hotel Crescent Court, DFW World Affairs Council hosts Chase Untermeyer discussing Zenith: In the White House of George H.W. Bush, 12PM
• The Wild Detectives, Harry Hunsicker reads and signs The Devil’s Country, 7:30PM

Denton

• Denton South Branch Library, Professor’s Corner: Poems by Texas Poet Laureate David. M. Parsons, 7PM
• UNT on the Square, UNT Rilke Prize Q&A, 6:30PM

Fort Worth

• B&N – Hulen, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple book signing with Jeff Guinn, 7PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Brazos Bookstore, poet Elizabeth Lyons reads and signs THE BLESSING OF DARK WATER, 7PM
• MATCH Houston, DiverseWorks Diverse Discourse Lecture and Studio Visit Series: Featuring Claudia La Rocco – Criticism is Dead. Long Live Criticism, 6:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Steve Berry will sign and discuss his new Cotton Malone thriller, The Lost Order, 6:30PM

McAllen

• McAllen Public Library – Main, a night with new Poet Laureate Priscilla Suarez, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• Palo Alto College, Pen to Paper: Celebrating Local Poets with San Antonio Poet Laureate Jenny Browne, and Texas Poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero, 6PM
• Rebar, Kinyo Live Poetry: “Mindless,” 8:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, poet Terry Lucas reads and signs Dharma Rain, 5PM

Thursday, April 13

Austin

• Al Volta’s Midnight Bar, LIT CRAWL AUSTIN PRESENTS STATE-OF-THE-ART STORIES, 12AM
• BookPeople, AJ MENDEZ BROOKS speaking & signing Crazy Is My Superpower, 7PM
• BookWoman, Second Thursday Poetry Open Mic featuring Jan Benson & Agnes Eva Savich hosted by Cindy Huyser, 7:15PM
• Malvern Books, ACC Creative Writing Department’s Balcones Prize Winners, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM

Burnet

• Herman Brown Library, Coffee Talks hosts Myra McIlvain discussing and signing Stein House: German Settlers in Indianola, 1:30PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Corey Dolgan discusses and signs Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumphs over Democracy, 7PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Jeff Guinn discusses and signs The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and People’s Temple, 7PM

Denton

• University of North Texas, UNT Rilke Prize Reading, 8PM

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Armijo, Christine Granados reads and signs Fight Like a Man & Other Stories We Tell Our Children, 4:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, A Night of Translation with Mark Haber and Scott Esposito, 7PM

Lubbock

• Texas Tech, Creative Writing Program Reading Series presents Elissa Washuta, 7:30PM

San Antonio

• Brick, book release party for It Takes a Village by Alejandro Diaz, 6PM

Uvalde

• El Progreso Memorial Library, reading and book signing with ire’ne lara silva, 3PM

Friday, April 14

Austin

• BookPeople, COREY DOLGON speaking & signing Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph Over Democracy, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Rebecca Schuman launches Schadenfreude, A Love Story with Susan Signe Morrison, 7PM

Dallas

• Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff, Poets on X+ with Opalina and Carlos Salas, 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, poet Terry Lucas reads and signs DHARMA RAIN, 7PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Gwen Strauss discusses and signs The Hiding Game, 3PM
• Writespace, Anything Goes All-Genre Open Mic, 7:30PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, poet Susan Campbell reads and signs Anything You Ever Wanted to Know, 6PM
• Viva Tacoland, Gemini Ink Poetry Series featuring Anthony the Poet, Viktoria Valenzuela, and Edward Vidaurre, 6:30PM

Tyler

• UT Tyler, meet & greet (8:30AM), presentation and Q&A (10AM), and second presentation (1PM) with Dr. Temple Grandin, author of The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed

Webster

• B&N – Baybrook, Lora-Marie Bernard signs The Counterfeit Prince of Old Texas, 4PM

Saturday, April 15

Austin

• Austin Community College – Highland, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Novel and Memoir Revision: Conventions and Experiments” with Adam Soto, 10AM
• Austin Public Library – Manchaca Road, workshop with author Carin Channing, 10AM
• Austin Public Library – North Village, Austin Poetry Society meeting featuring Jena Kirkpatrick, 1:30PM
• BookPeople, Comedian ZACH ANNER speaking & signing If At Birth You Don’t Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny, 2PM
• Casa de Resistencia Books, “Blood Stories: Resistance and Resilience” workshop with Jenuine Poetess, 2PM
• Malvern Books, poet Tomás Q. Morín launches Patient Zero with Elena Passarello, 7PM

Bellaire

• Bellaire City Library, Kay Kendall Author Talk, 3PM

Belton

• McWha Bookstore, book signing with local authors Amy Rognlie and Lynette Sowell, 10AM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Laura Ann Elpers Pierce signs Little Worm: A Story About Worry, 2PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Intersectionality of Political Organization with Professor Lisa Armstrong, author of Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women’s Association and Globalization Politics, 12PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Culture in Translation: A Literary Panel Discussion with Mark Haber and Scott Esposito, 6:30PM
• Writers Garret, Workshop: Graphic Novels, Children’s Books, & Zines: Exploring Illustrated Writing with A. Kendra Greene, 1PM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: “Poetry In Stories We Tell Our Children” with Christine Granados, 12:45PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Susan P. Baker signs Unaware: A Suspense Novel, 2PM

Harker Heights

• B&N, Henry A. Nash signs Integrity Does Matter, 12PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, Chris Bridge story time and book signing, 11AM
• Brazos Bookstore, Zachary Turpin lectures on and signs Walt Whitman’s LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JACK ENGLE, 7PM
• Half Price Books – Montrose, Leanne Vogel discusses and signs The Keto Diet: The Complete Guide to a High-Fat Diet, with More Than 125 Delectable Recipes and Meal Plans to Shed Weight, Heal Your Body, and Regain Confidence, 2PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Russell J. Sanders reads and signs All You Need Is Love, 3PM
• Writespace, Workshop: Using Objects and Memory as Springboards into Inspiration with Marian Szczepanski, 9:30AM

San Antonio

• San Antonio Public Library – Igo, Adrienne deWolfe meets with the San Antonio Romance Authors to discuss “Make Your Manuscript Hum With Excitement,” 10AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Mary Beth Harris reads and signs A to Z Adventures in San Antonio, 11AM

Southlake

B&N – Town Square, Porsche Porscha the Pink Pig Book 2 book signing with local author Edith Odiwo, 11AM

Sunday, April 16

Sunday, April 16:

Austin

Malvern Books, An Afternoon with Yarrow Paisley (I, No Other) and Felix Morgan, 2PM

Malvern Books, Ayden LeRoux and Abraham Burickson present Odyssey Works, 5PM

Dallas

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

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