All updates to the 2019 Texas Book Festival Schedule since it has gone to print will be recorded here. The most accurate and up-to-date schedule is always our online schedule.

Author Cancellations
Sarah Broom
Alyssa Cole
Claudia D. Hernández
Joe Lansdale
Deborah Levy
Leila Meacham
Ladan Osman
Megan Peak
Merritt Tierce

New Sessions Added
Sunday 10/27 at 11:00AM: Austin to ATX with Joe Nick Patoski and Joe Ely
Saturday 10/26 at 4:00PM: Erosion: Essays Examining Our Undoing with Terry Tempest Williams

Venue Changes
New Latina Writers to Read Now has moved from the Latinx Lit Tent to Capitol Extension Room E 1.014. The time, date, and authors remain the same.

Programming Changes

Terry Tempest Williams will no longer appear on the panel ‘In the Hands of Our Hubris’ in the C-Span 2/BookTV Tent on 10/26.

We Are La Cocina: Recipes in Pursuit of the American Dream with Emiliana Puyana and Reem Assil will now take place in the Central Market Cooking Tent at 12:00PM on Saturday, October 26.

Shuk: The Heart of Israeli Home Cooking with Einat Admony will now take place in the Central Market Cooking Tent at 1:15PM on Saturday, October 26.

Oscar Cásares has been added to the panel, PEN America Presents: Points of Entry: Reporting on the Border on Sunday, October 27 at 11:15AM.

francine j. harris has been added to the panel After Paradise: Poetry of Displacement on Sunday, October 27 at 12:30PM.

Kadir Nelson has been added to the session The Undefeated with Kwame Alexander on Saturday, October 26 at 12:00PM.

George Pelecanos has been added to the session Texas Noir to D. C. Noir: Crime Fiction Set in the Lone Star State and Beyond on Saturday, October 26 at 12:00PM.