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

Come see 17 local authors read at 6 different locations around Foggy Bottom! When: Sunday, September 21 · 11am – 2pm Where: Foggy Bottom-GWU, 2301 I Street Northwest, D.C. The Foggy Bottom West End Main Street and Litbox invite you to the first-ever Foggy Bottom Book Crawl — a celebration of the D.C. areas literary talent, local charm, and neighborhood hospitality. On Saturday, September 21st, from 11 AM … Continue reading Foggy Bottom Book Crawl!

Downtown Fairfax got a facelift last week. The city unveiled artist Bailey Sullivan’s mural, “Fox in the Flowers.” Sullivan’s mural features native local plants and animals, including what a Fairfax City Economic Development press release calls “Fairfax City’s unofficial mascot, the Fairfax Fox.” The building sporting the mural houses Marlowe Ink and Senberry Bowls. Fairfax City Economic Development says that they plan many more such … Continue reading Old Town Getting Foxy

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Commonwealth Brewing in Old Town Fairfax is hosting a book fair and book swap alongside their usual weekend brunch. That’s Sunday 20 July from 11am till 4pm. What does their book fair and book swap consist of? We don’t know. But it’s bound to be a good time. Will there be people selling books? Probably. Will there be people talking about books … Continue reading Literature & Libations Event

An upcoming author talk will feature friend of Fox City, Andrew Bertaina, alongside fellow prose virtuoso, Andrew Porter. Location: Kramers on Dupont Circle, 1517 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC Date: Friday Jul 18th, 2025 Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm From the Kramers event page: Pick your favorite Andrew and ask him questions in the Q&A. Both authors’ books will be available for purchase.  About The Imagined Life … Continue reading Two Andrews for the Price of One

Arlington Poet Laureate and friend of the Fox Courtney Leblanc has released her new collection, Her Whole Bright Life. At Arlington’s The Muse Writers Center, she read many moving selections from her latest poems, which grieve the loss of and celebrate the life of a close friend. Check out some photos from the event below, and be sure to explore her work here. Continue reading Courtney Leblanc’s New Book Has Launched

Our friends over at Night Ginkgo hosted a great reading at AWP in L.A. to launch their project, a small press that will land on the scene with an anthology of D.C.-area writers. Click here to check out some pictures from the reading that packed the house at AudioGraph Beer Co. that launched this exciting project, featuring readings by Kevin Maloney, Tara Campbell, Nikoletta Gjoni, Whitney Collins, Nick Rees Gardner, Llalan Fowler, Andrew … Continue reading Night Ginkgo Has Launched

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 Visiting Writers 2025

To all the #AWP folks free for a Saturday offsite, come check out this great lineup at Audio Graph Beer Co., featuring several friends of Fox City and two of our organizers. See y’all in Los Angeles! Continue reading AWP Offsite with 804 Lit Salon