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Get Lit! Young Writers Program
Get Lit!'s Young Writers Program’s mission is to fuel the dreams of our region’s youngest writers...
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Congratulations!
First Place: Kevin Ma
Second Place: Sarah Woodroof
Winners from the Poetry Out Loud contest, held on Feb. 6, will represent Spokane County at the state competition on March 1, at the University of Puget Sound. The regional event featured featured eight students from six Spokane County schools who read poems in front of more than 75 people. |
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Get Lit! Youth and Teen Poetry Slams
Poetry Slam is the competitive art of performance poetry. It puts a dual emphasis on writing and performing, encouraging poets to focus on what they're saying and how they're saying it. A poetry slam is a spoken word poetry event in which poets perform their work and are judged, both for content and delivery, by audience members who volunteer for this role.
The fee is $2 per entrant plus a can of food for a food bank. Register at the event before the performances begin. Teams and soloists are slated into slam schedules on a first-come-first-served basis the day of the event.
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Youth Poetry Slam
Teen Poetry Slam will be held at the Kress Gallery, Riverpark Square, 3rd floor, Wednesday April 9, 5:30 p.m.
Audience: free
Entrants: $2 plus can of food each.
The first place Youth team will perform at the Get Lit! KPBX Kids' Concert on Saturday, April 12, at 1pm.
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Youth entrants
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Teen Poetry Slam
Teen Poetry Slam to be held Wednesday April 16, 6:30 p.m.
Audience: free
Entrants: $2 plus can of food each.
The first place Teen team or solo poet will perform at the Get Lit! Evening of Poetry on Friday, April 18, at 7:30 PM in Showalter Auditorium on the EWU campus in Cheney. |
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Teen Poets
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Graduate students in EWU's Creative Writing program will conduct Poetry Slam Workshops in area schools in the months leading up to the competition to help teams prepare. Teachers may schedule workshops by contacting EWU's Writers in the Community program.
For more information, including poetry slam rules, see www.edu.edu/x55048 or contact Stacy McCullough, 2007-08 student director of the Writers in the Community program at WITC@mail.ewu.edu or 359-7437.
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Get Lit! KPBX Kids' Concert
Saturday April 12, 1 p.m. at Spokane Club
1002 W Riverside Ave.
This years concert features Carole Lexa Schaefer
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In 2006 Jack Prelutsky returned to entertain children and adults at his second Get Lit! KPBX Kids' Concert performance |
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| It's a tradition families look forward to: Each year, Get Lit! delights kids and their parents with its children's literary programs. |
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Robert Munsch performing at the 2005 Get Lit! KPBX Kids' Concert |
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Past presenters at Get Lit! children's programs, which began in 1999, the festival's second year, include Sarah Conover, with her collections of traditional spiritual tales, young adult author Chris Crutcher, Adventures of Riley author Amanda Lumry, best-selling Canadian author Robert Munsch, funny children's poet Kenn Nesbitt, and children's humorous poet and musician Jack Prelutsky.
Drawing on the legacy of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, since 1993 Spokane Public Radio has sponsored a variety of free KPBX Kid's Concerts in venues as diverse as the Clock tower Meadow in Riverfront Park and the Met Performing Arts Center. The station schedules approximately ten concerts each year featuring music and dance, and in 2003 teamed up with Get Lit! to highlight children's literature in their April concert.
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Attention High School Students:
Check out Get Lit! writing workshops and panels on Saturday, April 19th. Attending the panels is free, and high school students qualify for the student discount for workshop registrations
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