Get Lit! Festival 2019

Join us for an exciting foray into fiction with author Isaac Marion. Whether you write high fantasy or strict realism, whether you’re inventing a galactic civilization or just one person, you face the same challenge: how do you make it real? How do you give your fictional world the depth and detail of reality? And how do you fill it with people instead of cardboard cutouts? We’ll examine the subtle differences between 2D and 3D fiction and figure out how to make yours pop. We’ll try out some practical techniques for adding texture to your settings and life to your characters. And we’ll discuss the underlying principle that powers all of this: believing in your story. 

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Transcendent American poet Max Ritvo wrote that if the world outside a poet’s head is more interesting than the world inside their head, they might as well become a journalist. His point: it’s what’s inside the poet’s mind, what (or who) is hooting or singing or moaning or gagging inside the poet’s own totally unique psychic ecosystem that allows the poet access to a singular voice. In this workshop we’ll try various methods of popping under our own hoods and exploring our cognitive machinery (using things like meditation and bibliomancy and Rorschach tests), mining our discoveries for poetic language and imagery and more. Leaving the workshop, we’ll have generated drafts, jumping off points for new poems, and hopefully, if all goes well, better relationships with the little voices in our heads.

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The word “erasure” implies removal, disappearance, destruction. In poetry, erasure is not so much about what has been removed, but what remains—lifting language to what author Jen Bervin calls “a divergent elsewhere.” In this workshop, we’ll discuss philosophies behind erasure poetry and look at several contemporary examples. We’ll also consider the relevance of the source material, the visual impact of blotted-out text, and what makes for a successful marriage of text and image. We'll draw on these concepts to re-form texts of our own.

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In this two hour craft class, Eli Francovich of The Spokesman-Review and Summer Hess of Out There Outdoors will introduce essential tools and techniques for writing about the outdoors, including selecting topics, pitching ideas, adding color and life through details, conducting interviews and structuring articles. Writers will participate in free-writing exercises, engage in discussion, and will be encouraged to submit work to a writing contest put on by Get Lit!, Out There Outdoors, and The Spokesman-Review. Contest guidelines are available via www.getlit.submittable.com. *Note that participation in the craft class is not a requirement for submitting to the contest.

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