Sindya Bhanoo Wins New American Voices Award October 13, 2022, Fairfax, VA- Sindya Bhanoo wins the fifth annual Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award for her short story collection, Seeking Fortune Elsewhere. Before reading from her collection and accepting the award, including a $5,000 prize, Bhanoo spoke of how immigrant stories are overlooked, […]
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Fall for the Book Receives $12,000 Operating Support Grant from ArtsFairfax Fairfax, VA (September 12, 2022) – Fall for the Book has been awarded a 2023 ArtsFairfax Operating Support Grant of $12,000. This funding benefits the vitality of Fall for the Book and its mission to host a variety of year-round events and activities that
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Debut Writers Dominate Immigrant Writing 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. Celebrating its 5th anniversary, this post-publication award recognizes recently published works that illuminate the complexity of
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Fall for the Book to Receive $10,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts March 18, 2022, Fairfax, VA — Fall for the Book has been approved for a $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This project will promote reading by sponsoring a variety of year-round events
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Arts Innovation Award: Fall for the Book All Text From the ArtsFairfax Announcement New in 2022, the Arts Innovation Award recognizes an organization that has implemented nontraditional or inventive approaches to their art form and has uniquely engaged audiences in the arts. In recognition of their forward-thinking literary programming, Fall for the Book is the
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Breaking Down Walls: Disinformation, Lies & the Berlin Wall Thursday, March 31, YouTube Exclusive About the Event Between midnight and dawn on August 13th, 1961, a 27-mile barricade was erected that divided the city of Berlin, Germany into the free West and Communist East, forcefully separating friends, family, and lovers. But how did this happen,