In 2018, the museum created a new annual event, The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards (Poe Fest International,) a two-day outdoor festival held in the shadow of Poe House, commemorating the anniversary of Poe's mysterious death in Baltimore. The festival includes tours of other sites in Baltimore associated with Poe, as well as a funeral re-enactment at the historic Carroll Mansion. The festival drew two thousand visitors in both its first and second years. In 2019, Poe Baltimore created the Saturday 'Visiter' Awards, an honor recognizing art and writing inspired by Poe. The awards are named for the "Baltimore Saturday Visiter" (sic), a periodical that awarded Edgar Allan Poe first prize for his short story, "MS Found in A Bottle", in 1833.