FftB Friday: Mason Awards Stephen King

Stephen King speaks at Fall for the Book tonight as the festival ends for 2011. He accepts the Mason Award at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall, Center for the Arts. 

Advance tickets have all been distributed, but 10 tickets will be offered at a session at 5:30 p.m. in Harris Theatre when members of the Mid-Atlantic chapter of Mystery Writers of America gather to discuss their genre. 

Fall for the Book ends formally at 8 p.m. at the annual Breakthrough Poets Reading at The Old Firestation #3 in Old Town Fairfax.

Other events Friday:

• Mason MFA alumni Danny Duncan Collum, Nicole Reid and Yelizaveta Renfro, read from their works of fiction. Noon, at Dewberry Hall North, Johnson Center.

• Charles Mauro discusses the region’s rich Civil War history. 1 p.m. at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, 4210 Roberts Road, Fairfax, Va.

• Poets Judith Harris, Philip White and Lisa Williams sample their works. 1:30 p.m. at Dewberry Hall North, Johnson Center.

• Manuel Muñoz discusses his Hitchcock-inspired debut novel, "What You See in the Dark." 3 p.m. at Dewberry Hall North, Johnson Center.

• Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, whose cookbooks include The Joy of Vegan Baking, shares advice. 4:30 at Dewberry Hall North, Johnson Center.

• Poets Brian Barker, Rebecca Dunham, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Nadine Sabra Meyer and Sarah Perrier discuss recent trends in poetry. 4:30 p.m. at Research I, Room 163.