Hark, all ye AWP-goers and East-Coasters and Baltimoreans! After the conference panels have drained your attention and the bookfair has drained your pocketbook, make haste to the Strange Harbor reading, hosted by Fox City Lit and Night Ginkgo Press. Join us at 5pm on March 5th at Mystique Barrel Brewing for an off-site reading of the highest order!  Continue reading Fox City Lit @ AWP Baltimore!

When: Saturday 14 March 2026, 3pm – 7pm Where: The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh St, Bethesda MD 20815 From the Writer’s Center event page: The nation’s capital is full of readers, and the DC LIT FEST will give those readers a chance to mix, mingle, and meet the city’s literary organizations all in one place. Organized by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the Goethe-Institute Washington, this FREE event will start with an open house and a pop-up book … Continue reading DC Lit Fest Announced

Fairfax’s own Fall for the Book festival has announced the schedule for its “Mini Fest” When: February 19, 10:30 AM – 6 PM Where: The Fenwick Reading Room, on George Mason’s Fairfax Campus.  See the featured readers and their work below. From the Fall for the Book Website: Boys, Interrupted A coming-of-age tale of male friendship and loneliness, the novel Great Disasters by Grady Chambers follows six young men … Continue reading Fall for the Book Events – February 2026

From the GMU Creative Writing Website: George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Watershed Lit and Mason’s University Libraries in presenting the Spring 2026 Visiting Writers Series. Writers will meet for afternoon workshops with students from Mason’s MFA program in creative writing and will then offer evening readings and conversations open to the public and hosted by Mason’s creative writing community.  All readings/conversations will be … Continue reading Spring 2026 Visiting Writers at George Mason

GMU’s Fall for the Book and the City of Fairfax have announced an exciting spring event featuring Fox City reader Hannah Grieco, Fox City co-founder Michael Don, and recent-award-winning fiction writer Megan Howell. From the official announcement: What do you get when you give three writers two sentences and twenty minutes? A Story Sprint! Emcee and author Zach Powers will pull two audience-suggested sentences from … Continue reading Story Sprint Announced

Ready to come out of winter hibernation? Commonwealth Brewing in Old Town Fairfax is hosting a book fair and book swap this weekend alongside their usual Sunday brunch. When: Sunday 11 January 2026, 11am-4pm Where: 10426 Main St, Fairfax, Virginia Whether you’re looking to clear up space on your overflowing bookshelves or just want to meet local writers working in all different genres, come on … Continue reading Literature & Libations Event

Friend of Fox City Lauren Woods will be launching her debut (and Autumn-House-prize-winning) collection of short stories, The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe this month at two events in the DMV. When & Where:  About the Book: Winner of the 2024 Autumn House Fiction Prize, these lyrical, haunting stories invite us to question the stories we tell ourselves and to imagine other paths—joyful, whimsical, even … Continue reading Lauren Woods Book Launch

Take a minute to check out the new issue of In Short, a local lit mag focusing on creative non-fiction under 1000 words. Got your own flash, micro, or short-short non-fiction? Consider submitting. For Fall 2025, In Short is open for submissions until November 30th. COVER ART FOR ISSUE 3 (SPRING 2025) | “CALLYPIGEON” BY CAMELLIA PAUL Continue reading In Short Issue #3

The City of Fairfax will host a poetry meetup at the end of October. Whether you’re a poet, an aspiring poet, or just curious about the genre, stop by to hear eight of our area’s most dedicated poets offering curated readings of their work. At this writing, presenters include Kathy Smalz, Anthony Amos, Cathy Hailey, Steve Bucher, Susan Notar, Marc Drexler, Sally Zakariya & Zeina … Continue reading Fairfax Poetry Meetup

George Mason’s Fall for the Book Festival is in full swing. Check out the full schedule of readers and events here! Continue reading Fall for the Book 2025