Fall for the Book

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.

A $20,000 NEA grant for Fall for the Book will support general operating costs for literary festival’s year-round programming.

On 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.

Author 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.

This October, Northern Virginia’s oldest book festival, Fall for the Book, celebrates their 25th anniversary.

The 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.

On a warm October morning, five poets and seven dancers sat beneath the Word Wall in Horizon Hall. The scrolling quotes that usually fill the screen were gone, replaced by the title “Fall for the Book Presents Lyrical Motion: A Dance & Poetry Collaboration.”

Mason alum Andrew Joseph White, who graduated with an MFA in creative writing in May, published his first young adult (YA) book, Hell Followed with Us, an LGBTQ post-apocalyptic horror story, less than a month later in June 2022.

On September 23, 2011, Stephen King spoke at Mason’s Fall for the Book and accepted the Mason Prize for his extraordinary contributions to bringing literature to a wide reading public.

After two years of offering the festival virtually, Fall for the Book is thrilled to be back with both in-person and online events October 11-15 for its 24th year.