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Get Lit! Literary Arts Festival

Web: https://inside.ewu.edu/getlit/

The Get Lit! Festival began in 1998 as a one-day marathon of literary readings sponsored by Eastern Washington University Press and EWU’s Department of Creative Writing. Then The Spokesman-Review lovingly called it the little literary festival that could, and they were right. By 2004, the audience had swelled to 10,000 people from Spokane and the surrounding region.

Where:

Downtown Spokane
Spokane, WA
US

When:

    The festival takes place from
    April 10 to April 13, 2025


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