Fall for the Book is Northern Virginia's largest and oldest literary celebration, which has grown into a week-long, multiple-venue, regional festival that brings together people of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate reading.
This year's exciting event will be conveniently held throughout Maryland, DC and Northern Virginia, bringing famous writers to your backyard. Currently there are over 75 authors confirmed in fiction to nonfiction and poetry, covering a wide range of topics such as the Civil War, mind-body medicine, politics, the environment, economics, folklore, children's books, and more. Authors coming to sign and speak about their books include Fairfax Prize winner E.L. Doctorow, author of Ragtime and The March, American Indian writer and Mason Award winner Sherman Alexie, James Ellroy, author of international bestsellers, L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia, and many more.
A growing list of authors and more information is available at http://www.fallforthebook.org/. The festival is from September 21 - 26.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Unseen DC Photography Contest
Harpreet Toor, UC Riverside summer term student, recently won Best of Show in the UC Washington Center's Unseen DC photography contest for her image entitled, "Sunsetting at Dupont." The Unseen DC photography contest challenged summer term students, faculty and staff to expose the behind the scenes working of Washington, DC. The theme of the competition was to show what the news cameras don't see on Capitol Hill, in the White House & the Federal agencies, the places the tourists don't see or overlook and the thousands of things that happen, unheralded or unnoticed, everyday in this great, international city. Participants were given wide latitude as to how best to protray this challenge. For her work, Ms. Toor was awarded a $50 gift card.
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