Thank you for joining us in celebrating 27 years of the Get Lit! Festival. Each year brings a diverse lineup of highly sought-after authors to our region, while also highlighting our local literary talent. This year we will have two full days of readings, craft classes, open mics, panel discussions, literary happy hours, and more!

Schedule of Events

April 10, 2025

11:00am: Celebrating Pride: A Reading & Conversation - Subhaga Crystal Bacon - Tennison S. Black
12:00pm: A Reading & Conversation with Debra Magpie Earling - Debra Magpie Earling
12:30pm: Celebrating Pride: A Queer Open Mic - Regional MFA Reading
Ellison Rose - Trey Hayden - Abby Shaffer - Rebecca E. William: s - Trixie Zwolfer
3:00pm: In Defense of Animals: Conservation as a Life's Work - Elizabeth Hilborn - Michelle Nijhuis
5:30pm: Writers in the Community: InRoads Release Party
7:00pm: Spark After Dark: A Community Open Mic
8:00pm: Pie & Whiskey
Megan Dhein - Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum - Rufina Garay - Karina Agbisit - Eric Greenwell - Joni Harris - Mery Smith - Alexandra Teague - Spencer Young - Lisa Brown - Kate Lebo - Sam: uel Ligon
10:00pm: Pie & Whiskey After Party

April 11, 2025

Private Author's Reception
10:30am: Nonfiction Craft Class with Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith
11:00am: Divine Voices: A Conversation with Li-Young Lee
Erin Davis - Jennifer Passaro - Li-Young Lee
Record Your Own Poetry Moment with Spokane Public Radio
12:00pm: The Art and Craft of Writing Mysteries
Chris Bieker - Elena Hartwell Taylor
Other Correspondences SAP & Get Lit!
1:30pm: Poetry Craft Class with Danez Smith
Danez Smith
2:00pm: Dynam: ic Identities in YA Fiction: The Self, the Character, the Collective, and More
Emily Ladd - Jennifer Yu - Rie Lee
3:00pm: The West as a Character: Using Research to Build Authentic Narratives
Betsy Gaines Quam: men - CMarie Fuhrman
3:30pm: Fiction Craft Class with Debra Magpie Earling
Debra Magpie Earling
Poetry Craft Class with Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee
7:00pm: An Evening with Jonathan Johnson & Li-Young Lee
Jonathan Frey - Jonathan Johnson - Li-Young Lee

April 12, 2025

9:00am: Book Fair
9:30am: Conversations Over Coffee
Erin Popelka
10:30am: Writing the Unspeakable: Excavating Silence In Narrative
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum - Kristen Millares Young - Margot Kahn - Molly Olguín
11:00am: Silent Reading Party
11:30am: Imagining the End: Writing Fictional Apocalypses
Laura Jean McKay - Tara Cam: pbell
12:00pm: ReWriting the West: Dispatches From a New Frontier
Tiffany Midge - Rena Priest - Betsy Gaines Quam: men
Decompress with Pets
12:30pm: Drop In and Write with Spark Central
Jenny Davis
1:00pm: Rural am: erican Writing with Willow Springs Books
1:30pm: Dear Writer: Creativity in Community
Molly Olguín - Jennifer Yu - Lauren W. Westerfield - Maggie Smith - Tara Cam: pbell
2:00pm: Lynx House Press Reception
2:30pm: Haunted Cities: Perspectives From the Pacific
Josh Fomon - Juan Carlos Reyes - Daniel Tam: -Claiborne - Diana Xin
3:00pm: Transgenerational Transgender Poetics: A Conversation for All Ages
Fig DePaolo - Gwendolyn Owens - Juno William: s - Subhaga Crystal Bacon - Tennison S. Black
3:30pm: SpokAnimal Open Mic featuring Jessica E. Johnson
Jessica E. Johnson
4:30pm: Poetry Salon
Danez Smith - Margot Kahn - Rena Priest - Subhaga Crystal Bacon - Tennison S. Black
7:00pm: An Evening with Danez Smith and Maggie Smith
Aileen Keown Vaux - Danez Smith - Maggie Smith
9:00pm: Foray: Get Lit! Festival Edition
Shraya Singh - Daniel Tam: -Claiborne - Diana Xin - Greg Bem - Josh Fomon - Juan Carlos Reyes - Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum - Kristen Millares Young - Lauren W. Westerfield - Sarah Rooney - Tiffany Midge - Taylor Waring - Margaret Albaugh

April 13, 2025

9:00am: Women Ecopoets as Conduits of Social Change and Empowerment
Dorinda Wegener - Dorsía Smith Silva - Jessica Gigot - Nadia Alexis
10:30am: Aftermaths: Poets on Nationhood, Fatherhood, and Selfhood
Jed Blore - Andrés Cerpa - Ayokunle Falomo - Matthew Nienow
1:30pm: The Joys of Middle Grade
Heather Murphy Capps - Mari?a Jose? Fitzgerald - Meg Eden Kuyatt - Sydney Dunlap
3:00pm: Creativity Down Under: A Reading and Conversation with Australian Writers
Anne-Marie Te Whiu - Ashley Hay - Jam: es Bradley - Kyra Geddes - Laura Jean McKay - Melanie Cheng - Sulari Gentill
5:00pm: Celebrating EWU MFA Alumni
Emily Ladd - Kimberly Lam: bright - Laura Stott - LeAnn Bjerken - Rob Carney - Sunni Brown Wilkinson
6:30pm: Mothering the Future
Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder - Christina Rivera - Jennifer Case - Jessica E. Johnson - Martha Park

Date:
April 10-13, 2025

Location:
Various Venue in Spokane, WA

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