Join us on September 22nd for food, fun, and philanthropy! Meet local author Cate Berry as she reads from her book, Penguin & Tiny Shrimp Don’t Do Bedtime!, at the Texas Book Festival’s first ever Books & Breakfast at Hat Creek Burger Company in Westlake!  Hat Creek will donate 25% of all breakfast proceeds to the Texas Book Festival. Guests will also get the chance to donate a book to our TBF book tree in support of our Reading Rock Stars literacy program! Come grab some breakfast, share your love of reading, and help TBF put books in the hands of Austin students!

When: September 22, 2018

8:30-10:30am

Where: Hat Creek Burger Company

5902 Bee Cave Road

West Lake Hills, TX 78746

hatcreekburgers.com/westlake

Let us know you’ll be there – RSVP to our Facebook event!

The Texas Book Festival will return for its 23rd year on October 27 and 28, 2018, and will once again be held in and around the Texas State Capitol in downtown Austin.

The Texas Book Festival is proud to announce its 2017 Festival Weekend was the most successful on record, with 50,000 attendees coming together on November 4 and 5 in the largest celebration of books and literacy in the Festival’s history.

The 2017 Festival Weekend featured more than 300 authors, including Tom Hanks, Dan Rather, Gail Simmons, Attica Locke, Min Jin Lee, Mark Bittman, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush, and more. Held November 3 at the Four Seasons Hotel, the annual First Edition Literary Gala raised more than $630,000 for the nonprofit organization and its literacy programs. Additionally, the TBF gave more than $100,000 in grants to Texas public libraries in 2017 and, through its Reading Rock Stars literacy program, provided more than 9,300 books to students in Title I schools this year. The Texas Teen Book Festival, held on October 7, also drew thousands with its all-star lineup of YA authors including Jason Reynolds, Marie Lu and many others, as well as an interactive iTent space, writing workshops, panels, and more.

“2017 was an epic year in so many ways, from standout literary talent across so many genres to incredible attendee turnout. We are as starstruck as anyone about the big marquee names at the Festival, but our true stars are the children, schools, and libraries we are able to impact across Texas, thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and supporters,” says Lois Kim, executive director. “We’re setting our sights even higher in 2018 for our outreach programming and an amazing Festival Weekend.”

Book lovers can expect to see more of what 2017 offered during next year’s Festival Weekend – a great author lineup, book signings, food trucks, cooking demonstrations, author sessions and panels, live music, a Saturday night Lit Crawl, and more.

WHO: Pete Souza
WHAT: Discussing Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents
WHERE: The Long Center for the Performing Arts
701 W Riverside Dr., Austin, TX 78704
WHEN: Sunday, October 28 at 6:00PM
TICKETS: $39-59. Includes one copy of Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents, a signed book plate, admission to the event, and supports the Festival, your nonprofit Texas literacy organization!

Tickets to An Evening with Pete Souza available now!

We are excited to announce the Texas Book Festival is partnering with The Long Center for Performing Arts to host An Evening with Pete Souza, the chief official White House photographer for President Obama and #1 New York Times bestselling author, as the concluding event of the 2018 Texas Book Festival. Souza will present his new book, Shade. 

About Shade

Shade presents two very different presidencies through a series of powerful photographs Souza captured firsthand during the Obama administration alongside a collection of tweets, headlines, quotes, and other material from the first 500 days of the Trump administration. When Souza left the White House in 2017, he began posting photographs on Instagram from the Obama years along with captions that vividly define the contrast between the the two presidents. Souza follows this practice in this collection of each commander in chief. What are the key differences between these two successive leaders of the United States? Souza will show you in Shade.

About Pete Souza

Pete Souza was the Chief Official White House Photographer for President Obama and the Director of the White House Photo Office. Previously Souza was an Assistant Professor of Photojournalism at Ohio University, the national photographer for the Chicago Tribune, a freelancer for National Geographic, and an Official White House Photographer for President Reagan. His books include the New York Times bestseller The Rise of Barack Obama, which documents the president’s meteoric ascent from his first day in the United States Senate through the 2008 Pennsylvania presidential primary, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Obama: An Intimate Portrait. Souza is currently a freelance photographer based in Washington, D.C., and is a Professor Emeritus at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication.

Tickets to this Event

Tickets are available through the Long Center and cost $39-59. A ticket grants:

• Admission to the event for one person
• One copy of Shade, to be received at the Long Center the evening of the event.
• One signed book plate.
• Pre-sale tickets are available Monday, July 23 for Festival Friends Pass holders and Long Center members. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, July 27 at 10:00 am.

Please note: all books come with a signed book plate. There will not be a public signing at this event.

Book Ticket sales help fund the Festival Weekend, our Reading Rock Stars school literacy program, and our annual Texas Library Grants. Thank you for supporting the Texas Book Festival and literacy in Texas!