• The Writer’s Garret “Beyond 21 Celebration,” Dallas, May 5-7
• 10th Annual DFW Writers Conference, Dallas, May 6-7
• 2nd Annual SMU Faculty Book Fest, Dallas, May 9
• Comicpalooza 2017, Houston, May 12-14
• 40th Annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championship, Austin, May 13
• 2nd Annual ACFW DFW May Mini-Conference – Fueling Up Your Fiction, Arlington, May 13

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
• 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
• Texas Writers Exhibition, Fredericksburg, May 1-31

Sunday, May 7

Austin

• Austin Books & Comics, James Venhaus signs Night Owl Society #1, 12PM
• BookPeople, DONNA MARIE MILLER speaking & signing The Broken Spoke: Austin’s Legendary Honky-Tonk, 2PM
• BookPeople, ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT speaking & signing City of Miracles, 5PM
• BookWoman, Grow Happy with authors Jon Lasser & Sage Lasser-Foster: An Interactive Reading, 2PM
• Malvern Books, Analecta 43 Release Party, 1PM
• Malvern Books, Hothouse Literary Journal Release Party, 4PM
• The Writing Barn, Workshop: “Sticking the Landing: How to End Your Novel” with Sara Kocek, 3:30PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, George Arnold signs Tragedy of the Commons, 10AM
• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letter Live hosts Scott Westerfeld discussing and signing The Spill Zone, 3PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, all day

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, The Dock Bookshop 9th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Fundraiser, 4PM

Houston

• Half Price Books – Montrose, Raymond Arroyo signing Will Wilder: The Lost Staff of Wonders, 2PM

• MaryScott Hagle’s historic Heights home, WITS fundraiser: Poetry Concert with internationally acclaimed youth poets from the Meta-Four Houston team, 7PM

Richmond

• George Memorial Library, Graphic Novel Day featuring special guest appearances and book signings by popular graphic novelists Falynn Koch, Dave Roman, and Ru Xu, 1:30PM

San Antonio

• South Texas Museum of Popular Culture, Join Laredo-born artist-musician-writer Salvador Macias for a round of poetry from el corazon followed by a set by accordion master Santiago Jimenez, 2PM
• The Twig Book Shop, K Wendt reads and signs Emma’s Journey, 11AM
  
• The Twig Book Shop, Christine Granados reads and signs Fight Like a Man & Other Stories We Tell Our Children, 3PM

Monday, May 8

Austin

• BookPeople, STEPHANIE DANLER speaking & signing Sweetbitter, 7PM
• BookWoman, Ginger McKnight-Chavers reads and signs In the Heart of Texas, 7PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Sandra Cisneros discussing and signing A House of My Own: Stories from My Life, 7:30PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Tim Bauerschmidt and Ramie Liddle discuss and sign Driving Miss Norma: One Family’s Journey Saying “Yes” to Living, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, David Hicks will read and sign White Plains, and David Hopkins will read and sign We Miss All the Great Parties, 7:30PM

Houston

• Alley Theatre, Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series presents COLM TÓIBÍN discussing and signing House of Names, 7:30PM [sold out; access live stream here: houstonpublicmedia.org/inprint)
• Murder By the Book, Mary Kay Andrews will sign and discuss The Beach House Cookbook, 6:30PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, The Black Witch book signing with Laurie Forest, 7PM

Tuesday, May 9

Austin

• The Austin History Center, an evening book discussion and signing with Eddie Wilson and Jesse Sublett, authors of Armadillo World Headquarters: A Memoir, 6:30PM
• BookPeople, COLM TÓIBÍN speaking & signing House of Names, 7PM
• Malvern Books, An Evening with Novelists Natalia Sylvester, David Hicks & Charlotte Gullick, 7PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Team Back House, 7PM
• Cedar Hill
• Zula Bryant Wylie Library, Dallas Area Writers Group meeting featuring Dan Smith, author of The Bankhead Highway in Texas, 7PM

Dallas

• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Authors LIVE!: Stuart Isacoff discusses and signs When the World Stopped to Listen: The Van Cliburn Story, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, Women Galore Literary Festival: Jessa Crispin reads and discusses Why I’m Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto, 7:30PM
• Winspear Opera House, #hearhere Reading Series presents Garrison Keillor and Stories from Lake Wobegon, 8PM

Fort Worth

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

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, John Boles discusses and signs JEFFERSON: ARCHITECT OF AMERICAN LIBERTY, 7PM
• Burke Baker Planetarium, HMNS Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Anurag Agrawal discusses and signs Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution, 6:30PM
• Houston Maritime Museum, HMM History Lecture Series: “The First Texas Navy, 1835-1837” presented by award-winning author James P. Bevill, 7PM
• Museum of Fine Arts, MFAH / Kinder Institute Forum Lecture featuring Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in an American City, 6:30PM

Irving

• South Irving Library, Join local YA authors Julie Murphy (Ramona Blue) and Jeramey Kraatz (Space Runners: The Moon Platoon) for a joint book launch party, 7PM

Lubbock

• Texas Tech, Creative Writing Program Reading Series hosts poet Chen Chen reading and signing When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, 7:30PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, PuroSlam!, 10PM
  
• The Twig Book Shop, Walt Gragg reads and signs The Red Line, 5PM

Wednesday, May 10

Austin

• BookPeople, CORY DOCTOROW speaking & signing Walkaway, 7PM [ticket required]

Dallas

• Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, Willard Spiegelman discusses and signs If You See Something, Say Something: A Writer Looks at Art, 6:30PM

Denton

• Denton South Branch Library, Professor’s Corner: A Literary Discussion Group featuring Poems by Texas Poet Laureate Walt McDonald, 7PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Brazos Bookstore, David Hicks reads and signs WHITE PLAINS, and Melissa Studdard reads and signs I ATE THE COSMOS FOR BREAKFAST, 7PM
• Houston Chronicle offices, Houston Public Library Quarterly Reading Series: a talk by Alexandra Zapruder, author of Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Ace Atkins will sign and discuss Robert B. Parker’s Little White Lies, 6:30PM

Thursday, May 11

Austin

• BookPeople, JESSA CRISPIN speaking & signing Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto, 7PM
• BookWoman, Second Thursday Poetry Open Mic featuring Martha K. Grant, hosted by Cindy Huyser, 7:15PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night with Glen Pourciau & Greg Levin, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM

Burnet

• Burnet Library, Coffee Talks hosts Ben Rehder, author of the Blanco County mystery series, 1:30PM

College Station

• George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Library Issues Forum: Retired Colonel Albert J. Nahas discusses and signs Warriors Remembered, 7PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Photo Meet and Greet with Ian Harding, author of Odd Birds, 7PM
• The Kessler Theater, Wordspace Dallas presents an evening with author Dan Savage, 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Cory Doctorow reads and signs WALKAWAY, 7PM
• Museum of Fine Arts, Iconoclast Poetry Performance & They Say Book Release, 7PM

New Braunfels

• New Braunfels Public Library, Book & Author Luncheon: Robert Flatt (Healing Art), Chris Bridge (Read to Me, Same Heart, Spring is Coming), and Mica Mosbacher (Racing Forward), 12PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Kenneth Bennight reads and signs The Truth Shall Make You Dead, A Nacho Perez Detective Story, 5PM

Friday, May 12

Austin

• BookPeople, GRAEME SIMSION speaking & signing The Best of Adam Sharp, 7PM
• Malvern Books, poet Chen Chen launches When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (with Jennifer Whalen, Tomás Morin & Katelin Kelly), 7PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, White Rock Zine Machine Reading Flight #4: MakeShift PhotoRama – Significance Imposed, 7PM
• Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam: Rage Tench send off to Paris to compete in the International Poetryslamworldcup Slampoésie!, 8PM
• Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff, Poets On X+ with Opalina Salas and Carlos Salas, 8PM

Houston

• Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, Sheryl Sandberg, author of Option B, in conversation with Dr. Mike Feinberg, 7PM [sold out]
• Murder By the Book, Jayne Ann Krentz will sign and discuss The Girl Who Knew Two Much, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• Viva Tacoland, Gemini Ink Reading Series featuring Sheila Black, Ariana Brown, and Lisha Garcia, 6:30PM

Saturday, May 13

Austin

• Austin Community College – Highland, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “On The Hero’s Journey: Discovering Plot, Character, and Meaning for Your Novel” with Greg Garrett, 9AM
• B&N – Arboretum, Story time: Amy Jackson reading Cassandra and the Night Sky, 11AM
• BookPeople, RACHEL HELLMAN, JENNIFER BERTRAND, VALERIA FULMAN, SUSAN STUTZ & PAULA BIXEL speaking & signing Nasty Women Project: Voices from the Resistance, 2PM
• BookPeople, ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH speaking & signing My Italian Bulldozer, 6PM
• Whole Earth Provision Company, Meet the Author: Carolyn Boyd discusses and signs The White Shaman Mural, 2:30PM

Canyon

• Canyon Gallery & Visitor Center in Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Dr. Ann Coberley & Andy Clouse sign TEXAS: Places of the Heart, 2PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Oklahoma Poet Laureate Nathan Brown reads and signs My Savaged Heart, 6PM
• B&N – Preston/Royal, Joanne Skartsiaris signs Dance Like You Mean It, 1PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Chelsea Mueller discusses and signs Borrowed Souls, 6PM

El Paso

• B&N – Fountains at Farah, Author Signing Marisela Garza reads and signs Rebekitalocks and The Three Penas, 12PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Harold Raley signs his collection of essays, Points of Light, 2PM

Harker Heights

• B&N, Thomas “Jerry” Curtis signs Under the Cover of Light: The Extraordinary Story of USAF COL Thomas “Jerry” Curtis’s 7 1/2 -Year Captivity in North Vietnam, 2PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Caroline Leech discusses and signs Wait For Me, and Jennifer Park discusses and signs The Shadows We Know by Heart, 3PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Pantsuit Nation at Brazos Bookstore!, 7PM
• Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays. Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!
• Inprint House, Tintero Projects No Ban, No Wall: Women Writers Unite poetry workshop with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, 1PM
• Inprint House, Tintero Projects No Ban, No Wall: Women Writers Unite poetry reading, Q&A, and book signing with Cristina Martinez, Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Carrie Patel will sign and discuss The Song of the Dead, 1PM
• Murder By the Book, Walt Gragg will sign and discuss his debut thriller, The Red Line, 4:30PM
• Rec Room HTX, What It’s Like Project presents VOXIS: a night of spoken word and acoustic musical performances dedicated to the removal of stigma surrounding mental illness, 7PM
  
• River Oaks Bookstore, Paul A. Mattingly, Jr. discusses and signs From Orange to Singapore: A Shipyard Builds a Legacy, 4PM
• William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, The Texas Aesthetic XI: The Summer Soiree Series featuring Of Texas Rivers & Texas Art by William Reaves and Andy Sansom, 1PM
• Lubbock
• B&N, Once in a Blue Moon book signing with Vicki Covington, 1:30PM
• B&N, Nowhere Near: Short Stories book signing with Teddy Jones, 2PM

Lubbock

• Barnes & Noble, South Plains Mall, Vicki Covington signing Once in a Blue Moon, 1:30 PM

Midland

• B&N, Patsy Aguirre signs Simple Parables, 12PM

San Antonio

• Gemini Ink, Poetry Workshop: Demons, Diaspora & Magic with Ariana Brown, 10AM
  
• The Twig Book Shop, Bob Doerr reads and signs Caffeine Can Kill, 11AM
  
• The Twig Book Shop, Melissa Urtiaga discusses and signs Trained Up: A Book about Trusting God, 2PM

Sugar Land

• Half Price Books, local author Albert J. Nahas will sell and sign Warriors Remembered – Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home (Vietnam Memorials from 50 States), 1PM

Webster

• B&N – Baybrook II, Gulf Coast Poets meeting featuring Carrie Kornacki, 10:30AM
• B&N – Baybrook II, Zari Reede signs Daisy Dukes ‘n Cowboy Boots, 1PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Mark Miller signs Always a Tiger: Keep Movin’ Forward, 2PM

Sunday, May 14

Austin

• BookPeople, Contributors of PANTSUIT NATION speaking & signing, 2PM
• Malvern Books, Mother’s Day Reading with Revolution Writing Workshop, 2PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Othering & Mothering”, 4PM

Dallas

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

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