Thursday, April 10, 2025 – Sunday, April 13, 2025
Thank you for joining us in celebrating 27 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 we had two full days of readings, craft classes, open mics, panel discussions, literary happy hours, and more!
A special thanks to our Sponsors and Partners for making the Get Lit! Festival possible!
2025 Headlining Events!
2025 Craft Classes
2025 Book Fair and Events Pass
This ticket covers entry into our weekend festival hub, The Montvale Event Center, which hosts one full day of Book Fair and 12+ events including readings, on-stage conversations, and so much more! This pass covers entry for all day Saturday and allows you to come and go as you please.
Virtual Events are available on the Get Lit! YouTube Channel!
Questions? Check out our FAQs
We are thrilled to announce THREE Festival Headliners for 2025!
Maggie Smith
Li-Young Lee &
Danez Smith!
Our 2025 festival page is live! Visit the Get Lit! 2025 Festival page for our full schedule.
We are responsible for the Get Lit! Festival, Washington State’s longest-running annual literary festival, which has grown over the last 27 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 full days of 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 our 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 2026: Friday, April 17th through Sunday, April 19th (Sunday will be all virtual).
Thank you for joining us in 2025!
If you attended the 2025 festival, don’t forget to complete a survey!
Submissions for 2026 are open starting May 1 and will close September 1, 2025.
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.
