{"id":1538,"date":"2018-12-31T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2018-12-31T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T17:45:00","slug":"major-book-events-by-month-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"MAJOR BOOK EVENTS BY MONTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleHeader\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"u434907-7\"><span id=\"u434907-6\">updated 12.5.2018<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u434907-9\">Use this calendar of recurring events and cultural emphases in Texas and those other states to plan ahead in your bookish life. We&#8217;ll add dates for each year as we learn of them.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u434907-12\">January<\/h1>\n<ul id=\"u434907-19\">\n<li id=\"u434907-14\">Book Publishers Day (Jan. 16 annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-16\">Pulpwood Queen&#8217;s Girlfriend Weekend (since 2000; Nacogdoches, Jan. 11\u201314, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-18\">Austin Book, Paper, &#038; Photo Show (Jan. 20\u201321, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434907-22\">February<\/h1>\n<ul id=\"u434907-37\">\n<li id=\"u434907-24\">Black History Month<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-26\">Lone Star Literary Life Birthday (Feb. 2 annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-28\">Bookworm Festival (Houston, Sat., Feb. 3, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-30\">Teen Bookfest by the Bay (Corpus Christi, Feb. 17, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-32\">Angelo State University Writers\u2019 Conference, San Angelo (22nd annual; Feb. 22\u201323, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-34\">ConDFW (since 2001; Fort Worth, Feb. 18\u201319, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-36\">People&#8217;s Poetry Fest (3rd annual, Corpus Christi, Feb. 22\u201324, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434907-40\">March<\/h1>\n<ul id=\"u434907-53\">\n<li id=\"u434907-42\">Women&#8217;s History Month<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-44\">Freedom of Information Day (March 16 annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-46\">Children&#8217;s Picture Book Day (March 28 annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-48\">Lone Star Literary Life&#8217;s Top Ten Texas Bookish Destinations<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-50\">Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering (Alpine, 32nd annual, March 2\u20133, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-52\">Sin Fronteras International Book Festival (2nd annual, McAllen, March 3, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434907-56\">April<\/h1>\n<ul id=\"u434907-93\">\n<li id=\"u434907-58\">National Poetry Month<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-60\">D.E.A.R., &#8220;Drop Everything and Read&#8221; Month<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-62\">National Library Week (April 8\u201314, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-64\">National Friends of Libraries Week<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-66\">International Children&#8217;s Book Day (April 2 annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-68\">Children&#8217;s Book Day, El d\u00eda de los ni\u00f1os\/El d\u00eda de los libros (D\u00eda) (April 30 annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-70\">World Book Day (Shakespeare&#8217;s birthday, April 23 annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-72\">Bayou City Book Festival (Friendwood, April 3-8, 2017)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-74\">Austin International Poetry Festival (April 6-9, 2017)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-76\">Books in the Basin (Odessa, April)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-78\">Poetry at Round Top (17th annual, April 20\u201322, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-80\">NETWO Spring Conference<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-82\">Houston Writers&#8217; Guild Conference<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-84\">Mansfield Reads! (Mansfield)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-86\">San Antonio Book Festival (Sat, April 7, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-88\">Texas Institute of Letters Annual Meeting (April 6\u20137, 2018, San Antonio)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-90\">North Texas Teen Book Festival (Irving, April 20\u201321, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-92\">West Texas Trail Writers (April 29, 2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul id=\"u434907-110\">\n<li id=\"u434907-103\">Children&#8217;s Book Week (Apr. 30\u2013May 6, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-105\">National Independent Bookstore Day (last Saturday in April annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-107\">BookExpo America (New York, May 30\u2013June 1, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-109\">O. Henry Pun-off (since 1978; Austin, annually in May)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul id=\"u434907-132\">\n<li id=\"u434907-115\">GLBT Books Month<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-119\">Bloomsday (James Joyce&#8217;s <span id=\"u434907-117\">Ulysses,<\/span> June 16 annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-121\">CALF (Children&#8217;s Art &#038; Literacy Festival), Abilene (June 7-9, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-123\">Dallas-Fort Worth Writers Conference (Dallas, June 9\u201310, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-125\">Western Writers of America Convention (Billings, MO, June 20-23, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-127\">Writers&#8217; League of Texas Agents &#038; Editors Conference (Austin, June 29-July 1, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-129\">Annual Austin African-American Book Festival (June 23, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-131\">International Christian Retail Show (June)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul id=\"u434907-146\">\n<li id=\"u434907-137\">Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore (33rd season, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-139\">Poetry Society of Texas Annual Conference (49th annual conference, The Woodway, Austin, July 12\u201314, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-141\">WLT Summer Writing Workshop, Austin (July)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-143\">Romance Writers of America conference (Denver, July 18\u201321, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-145\">Macondo Writers\u2019 Workshop (since 1995; San Antonio, July 24\u201329, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434907-149\">August<\/h1>\n<ul id=\"u434907-165\">\n<li id=\"u434907-155\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etxbookfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Texas Book <\/a><\/span>Bash (Tyler, August 4, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-157\">Armadillo Con, Austin (40th annual, August 3-5, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-159\">Texas Christian Writers&#8217; Conference (26th annual, Houston, August 4, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-161\">Texas Christian Writers\u2019 Conference (Houston, August 4, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-164\">Lone Star Literary Life&#8217;s Annual Readers\u2019 Choice Top Ten Texas Bookstores <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434907-168\">September<\/h1>\n<ul id=\"u434907-179\">\n<li id=\"u434907-170\">Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15\u2013Oct. 15 annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-172\">Banned Books Week (last week of September annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-174\">National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration, Lubbock (second weekend in September annually; 30th annual, Sept. 7\u20139, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-176\">Indiepalooza, Houston (September 14\u201316, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-178\">West Texas Book Festival,\u00a0 Abilene (third week of September; not held in 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul id=\"u434907-206\">\n<li id=\"u434907-187\">National Book Month<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-189\">LGBT History Month<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-191\">National Friends of Libraries Week (late October annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-193\">Teen Read Week (third week of October annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-195\">Texas Teen Book Festival, St. Edward\u2019s University, Austin (Sat., Oct. 8, 2018<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-197\">Houston LibroFEST, October<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-199\">Permian Basin Writers&#8217; Workshop (Midland, Oct. 13\u201314, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-201\">North Texas Book &#038; Paper Show (24th annual, Fort Worth, Oct. 13\u201314, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-203\">Lubbock Book Festival (not held in 2018; will return in 2019)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-205\">Texas Book Festival (since 1995; Austin, Oct. 27\u201328, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434907-209\">November<\/h1>\n<ul id=\"u434907-220\">\n<li id=\"u434907-211\">Native American Heritage Month<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-213\">National Novel Writing Month<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-215\">University Press Week (November 12\u201317, 2018)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-217\">Shop Small: Small Business Saturday (November)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-219\">South Texas Book Festival (formerly McAllen Book Festival, Nov. 10, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434907-223\">December<\/h1>\n<ul id=\"u434907-230\">\n<li id=\"u434907-225\">World AIDS Day (Dec. 1 annually)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-227\">Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair (Austin, early December, yearly)<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434907-229\">Laredo Book Festival (Dec. 8, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>updated 12.5.2018 Use this calendar of recurring events and cultural emphases in Texas and those other states to plan ahead in your bookish life. We&#8217;ll add dates for each year as we learn of them. January Book Publishers Day (Jan. 16 annually) Pulpwood Queen&#8217;s Girlfriend Weekend (since 2000; Nacogdoches, Jan. 11\u201314, 2018) Austin Book, Paper, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}