Due to COVID-19 cancellations and closings,
most events in this week’s calendar are online.
(* Denotes nonvirtual, on-location events)
Bookish Texas • Events Around the State
The most comprehensive listing of book and author events, festivals, readings, lectures, and signings in the Lone Star State
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.
Bookish goings-on in Texas
compiled exclusively for Lone Star Literary Life
FOR THE WEEK OF 07.12.2020
Please scroll down for the story time section!
EXHIBITIONS
Gabriel García Márquez: The Making of a Global Writer, Austin, February 1-August 30 ONLINE
*National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, ENCORE: A Look Back, June 11-September 19
SUNDAY, JULY 12:
No public events
MONDAY, JULY 13:
Gemini Ink, In Response to the River: Zine Workshop for Kids, 9:30AM ZOOM
BookPeople, Amy Tintera discussing All These Monsters (in conversation with Sarah Henning), 6PM ZOOM
Blue Willow Bookshop, bestselling author Julie Murphy and Dumplin' star Danielle Macdonald will discuss Julie's new novel, Faith Taking Flight, 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Murder By the Book, Spencer Quinn discussing Of Mutts and Men, 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Barbed Wire Open Mic Series, Stay At Home open mic, 8PM ZOOM (YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM)
The Blah Poetry Spot, virtual open mic, 8:30PM INSTAGRAM LIVE
TUESDAY, JULY 14:
Boerne Book & Arts Festival, Lattes and the Library with author Robert Flynn, 11AM ZOOM
Harris County Public Library, Writers in the Schools LIVE spoken Word Poetry Workshop Part I, 2PM ONLINE
BookPeople, Lane Moore discussing How to Be Alone, 3PM INSTAGRAM LIVE
World Affairs Council – DFW, webinar: James Carter discussing The Last Kings of Shanghai, 4PM
Murder By the Book, Elly Griffiths discussing The Lantern Men, 5PM FACEBOOK LIVE
BookPeople, TJ Klune discussing The Extraordinaries, 6PM ZOOM
Murder By the Book & The Twig Book Shop, Daniel Silva discussing The Order, 6:30PM CROWDCAST
Texas Book Festival, Natalia Sylvester launches Running (in conversation with Maya Perez), 7PM CROWDCAST
Blue Willow Bookshop, Laurie Halse Anderson will appear in conversation with Rex Ogle to discuss her graphic novel Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed, 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Brazos Bookstore, Katherine Center discussing What You Wish For (in conversation with Taylor Jenkins Reid), 7PM ZOOM
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live: David Sibley discussing What It’s Like to Be a Bird, 7PM ONLINE [ticketed event]
LitNight Dallas, Sanderia Faye and Zac Crain, editor of D Magazine, will host the third "Your Summer Reading List" along with several esteemed local authors who will be reading the short stories they wrote for the July issue, including Kathleen Kent, Blake Kimzey, Joseph Milazzo, Samantha Mabry, Ben Fountain, Will Clarke, Harry Hunsicker, 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Texas Public Radio, Worth Repeating: Reckoning with Racism (a live virtual storytelling event), 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Austin Poetry Slam, virtual open mic, 8PM INSTAGRAM LIVE
The Dock Bookshop, virtual poetry open mic, 8PM INSTAGRAM LIVE, ZOOM
Puroslam, virtual poetry slam, 10PM ZOOM
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15:
Evelyn Rubenstein JCC, Daniel Silva discussing The Order (in conversation with CNN’s Jamie Gangel), 7PM ZOOM [ticketed event]
Nowhere Bookshop & San Antonio Book Festival, Lara Prescott discussing The Secrets We Kept (in conversation with Clay Smith), 6PM ZOOM [ticketed event]
Gemini Ink, Nights of Noir: Lisa Sandlin and The Do-Right, 6:30PM ZOOM
Blue Willow Bookshop, Katherine Center will appear in conversation with Valerie Koehler to discuss Katherine's new novel, What You Wish For, 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Murder By the Book, Jim Butcher discussing Peace Talks, 7PM ZOOM [ticketed event]
Sun Poet's Society, Open-Mic Poetry Readings, 7PM VIA FACEBOOK LIVE
Write About Now, online poetry open mic, 8PM FACEBOOK LIVE
THURSDAY, JULY 16:
World Affairs Council – DFW, webinar: Richard Haass discussing The World: A Brief Introduction, 11AM
Writing Workshops Dallas, Seminar: “The Freelance Business Blueprint - How to Make More Money As a Freelance Writer” with Austin L. Church, 12PM ZOOM
SCBWI North Texas, “Sticks and Stones and the Stories We Tell: Children’s Book Creators on Channeling Random Acts of Racism,” 1PM ZOOM
Harris County Public Library, Writers in the Schools LIVE spoken Word Poetry Workshop Pt. II, 2PM ONLINE
Patrick Heath Public Library, author event for teens with Amy Bearce, author Paris on Repeat, and P. J. Hoover, author of Homer's Excellent Adventure, 4PM ZOOM
BookPeople, Colin Jost discussing A Very Punchable Face (in conversation with John Grisham), 5:30PM ZOOM [ticketed event]
Austin Bat Cave, Summer Seminar Festival: Scriptwriting for Television and Film with Gillian Kümm, 7PM ONLINE
Murder By the Book, Walter Mosley and S. A. Cosby discussing Trouble Is What I Do and Blacktop Wasteland, respectively (in conversation with Rachel Howzell Hall), 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live: Daniel Silva discussing The Order with audience Q&A, 7PM ONLINE [ticketed event]
The Bookworm Box, Alessandra Torre Live Author Takeover, 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
The Blah Poetry Spot, Words and Sh*t, featuring Amir Safi, 7:30PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Laredo BorderSlam, virtual poetry open mic, 7:30PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Writers' League of Texas, Third Thursday: "The Dreaded Middle" with Charlotte Gullick, Donna Johnson, and ire'ne lara silva, 8PM ZOOM
FRIDAY, JULY 17:
Harris County Public Library, LIVE: Writers in the Schools Presents Meta-Four Houston Youth Poetry Slam Team, 6PM ONLINE
BookPeople, Leah Hampton discussing F*ckface (in conversation with Edward Carey), 7PM ZOOM
Murder By the Book, Anna Downes and Julie Clark discussing The Safe Place and The Last Flight, respectively, 7PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Dallas
*Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam: Pull Up & Park Poetry, 7PM
SATURDAY, JULY 18:
Writers’ League of Texas, "Final Pages, Final Paragraphs: Crafting the Right Ending for Fiction" ONLINE with Chaitali Sen, 10AM
Brazos Bookstore, virtual story time: Cristina Lalli reading Nola’s Scribbles Save the Day, 11AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Dallas Public Library, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal joins the FanCentral Virtual Experience to chat about books, 1PM ONLINE
Murder By the Book, Ace Atkins and Jeff Abbott discussing The Revelators and Never Ask Me (in conversation with Megan Abbott), 1PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Tumblewords Project, workshop: “Interweaving Fiction with the News” with Almendra Voladora, 1PM ZOOM
The Writing Barn, workshop: “Law for Authors/Creative Artists” with Jacqui Lipton, 2PM ONLINE
Austin Book Arts Center, workshop: making book cloth, 2PM ZOOM
Dallas Public Library, a conversation with Hector Rodriguez from Rio Bravo Comics, 6PM ONLINE
Katy Budget Books, virtual story time: Lindsay Leslie reading Dusk Explorers, 7:30PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Granbury
*Arts & Letters Bookstore, Louis H. Campbell signing Texas Rising, 3PM
SUNDAY, JULY 19:
The Writing Barn, workshop: “Nonfiction Picture Books 101” with Meeg Pincus, 2PM ONLINE
Writing Workshops Dallas, Seminar: “Capturing the YA Voice” with Alex Temblador, 6PM ZOOM
ONLINE STORY TIME
Texas Monthly, bedtime story, DAILY, 8PM INSTAGRAM LIVE
Texian Books, tiny Texians story time, DAILY, 10:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Harris County Public Libraries - Fairbanks Branch: a variety of story times throughout the week
San Antonio Public Library, children’s story times throughout the week
El Paso Public Library, a variety of children’s programming throughout the week FACEBOOK LIVE
Hank the Cowdog, author John Erickson will be reading from his children's series, times vary, YOUTUBE
Houston Public Library, virtual story time, M, W, & F, 11A
Katy Budget Books, virtual story time, M-F, 9:30AM; virtual bedtime story, 7:30PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Lark & Owl Booksellers, Super Silly Story Time, M-F, 10AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Leaves Books & Tea, read-aloud story time, M-F, 2PM FACEBOOK LIVE
The Doseum, virtual story time, T, 12PM
Dallas Public Library, children’s story time, T & Th, 10:30AM ZOOM
North Richland Hills Library, virtual story time, T & Th, 10:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Old Town Books, children’s story time, T & F, 10:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Laredo Public Libraries, story time live, T-Th, 10:30AM YOUTUBE
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, Access Art & Adventure, T-Th, 1PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Irving Public Library, online story time, Th, 10:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
The Twig Book Shop, Miss Anastasia online story time, F, 10:30AM INSTAGRAM LIVE
Bibliobar, virtual story time, Sat, 11AM
Brazos Bookstore, virtual story time, Sat, 10:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
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.
