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Get Lit! Festival 2021

Welcome to the 2021 Get Lit! Virtual Festival

9:00am PDT

Conversations Over Coffee ZoomErin Popelka

2:00pm PDT

Disrupting Stereotypes: Older Women in Contemporary Literature YouTubeLois Melina • Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai • Barbara Conrey • Pamela Skjolsvik • Linda Rosen

5:30pm PDT

Unmaking the Patriarchy of the Mind YouTubeBrooke Matson • Sonora Jha • Alexandra Teague • Kristen Millares Young • Laura Read

7:00pm PDT

We the Indigenous YouTubeD.A. Navoti • Tiffany Midge • Elissa Washuta • Jake Skeets

9:00am PDT

Conversations Over Coffee ZoomErin Popelka

2:00pm PDT

Drop in and Write: A Community Reading YouTubeHannah Engel • Jenny Davis

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Writing Sounds and Singing Poems YouTubeCameron McGill • MOsley WOtta

7:00pm PDT

Ecopoetry with Derek Sheffield and Ellen Bass YouTubeDerek Sheffield • Ellen Bass

9:00am PDT

Conversations Over Coffee ZoomErin Popelka

2:00pm PDT

An Afternoon of Praiseworthy Prose YouTubeSonora Jha • Lois Melina • Annie Lampman • Erin Pringle

5:30pm PDT

Pie School ZoomKate Lebo

7:30pm PDT

KINK YouTubeR.O. Kwon • Vanessa Clark • Larissa Pham • Callum Angus

9:00am PDT

Conversations Over Coffee ZoomErin Popelka

2:00pm PDT

Poetry and Prose YouTubeBill Carty • Eileen Garvin

5:30pm PDT

Graphic Novels: Life Illustrated YouTubeTrung Le Nguyen • Sloane Leong • Kiku Hughes • Mike Curato • Ben Passmore

8:00pm PDT

Pie, Pandemic, Whiskey & Tears YouTubeTiffany Midge • Jess Walter • CMarie Fuhrman • Steve Almond • Gary Copeland Lilley • Kate Lebo • Sam Ligon • Phong Nguyen • Melissa Huggins

9:00am PDT

The Edge of the Sea is a Strange and Beautiful Place: Hybrid Poetry & Prose Experiments ZoomAimee Nezhukumatathil

11:30am PDT

The Performance of Poetry ZoomMichael Kleber-Diggs

2:00pm PDT

Transformative Justice: Uncaging Creativity YouTubeSpeech • Marlon Peterson • Martín Meráz García, Ph.D. Minimal & Lyrical Writing: Less is __________ ZoomD.A. Navoti

5:30pm PDT

Disability Visibility YouTubeElsa Sjunneson • Emalee Gillis • Alice Wong • Jamison Hill • Travis Laurence Naught

7:00pm PDT

Creativity in the Climate Crisis YouTubeRobin Wall Kimmerer • Aimee Nezhukumatathil • Johanna Stoberock

9:00am PDT

The Practice of Worldbuilding ZoomRuth Joffre

11:30am PDT

Writing Poetry That Packs a Punch(line) ZoomTiffany Midge

2:00pm PDT

Milkweed Poets YouTubeAimee Nezhukumatathil • Kathryn Smith • Brooke Matson • Michael Kleber-Diggs

5:30pm PDT

Difficult Fruits YouTubeMaya Jewell Zeller • Kate Lebo • CMarie Fuhrman • Kathryn Nuernberger

7:00pm PDT

Timely Historical Fiction YouTubeJess Walter • Esi Edugyan

11:30am PDT

Displacement and the Japanese American Experience YouTubeKiku Hughes • John Streamas

2:00pm PDT

Ekphrasis: Art in Conversation YouTubeCourtney Harler • Corinna Cook • Jenny Davis

3:30pm PDT

Must Read Fiction Presents: Conversations with Festival Authors ZoomErin Popelka

5:00pm PDT

Socially-distanced book signing with Jess Walter From HereJess Walter

7:00pm PDT

EWU MFA Showcase: The Thesis YouTubeCasey Guerin • Gregory Spatz • Christopher Howell • Ashley Wurzbacher • Sunni Wilkinson