• 2018 Emily Dickinson Birthday Gathering of Poets Dinner Reading, Conroe, December 6
• Holiday Book Fest, Fort Worth, December 8
• Laredo Book Festival, December 8
• Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair, Austin, December 8

Ongoing Exhibits

• Literary Frontiers: Historical Fiction & the Creative Imagination, San Marcos, August 1-December 14
• “Dawoud Bey: Forty Years in Harlem” photography exhibition (from the book Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply), Austin, August 29-December 8
• Finding Sophie Blackall Exhibition, Abilene, October 11-February 1
• 30 Poems for the Tricentennial: A Poetic Legacy, San Antonio, December 3-April 25, 2019
• Artful Books, Alpine, December 7-17

Sunday, December 2

Austin

• Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged inclusive open mic, 1PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last

Edinburg

• Museum of South Texas History, Sunday Speaker Series: Chicano Writing featuring Daisy Lopez, author of Voices from the Past, Don’t Kill my Curandera and Macaria the Mexican Puppet, 2PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Holiday Open House, 5:30PM

Mansfield

• Half Price Books, Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last

Richardson

• The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: Surprising Beginnings, Startling Endings  with Amy Bernhard, 3PM

Monday, December 3

Austin

• BookPeople, STEPHEN & STERLING CARTER speaking & signing Double Your Success: Principles to Build a Multimillion-Dollar Business, 7PM

Dallas

• Hotel Crescent Court, World Affairs Council of DFW presents General Stanley McChrystal discussing and signing Leaders: Myths and Reality, 6PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Rachael Sparks reading and signing Resistant, 5PM

Tuesday, December 4

Austin

• BookPeople, Guest story time: Jennifer Coleman & Wade Dillon reading and signing Texas Nutcracker, 10:30AM
• BookPeople, BONNIE MONTE speaking and signing The Sleeping Lady, CATHY ZANE speaking and signing Better Than This, & E.C. FREY speaking & signing Entangled Moon, 7PM
• BookWoman, Reading & Signing: Resistant by Rachael Sparks, 7PM
• The North Door, One Page Salon with Owen Egerton and Writers’ League of Texas, 7:30PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam: Women of the Austin Slam Championship, 7:15PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, New York Times bestselling author Anna Todd will discuss and sign her latest romance book, The Brightest Stars, 7PM
• SMU, Tate Lecture Series: cancer physician and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, 8PM

Fort Worth

• The Fort Worth Club, World Affairs Council of DFW presents General Stanley McChrystal discussing and signing Leaders: Myths and Reality, 11:30AM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, celebrate the release of Queen of Air and Darkness with Cassandra Clare, 7PM

Houston

• The Ballroom at Bayou Place, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston presents General Stanley McChrystal discussing and signing Leaders: Myths and Reality, 6:30PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Michael Pullara will discuss and sign THE SPY WHO WAS LEFT BEHIND, 7PM
• Café Brasil, Glass Mountain volume 21 Launch Party, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Laura Bradford will sign and discuss Just Plain Murder and Lynn Cahoon will sign and discuss Slay in Character, 6:30PM
• Stages Repertory Theatre, Tintero Projects Open Mic and Featured Reading featuring Amanda Ortiz, 7PM

Kerrville

• Riverside Nature Center Association, Lynne Weber and Jim Weber discussing and signing Native Host Plants for Texas Butterflies, 1PM

San Antonio

• Lion’s Field Adult Center, Andrew Sansom, Rusty Yates, and David K. Langford discussing and signing Seasons at Selah: The Legacy of Bamberger Ranch Preserve, 7PM
• The Mix, PuroSlam, 9:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Liz Weiman discussing and signing 100+ iPhone/iPad Tricks You Can Do Right Now: (iOS 12), 5PM

Wednesday, December 5

Austin

• B&N – Lakeline, Ann Marie Sabath discussing and signing Create Your Own Success, 6PM
• BookPeople, HAROLD EGGERS JR. speaking & signing My Years with Townes Van Zandt: Music, Genius, and Rage (in conversation with Kathleen Hudson with special guest Hector Ward performing Townes Van Zandt songs), 7PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talks: Dr. Paul Carlson and Tom Crum for a talk on their book Myth, Memory and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker, 12PM
• LBJ Library, an evening with historian and author Michael Beschloss discussing his new book, Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times, 6PM [Friends event]
• Malvern Books, celebrate the release of the Fall 2018 edition of Austin Community College’s journal, The Rio Review, 7PM

Dallas

• Royal Oaks Country Club, Friends of the SMU LIbraries Annual Holiday Luncheon: Anne Hughes presents My Life with Tom Hughes: A Personal Story of the “Musicals Man” of Dallas, 11:30AM
• SMU, Jeffrey A. Engel, Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, and Peter Baker discussing and signing Impeachment: An American Story, 6PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam featuring Vocab, 7:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Warner Roberts discussing and signing Life Is an Adventure: What I Learned Walking (Modeling), Talking (Talk Show Host), and Managing (Marriage, Motherhood & Miracles), 5PM

San Antonio

• UTSA, Veterans, their family and friends, and other interested civilians are cordially invited to participate in the upcoming “Veterans’ Voices” reading and discussion session, 5PM

Thursday, December 6

Austin

• BookPeople, BRUCE CLAVEY speaking and signing The Inquisition of Stephen F. Austin & ROY CASAGRANDA speaking & signing The Blood Throne of Caria, 7PM
• Malvern Books, the launch of Gabino Iglesias’ new novel, Coyote Songs, 7PM
• UT, Joynes Reading Room Literary Speaker Series: writer Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door, 7PM

Bryan

• SEAD Gallery & Bookshop, Author Talk with Arnold LeUnes, 6PM

Dallas

• Aaron Family JCC, Tycher Library Community Read: Martin Fletcher discussing and signing Promised Land, 7PM
• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Authors LIVE! presents H.W. Brands and Heirs of the Founders, 6PM
• Interabang Books, Holiday Open House, 5PM

Houston

• Murder By the Book, AR Baumann will sign and discuss Thicker Than Blood, 6:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Bryant Boutwell discussing and signing I’m Dr. Red Duke, 5:30PM

San Antonio

• Central Library, Meet the Author: David Martin Davies, 6:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Bronson Dorsey discussing and signing Lost Texas: Photographs of Forgotten Buildings, 5PM

Sugar Land

• B&N, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM

Victoria

• UHV, American Book Review Reading Series presents author and artist Shelley Jackson, 11AM

Friday, December 7

Austin

• BookPeople, FELICIA GRAHAM speaking & signing Rollergirls: The Story of Flat Track Derby, 7PM
• Malvern Books, the launch of the poetry collection Spokes of an Uneven Wheel by Colin Dodds, 7PM

Bryan

• The Village Cafe & Art 979 Gallery, William E. Moore signing The Texas Calaboose and Other Forgotten Jails, 4PM

Dallas

• Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam, 8PM

El Paso

• Literarity Book Shop, Jeff Sirkin & Mike Duncan: Poetry, Music, and Conversation, 6PM

Houston

• Body, Mind & Spirit, An Evening of Spirit Communication with Mark Anthony (followed by a book signing), 7PM
• Discovery Green, WITS Youth Performance Poetry Sessions, 6:30PM
• MATCH: Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston, Inprint and UH host a memorial celebration of poet, teacher, and storyteller Tony Hoagland, 6PM

San Antonio

• Dead Tree Books, John C. Payne signing Three and Out, 4PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Joy Jones reading and signing The Last Madam: A Legend of the Texas Chicken Ranch, 5PM

Saturday, December 8

Austin

• BookPeople, DIVYA SRINIVASAN speaking & signing Little Owl’s Snow, 2PM
• Half Price Books – Southpark Meadows, Jamie Alexander will sell and sign Goodbye Old, Hello New: The Journey of Pain to Promise, 12PM
• Malvern Books, 25 nationally recognized Texas poets read their work from the 2019 Texas Poetry Calendar, 4PM
• Resistencia Bookstore, Cuentos y Resilience: An Afternoon with Christopher Carmona, 4PM

Dallas

• Charter Medical Center, book launch of GODS AND HEROES by Oladele Olusanya, 10AM

El Paso

• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: “Outside the Box Part 3” with Eternity Wauls, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• Monkey & Dog Books, Local Author Signing: Marjorie Herrera Lewis presents When the Men Were Gone, 1PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Jim LaBove signing Cotton’s Seafood: A Cajun Autobiographical Cookbook, 12PM
• Galveston Bookshop, Col. Kelley Crooks USAF (Ret.) signing Warships at Seawolf Park (Images of America Series), 3PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Margaret Rotan will discuss and sign THE IMPERFECT SAND DOLLAR, 11AM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Saralyn Richard will discuss and sign MURDER IN THE ONE PERCENT, 1PM
• Body, Mind & Spirit, An Evening of Spirit Communication with Mark Anthony (followed by a book signing), 7PM
• Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
• Inprint House, Escritores en la Casa: Octabio Quintanilla, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Christie Craig will sign and discuss Don’t Close Your Eyes and Gerry Bartlett will sign and discuss Texas Lightning, 1PM
• Murder By the Book, Charles L. Harris will sign and discuss Saint Nick’s First Christmas, 4:30PM

Hurst

• B&N – NE Mall, Meet children’s authors Alan Elliott, Lashandra Hall, and Katrina Dodd, 1PM

Irving

• East Library, Posadas Holiday Celebration featuring author Xavier Garza, 2:30PM
• West Library, 4th annual Harry Potter Yule Ball for Teens, 5PM

Nacogdoches

• The Bosslight, Jessi Lanier signing Our Brave Star, 12PM

Pflugerville

• Wild Magnolias, NeoSoul Poetry $200 Slam, 6PM

Port Neches

• Fleur Fine Books, Meet & Greet with Raymond McHenry, author of The Innkeeper’s Journal, 3PM

San Antonio

• 1906 Artspace, Creatures of Near Kingdoms – Malaysian Micro-Fiction and Linocuts, 7PM
• B&N – La Cantera, Patricia McMillan signing Christmas by Design: Private Homes Decorated by Leading Designers, 2PM
• Dead Tree Books, Meet the Author – Rohn Bayes, 2PM
• Gemini Ink, Winter Market Open House, 12PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Terence White, Sr. discussing and signing Why Marriage is Important to God, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Amelia Banis signing The Last Year, 2PM

Webster

• Avenida Brazil Steakhouse, Gulf Coast Poets annual luncheon featuring Nathan Brown, poet, author,singer/songwriter, and Poet Laureate of Oklahoma, 11:30AM [members & guests only]
• B&N – Baybrook, Meet children’s author Joy Sewing, 11AM

Sunday, December 9

Austin

• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “The End is the Beginning,” 4PM
• LBJ Library, Russ Whitlock, former superintendent of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, signing The Texas White House, 11:30AM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Melanie Sumrow will sign copies of her newest YA novel, The Prophet Calls, 5PM

El Paso

• B&N – Fountains, Thomas Dominguez III signing A Fighter’s Will!, 2PM

Mansfield

• Half Price Books, Tank Gunner will sell and sign copies of his books, Prompts, Prompts Too, Cookie Johnson, and Palomino, 1PM

Richardson

• The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: “How to Write Flash Fiction” with Eden Elieff, 3PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Luc Vors signing Where Sleeping Dogs Lie, 12PM
• Dead Tree Books, Dead Tree Books, John C. Payne signing Three and Out, 12PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Clara Harmonson discussing and signing Hair Chronicles, 12PM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Author Series: Lamar Jones discussing and signing The Adventures of Sir Jankster, 1PM

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