• Comicpalooza 2017, Houston, May 12-14
• Texas Design Week, Houston, May 14-19
• Children’s Book Writing Seminar, Austin, May 18-19
• Austin SCBWI Authors & Illustrators Working Conference, May 20-21
• Ney Day, Austin, May 20

Ongoing Exhibits

• Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, February 6–July 16
• 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 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

Monday, May 15

Austin

• BookPeople, YA Fierce Reads Tour: SCOTT WESTERFELD speaking & signing Spill Zone, ERIN BEATY speaking & signing The Traitor’s Kiss, TARAN MATHARU speaking & signing The Battlemage, and KRISTEN ORLANDO speaking & signing You Don’t Know My Name, 7PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live: Holger Hoock discussing and signing Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth, and National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Philbrick discussing and signing Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution, 7:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Philip Caputo reads and signs SOME RISE BY SIN, 7PM

Kingwood

• Lone Star College Student Conference Center, Murder By the Book hosts Paula Hawkins discussing and signing Into the Water (with Megan Abbott), 7PM [ticket required]

Plano

• Ziziki’s Restaurant and Bar, Fresh Fiction hosts Amanda Quick reading and signing The Girl Who Knew Too Much, 7PM [ticket required]

Richardson

• Richardson Public Library, Writers Guild of Texas workshop: “Writing from an Editor’s View” with Leslie Linton, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Gates Whiteley reads and signs Percy: Life as a Runaway and Hobo, 5PM

Tuesday, May 16

Austin

• BookWoman, Book Launch: American Girls in Red Russia with Dr. Julia Mickenberg, 6PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Ryan McMasters, Hosted by Jomar Valentin, 7PM

Bastrop

• First National Bank Meeting Room, Margie Crisp and William Montgomery discuss and sign The Nueces River, 7PM

College Station

• George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Library Issues Forum: Henry Chappell and Wyman Meinzer discuss and sign Horses to Ride, Cattle to Cut, 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Joe Hirsch celebrates the release of The Feedback Fix: Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change, 7PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, Dallas Meetup and Book Release Event: Pantsuit Nation, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, Women Galore Literary Festival: Storytelling Night with Women Texas Film Festival, 7:30PM

Fort Worth

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

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, the Oola Guys sign Oola for Women, 1PM
• The Ensemble Theatre, INPRINT CELEBRATES THE STORIES OF OUR ELDERS: A READING, 11AM
• Fix Coffeebar, POETRY FIX featuring Jane Creighton & Sandi Stromberg, 6:30PM
  
• River Oaks Bookstore, Philip Caputo reads and signs Some Rise By Sin, 3PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, PuroSlam!, 10PM

Wednesday, May 17

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Special Outdoor Storytime with author Kat Kronenberg, 11AM
• BookPeople, DOREE SHAFRIR speaking & signing Startup (in conversation with Hugh Forrest, Director of the SXSW Interactive Festival, 7PM
• Lake Austin Spa Resort, Chef Sara Moulton shares stories and signs her latest cookbook, Sara Moulton’s Home Cooking 101: How to Make Everything Taste Better, 5:30PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Former NFL player Reginald “Reggie” Jones signs Stilettos on Gridiron, 1PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, Craig Johnson will discuss and sign The Highwayman: A Longmire Story, 7PM [pass required]
• Kettle Arts Gallery, Workspace Dallas presents Pegasus Reading Series featuring Chen Chen, Stevie Edwards, Chloe Honum, and Keegan Lester, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, Women in Latin American Literature: A Bilingual Conversation, 7:30PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Brian Freeman will sign and discuss Marathon, 6:30PM

Plano

• B&N – Creekwalk, ‘Round Midnight book signing with Laura McBride, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Cindy Senarighi and Heidi Green discuss and sign Yogadevotion, 6PM

Weslaco

• Mayor Joe V. Sanchez Public Library, The Storybook Garden presents: Cressida Cowell discusses and signs her HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON series, 6PM

Thursday, May 18

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Oola Dream Tour Book Signing, 12PM
• BookPeople, BENJAMIN LUDWIG speaking & signing Ginny Moon, 7PM
• BookPeople, WRITERS’ LEAGUE OF TEXAS Presents: “Mr. Swipe Right? Writing Contemporary Love Stories” with Clara Benson, LIANA LEFEY, Benjamin Reed, and PAIGE SCHILT, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM

College Station

• Annenberg Presidential Conference Center, John Erickson will sing songs, accompanying himself on the banjo, and read from his Hank the Cowdog series, 10:30AM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like book signing with Ashley Graham, 7PM [wristband required]
• The Wild Detectives, Liz Silver reads from The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty, followed by a conversation with Sarah Hepola (Blackout), 7:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Laura McBride reads and signs ‘Round Midnight, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Thorne Dreyer, Alice Embree, Richard Croxdale discuss and sign CELEBRATING THE RAG, 7PM
• Menil Collection, The Watchful Eye: A WITS Student Reading, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Peter Blauner will sign and discuss Proving Ground, 6:30PM
• Museum of Fine Arts, MFAH/AIA Lecture – “Mysteries and Myths of Egypt’s Female Kings” with Dr. Kara Cooney, author of The Woman Who Would Be King (followed by book signing), 6:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Ink Rose reads and signs Scarlet Reign (Dragon Queen) (Volume 1), 4PM

North Richland Hills

• North Richland Hills Library, Behind the Book with Nancy Thayer, author of Secrets in Summer, 12PM ticketed reception, 1PM free public event

Friday, May 19

Arlington

• UTA Central Library, Kathryn E. Holliday discusses Leopold Eidlitz: Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age, 7:30PM

Austin

• BookPeople, Laura McBride speaking & signing ‘Round Midnight, 7PM
• Malvern Books, An Evening with poets Chloe Honum, Sasha West, and Jennifer S. Cheng, 7PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, The OolaGuys to Sign Oola for Women book signing with Troy Amdahl and Dave Braun, 12PM
• B&N – Preston/Royal, Dave Braun and Troy Amdahl, the Oola Guys, sign Oola for Women: How to Balance the 7 Key Areas of Life to Have Less Stress, More Purpose, and Reveal the Greatness Within You, 2PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Pandora’s Box Poetry Showcase featuring A. Kendra Greene, Stevie Edwards, and Courtney Marie, 7PM
• Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam with Brent Green, 8PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, Ashley Graham signs A New Model, What Confidence, Beauty and Power Really Look Like, 6PM [wristband required]
• Brazos Bookstore, poet Ching-In Chen reads and signs RECOMBINANT, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Radha Vatsal will sign and discuss Murder Between the Lines, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Star of TV’s M.A.S.H and animal activist Loretta Swit discussing and signing SwitHeart, 5PM

Saturday, May 20

Amarillo

• B&N, The Awakening: Book One book signing with J.R. Hastey, 2PM

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Yarborough, Austin Poetry Society Annual Awards Ceremony, 1:30PM
• B&N – Sunset Valley, Michelle Craft discusses and signs Unwanted Things: Starring Milo Brewster, 1PM
• BookPeople, ADA CALHOUN speaking & signing Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, 3PM
• BookPeople, RACHEL PEARSON speaking & signing No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine (In Conversation With Forrest Wilder), 6PM
• The Broken Spoke, Donna Miller discusses The Broken Spoke: Austin’s Legendary Honky-Tonk, followed by Q&A and a signing, 12PM
• Malvern Books, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review Issue 46 Launch Party, 3PM
• Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged inclusive open mic with Joseph Huerta, 7PM
• Monkeywrench Books, Book release: Eye of the Panther by Cicely Rue, 3PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “How to Write Funny” with Wendi Aarons, 9AM

Beaumont

• B&N, Juanda Ruth Bryant signing The Mini-Adventures of Danny and the Deployer, 1PM

Belton

• McWha Bookstore, Local Author Signing with Dee Levens, 9AM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Lisa Pliner signs A Puppy’s Dream Comes True, 3PM
• B&N – Preston/Royal, Mike Mirabella signs On the Luck of an Irish Sailor, 12PM

El Paso

• El Paso Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project workshop: “Rising from the Ashes of Co-Dependency” with Sheela Wolford, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, JAQUAVIS COLEMAN discusses and signs The Streets Have No King, 4PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, James B. Morgan signs his military memoir, Not Quite Home, 2PM

Harker Heights

• B&N, Lt. Gen. Ricky Lynch book signing, 1PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, poet Lyman Grant reads and signs Searching For Abstract Realism, 7PM
• Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays. Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!
• Half Price Books – Kirkwood, LOCAL AUTHOR SATURDAYS: Sarafia Jones–Hall, 1PM
• Lawndale Art Center, BUILD-A-WORLD ZINE Workshop with Sarah Welch and Zine Fest Houston, 2PM
• Murder By the Book, Chelsea Mueller will sign and discuss Borrowed Souls, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, T. Haven Morse reads and signs Flooded By: A Persona Poetry Collection, 3PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Frank Billingsly discusses and signs Swabbed & Found: An Adopted Man’s DNA Journey to the Truth, 5PM
• William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, The Texas Aesthetic XI: The Summer Soiree Series featuring Texas Identities: Moving Beyond Myth, Memory and Fallacy in Texas History by Light Townsend Cummins, 1PM

Irving

• Valley Ranch Library, Friends of Irving Public Library Annual Meeting & Author Visit with Kathleen Stockmier, author of Pig Dog Creek, 10AM

Lubbock

• B&N, Kept In the Midst of It All book signing with Mercelle McCutcheon, 2PM

New Braunfels

• The Purple Chair, Anna Arms signs I Got Girl Power!, 12PM

Plano

• B&N – Creekwalk, Walter Gragg signs Thin Red Line, 2PM

Port Neches

• Fleur Fine Books, Dakota Rivera “Ivylis” Meet & Greet and Book Signing Event, 3PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, YA Event: Sophie Jordan reads and signs Rise of Fire, Jennifer Park reads and signs The Shadows We Know by Heart, and Caroline Leech reads and signs Wait for Me, 2PM
• Half Price Books North Central, Raymond Arroyo will discuss and sign Will Wilder: The Lost Staff of Wonders, 2PM
  
• The Twig Book Shop, Michael Fry reads and signs How to Be a Supervillain, 11AM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, For Real: Navigating Truth Through Trials discussion and book signing with Kerrie Oles, 2PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Michael Tarvin signs Light in the Midst of Darkness (Devotions from Combat), 2PM

Sunday, May 21

Austin

• BookPeople, SCHOLASTIC SUMMER READING ROAD TRIP: VARIAN JOHNSON signing To Catch a Cheat, JENNIFER ZIEGLER signing Revenge of the Happy Campers, and JONATHAN FENSKE signing Plankton Is Pushy, 10AM
• BookPeople, JEFF VANDERMEER speaking & signing Borne, 3PM
• BookPeople, GREG GARRETT speaking & signing Living with the Living Dead, 5PM
• Malvern Books, Christia Madacsi Hoffman launches Intent, her debut poetry collection, 4PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, former bookseller M.L. Rio signs If We Were Villains, 1PM
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park, Dallas Goethe Center present a lecture Dr. Kenneth Hafertepe, author of The Material Culture of German Texans, 2PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Other People’s Poetry: DFW-area poets celebrate Frank O’Hara, 4PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, all day

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Camille Di Maio signing Before the Rain Falls, 2PM
• B&N – San Pedro, The Broken Spoke: Austin’s Legendary Honky-Tonk book signing with Donna Marie Miller, 2PM

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