Thank you for joining us for our 28th annual festival!
Thank you for joining us in 2026 to celebrate 28 years of the Get Lit! Festival. Each year brings a diverse lineup of highly sought-after authors to our region, while also highlighting our local literary talent. This year featured craft classes led by award-winning authors, open mics, panel discussions, and more! Make sure to join our mailing list to stay up to date!
This year’s schedule is available online. Thank you to all our authors who participated in 2026. Special thanks to The Spokesman-Review’s Northwest Passages, which collaborated with the Get Lit! Festival to present Saturday evening’s headlining event with Willy Vlautin and Jess Walter!
Want to be a part of next year’s festival? Submissions are open now! Please review our guidelines and see if your event is right for 2027!
Special thanks to our Sponsors and Partners for making the Get Lit! Festival possible!
Thanks to our 2026 Craft Class Teachers!
We were thrilled to welcome these award-winning authors for our 2026 Craft Classes, Keetje Kuipers, Tessa Hulls, and Willy Vlautin!
Special thanks to this year’s festival artist Aimee Brooks!
Past Festival Events are available on the Get Lit! YouTube Channel!
We are responsible for the Get Lit! Festival, Washington State’s longest-running annual literary festival, which has grown over the last 28 years from a single day of readings to, historically, a week-long celebration of literature. Get Lit! is currently a four-day festival, Thursday through Sunday, which includes readings, writing workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, literary happy hours, virtual events, a book fair, and more— all offered for free or at low-cost. Each festival brings a diverse lineup of highly sought-after authors to our region, while also celebrating local literary talent.
In addition to the festival, Get Lit! also helps to promote EWU’s Visiting Writers Series and works closely with EWU’s Writers in the Community program, which places graduate students into local spaces of need to teach creative writing.
It is our mission, both in our festival programming and our educational outreach, to celebrate the arts, amplify diverse voices, and empower creativity.
Save the date for 2027: Friday, April 16th through Sunday, April 18th (Sunday will be all virtual).
Questions? Check out our FAQs
Thank you for joining us in 2026!
Submissions for 2027 are open starting May 1 and will close September 1, 2026.
Please email getlit@ewu.edu with any questions.
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Get Lit! Programs is a non-profit literary arts organization housed within Eastern Washington University.
