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Texas Book Festival Connecting authors and readers since 1995. November 14–15, 2026
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All links can be accessed here: https://linktr.ee/texasbookfest📚 See and meet more than 280 celebrated and beloved autho...
10/14/2026

All links can be accessed here: https://linktr.ee/texasbookfest

📚 See and meet more than 280 celebrated and beloved authors in downtown Austin this November 14–15! The 2026 Texas Book Festival will feature 200+ sessions across a wide range of genres and interests. Explore the schedule at the 🔗 in our bio or at Texasbookfestival.org.

📍 In and around the TX Capitol, tents along 11th St., Congress Ave., and Colorado St., and nearby satellite venues, including the State Theatre, First Baptist Church of Austin, Central Presbyterian Church, The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center, and TSLAC.

🗓️ [Saturday, Nov. 14: 10 AM–5 PM] • [Sunday, Nov. 15: 11 AM–5 PM]

⛺ Book sales tents open 30 minutes before Festival begins and remain open 30 minutes after sessions end each day

🆓 Thanks to generous sponsors, including Presenting Sponsor H-E-B, the Festival remains free for all.

🎟️ Tickets are on sale for Colson Whitehead’s and Patrick Radden Keefe’s sessions. Purchase tickets at the link in our bio.

🫂Festival Friends enjoy priority access to 10 sessions & signing lines. These sessions remain free to attend, but anticipation for these authors is high. Get the best seat in the house with a Festival Friend Pass (🔗 in bio).

📚 Programs for Adults: From unforgettable fiction to timely nonfiction, the perfect session is waiting for you.

🐛 Family-Friendly Fun: Kids and families can look forward to the Read Me a Story, Next Chapter, and Children’s Activity Tents.

🥗 Check out a smorgasbord of culinary conversations and live cooking demos in the Cooking Tent.

💙 Teen and young adult readers can enjoy programs in the YA HQ Tent. Enjoy interactive activities in the (newly and aptly re-named) YA Meetup Tent!

🍕 Food Court & Exhibitors: Explore the 100+ vendors at the 🔗 in our bio.

📘 Festival books will be available for sale on-site through . You can also purchase books now from the official TBF online bookstore (🔗 in bio).

🖊️ Book signings will occur in the Main Book Signing Tent. Attendees at ticketed sessions will receive pre-signed books.

🍻 Lit Crawl returns the evening of Sat., Nov. 14. See you there!

🚌 Request your free Kevin Tuel weekend bus passes (🔗 in bio).

10/09/2026

Making the personal universal. Check out the memoirs being featured at the 2026 Texas Book Festival, returning to downtown Austin Nov. 14-15, 2026.

Learn more at Texasbookfestival.org/authors.

Announcing all ten 2026 Festival Friend Pass Sessions!Festival Friends help make the magic of the Texas Book Festival po...
10/06/2026

Announcing all ten 2026 Festival Friend Pass Sessions!

Festival Friends help make the magic of the Texas Book Festival possible, bringing authors and readers together, and keeping Festival Weekend free and open to all. With a gift of $120 or more, you’ll receive a Festival Friend Pass and priority access to these 10 sessions with highly anticipated authors during Festival Weekend, plus other great perks, including a free audiobook from .fm!

🔗 Become a Festival Friend at the link in our bio or at Texasbookfestival.org.

ℹ️ Festival Friend Pass session dates, times, and venues will be announced in mid-October. Festival Friend Passes do not grant access to Colson Whitehead and Patrick Radden Keefe’s ticketed sessions, so if you wish to attend those sessions, we encourage you to purchase tickets before they sell out.

The 21st Annual San Antonio B**r Festival returns Saturday, October 17. Enjoy hundreds of premium, craft, and near beers...
10/04/2026

The 21st Annual San Antonio B**r Festival returns Saturday, October 17. Enjoy hundreds of premium, craft, and near beers from around the world, plus music, games, w**e, c***r, food, and local vendors. Bring a chair or blanket! A portion of proceeds benefits the San Antonio Food Bank. Rain or shine. Must be 21+. Get tickets at Sanantoniobeerfestival.com.

Tickets are on sale now to see two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead (in conversation with Jennifer Wilks) and...
09/22/2026

Tickets are on sale now to see two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead (in conversation with Jennifer Wilks) and bestselling investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe (in conversation with Tony Plohetski) at the 2026 Texas Book Festival.

🔗Purchase tickets at Texasbookfestival.org/events.

This year, two ticket options are available: A $36 ticket grants you admission to the author’s session plus a copy of the author’s pre-signed book, which you will receive on-site before the events begin. A $5 ticket grants you general admission to the author’s session, without a book. Copies of Cool Machine and London Falling will also be available for purchase in the BookPeople Sales Tent.

ℹ️ Colson Whitehead • Nov. 14 • 12:15 PM • First Baptist Church of Austin
ℹ️ Patrick Radden Keefe • Nov. 14 • 3:45 PM • First Baptist Church of Austin

Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twelve works of fiction and nonfiction and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City. Cool Machine is an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.

Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rogues, Empire of Pain (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize), and Say Nothing, which received a National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of the Twenty Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Book Review. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award, and the Orwell Prize. He served as an executive producer on the award-winning FX series Say Nothing. London Falling is a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London’s glittering surface.

A beautiful and intimate evening with Joanna Klink and Cecily Parks last Saturday at Alienated Majesty Books. Thank you ...
09/21/2026

A beautiful and intimate evening with Joanna Klink and Cecily Parks last Saturday at Alienated Majesty Books. Thank you to all who joined to revel in the beauty of Joanna’s work and of poetry and life. 🌱

An insightful and educational event with author David Booth at the The Holdsworth Center last week. 📖💡
09/20/2026

An insightful and educational event with author David Booth at the The Holdsworth Center last week. 📖💡

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