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Welcome to the 2021 Get Lit! Virtual Festival
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Thursday, April 15 • 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Pie, Pandemic, Whiskey & Tears

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More information about this exciting live event and the readers coming soon, but our lineup will be:

Steve Almond
CMarie Fuhrman
Melissa Huggins
Kate Lebo
Sam Ligon
Gary Copeland Lilley
Tiffany Midge
Phong Nguyen
Jess Walter

Thank you to DOMA Coffee Roasting Company for sponsoring this event!

Speakers
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Tiffany Midge

Tiffany Midge is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, and was raised by wolves in the Pacific Northwest. Her book “Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s” was a finalist for a 2020 Washington State Book Award. She’s the recipient of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Indigenous... Read More →
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Jess Walter

A former National Book Award finalist and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Jess Walter is the author of seven novels, one book of short stories and one nonfiction book. His work has been translated into 32 languages, and his fiction has been selected three times for Best American... Read More →
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CMarie Fuhrman

CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems (Floodgate 2020) and co-editor of Native Voices (Tupelo 2019). She has published poetry and nonfiction in multiple journals including Emergence Magazine, Yellow Medicine Review, Cutthroat a Journal of the Arts... Read More →
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Steve Almond

Steve Almond is the author of eleven books of fiction and non-fiction, including the NYT bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. He lives outside Boston with his family.
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Gary Copeland Lilley

Gary Copeland Lilley is the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent being The Bushman's Medicine Show, from Lost Horse Press (2017), and a chapbook, The Hog Killing, from Blue Horse Press (2018). He is originally from North Carolina and now lives in the Pacific Northwest... Read More →
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Kate Lebo

Kate Lebo’s first collection of nonfiction, The Book of Difficult Fruit, will be published by FSG in April of 2021. Her previous books include the cookbook Pie School, the poetry chapbook Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and the anthology Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under... Read More →
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Sam Ligon

Samuel Ligon’s serial novel—Miller Cane: A True & Exact History—appeared for a year in Spokane’s weekly newspaper, The Inlander, as well as on Spokane Public Radio. The author of four previous books of fiction, including Wonderland and Safe in Heaven Dead, Ligon is also co-editor... Read More →
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Melissa Huggins

Melissa Huggins is a prose writer whose stories, essays, interviews, and other work have appeared in The Oyez Review, Willow Springs, Lilac City Fairy Tales, The Inlander, Spokane Coeur D'Alene Living, and other publications. She holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University.


Thursday April 15, 2021 8:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
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