EWU Get Lit! Programs

Hi friends! Come check out our booth this Saturday at one of our favorite community events of the year, the South Perry Street Fair! We'll be selling Get Lit! merchandise as well as some used books donated by our community. You can find us in the Grant Elementary Parking Lot at Booth 25. We'll be there all day from 10-7 so make sure to stop by and say hi and to also check out all the other amazing vendors. Hope to see you there!!

We hate to see summer go, but this is also when literary event season really ramps up, which of course we love! Especially when we get the celebrate the accomplishments of so many festival friends and program alums. Special congrats to Annastacia Stegall for publishing her first book, and to Leyna Krow for winning a WA State Book Award!🔥And happy fall/event season to all! 📚🍂

Submissions for Get Lit! 2027 are closing next week! Make sure to send us a submission by September 1st! We take submissions from authors, and also vendors who would like to be part of our Book Fair, which is one of our favorite parts of the festival. Thanks to all of the 2026 vendors for creating such a fun and interactive experience for festivalgoers! To submit, Book Fair vendors use the same submission portal; they can just submit a document that briefly explains who they are and what they'd like to present/sell at the Book Fair. We love anything bookish, creative, and arts-focused!

Each year we're proud to partner with local colleges and universities to provide students the opportunity to learn from highly sought after authors in small groups through our craft classes. If you're a student or faculty member at a local school who would like to set up a scholarship opportunity for next year's festival to help students attend poetry, fiction, and nonfiction classes for FREE, make sure to get in touch with us this fall!

We love to put writers in the spotlight with others who are at different stages in their careers. Whether it be a debut memoir, indie art book, mid-career writers, or Pulitzer Prize winners, we want to break down barriers and inspire audiences and future authors from all walks of life! Make sure to send us a submission by September 1st for a chance to be part of the next festival! 🔥

🔥One of the unique things about our festival is that we love to pair up authors who write about similar topics, themes, or perspectives. So if you're worried about submitting your event idea as a single author, please still give us a try! You may end up being offered the opportunity to share the stage with an author whose work you've long admired, or you could make a lifelong connection with a kindred spirit! 📖

Join us for our second year at Pride in Perry, one of our favorite Spokane events! We'll have used books and Get Lit! merch for sale including this year's t-shirt, designed by Aimee Brooks! .red.mug Save the date for this awesome community event featuring so many fantastic local vendors! 🏳️‍🌈✨ 🌈

Join us tomorrow at to celebrate MFA alum Janée Baugher! Janée is the author of the only craft book of its kind, The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction (McFarland, 2020), as well as the full-length poetry collections, The Body’s Physics (Tebot Bach, 2013) and Coördinates of Yes (Ahadada Books, 2010). For her third poetry book, The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles, she won Tupelo Press’s Dorset Prize (2026).She’s a longtime assistant editor at Boulevard magazine and lives in Seattle, where the Office of Arts & Culture awarded her a 2024-2025 CityArtist grant to work on her memoir, “Suicide in the Mirror.” Professors Jonathan Johnson and Polly Buckingham will also be reading. Don't miss this Cheney event!

We're officially open for submissions for next year's festival! If you're inspired and energized to submit an event idea or you're hoping your organization could be part of our Book Fair, you can submit as early as TODAY! But don't worry, if you're still reeling from this year's amazing events, you do have the whole summer to apply. Make sure to read through our guidelines and submit by September 1st!

Thank you so much, Spokane, for another fantastic Get Lit! Festival! We loved seeing the literary community come together to celebrate books and writers, and we hope you left smiling and inspired! Please make sure to fill out a festival survey at the link in our bio to tell us how much fun you had!