Get Lit! Festival 2025

Join LGBTQ+ poets Subhaga Crystal Bacon and Tennison Black for a reading and conversation celebrating queer writers! You’ll hear selections from Subhaga’s award winning poetry collection, Transitory, documenting transgender people who have fallen victim to violent hate crimes across the US and Puerto Rico. Tennison will read from his recent National Poetry Series winning book, Survival Strategies, a three-part poetry collection that weaves together a story about identity, family, and place. Be sure to come with questions prepared, as the Pride Center’s Alysin Waite will be hosting a live audience Q&A afterward. And, don’t miss the Open-Mic to follow from 12:30-1:30pm! Purchase the author's books via Auntie's Bookstore!

This event is free and open to the public. Thank you to the Pride Center for their partnership!

Please fill out our festival survey after you have attended this event. The information you provide will help us obtain critical grant funding and will help make next year’s festival even better! 

In collaboration with EWU’s Pride Center, Get Lit! invites you to share your own work at a special festival open mic at EWU! All are welcome to read (acoustic songwriters are also encouraged to share a song!) but we strongly encourage members of the LGBTQIA+ community to show up and represent! Spots are limited and will be given on a first-come-first-served basis, so be sure to arrive early to secure your spot. Each reader should be prepared to read for 1-5 minutes. If you aren’t interested in reading, come listen!

This event is free and open to the public. Thank you to the EWU Pride Center for their partnership!

Please fill out our festival survey after you have attended this event. The information you provide will help us obtain critical grant funding and will help make next year’s festival even better!