The Spokesman-Review, Get Lit! to host outdoor writing contest, craft class

Get Lit!, Spokane’s springtime literary festival (April 22-28), will feature several events focusing on outdoor or environmental writing.

In partnership with The Spokesman-Review and Out There Outdoors, Get Lit! will hold an outdoor/environmental prose writing contest in April.

Each publication will select and publish a winning piece. Entries should be exceptional fiction or nonfiction, up to 750 words, with an outdoor or environmental theme. Submission is free and open to all.

Full contest details are available at Get Lit!’s Submittable page at getlit.submittable.com/submit/136323/outdoor-prose-writing-contest.

The Get Lit! craft class “The Outdoor Writer’s Tool Kit” will be held April 7 from 3:15-5:15 p.m.

Eli Francovich of The Spokesman-Review and Summer Hess of Out There Outdoors will introduce essential tools and techniques for the nonfiction outdoor/environmental writers. Hess and Francovich will also judge the writing contest.

Get Lit! festival readings on April 23 will feature writers whose work touches on environmental or outdoor themes: Melissa Kwasny, Joe Wilkins, Jennifer Boyden, Paul Lindholdt, Hess and Keetje Kuipers.

Check getlitfestival.org for more information and to register.