- WITS Winter Slam Camp (5th-8th grades), Houston, January 2–4, 2018
Ongoing Exhibits
- Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 31
- National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet, Abilene, November 9-January 27
Sunday, December 31
Dallas
- Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
Monday, January 1
Happy New Year! May 2018 bring you lots of amazing reading and writing.
Tuesday, January 2
Austin
- Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 7PM
San Antonio
- The Mix, PuroSlam with DJ Donnie Dee and Project Mayhem, 10PM
Wednesday, January 3
Austin
- Bullock Museum, High Noon Talks: Professor Kevin Sweeney discusses Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains, 12PM
- University of Texas Club, Writer and Filmmaker Turk Pipkin will discuss the Book of the every-other Month Club: six new books in a subscription series that’s funding new school libraries in Kenya, 7PM
Houston
- Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
Thursday, January 4
Sugar Land
- B&N – First Colony, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM
Friday, January 5
Austin
- BookPeople, Gene Ames Jr. speaking and signing A Wildcatter’s Trek, Boyd Taylor speaking and signing Necissities, and Catia Hernandez Holm speaking & signing The Courage to Become, 7PM
Dallas
- Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam, 8PM
Houston
- Brazos Bookstore, Kij Johnson reads and signs THE RIVER BANK, 3PM
- Inprint House, First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Joshua Nguyen, 8:30PM
- Murder By the Book, Thomas Perry will sign and discuss his newest book The Bomb Perry, 6:30PM
Plano
- B&N – Legacy West, John & Mackenzie Baldwin signing Almost Gone, 7PM
San Antonio
- Gemini Ink, a special talk, reading, and book signing featuring four California Latinx writers: Marisol Baca, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, poet Yaccaira Salvatierra, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, 6:30PM
Saturday, January 6
Austin
- BookPeople, SCBWI Austin Monthly Meeting: Making a Book with Jessica Lee Anderson, Madeline Smoot, and Jeff Crosby, 10AM
Dallas
- Deep Vellum Books, Campfireball Dallas: The Los Angeles-based existential variety show with host, Cory Howard, weaves together performances from local comedians, musicians and storytellers with an immersive, audience driven storyline, 7:30PM
- Interabang Books, Karen Harrington reading and signing MAYDAY, and Robin Roe reading and signing A LIST OF CAGES, 2PM
Denton
- Wine Squared, Party On! with Spiderweb Salon: meet the new editorial team + performances and open mic, 7PM
El Paso
- El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: “Writing and Riding The Border: Poems From Your Spinning Wheels” with Lawrence Welsh, 12:45PM
Midland
- B&N, Tyler Frick signing Prevailing Soul, 12PM
San Antonio
- The Twig Book Shop, Dirk Weisiger discusses and signs Leave Tomorrow: My Ride to the Bottom of the World, 11AM
The Woodlands
- B&N – Woodlands Mall, April Houston signing From Damaged to Destined, 1PM
Sunday, January 7
Austin
- Malvern Books, an inclusive (mic-less) open mic for writers and musician in association with VSA Texas and the Pen2Paper Creative Writing Contest (a project of the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities), 1PM
- The Writing Barn, Workshop: “New Year, New You! Commit to Your Creativity” with Claire Campbell and Bethany Hegedus, 3PM
Dallas
- Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
Houston
- Murder By the Book, Robert Crais will sign and discuss The Wanted, 4PM
San Antonio
- The Twig Book Shop, Catherine Nixon Cooke discusses and signs Powering a City: How Energy and Big Dreams Transformed San Antonio, 12PM
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