Winner of the Inaugural ArtsFairfax Arts Innovation Award
Debut Writers Dominate New American Voices Award Shortlist
Sindya Bhanoo’s Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, Daphne Palasi Andreades’s Brown Girls, and Aamina Ahmad’s The Return of Faraz Ali have been named finalists for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award, which is now celebrating its Fifth Anniversary.
Festival to Receive NEA Grant
The festival is excited to announce that Fall for the Book has been approved for a $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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, part of the Watershed Lit Station. This season, hear from Alma Katsu, Chelsea T. Hicks, Bill Glose, Frances Park, and Ginger Park! You can listen on Soundcloud, Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. The podcast has recently been featured in the August 2022 Northern Virginia Magazine issue on Fairs and Festivals, now on newsstands!
Rockstars of Writing
*Past Festival Headliners*
Chinua Achebe
2008
Stephen King
2011
Neil Gaiman
2012
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2019
Delia Owens
2019
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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.
22 Years
1600+ Authors
20,000+ Attendees per Year
Fall for the Book is an independent nonprofit that is part of Watershed Lit: Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice at George Mason University.