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Special Events:
4th Annual World Languages and Literatures International Film Festival, Dallas, January 29-February 26
Festival of International Books & Arts (FESTIBA), Edinburg, February 25-March 3
10th biennial Texas Medal of Arts Awards, Austin, February 26-27
People's Poetry Festival, Corpus Christi, February 28-March 2
Toward a Better Future: Transforming the Climate Crisis with WITS Youth Poets, Houston, February 28-March 2
Gemini Ink presents UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH TERRANCE HAYES, San Antonio, February 28–March 1
Ongoing Exhibits:
30 Poems for the Tricentennial: A Poetic Legacy, San Antonio, December 3-April 25
Women of Flatbed: A Retrospective, Austin, January 17-April 28
Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America, Austin, February 1-March 1
Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites Features Seven Beloved Children’s Books, Midland, February 2-April 18
Our People: The Life and Works of Author Angela Shelf Medearis, Austin, February 2-June 22
Worlds of W O N D E R: David Ezra Stein, Abilene, February 14-May 18
Words/Matter: Latin American Art and Language at the Blanton, Austin, February 17-May 26
Monday, February 25:
Austin
BookPeople, LEILA SLIMANI speaking & signing Adèle, 7PM
Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Reyna Grande reading and discussing A Dream Called Home, and Valeria Luiselli reading and discussing Lost Children Archive, 7:30PM [ticketed event]
Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Jennifer Robson reading and signing THE GOWN, and Elise Hooper reading and signing LEARNING TO SEE, 7PM
Brazos Bookstore, a themed happy hour followed by Chloe Aridjis reading and signing SEA MONSTERS, 6PM
San Antonio
Forest Hills Library, Monica Muñoz Martinez discussing and signing The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas, 6PM
San Marcos
Texas State - The Wittliff Collections, Deborah Paredez reading and signing Year of the Dog: Poetry as Feminist Lament, 11AM
Tuesday, February 26:
Austin
BookPeople, JILL GRIFFIN speaking & signing Follow These Leaders: Wisdom and Mentorship from the Voices of Success, 7PM
Prohibition Creamery, Texas Book Festival's first Book Tips and Sips with authors Juli Berwald and ire’ne lara silva, along with Texas Book Festival Literary Director Julie Wernersbach, 5:30PM
Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Jason Bayani, 7:15PM
The Writing Barn, Workshop: "The Importance of Backstory: Crafting Deeper Characters" with Janet Fox, 6:30PM
Dallas
Checkered Past Winery, Dallas Poetry Slam: DFW Unplugged featuring NOVA, 8PM
The Dallas Morning News Auditorium, PEN America presents "Boundaries and Borders: Storytelling and Journalism" with investigative journalist Anna Badkhen in conversation with the Dallas Morning News’s assistant managing editor for Features and Community Engagement, Thomas Huang, 7PM
Interabang Books, Ann Weisgarber reading and signing THE GLOVEMAKER, 7:PM
Moody Performance Hall, Storytelling: Oral Fixation presents "Monkey Business," 7PM
El Paso
VA Clinic, Tumblewords Project workshop series for veterans and their families, 3PM
Fort Worth
The Dock Bookshop, Poetry and Open Mic, 8PM
Houston
Bohemeo's, Glass Mountain reading, 7PM
Brazos Bookstore, James Glassman presents THE HOUSTORIAN CALENDAR, 6PM
Katy Budget Books, Dawn Adams Cole signs Drops of Cerulean, 6:30PM
Rice U, Inprint's Margarett Root Brown Reading Series presents Valeria Luiselli (Lost Children Archive) and Tommy Orange (There There), 7:30PM
San Antonio
The Mix, PuroSlam featuring DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM
The Twig Book Shop, poet Clarence Wolfshohl, reading from and signing Chupacabra, 5PM
Wednesday, February 27:
Austin
BookPeople, KATHRYN ORMSBEE speaking & signing The Great Unknowable End, 7PM
Terrazas Branch Library, Aural Literature February Reading with Chicon Street Poets, 7:30PM
Dallas
Collectors Covey, Becky Crouch Patterson will give a talk and sign her new book, Luckenbach Texas - The Center of The Universe, 5:30PM
Deep Vellum Books, Mary Adkins reading and signing When You Read This, 7PM
SMU - Fondren Library, Friends of the SMU Libraries hosts Thomas Mallon reading and signing LANDFALL, 5:30PM
El Paso
B&N - Fountains at Farah, Roma Calatayud-Stocks signing A Symphony of Rivals, 5PM
Houston
Avant Garden, 5 Year Wanniversary Poetry + Pizza Party, 7:30PM
Brazos Bookstore, Dawn Adams Cole reading and signing DROPS OF CERULEAN, 7PM
Midtown Arts and Theatre Center Houston, Jeff Beck, city planner, urban designer, and author of Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places, in conversation with Kinder Institute Director Bill Fulton (followed by a book signing), 7PM
Pflugerville
Pflugerville Public Library, Senior Lunch and Learn with author Judith Austin Mills, 1PM
San Antonio
Trinity U - Coates Library, join Trinity University Press for the launch of Trinity University: Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future, 2:30PM
Thursday, February 28:
Austin
Austin Central Library, CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI speaking & signing The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm, 7PM [ticketed event]
BookPeople, THOMAS MALLON speaking & signing Landfall, 7PM [ticketed event]
Frank Irwin Center, Becoming: An Intimate Conversation with Michelle Obama, 8PM [ticketed event]
Harry Ransom Center, Collated & Perfect: panel discussing the changing standards that collectors—and institutions—have used to describe and evaluate early printed books, 4:30PM
Spiderhouse Ballroom, Storytelling: Testify presents "Matched," 7:30PM
The Vortex, the Austin debut of international touring poet and author Jason Bayani with his critically-acclaimed "Locus of Control," 8PM
Canyon
Burrowing Owl Books, Poetry Circle with the High Plains Poetry Project, 7PM
Dallas
Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance, Upstander Speaker Series: Loung Ung, Cambodian Genocide Survivor and author of First They Killed My Father, 7PM
Half Price Books Mothership, John Wiley will sell and sign his novel, An Inconvenient Herd, 7PM
The Wild Detectives, The hit podcast, Dr. Death, tells a true Dallas story reported and hosted by Laura Beil, who will be in conversation with NY Times best-selling author, Michael J. Mooney, 7:30PM
Denton
UNT, reading and Q&A with Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, author of Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir, 6:30PM
Dripping Springs
Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, David K. Langford discussing and signing Seasons at Selah: The Legacy of Bamberger Ranch Preserve, 6:30PM
Edinburg
UTRGV, poet Juan Morales will be reading from his latest book, The Handyman's Guide to the End of Times, 12:15
El Paso
B-17 Bombers Oyster Pub, Barbed Wire Open Mic, 8PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Fernando Brave discussing and signing ARCHITECTURE FOR THE ARTS, 6:30PM
Poison Girl, Poison Pen Reading Series featuring Malachi Black, Brittny Crowell, and Chris Cander, 8:30PM
Writespace, Workshop: "Self-Publishing 101: How to Create, Market, and Sell Your Book" with D.L. Young, 6PM
Lubbock
Texas Tech, TTU Creative Writing Reading Series featuring Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, 7:30PM
San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Michael Nye discussing and signing My Heart is Not Blind, 5:30PM
San Marcos
Texas State - The Wittliff Collections, Joe Nick Patoski discussing and signing Austin to ATX, 4PM
Friday, March 1:
Alpine
Front Street Books, W.K. Stratton discussing and signing The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film, 6PM
Austin
BookPeople, CARLY POLLACK speaking & signing Feed Your Soul: Nutritional Wisdom to Lose Weight Permanently and Live Fulfilled, 7PM
Malvern Books, a reading from poets Abraham Smith and Greg Brownderville, 7PM
The Vortex, the Austin debut of international touring poet and author Jason Bayani with his critically-acclaimed "Locus of Control," 8PM
Dallas
Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam: The Last Chance Slam, 8PM
El Paso
Literarity Book Shop, José de Piérola reading and signing his story collection, Fabulations (in conversation with Tim Z. Hernandez), 6PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Randall Watson reading and signing NO EVIL IS WIDE, 7PM
Discovery Green, WITS: Youth Performance Poetry Sessions, 6:30PM
Inprint House, First Friday Reading Series with Elina Petrova, 8:30PM
Kaboom Books, Bucky Miller pop-up show and release of his chapbook, Long-Term Monitoring Plan, 7PM
San Antonio
Trinity U - Holt Center, Madrid Lecture & Symposium's "Chicana Teatristas: Past and Present" with Cherríe Moraga and Denise Chávez, 9AM
Saturday, March 2:
Austin
BookPeople, CHARLOTTE SULLIVAN WILD speaking & signing The Amazing Idea of You, 2PM
BookPeople, JAMES HALEY speaking & signing The Handy Texas Answer Book, 5PM
Emma S. Barrientos MACC, discussion and reception for Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era, featuring a panel discussion with co-editors and contributors Maylei Blackwell, María Eugenia Cotera, Martha P. Cotera, Dionne Espinoza, and Brenda Sendejo, 5PM
Harry Ransom Center, Open House, 11AM
Malvern Books, an evening with author Allison Cobb and poet mónica teresa ortiz, 7PM
Museum of Human Achievement, Wires: A Choose Your Own Audio Adventure, 7PM
The Vortex, the Austin debut of international touring poet and author Jason Bayani with his critically-acclaimed "Locus of Control," 8PM
Dallas
B&N - Prestonwood, Maria Bower signing Faith VS. Weight, 2PM
Dallas Central Library, Our Voices: Storytelling and Poetry Open-Mic, 5PM
Interabang Books, Emily Summers discussing and signing DISTINCTLY MODERN INTERIORS, 2PM
Lakewood Branch Library, Lakewood Library Friends presents historian and humorist Rose-Mary Rumbley commemorating 183 years of Texas with 183 Texas facts in 83 minutes, 10:30AM
Margo Jones Theatre, the longest running all-female poetry show of its kind: "In The Words Of A Sistah: Becoming," 7PM
El Paso
El Paso Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: "History for Poets" with David Romo, 12:45PM
Harper
Harper Public Library, Workshop: Writers' League of Texas presents "Texas Writes" with Natalia Sylvester and Marshall Ryan Maresca, 10AM
Houston
BakerRipley Gulfton Sharpstown Campus, Space City Slam Preliminary #4: Compete for your chance to join the internationally-renowned Meta-Four Houston youth slam team, 10AM
B&N - River Oaks, Erin Nelsen Parekh launches The Wild Waves Whist, 2PM
B&N - Vanderbilt, Failure is Not an Option booking signing with Zeljko Pavlovic, 3PM
Blue Willow Bookshop, Peter Reynolds will discuss and sign his new picture book SAY SOMETHING, 11AM
Brazos Bookstore, A Special Story Time with Varsha Bajaj, 10:30AM
Brazos Bookstore, poet Laura-Eve Engel reading from and signing THINGS THAT GO, 7PM
Carnegie Branch Library, Public Poetry Reading Series presents Sean Johnson, Marie Brown, D.F. Brown, and Jose Ramon Ruisanchez, 2PM
Half Price Books - North Oaks, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
Toyota Center, Becoming: An Intimate Conversation with Michelle Obama, 8PM
San Antonio
Gemini Ink, "How is the Personal the Political?: An Epistolary Workshop" with Michelle Whitaker, 10AM
South Padre Island
Paragraphs on Padre, David Leija reading and signing TK's First Lesson, 1PM
Sunday, March 3:
Austin
BookPeople, DANIEL HAMERMESH speaking & signing Spending Time: The Most Valuable Resource, 5PM
BookWoman, Linda Hanna Lloyd reading and signing The Syrian Peddler, and Greg Buford reading and signing Making Ghosts Dance, 4PM
Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged with Special Guest Elizabeth L. Sammons, 1PM
Museum of Human Achievement, Wires: A Choose Your Own Audio Adventure, 12PM
The Vortex, the Austin debut of international touring poet and author Jason Bayani with his critically-acclaimed "Locus of Control," 8PM
Dallas
Half Price Books Mother Ship, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
The Wild Detectives, Jeff Tweedy will sign his memoir, Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back), 12:30PM [ticketed event]
El Paso
B&N - Fountains at Farah, Ned Wolf signing his Nandia Trilogy and his latest book, Awaken Your Power to Heal, 2PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Marcus Emerson reading and signing BEN BRAVER AND THE INCREDIBLE EXPLODING KID, 3PM
Mansfield
Half Price Books, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Karen Oakes signing Drewsilla the Shelter Puppy, 12PM
The Twig Book Shop, Lonn Taylor signing Turning the Pages of Texas, 2PM
South Padre Island
Paragraphs on Padre, Steven Schneider discussing and signing Borderlands, 1PM
Don't see your book or literary event here? Email Events@lonestarliterary.com with your complete info two weeks in advance of the issue in which your event is scheduled, and we'll include it.
