Write On, Fairfax!Genre: Short Stories Sunday, February 23, 2 – 4 pmLocation: City of Fairfax Regional LibraryFREE Presenters include: ABOUT THE PRESENTERS  Aziza Bayou is an anthropologist, teacher, and PhD student in Cultural Studies at GMU.  She writes in a variety of forms including ethnography, essays, poetry, short stories, and academic works. She is currently revising her first novel, A Human Figure, in which a teenage girl … Continue reading Write On, Fairfax!

George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Watershed Lit and Mason’s University Libraries in presenting the Spring 2025 Visiting Writers Series. Writers will meet for afternoon workshops with students from Mason’s MFA program in creative writing and will then participate in programs that same evening—open to the public, with readings and conversations hosted by Mason’s creative writing community.  Evening programs will be presented at 7:30 … Continue reading Mason’s Visiting Writer Series – Spring 2025

The flash non-fiction journal In Short, founded by friend of the Fox, George Mason’s own Steph Liberatore, recently launched their second issue for Winter 2025. This exciting issue contains compact and moving short CNF by the likes of Kyoko Mori, Andrew Bertaina, Ira Sukrungruang, Allison Bell Field, and more than a dozen others. These stories and meditations explore moments. How specific sewing patterns can evoke … Continue reading In Short Launches Issue #2

The next Fox City Lit reading is just around the corner. Join us to hear some great prose and poems from the local literati! When: Sunday 2 Feb 2025, Doors Open at 1:00pm. But we’ll arrive early for lunch, if you feel like coming early to just hang out. Where: Upstairs at Old Firestation #3, 3988 University Dr #2510, Fairfax, VA Who: Sadly, we’ve learned … Continue reading Will the Fox See Her Shadow?

The Inner Loop presents a reading celebrating American University’s writing faculty. It should be a great evening of local authors sharing their work. Register Here. Who: When: Where: Continue reading AU Benefit Reading

Esther Productions, Inc. and The Black Student Fund are presenting a special reading at the Tenley-Friendship Library this month. Register here! Who: Authors Tricia Elam Walker & David Miller & Joy Jones When: 8 February 2025, 11am – 1pm Where: Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington D.C. Continue reading Midnight Rose Reading for Black History Month

Courtney Leblanc hosts a monthly generative poetry workshop, both in-person and online. And the exciting news: While the event usually involves a cover charge of $20 per month, The Poetry Coven now offers an annual membership option so you can save some o’ that dough! Click here for all the deets. Continue reading Poetry Coven in Alexandria

Lost City Books in Adams Morgan will host a specially themed reading featuring authors who have published translations of foreign-language works. Get tickets here! Who: When: Where: Continue reading Lost City Books Translation Salon

Recent Fox City readers Carol Mitchell and Nick Gardner will be reading at the Inner Loop monthly reading tonight, October 22nd @ 7:30pm at Shaw’s Tavern. Other readers will include: Come join if you get the chance! Continue reading Inner Loop October Reading

Today’s Fall Festival in downtown Fairfax also kicks off the annual Fall for the Book Festival, which will host events all day at Old Town Hall. The line-up at Old Town Hall includes events for kids of all ages. Downstairs for the wee ones: Upstairs for the less wee of us: So come listen to live music, chow down on some meat on a stick, … Continue reading Fall Festival & Fall for the Book