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Ada Ferrer Wins 2026 New American Voices Award Ada Ferrer has won the 9th Annual Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award for her memoir Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter. She accepted the award and the $5,000 prize on October 8th at the Fall for the Book Festival.  Ferrer said,

Chantel Acevedo, Bindu Bansinath, and Ada Ferrer Named Finalists for 2026 New American Voices Award Chantel Acevedo’s Cages, Bindu Bansinath’s Men Like Ours, and Ada Ferrer’s Keeper of My Kin, have been named finalists for the New American Voices Award, presented in partnership with Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research. Celebrating

An American Indian Horror Story with Stephen Graham Jones Thursday, October 8, 7:30 PM | Harris Theatre, George Mason University In The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, horror icon Stephen Graham Jones unspools an American Indian revenge story told through transcribed interviews of a Blackfeet named Good Stab. His tale unveils a Blackfeet massacre and the haunting,

Fiction in a Fractured Age: Celeste Ng Friday, October 9, 7:30 PM | Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center Enjoy an evening with world-renowned author Celeste Ng as she discusses the suspense, drama, and beautifully complex interpersonal relationships that appear in her writing. Ng is the author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires

Fall for the Book Announces the 2026 New American Voices Award Longlist This October, Fall for the Book and George Mason University’s Institute for Immigration Research are proud to celebrate the ninth New American Voices Award–a post-publication book prize recognizing the work of first-generation writers. From the many entries, judges Donna Hemans, Angie Cruz, and

The Price of Exclusion with Nicole Carr Monday, June 22 | 9:40 a.m. via Zoom Why are Black doctors and their patients undervalued? What factors in America’s health system have paved the way for this to happen? Award-winning journalist Nicole Carr investigates the long history of medical racism in her first book, The Price of