Lit City:

What’s Going on in the Austin Book World Mar. 24th – Mar. 30th

Spring is here, along with some wonderful visiting authors as well as those home grown from Austin Texas! Make sure to get out and enjoy the beautiful spring weather as well as your favorite literary artists this week!

Thursday, Mar. 24 (7 PM) @ Book Woman, enjoy the monthly book group reading Vanessa and her Sister.

Friday, Mar. 25 (7 PM) @ BookPeople, enjoy debut novelist Andrea Dunlop speaking
and signing Losing the Light.

Saturday, Mar. 26 (1130 AM) @ BookPeople, enjoy BookKid’s Paramount Theatre Storytime! featuring the production of Peter Rabbit Tales!

Saturday, Mar. 26 (7 PM) @ Malvern Books, enjoy an Evening Reading with Emily Perez and Ryan Sharp.

Monday, Mar. 28 (7 PM) @ BookPeople, enjoy O. Henry Award–Winning Author Rick
Bass speaking and signing For a Little While.

Tuesday, Mar. 29 (7 PM) @ Book Woman, enjoy The Feminist Bookstore Movement with guest Kristen Hogan.

Wednesday, Mar. 30 (1030 AM) @ BookPeople, enjoy BookKid’s Puppet Show Players Storytime!

Wednesday, Mar. 30 (7 PM) @ BookPeople, enjoy bestselling author of Devil in the White City, Erik Larson, speaking and signing Dead Wake.

Upcoming Events and Classes at The Writing Barn

Writing Your Heart Out: The Craft of the Personal Essay:

In this workshop, we’ll learn to craft powerful personal essays, from the literary basics – including the most important sentence in your essay – to the emotional roller coaster of running into your neighbor after he learned your most embarrassing secrets in the New York Times.

We’ll also cover the protocol of sending out queries and discuss outlets for finished pieces. Bring your in-progress essay, your ideas for essays, and a really open mind.

The Story Hunter: Mining Life and History in Search of Story with Greg Neri:

Finding treasure hidden in plain sight is something Coretta Scott King honor-winning author G. Neri does well. In this class, he will talk about how he honed the radar that has resulted in 9 award-winning books: novels, graphic novels and picture books all inspired by real life—people, places or events that no one had written about before. He has applied his unique talents to story finding to about everything from black urban cowboys to drug smuggling surfers to his latest quest: the real-life childhood friendship of Harper Lee and Truman Capote.