What’s Going on in the Austin Book World Apr. 14th – Apr. 20th

The sunshine is leaving Austin’s weather forecast this week, along with Austin’s visiting poets and authors! Make sure to get out and celebrate Austin’s wonderful visiting artists, as well as our local writers! Here’s what’s happening this week in the Austin Book World:

Thursday, Apr. 14th (7 PM) @ Joynes Reading Room, 2501 Whitis Ave., enjoy A Reading by Lucy Corin and Nina McConigley. All audiences are welcome.

Thursday, Apr. 14th (7 PM) @ Book Woman, enjoy Second Thursday Open Mic, ft. W. Joe Hoppe. A “Round Robin” open mic will follow the feature!

Friday, Apr. 15th (7 PM) @ Malvern Books, enjoy an evening featuring poetry by the Tupelo Press 30-30 Project and conference participants.

Saturday, Apr. 16th (1130 AM) @ BookPeople, enjoy Shark vs. Train Storytime! Who will win?  

Saturday, Apr. 16th (2PM – 5PM) @ Malvern Books, enjoy DEAR Texas Presents Texas Authors: Day One, the first day of the Texas Association of Authors’ fifth annual Book Awards Contest.

Sunday, Apr. 17th (2PM – 5PM) @ Malvern Books, enjoy DEAR Texas Presents Texas Authors: Day Two, the second day of the Texas Association of Authors’ fifth annual Book Awards Contest.

Monday, Apr. 18th (1 PM) @ BookPeople, enjoy the Murder in the Afternoon Book Club, ft. Owen Laukkanen’s The Professionals.

Tuesday, Apr. 19th (1030 AM) @ BookPeople, enjoy The Armstrong Community Music School Storytime! Don’t forget your dancing shoes!

Wednesday, Apr. 20th (1030 AM) @ BookPeople, enjoy Tiny Tails To You Petting Zoo Storytime! Come along and meet some new furry friends!

Wednesday, Apr. 20th (7 PM) @ BookPeople, enjoy award winning journalist Mason Inman, author of Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist’s Quest for a Sustainable Future, in conversation with Russel Gold.

Upcoming Events and Classes at The Writing Barn

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

Serving Story: The Art of Fiction Writing with Bestselling Novelist and Television Producer Stephanie Storey:

After working as a television and film producer in Los Angeles for fifteen years, Stephanie Storey used her
Hollywood storytelling skills to turn her debut novel, *Oil and Marble*, into a runaway hit, garnering a glowing New York Times review and selling out of her first printing within the first week of publication. In this class, Storey will teach you how to harness the power of story so you can write fiction that will catch the eye of agents, editors, publishers, and the media.