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

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

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