Get Lit!  2006 Schedule




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Monday, April 10, 2006
4:45 - 6 p.m.

Milk Crate Readings

EWU creative writing graduate students

1st & Howard, and other downtown street corners TBA

Free



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Thursday, April 13, 2006
4:45 - 6 p.m.

Milk Crate Readings

EWU creative writing graduate students

1st & Howard, and other downtown street corners TBA

Free



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Monday, April 17, 2006
7 - 9:30 p.m.

EWU Master of Fine Arts Reading

Writers and poets in EWU's graduate program in creative writing

Empyrean

154 S Madison St.
Free

Refreshments available for purchase



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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
4 p.m.

Page Ahead presents Families Read Workshop
Page Ahead presents

Downtown Library

906 W Main, Rm 1A
Free



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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
11:30 a.m.

Spokane Community College presents WWI and the Literature of War
Nancy Pearl

SCC Hagan Center
1810 N. Greene, Library Bg.
Free



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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Youth at 4:30 p.m.
(registration will begin at 3:45);
Teens at 6:30 p.m. (registration at 5:45)
EWU Writers in the Community presents Youth and Teen Poetry Slams
Various Youth and Teen Poets from our region

Auntie's Bookstore
402 West Main
Free

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
7 p.m.

EWU Teaching and Learning Center presents Love and Liberation: Moving Past Blame
bell hooks

The Met
901 W Sprague Ave.
$15
reserved seating;
$10 general admission (upper balcony);
$8 students (upper balcony)



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Thursday, April 20, 2006
7 p.m.

Associated Students of Spokane Community College present Book Lust 2006
Opening: Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry Ceremony
Nancy Pearl

with Julie Gamberg
The Met
901 W Sprague Ave.
$12
reserved seating;
$10 general admission (upper balcony);
$8 students (upper balcony)



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Friday, April 21, 2006
All day

Writers in the Schools Day

Various poets, writers and authors

Greater Spokane area classrooms

Free

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Friday, April 21, 2006
8 a.m.

SCC Hagan Center and Associated Students present Literacy and Learning from Three Perspectives: Writers, Readers and Teachers
Nancy Pearl
and Festival Authors
SCC Hagan Center
1810 N. Greene St., Library bldg., 2nd floor
Free

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Friday, April 21, 2006
10:30 a.m.

A Salon of Writers: Students and Art

Festival Authors

SCC Hagan Center
1810 N. Greene St., Library bldg., 2nd floor
Free

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Friday, April 21, 2006
3 p.m.

Lost Horse Press presents Straight from the Horse's Mouth poetry reading
James Grabill, Dennis Held, Christopher Howell,
Melissa Kwasny, Joy Passanante, John Whalen,
Carolyne Wright, accompanied by classical guitarist Leon Atkinson

The MAC
2316 W 1st Ave.
Reading is Free

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Friday, April 21, 2006
7 p.m.

An Evening of Poetry
with jazz
Yusef Komunyakaa

Showalter Hall Auditorium
, Cheney
$20
general admission;
$10 students (balcony)

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Friday, April 21, 2006
10 p.m.
(time approximate)
Après-event Readings Readings Celebrating Fiction and Nonfiction

Christopher Buckley,
Tracy Daugherty,
Brian Doyle
Marjorie Sandor,
Gregory Spatz
Wayne Ude

Davenport Hotel
Elizabethan Room, 10 S. Post
Free



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Saturday, April 22, 2006
9 - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 - 4 p.m.

Writing workshops
Sponsored in part by Washington State Magazine
Yusef Komunyakaa; Keiko Hara, Atsuo Ikuta, Maki Yamashita, and Kayo Toko; Cherie Winner

Ridpath Hotel
Mezannine, 515 W. Sprague
$50/$45
; Students $25/$22.50

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Saturday, April 22, 2006
noon - 1 p.m.

Writing panel

Editors Brian Doyle, Christine Holbert, Pamela Holway

Ridpath Hotel
Mezannine, 515 W Sprague
Free

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Saturday, April 22, 2006
1 p.m.

Get Lit!  KPBX Kids' Concert

TBA

The Met
901 W Sprague Ave.
Free

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Saturday, April 22, 2006
1:30 - 4 p.m.

Writing workshops

Domenic Stansberry
; Brian Doyle
Ridpath Hotel
Mezannine, 515 W. Sprague
$50/$45
; Students $25/$22.50

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Saturday, April 22, 2006
2 - 3:30 p.m.

Book and Poster Signing

Keiko Hara

Lorinda Knight Gallery
, 523 W Sprague
Free

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Saturday, April 22, 2006
7 p.m.

An Evening of Fiction

Marilynne Robinson
with Domenic Stansberry
The Met
901 W Sprague Ave.
$25
reserved seating;
$18 general admission (upper balcony);
$10 students (upper balcony)

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Saturday, April 22, 2006
10 p.m.
(time approximate)
Après-event Readings Celebrating Poetry

Christopher Buckley, Jonathan Johnson, Melissa Kwasny, Joseph Millar, Renée Roehl

Davenport Hotel
Elizabethan Room, 10 S Post
Free



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Sunday, April 23, 2006
3 p.m.

Auntie's Bookstore presents On Being a Serial Novelist
Alexander McCall Smith
with Jess Walter
The Met
901 W Sprague Ave.
$35
reserved seating;
$25 general admission (upper balcony);
$10 students (upper balcony)

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
7 p.m.
(sign up to read between 6:45 p.m. and show time)
Get Lit!  Out Loud Open Mic

Area writers of any genre
(5-minute readings)
Mootsy's
406 W. Sprague
Free