Fall for the Book

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.

Finalists for the 2022 Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award are announced.

The Schar School’s Richard Kauzlarich discusses a new book about the changing nature of national borders with the author Klaus Dodds.

Patricia Engel’s novel “Infinite Country” is the winner of the 2021 Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award.

After a landmark virtual 2020 festival with more than 15,000 viewers, Fall for the Book is pushing the envelope with a new hybrid format for its 23rd festival, which runs from October 14-31.