Fall For The Book 2016
September 25th- 30th is the 18th annual Fall For the Book Festival!
Since 1999, George Mason University and the City of Fairfax have collaborated on this festival to celebrate an array of writers with an eye toward strengthening ties between the literary and local communities. This year’s guests include poets Dana Levin, Natalie Diaz, Oliver Bendorf and fiction authors Lauren Groff, Sandra Cisneros, and Tania James, among many others. Below, find a highlight of the events we particularly recommend for our readers. Events are free and open to the public. We’re excited to see you there!
So to Speak is sponsoring a reading featuring poets Natalie Diaz and Oliver Bendorf on September 29th at 6pm (GMU Campus, George’s, 3rd Floor, Johnson Center)
Listed below are some more events that we think might interest our So to Speak readers.
Sunday, September 25th
Life as a Teenager: Friendship, Romance, and Rebellion YA Panel
1:00, Sherwood Center, Performance Room A, 3740 Old Lee Hwy, Fairfax, VA
Martha Collins and Ailish Hopper
2:00, The Writer’s Center, 4608 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD
Poets Brianna Low and Kelly Lorraine Andrews (Sponsored by Gazing Grain Press)
3:00, Sherwood Center, Performance Room B, 3750 Old Lee Hwy, Fairfax, VA
Sisters in Crime: Mystery Writers Panel
4:00, 4:30, Sherwood Center, Rehearsal Room, 3750 Old Lee Hwy, Fairfax, VA
Journalist Debbie Cenziper
4:30, Sherwood Center, Performance Room B, 3750 Old Lee Hwy, Fairfax, VA
Monday, September 26th
Slavery & Beyond: Recovering History through Family Memory
3:00, Research Hall, Room 163
Memoirist Penny Guisinger and Poet Susan Landers
4:30, Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Johnson Center North Plaza, GMU Campus
Mason M.F.A. alumni Reading with Renee Angle, Allison Cobb, Matt Norman and Alyson Foster
6:00, George’s, 3rd Floor, Johnson Center, GMU Campus
Novelists Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
7:00, Rust Library, 380 Old Waterfor Road NW, Leesburg, VA
Novelist Jen Michaelski
7:30, Research Hall, Room 163, GMU Campus
Tuesday, September 27th
Mystery Writer Allison Leotta
Noon, Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Johnson Center North Plaza, GMU Campus
Culture Writer Patricia Hill Collins
1:30, Research Hall, Room 183, GMU Campus
Memoirist Sarah Kaufman
3:00, Research Hall, Room 163, GMU Campus
Folklorist Pravina Shukla
6:00, Johnson Center, Meeting Room F, GMU Campus
Poet Dana Levin
6:00, Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts, GMU Campus
Novelist Elizabeth Nunez
7:00, Sherwood Regional Library, 2501 Sherwood Hall Ln, Alexandria, VA
Novelist Lauren Groff
7:30, Harris Theater, GMU Campus
Wednesday, September 28th
Novelist Elizabeth Nunez
Noon, Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Johnson center North Plaza, GMU Campus
Sociologists Angela Hattery and Earl Smith
1:30, Research Hall Room 163, GMU Campus
James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room at 60: Sexuality, Textuality, and the Legacy of a Literary Classic
3:00, Research Hall, Room 163, GMU Campus
Mason’s M.F.A. Fellows Reading
(With poet Madeleine Wattenberg, So to Speak Assist. Blog Editor)
6:00, George’s, 3rd Floor, Johnson Center, GMU Campus
Thursday, September 29th
Poet Monica Youn
1:30, Research Hall Room 163, GMU Campus
Nonfiction Writer Barbara Amaya
3:00, Research Hall, Room 163, GMU Campus
Essayists Ander Monson and T Clutch Fleischmann
4:30, George’s, 3rd Floor, Johnson Center, GMU Campus
Novelist Tania James
4:30, Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Johnson Center North Plaza, GMU Campus
Poets Oliver Bendorf and Natalie Diaz (Sponsored by So to Speak)
6:00, George’s, 3rd Floor, Johnson Center, GMU Campus
Friday, September 30th
Novelist Bernice McFadden
10:00, Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Johnson Center North Plaza, GMU Campus
Journalist Mei Fong
1:00, Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Johnson Center North Plaza, GMU Campus
Poet Patrick Rosal (Sponsored by Split this Rock poetry festival)
4:00, Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Johnson Center North Plaza, GMU Campus
Poetry Night Out with M. Mack, J.K. Daniels and Nancy Pearson
7:00, Epicure Café, 11104 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA
Fairfax Prize Winner Sandra Cisneros
7:30, Harris Theater, GMU Campus
Ongoing Exhibition:
Call and Response: “Currents”
Fenwick Gallery, Fenwick Library
September 23-October 31;
Gallery Talk, Wednesday, September 28, 3 p.m.