First NoVa Indie Bookstore Crawl To Include Vienna Business

VIENNA, VA — As part of Independent Bookstore Day, locally-owned bookstores in and near Northern Virginia will team up to host a bookstore crawl to boost visits to their businesses.

Independent Bookstore Day is a nationwide event on Saturday, April 27 with thousands of participating businesses. The event seeks to promote the locally-owned businesses and often includes special activities and promotions at each location.

To generate visits to the region's bookstores, 15 independent bookstores will host a new NoVa Indie Bookstore Crawl starting on Independent Bookstore Day (April 27) through May 31. To join the crawl, customers can go to any participating location for a bookstore crawl passport and get a stamp at every participating bookstore they visit. Visiting four stores will get customers a free advanced reader's copy of their choice. Eight visits will get them a tote bag. Ten visitors will get an entry to win a grand prize gift basket with each store contributing an item.

The bookstore crawl participants include Vienna's own independent bookstore Bards Alley Bookshop.

Here are the locations for the NoVa Indie Bookstore Crawl:

• Bards Alley, 110 Church St. NW, Vienna, VA 22180
• Birch Tree Bookstore, 11 West Market Street Leesburg, VA 20176
• Curious Iguana 12 North Market Street Frederick, MD 21701.
• Fonts Books & Gifts, 6262 Old Dominion Dr., McLean, VA
• Hundred Acre Books - 172 E Davis St, Culpeper, VA
• HOORAY for Books!, 1555 King St, Alexandria, VA
• Middleburg Books, 17 South Madison Street, Middleburg, VA
• Old Town Books, 130 South Royal Street, Alexandria VA
• One More Page Books, 2200 N Westmoreland St., Arlington, VA
• The Open Book Warrenton, 104 Main Street, Warrenton VA
• Scrawl Books, 11911 Freedom Drive, Reston, VA
• Spelled Ink, 132 W Main Street, Orange, VA
• A Thousand Stories, 750 Center St., Herndon, VA
• Winchester Book Gallery, 7 North Loudoun Street, Winchester, VA 22601
• WordPlay, 50 W Main Street, Wardensville WV 26851

Bards Alley is also hosting an Independent Bookstore Spirit Week with a different theme for every day. Monday is Silly Sock Day, Tuesday is Plaid Day, Wednesday is We Wear Bookstore Shirts, Thursday is Book Character Dress-Up Day and Friday is Stuffy Sleepover. Customers can drop their stuffed animal off for a sleepover Friday. Then on Saturday at 10:30 a.m., there will be a story time and craft with the stuffed animals and local author Gabriella Aldeman.