22 Years
1600+ Authors
20,000+ Attendees Per Year
The Festival
Fall for the Book is going virtual in 2020, bringing the festival to your fingertips! We’re elevating our status quo to “on demand”; now you can settle in with your kids to watch a live, interactive event, or get a front row seat to a talk with a writer who lives half world away; no plane ticket required.
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.
Pop-Up Lit Nights
Fall for the Book’s interactive spring reading series includes fun events like Story Spring and our Love Stories Open Mic, traditionally hosted at Old Town Hall in the City of Fairfax.
Trivia Nights
Earn bragging rights while you support the Fall for the Book festival every other Thursday this summer, starting June 16. Come as one or as part of a team to participate in a fun night of fundraising trivia.
Rockstars of Writing
*Past Festival Headliners*
Chinua Achebe
2008
Stephen King
2011
Neil Gaiman
2012
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2019
Delia Owens
2019
Support the Festival
As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Fall for the Book is sustained by the generous contributions of Corporate Sponsorship as well as our Friends of the Festival program.
