August 12, 2026Last year, Fall for the Book’s annual Writers in the School series reached nearly 1,200 K-12 students in the Fairfax County Public Schools with their Writers in the School series. The program, organized by the George Mason University-based festival, is designed to introduce students to authors and encourage interest in reading and writing.
August 3, 2026Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia’s largest literary festival, returns for the 28th year this October with bestselling authors Celeste Ng and Stephen Graham Jones as headliners. Taking place from October 6-10, the festival includes talks from local and national authors as well as events across the George Mason University campus and the Fairfax area.
August 19, 2025Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia’s oldest and largest festival of literature and the arts, returns for its 27th annual festival, October 7-11, with bestselling authors taking the headline stage.
November 7, 2024Shahnaz Habib, author of Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel, was awarded this year’s Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award.
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October 10, 2024
Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia’s oldest and largest festival of literature and the arts, kicks off its 26th season in the City of Fairfax on Saturday, Oct. 12, and runs through Oct. 18.
May 16, 2024A $20,000 NEA grant for Fall for the Book will support general operating costs for literary festival’s year-round programming.
February 20, 2024On Feb. 22, Fall for the Book hosts 2024 Mini Fest with seven authors and five events that span the genre gambit on Mason’s Fairfax Campus.
October 16, 2023Author Rachel Heng has won the sixth annual New American Voices Award for her novel The Great Reclamation. She accepted the award at a ceremony at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts during 25th annual Fall for the Book festival.
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August 8, 2023
This October, Northern Virginia’s oldest book festival, Fall for the Book, celebrates their 25th anniversary.
February 7, 2023The Fall for the Book festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2023 with year full of programming, including a Mini Fest on February 15 featuring four authors.
