April 11-14, 2024
The GetLit! Festival is Eastern Washington's annual literary festival. Its mission is to celebrate the arts, amplify diverse voices and empower creativity.
Events include:
List of Authors
Come into the library to see a display of books by GetLit! 2024 authors.
by Luther (Poet) Hughes. In this debut poetry collection, Hughes wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from the threat of depression and death through love and desire.
by Shannon Huffman Polson. Both inspiring and pragmatic this book will motivate current and aspiring leaders in any field.
by Carmen Maria Machado. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how and what happened.
by Carla Crujido. A story that centers on Mount Vernon Apartments in Spokane, Washington, offering a glimpse into the lives of ten tenants over a period of one hundred years.
by Jess Walter. Stories about those moments when everything changes as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places.
by Polly Buckingham. Poems that move through both dream and natural landscapes exploring connection and loss, abundance and degradation, the personal and the political.
Inspired by twenty-six fruits, essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo blends the culinary, medical, and personal in a book of lyrical essays, accompanied by recipes.
by Subhaga Crystal Bacon. A collection of elegies memorializing 46 transgender and gender-nonconforming people murdered in the US and Puerto Rico in 2020.
GetLit! Festival 2024 is excited to announce Carmen Maria Machado as headlining author:
Machado is the author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties. Both books are held by the SCC Library, but are very popular; you may have to go to the SCC Library website, search for Machado's books, and be put on the request list.
See more GetLit! 2024 authors on this LibGuide's GetLit!2024 List of Speakers webpage.
Visit the SCC Library in Building 16 throughout April to see a display of books by GetLit! 2024 authors.
Some titles linked on this guide are ebooks.
Contact library staff if you need a book sent to a convenient location for you.
