Fall for the Book

A Message from our Director & Manager Dear Friends, As 2019 comes to a close, so does our 21st year of Fall for the Book. We’ve been so fortunate over the last two decades to grow from a small, two-day festival with twenty writers, to a major staple of Northern Virginia’s literary community. This year,

Thanks for coming out! 3 Days, 150 Authors, 1 Great Time

On Thursday, October 10, Melissa Rivero author of the debut novel The Affairs of the Falcóns was awarded the second annual Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award. Fall for the Book created this post-publication book prize to recognize recently published works that illuminate the complexity of human experience as told by immigrants, whose work