Welcome to the Spokane Lit Calendar!
Here you will find literary related events happening in and around Spokane.
If you have an event you’d like us to include, please send event information to getlit@ewu.edu.
November 2022
Sn̓ilíʔtn̓: Writing About Home
In this exploratory, three-session poetry and short prose workshop, participants learn elements of the Salish language and dive into perspectives of heritage and home with the help of instructor LaRae Wiley from Spokane's Salish School and poet Laura Read.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »December 2022
Hands-on Poetry
Kids & Families · Explore the world of poetry beyond books and get hands-on with language. This program invites youth and families to get creative with language through art and movement, no paper necessary. Use everything our station has to offer to craft, collage, sing, and build while engaging with your inner poet! All literary…
Find out more »January 2023
Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »February 2023
Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »March 2023
Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »April 2023
Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Spark Central Book Release
Join Spark Central and the Salish School in celebrating the release of their book Sn̓ilíʔtn̓: Writing about Home. This book was created through an exploratory, three-session poetry and short prose workshop where participants learned elements of the Salish language and dove into perspectives of heritage and home with the help of instructor LaRae Wiley from…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »May 2023
Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »June 2023
Drop In & Write
Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of a supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis and Hannah Engel. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm.
Find out more »October 2023
Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »Stephanie Oakes Fiction Reading
Please mark your calendars for our first visiting writer of 2023-Stephanie Oakes will be here Friday, 10/20/2023. She will be reading at SPARK Central from 7:30 – 9:00 PM Friday night.
Find out more »Drop In & Zine
Ages 9+ · What are zines anyway?! Taking their name from the word "magazine," zines are DIY, paper-based creations that let anyone anywhere say anything! Drop in and learn how to make your very own 8-page mini-zine using a single piece of paper and Spark's art supplies. Feel free to use one of our prompts, or…
Find out more »Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »Spark-O-Ween
Spark Central Free Community A day of creative learning and trick or treating. Activities include slime-making, story writing and more. Costumes welcome, but not required. 509-279-0299
Find out more »November 2023
Spinning Out: Motherhood, Myths, and Madness BOOK RELEASE
Spinning Out: Motherhood, Myths, and Madness On THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 7pm, Spark Central will host a book launch party for Alexandra Teague’s Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir, and Maya Jewell Zeller’s out takes/ glove box, featuring special guests and co-emcees, authors Kate Lebo and Laura Read. Lebo and Read will share briefly from…
Find out more »Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »Spinning Out: Motherhood, Myths, and Madness
Spark Central will host a book launch party for Alexandra Teague’s Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir, and Maya Jewell Zeller’s out takes/ glove box, featuring special guests and co-emcees, authors Kate Lebo and Laura Read. Lebo and Read will share briefly from their own work before welcoming Teague and Jewell Zeller. Teague’s memoir, according to Kathryn Nuernberger, “recounts…
Find out more »Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »December 2023
EWU Visiting Writer: Subhaga Crystal Bacon
Subhaga Crystal Bacon is the author of four collections of poetry: Transitory, 2023 winner of the BOA Editions, Ltd. Isabella Gardner Award for Poetry; Surrender of Water in Hidden Places, 2023 winner of the Red Flag Poetry Chapbook Prize; Blue Hunger, Methow Press, and Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey, 2004 winner of the A. Poulin New Poetry America Prize from…
Find out more »Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »Poetry Before Dark
Adults · Join us for a workshop catered to driven poets. Eastern Washington University MFA students will lead us in discussions about craft elements, style, and form. If you’re a poet seeking a critical lens to improve your work with a dedicated group of fellow readers and writers, come find your spark! This program is free…
Find out more »January 2024
Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »EWU Visiting Writer: Carrie Oeding
Carrie Oeding’s collection of poems If I Could Give You a Line won the Akron Poetry Prize and was publis hed by University of Akron Press (2023). She is also the author of Our List of Solutions (42 Miles Press), which won the Lester M. Wolfson Prize. Her work has appeared in such places as Bennington Review, Sixth Finch,…
Find out more »Kerry Rutherford Release Reading
Please join us for an evening in celebration of double (Poetry and Nonfiction) MFA alumn Kerry Rutherford. She and others will be reading from her new book of poems, In Search of Groovy. The event will be at 7:00 at Spark Central, January 20, 2024. The reading is free and will be followed by a…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »February 2024
Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »Drop In & Write
THURSDAYS · 5:30 - 7 PM Adults · Aspiring writers unite! You're invited to be a part of our supportive writers' community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Hosted by local writers Jenny Davis, Hannah Engel, and Ben Van Voorhis. This program is free…
Find out more »March 2024
EWU Visiting Writer: Edan Lepucki
Edan Lepucki is the bestselling author of the novels California, Woman No. 17, and Time’s Mouth. She is also the editor of Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits as We Never Saw Them. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire Magazine, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and The Cut, among other publications. She is a…
Find out more »EWU Visiting Writer: Kai Carlson-Wee
Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL (BOA Editions, 2018). He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is the winner of a Pushcart Prize, the Lynda Hull Memorial Prize from Crazyhorse, and the Editor’s Prize from The Missouri Review. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the…
Find out more »May 2024
EWU Visiting Writer: Keenan Norris
Keenan Norris’s latest novel is The Confession of Copeland Cane, winner of the 2022 Northern California Book Award. His essays have garnered a 2021-22 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award and 2021 Folio: Eddie Award, while his debut novel Brother and the Dancer won the 2012 James D. Houston Award. In 2023, he’s authored the biblio-memoir Chi Boy: Native Sons…
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