Shahnaz Habib Wins New American Voices Award

Shahnaz Habib wins the 7th Annual Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award for her book, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel. 

New American Voices Award

Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research’s New American Voices Award recognizes recently published works that illuminate the complexity of the human experience as told by immigrants, whose work is historically underrepresented in writing and publishing.

Fall for the Book Podcast

Kara Oakleaf & Suzy Rigdon sit down with writers from across the genre spectrum in the Fall for the Book Podcast. This season, they talk all things history with K. Avvirin Berlin, Shirley M. Marshall, Praveen Herat, and Edwin Henderson. You can listen on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts.  The podcast has also been featured in Northern Virginia Magazine. Read it here!

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