Get Lit! Festival 2025

Get Lit! Festival 2025

11:00am PDT

Celebrating Pride: A Reading & Conversation Cheney campus: PUB NCRSubhaga Crystal Bacon • Tennison S. Black

12:00pm PDT

A Reading & Conversation with Debra Magpie Earling North Idaho College: DeArmond Building LobbyDebra Magpie Earling

12:30pm PDT

Celebrating Pride: A Queer Open Mic Cheney campus: PUB NCR

5:30pm PDT

Writers in the Community: InRoads Release Party Spark Central

7:00pm PDT

Spark After Dark: A Community Open Mic Spark Central

8:00pm PDT

Pie & Whiskey Washington Cracker BuildingMegan Dhein • Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum • Rufina Garay • Karina Agbisit • Eric Greenwell • Joni Harris • Mery Smith • Alexandra Teague • Spencer Young • Lisa Brown • Kate Lebo • Samuel Ligon

10:00pm PDT

Pie & Whiskey After Party Hogwash Whiskey Den

10:30am PDT

Nonfiction Craft Class with Maggie Smith Spokane Central Library: Events AMaggie Smith

11:00am PDT

Divine Voices: A Conversation with Li-Young Lee Coeur d'Alene Public Library: The Community RoomErin Davis • Jennifer Passaro • Li-Young Lee Record Your Own Poetry Moment with Spokane Public Radio Spokane Central Library: Podcasting Studio

12:00pm PDT

The Art and Craft of Writing Mysteries Spokane Central Library, Conference Room BChris Bieker • Elena Hartwell Taylor Other Correspondences: SAP & Get Lit! Saranac Art Projects

1:30pm PDT

Poetry Craft Class with Danez Smith Spokane Central Library: Events ADanez Smith

2:00pm PDT

Dynamic Identities in YA Fiction: The Self, the Character, the Collective, and More Spokane Central Library, Conference Room BEmily Ladd • Jennifer Yu • Rie Lee

3:00pm PDT

The West as a Character: Using Research to Build Authentic Narratives Spokane Central Library: Inland Northwest Special Collections RoomBetsy Gaines Quammen • CMarie Fuhrman

3:30pm PDT

Fiction Craft Class with Debra Magpie Earling Spokane Central Library: Events BDebra Magpie Earling Poetry Craft Class with Li-Young Lee Spokane Central Library: Events ALi-Young Lee

5:30pm PDT

Creatives Social Saranac Art Projects

7:00pm PDT

An Evening with Jonathan Johnson & Li-Young Lee Spokane Central Library: nxʷyxʷyetkʷ HallJonathan Frey • Jonathan Johnson • Li-Young Lee

9:00am PDT

Book Fair Montvale Event Center: Montvale Hall

9:30am PDT

Conversations Over Coffee Montvale Event Center: Second Floor LoungeErin Popelka

10:30am PDT

Writing the Unspeakable: Excavating Silence In Narrative Montvale Event Center: Ella's TheaterKirsten Sundberg Lunstrum • Kristen Millares Young • Margot Kahn • Molly Olguín

11:00am PDT

Silent Reading Party Montvale Event Center: Second Floor Lounge

11:30am PDT

Imagining the End: Writing Fictional Apocalypses Montvale Event Center: Third Floor BallroomLaura Jean McKay • Tara Campbell

12:00pm PDT

ReWriting the West: Dispatches From a New Frontier Montvale Event Center: Ella's TheaterTiffany Midge • Rena Priest • Betsy Gaines Quammen Decompress with Pets Montvale Event Center: Third Floor Lounge

12:30pm PDT

Drop In and Write with Spark Central Montvale Event Center: Second Floor LoungeJenny Davis

1:00pm PDT

Rural American Writing with Willow Springs Books Montvale Event Center: Third Floor Ballroom

1:30pm PDT

Dear Writer: Creativity in Community Montvale Event Center: Ella's TheaterMolly Olguín • Jennifer Yu • Lauren W. Westerfield • Maggie Smith • Tara Campbell

2:00pm PDT

Lynx House Press Reception Montvale Event Center: Second Floor Lounge

2:30pm PDT

Haunted Cities: Perspectives From the Pacific Montvale Event Center: Third Floor BallroomJosh Fomon • Juan Carlos Reyes • Daniel Tam-Claiborne • Diana Xin

3:00pm PDT

Transgenerational Transgender Poetics: A Conversation for All Ages Montvale Event Center: Ella's TheaterFig DePaolo • Gwendolyn Owens • Juno Williams • Subhaga Crystal Bacon • Tennison S. Black

3:30pm PDT

SpokAnimal Open Mic featuring Jessica E. Johnson Montvale Event Center: Second Floor LoungeJessica E. Johnson

4:30pm PDT

Poetry Salon Montvale Event Center: Ella's TheaterDanez Smith • Margot Kahn • Rena Priest • Subhaga Crystal Bacon • Tennison S. Black

7:00pm PDT

An Evening with Danez Smith and Maggie Smith Bing Crosby TheaterAileen Keown Vaux • Danez Smith • Maggie Smith

9:00pm PDT

Foray: Get Lit! Festival Edition Emma Rue'sShraya 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