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.
Climates of Change Digital Exhibit
Fall for the Book has partnered with ACM Hypertext 2020 to present a digital exhibition of electronic literature. The works respond to the overwhelming “climates of change,” with a particular emphasis on the ongoing environmental crisis. Thinking globally can be overwhelming: thus, this exhibition asks artists and viewers to engage with these global concerns through the lens of local and the personal. The exhibit features works that are brief and poetic; works that engage with moments and personal challenges; works that respond to local challenges and warnings for the future that is already here.
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.
