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
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Bookish goings-on in Texas
compiled exclusively by Lone Star Literary Life
FOR THE WEEK OF 09.26.2021
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SPECIAL EVENTS (*Denotes In-person Events.)
*Lubbock, Lubbock Book Festival, September 26
*Boerne, Boerne Book & Arts Festival, October 2
EXHIBITIONS (*Denotes In-person Events.)
*Abilene, SOMETHING LIKE A HELLO, National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, through September 28.
*Plano, The Dust Bowl, A Humanities Texas Traveling Exhibition, through September 30
*Eastland, Lonesome Dove, A Humanities Texas Exhibition, through October 15
*Houston, Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas, A Humanities Texas Exhibition, through October 4
*Fort Worth, In His Own Words: The Life and Work of César Chávez, A Humanities Texas Traveling Exhibition, through October 22
SUNDAY, September 26 (*Denotes In-person Events.)
The Twig Bookshop, Jose A. Coronado, The Arrow's Heart and When You Were Pretty, 12PM
Malvern Books, Doireann Ni Ghriofa and Alyssa Harad: Reading & Conversation, 1PM
Writespace Houston, How to Outline Your Novel with D.L. Young, 3PM
MONDAY, September 27 (*Denotes In-person Events.)
Murder By The Book, MTM Presents Hank Phillippi Ryan - Virtual Event, 6PM
Interabang Books, Meera Sriram with BETWEEN TWO WORLDS in conversation with Gayatri Sethi, 6PM
Gemini Ink, Open Writers Lab with Dario Beniquez and Robert Allen, 6:30PM
Murder By The Book, MTM Presents Spencer Kope - Virtual Event, 7PM
TUESDAY, September 28 (*Denotes In-person Events.)
BookPeople, VIRTUAL EVENT: SCHELE WILLIAMS + TONYA ENGEL - Your Legacy, 6PM
*Houston, Café Brasil, Public Poetry’s happy hour! 6PM
*Houston, the Montrose Center, GIRL SQUAD Book Signing and Q&A with Author Kim Hoover, 6PM
Brazos Bookstore, VIRTUAL - Shruti Swamy - THE ARCHER, 7PM
Bookwoman, Book Event-Forget Prayers, Bring Cake... with Merissa Nathan Gerson on Zoom, 7PM
*Waco, Fabled Bookshop & Café, Kyndall Rae Rothaus Discusses Thy Queendom Come, 7PM
Lark & Owl, An Evening with Authors Julia London & Laura Griffin! 7PM
National Black Book Festival, Black Authors Matter TV with Jayne Allen, Elmo Hudson, Suzan Johnson Cook, D. J. Yella, and Hosted by Gwen Richardson, 7PM
*Austin, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM
*San Antonio, PuroSlam ft. DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM
WEDNESDAY, September 29 (*Denotes In-person Events.)
BookPeople, VIRTUAL EVENT: VICTORIA KANN – Rubylicious, 6PM
Blue Willow Bookshop, A virtual meet and greet with store favorite Marie Lu for her new book Steelstriker! 7PM
Brazos Bookstore, VIRTUAL - Benjamín Labatut - WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD, 7PM
Fresh Fiction, Video Book Club with Author Amy Mason Doan, 7PM
Murder By The Book, Laura Griffin and Rachel Grant in conversation - Virtual Even, 7PM
*Houston, Write About Now, Poetry Open Mic ft. Poetry Lived! 7:30PM
*San Antonio, Write Art Out Inc, The Blah Blah Blah Poetry Spot, 8PM
THURSDAY, September 30 (*Denotes In-person Events.)
*El Paso, University of Texas at El Paso, Panel Presentation: “Community Organizing in El Paso: Older and Newer 21st Century Strategies” By Kathleen (Kathy) Staudt, 1:30PM
BookPeople, VIRTUAL EVENT: NAOMI NOVIK - The Last Graduate, 6PM
*New Braunfels, The Book Haus, Book Swap, 6PM
*Dallas, Interabang Books, Robert Matzen with WARRIOR: AUDREY HEPBURN, 6PM
St. Edwards University, The Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series: Emmy Pérez, 6PM
*Fort Worth, Fort Worth Public Library, Author Series - Marianne Odom & Gaylon Finklea Hecker, 6:30PM
Blue Willow Books, Connor Towne O'Neill will appear in conversation with W. Ralph Eubanks to discuss his book Down Along with That Devil's Bones, 7PM
Blue Willow Books, R.J. Palacio will appear in conversation with actor, writer, director, and musician Josh Radnor to celebrate the release of her new novel, Pony, 7PM
Bookwoman, Jane Creighton's Book Celebration for Bone Skid, Bone Beauty with Robin Davidson, 7PM
*Glen Rose, Glen Rose First Baptist Church, God's Unseen Plan - Book Signing, 7PM
*Boerne, The Boerne Bookshop & The Write Side of the Road, Last Thursday WINE & WRITE, 7PM
*Waco, Fabled Bookshop & Café, Shannon Deer and Cheryl Miller Discuss Business Doing Good, 7PM
Writers’ League of Texas, WLT On the Writing Life: “Writing Through Difficult Times” with Laekan Zea Kemp, 8PM
FRIDAY, October 1 (*Denotes In-person Events.)
BookPeople, VIRTUAL EVENT: ROMANCE IS COMFORT - Alexis Daria, Emily Henry, Sajni Patel, and Shyla Watson, 5PM
*Waxahachie, Brownie Books, Book Signing with Robert Rodriguez at White Rhino Coffee, 6PM
*San Antonio, Aztlan Libre Press & Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's Latino Bookstore & Gift Shop, "Writing 50 Years (más o menos) Amongst the Gringos" by award-winning journalist and professor Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodríguez, 6:30PM
*Dallas, Infinite Arts Movement & The Wild Detectives, Presents: P.O.P Kulture (Poetry on the Patio), 8PM
*Dallas, The Dallas Poetry Slam, Open Mic and Poetry Slam with Dallas Poetry Slam, 8PM
SATURDAY, October 2 (*Denotes In-person Events.)
Southwest Texas SCBWI, The Nuts and Bolts of Illustration Half-Day Intensive, 8AM
Writespace Houston, Writing the Humorous Essay with Justin Jannise, 9:30AM
*Boerne, Boerne Book & Arts Festival, John Erickson will speak about his new book, "Bad Smoke, Good Smoke," and also of course about Hank the Cowdog! 10AM
*Humble, Baldwin Boettcher Branch Library, Book Sale, 10AM
Writer’s Garret, Stone Soup Prose & Poetry, 10AM
Writing Workshops, Memoir & Memory: Creating Distance From Your Past Self Zoom, 10AM
Gemini Ink, “The Business of Writing”: The Path to Traditional Publishing for Fiction with Johnnie Bernhard, 11AM
*San Antonio, The Twig Bookshop, Dana Knox Wright, Holding on Loosely: Opening My Hands, Lightening My Load, and Seeing Something Else, 11AM
The Writing Barn, Craft Webinar: Meaning & Music – Writing Picture Books that Sing with Dianne White, 11AM
Writing Workshops, Intro to Food Writing Zoom Seminar, 11AM
*San Antonio, Authors in the Alamo City! Author signing event featuring over 40 authors on San Antonio's famed river walk, 12PM
Blue Willow Books, Trisha Yearwood for a virtual event in celebration of her new cookbook Trisha's Kitchen: Easy Comfort Food for Friends and Family, 12PM
*Mansfield, Mansfield Activities Center, Amazon Best Selling Author Sherry F. Hicks & Desy Smith Book Signing, 12PM
Murder By The Book, Daggers Drawn Panel - Virtual Event. Join us as editor Maxim Jakubowski discusses the Daggers Drawn anthology with contributors Larry Beinhart, Danuta Kot, Lauren Henderson, and Martin Edwards, 12PM
*Arlington, Half Price Books, Author Lewis Ben Smith signing PRESIDENT HAMILTON, 1PM.
*Boerne, The Boerne Bookshop, Makenna Lee and Jolene Navarro Book Signing, 1PM
Writespace Houston, Gothic Story Elements with Angélique Jamail, 1PM
BookPeople, VIRTUAL EVENT: CHRIS COLFER - A Tale of Sorcery, 2PM
*Plano, Book Signing with Alison Lumbatis! 2PM
Writers’ League of Texas, 2021 Write-In October 2, 2PM
*Katy, ErmaRose Winery, Embrace, Empower, Educate, and Include by Salandra Grice (The Conscious Educator) Book Signing! 3PM
*Fort Worth, Fort Worth Public Library, Author Series - Charlaine Harris, 6:30PM
Malvern Books, Marian Schwartz Book Launch with Philip Boehm, 7PM
SUNDAY, October 3 (*Denotes In-person Events.)
*San Antonio, The Twig Bookshop, LaQuisha Barnes, Living Vessel, 12PM
*Watauga, Half Price Books, Author Lewis Ben Smith signing PRESIDENT HAMILTON, 1PM.
The Writer’s Garret, Stone Soup Prose, 2PM
*Allen, Allen Public Library, That Book Woman - Kat's debut with the Allen Philharmonic, 3PM
Writespace Houston, Reading Your Way to Writing Well: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern with Angélique Jamail, 3PM
JCC Dallas, BookFest In Your Living Room Present: David Rubenstein, The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream, In Conversation with Holly Firfer, 7PM
STORY TIMES (*Denotes In-person Events.)
Lark & Owl Booksellers, Super Silly Story Time, M, W & F, 9:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Allen Public Library – M-TH at 10:15 via Facebook Live
Leaves Books & Tea, read-aloud story time, T-Th, 2PM FACEBOOK LIVE
Seguin Public Library – Toddler & Preschool Storytime via Zoom, T & W, 10AM, or for the Whole Family, T at 11:15AM outside
Dallas Public Library, children’s story time, T & Th, 10:30AM ZOOM
*Fort Worth, Monkey and Dog Books, Story Time, T & F at 10:30AM
Old Town Books, children’s story time, T & F, 10:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
Longview Public Library – T, Facebook Live at 10:30AM
North Richland Hills Library, virtual story time, T, 10:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
*New Braunfels, The Book Haus, musical story time, T, 10:30AM
*Midland, Centennial Library, story time, W, 10:30AM & 11:30AM
*Midland, Downtown Library, story time, TH, 10:30AM & 11:30AM
Texian Books, tiny Texians story time, F, 10:30AM FACEBOOK LIVE
The Twig Book Shop, Miss Anastasia online story time, F, 10:30AM INSTAGRAM LIVE
Brazos Bookstore, virtual story time, Sat, 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
Houston Public Library, virtual story time, daily, times vary.
Laredo Public Libraries, story time live, days & times vary, YOUTUBE
Irving Public Library, online story time, days & times vary, YOUTUBE
The Doseum, virtual story time, days & times vary.
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.
