We are responsible for the Get Lit! Festival, Washington State's longest-running annual literary festival, which has grown over the last 25 years from a single day of readings to, historically, a week-long celebration of literature.

Schedule Of Events:

Thursday, April 11, 2024

11:00am: The Things She Carried: Women Writing War
12:30pm: A Reading and QandA with Erin Pringle
3:00pm: A Reading and QandA with Alma García at North Idaho College
5:30pm: EWU's Writers in the Community: Free Writing Workshop
8:00pm: Pie and Whiskey
10:00pm: Pie and Whiskey After Party

Friday, April 12, 2024

Private Author's Reception
10:30am: Visual-Art-Engagement as Play: Ekphrastic Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction
Fiction Craft Class with Alma GarciaPoetry Craft Class with Luther Hughes
11:00am: A Live Spokane Public Radio Interview with Emilly Prado
1:00pm: The Joy of Writing Animals
2:00pm: A Strange Beautiful INW Special Collections Tour with Carla Crujido
2:30pm: Community Open Mic hosted by Spokane Poet Laureate Mery Smith
5:00pm: Poetry Salon
6:30pm: VoiceOver featuring Robert Lopez
7:00pm: On Other Correspondences: Saranac Art Projects
8:00pm: On Other Correspondences: A Discussion on Artistic Process and Inspiration
9:00pm: Pacific Northwest Writers After Dark

Saturday, April 13, 2024

9:00am: Book Fair
9:30am: Conversations Over Coffee
10:00am: Nonfiction Craft Class with Carmen Maria Machado
11:00am: Drop In and Write with Spark Central
12:00pm: Willow Springs Books Presents: The Inaugural Keeble Series of Rural American Writing
12:30pm: Inheriting Place: A Poetry Craft Class
1:30pm: Contemporary Latinx Literature in the PNW
2:00pm: Silent Reading PartyGet Crit!: Dungeons and Dragons LIVE
3:00pm: The Surreal is Real: A Conversation on Myths and Magic
3:30pm: Community Open Mic hosted by Broken Mic
4:30pm: Our Kind: Poetry of Refuge, Resistance, and Recompense
7:00pm: An Evening with Carmen Maria Machado

Sunday, April 14, 2024

10:00am: A Reading and Conversation with Poets Katherine Gaffney and Mary Leauna Christensen
11:00am: Fiction and the Family: A Reading and Conversation
12:30pm: Conversations Over Coffee LIVE
1:30pm: Prize Winning Poetry and Prose from Willow Springs Books
2:30pm: LGBTQ+ and Disabilities: Writing Our Way into Acceptance
3:30pm: The Sacred and the Profane: Womanhood, Motherhood, and Grief
4:30pm: Poetry and the Power of Translation
6:00pm: Social Justice and the Braided Memoir
7:00pm: Regional MFA Reading

Date: April 11-14, 2024

Location: Various Venue in Spokane, WA

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