April 25 is Independent Bookstore Day, and you can celebrate by visiting Northern Virginia’s bookshops. Plus, you can win free prizes.
The NOVA+ Bookstore Crawl is back this year from April 25 to May 31. The annual event invites participants to stop into bookstores around the region. There are 18 bookstores participating in Northern Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia.
Bards Alley, Friends to Lovers, Middleburg Books, Old Town Books, and One More Page are just a few of the participating Northern Virginia shops.
Each of these bookstores will carry special passports. Participants can use them to keep track of the stores they visit. Visit four stores to win an advanced reader copy of a book and eight stores to win a tote bag. If you visit more than 10 stores you can enter to win grand prizes like gift cards, art, and merch.
To be entered to win a prize, be sure to drop off your passport at a participating store by May 31.
In addition to the crawl, several of the bookshops will have special Indie Bookstore Day events on April 25. One More Page, for example, will have a golden ticket scavenger hunt and a free book table. Old Town Books will have a musical story time, a book signing with Charis Michaels and Alexandra Vasti, an audiobook walk, and more. And Bards Alley will have a puzzle table, a signing with local author Emily O’Malley Liu, and a talk with horror authors Vincent Tirado and Andrew Joseph White.
Feature image of Middleburg Books courtesy Ali Caudill/Freebird Imagery
