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TOUR DATES
2023 KICKS & JUNETEENTH TOUR
KICKS / JUNETEENTH 2023 SPRING TOUR
4/19 KICKS Birthday Event Houston
4/27 Dickinson Elementary Visit [9-11] Dickinson
4/28 Bookapalooza Reception Sugar Land
4/29 Bookapalooza [9-3] Sugar Land
5/2 Book Release Worldwide
5/6 Kindred Stories [12] Houston
5/7 B&N Champions [2] Houston
5/13 B&N River Oaks [11-12:30] Houston
5/19-21 TBA
5/27-28 TBA
6/9 [10] HEB – Lake Colony Store Missouri City
6/9 [2] HEB– Blackhawk Store Houston
6/10 [10] HEB– Pearland Plus Pearland
6/10 [2] HEB— MacGregor Store Houston
6/16 Black Pearl Bookstore Austin
6/17 Ringer Library College Station
*6/22-28 Mini Tour TBA
2022 KICKS TOUR
NOVEMBER
*19 Kindred Stories Bookstore. Houston
* TBA Houston Christian University
*6 Texas Book Festival. Austin, TX
*5 Texas Book Festival. Austin, TX
*4 Bluebonnet Trail Elementary. Austin, TX
* 2 Wharton DLA Book Fair. Barnes and Noble. Houston
OCTOBER
*5 Kennedy Elementary. Houston, TX
SEPTEMBER
*NO EVENTS
AUGUST
*4 Authorama. Spring Branch Memorial Library. 10:30.
Houston, TX
*11 Green Bean Books. Portland, OR (Virtual)
*20 KICKS Back-to-School Bash. Barnes and & Noble --Champions Village. Houston, TX
JULY
*2 Colors of Excellence Book Drive. Texas City, TX
*2 BROS, BOOKS, and KICKS. Galveston,TX
*16 Second Star to the Right. Denver, CO (Virtual)
*23 Mystery To Me. Madison, WI (Virtual)
*26 RootedMKE. Milwaukee, WI (Virtual)
*27 Authorama: Katy Branch Library. 10:30. Katy, TX
JUNE
*10 Caney Creek Watershed Youth Program. Wharton, TX
*18 Juneteenth Events TBA
*20-22 ABA Children's Institute. Phoenix, AZ
*24 BookPeople KICKS Stock Signing at 1:00. Austin, TX
*25 Austin African American Book Festival. 11:00. Austin, TX
*29 SLI: Olle Middle School. Houston, TX
*30 Bridge Camp: Armstrong Elementary. Sugar Land, TX
May
*1 Open a Book, Open a World. Larry J. Ringer Library. 2:00PM. College Station, TX
*7 Pop-up KICKS Signings in Houston
*16 Meet the Author Event. Castleton Elementary School. Castleton, NY
April
*17 Books of Wonder Virtual Event. 1:00PM (EST)
*19 KICKS Drops!
School Visit: A.R. Turner Elementary. Willis, TX
Breaking Bread with Kwame Alexander: Readings, Recipes, and Rants. Online
*20 Guest on Nick Patton’s Picturebooking Podcast, hosted by Nadia Salomon
*22 Surprise Guest Reader for #KidsNeedMentors’s Earth Day Celebration. LA. Virtual
*25 Texas Library Association Conference Poetry Round Table. 12:15PM. 201 BC
TLA Author Signing. 4:30PM. #2225
*29 Houston Baptist University’s Writers Retreat 6:00PM
*30 HBU’s Virtual Writers Conference. 1:00PM
2019-2022 WATER BODIES TOUR
December
*28 Corpus Christi Book Party/Signing
By The Book Bookstore (6:30-8:00 p.m.) Corpus Christi, TX
January
*19 Wendy Barker Book Launch/Reading
Malvern Books (4:00-5:00 p.m.) Austin, TX
FEBRUARY
*TBA
MARCH
*6 AWP (9:00-5:00 p.m.) San Antonio, TX
Reception (contact for details)
*March Dates Have Been Cancelled...
2018 TOUR DATES
January
*16 ZURI Publishes
FEBRUARY
*1 Photographs published in F-Stop Magazine
* 9 2018 “RED” Online Photography Exhibit, Photography Center of Cape Cod and the Cape Cod Art Center
* 17-28 Photography Exhibited in We Love Houston Show, RockStar Gallery (Houston, TX)
*23-25 Featured Author at TALE Conference (Canyon, TX)
MARCH
*1-11 The Mask Exhibit, Millepiani Gallery (Rome, Italy)
*10-23 FotoFest (Houston, TX)
APRIL
*8-9 Austin International Poetry Festival (Austin, TX)
*14 Brazos Valley Book Festival (College Station, TX)
EVENT RESCHEDULED
*21-22 Pop-up visits with Kwame Alexander. Check Kwame's social media for details (Houston, TX)
*28 Austin Bookstore Crawl (Austin, TX)
JULY
*13 Summer Youth Program (Wharton, TX)
*20-23 International Literacy Association Conference (Austin, TX)