Fall Foreword
The Fall Foreword is a fall prequel to the Virginia Festival of the Book. During this time, the Festival announces major speakers and puts tickets on sale for the ticketed events. The Festival invites the community to buy books, attend readings in local bookstores and make suggestions for Festival programs. Local organizations are invited to consider hosting a program, and businesses are invited to become Festival sponsors.
Fall Foreword Bookstore Events
The Happy Cook, Barracks Road Shopping Center
Monday, September 13, 7 PM
Chef Luther Fedora of Horse & Hound Gastropub will give a cooking demonstration. Samples of his food will be available for eating!
New Dominion Bookshop
Thursday, September 16 12:15PM
Author and NASA engineer Paul Wieland will discuss his book Crossing the Threshold: Advancing into Space to Benefit the Earth, a look at the benefits to be gained from extracting energy and resources from outer space.
Thursday, September 16 5:30PM
Author Michael Knight discusses The Typist, a novel that chronicles the trials of an American Soldier in Japan in the days following the end of World War II.
Thursday, September 23 5:30PM
Elizabeth McColl will read from and sign copies of Opening Arteries, her novel discussing her experience with suffering a head injury and surviving with grit.
Barnes & Noble
Saturday, September 25 2:00 PM
Raymond Woolfe, author of Secretariat will sign his book.
Tuesday, September 28 6:00 PM
Jason Wright will discuss his newest novel The Seventeen Second Miracle .
Buy books from our Bookseller patrons:
- Alakazam
- Barnes & Noble Booksellers
- Blue Ridge Mountain Sports
- Blue Whale Books
- Daedalus Bookshop
- E. Wharton & Co.
- Franklin Gilliam Rare Books
- Friends of the Library Annual Book Sale
- Heartwood Books
- L & T Respess Books
- M. Revak & Company
- Meadowbrook Pharmacy
- New Dominion Bookshop
- Oakley’s Gently Used Books
- Over the Moon Bookstore and Artisan Gallery
- Paintings & Prose- A Gallery of Possibilities
- Piedmont Virginia Community College Bookstore
- Quest Bookshop
- Random Row Books
- Ragged Mountain Running Shop
- Read It Again Sam
- Seanchai Books
- Shenanigans
- Splintered Light Bookstore
- Student Book Store
- The Book Room
- The Happy Cook
- The Prime Meridian
- The Virginia Shop
- University of Virginia Bookstore

Virginia Festival of the Book is a program of