The Festival
Fall for the Book went virtual in 2020 and 2021, bringing the festival to your fingertips, elevating our status quo to “on demand.” We’ll be back in-person in 2022, but will still provide some great digital events that you can attend without planes, trains, or automobiles. Stay tuned for more!
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 Claudia Kalb, Jim Peterson, Pamela Harris, Brandie June, and Janice Northerns. You can listen on Soundcloud, Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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.
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.