November 7, 2024Shahnaz Habib, author of Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel, was awarded this year’s Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award.
October 11, 2024The U.S. process for granting asylum is complex, exhausting, and often degrading for women who are escaping untenable situations. It needs to change.
October 10, 2024Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia’s oldest and largest festival of literature and the arts, kicks off its 26th season in the City of Fairfax on Saturday, Oct. 12, and runs through Oct. 18.
May 24, 2024People and Places - Week of May 24, 2024
May 16, 2024A $20,000 NEA grant for Fall for the Book will support general operating costs for literary festival’s year-round programming.
February 20, 2024On Feb. 22, Fall for the Book hosts 2024 Mini Fest with seven authors and five events that span the genre gambit on Mason’s Fairfax Campus.
October 16, 2023Author Rachel Heng has won the sixth annual New American Voices Award for her novel The Great Reclamation. She accepted the award at a ceremony at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts during 25th annual Fall for the Book festival.
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August 8, 2023
This October, Northern Virginia’s oldest book festival, Fall for the Book, celebrates their 25th anniversary.
February 7, 2023The Fall for the Book festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2023 with year full of programming, including a Mini Fest on February 15 featuring four authors.
October 31, 2022On a warm October morning, five poets and seven dancers sat beneath the Word Wall in Horizon Hall. The scrolling quotes that usually fill the screen were gone, replaced by the title “Fall for the Book Presents Lyrical Motion: A Dance & Poetry Collaboration.”