Read Write Austin: school-tastic is back, an audiobook meetup, graduation readings, and a starry fundraiser
Monday, 5.11 — Sunday 5.17
This week features a range of interesting opportunities to engage with literature and the work of other writers around town, plus an audiobook walk and two uniquely Austin book fairs/festivals on Saturday.
MONDAY, MAY 11
READER MEETUP | Audiobook Walk with Austin Book & Sip Club
6:30pm at Trader Joe’s Seaholm (meetup point), 211 Walter Seaholm Dr, Ste 100
TUESDAY, MAY 12
BOOK RELEASE | Minerva by Keila Vall de la Ville, in conversation with Alejandro Puyana
6pm at First Light Books, 4300 Speedway
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13
WRITERS GROUP | Work in Progress Writers Group
5:30pm at Lark & Owl Booksellers, 205 6th St Ste 101, Georgetown
BOOK CLUB | Black Pearl Brothas: Black Genius by Tre Johnson
6pm at Black Pearl Books, 7112 Burnet Rd
BOOK CLUB | Austin Books and Chatter: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
7pm at Star of India, 2900 W Anderson Ln Ste 12
THURSDAY, MAY 14
READING | Texas State MFA Program Presents: 3rd Year Reading Showcase
1pm at Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, 508 W Center St, Kyle
BOOK RELEASE | The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art by Kevin Ashton (local author)
6pm at Lioness Books, 208 N Gabriel St, Leander
BOOK RELEASE | Offseason by Avigayl Sharp, in conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
7pm at First Light Books, 4300 Speedway
READING + OPEN MIC | BookWoman’s 2nd Thursday Poetry ft Allisa Cherry and Lindsey Wayland
7:15pm at BookWoman, 5501 N Lamar Blvd
FRIDAY, MAY 15
LITERARY FUNDRAISER | Host Publications Presents: Battle of the Constellations
7pm at Alienated Majesty Books, 613 W 29th St
BOOK CLUB | Austin Classics: White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7pm at Jason’s Deli, 1000 East 41st St Ste 940
SATURDAY, MAY 16
FESTIVAL | The Greater Austin Book Festival
10am — 5pm at Central Library, 710 W Cesar Chavez St
BOOK FAIR | School-tastic Book Fair
12 — 5pm at Millennium Youth Complex, 1156 Hargrave St
SUNDAY, MAY 17
BOOK CLUB | Fight Against Brain Rot: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
10am at Livra Books, 4101 Guadalupe St #200