Poetry, Prose, and Pints

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This year we’re ending the festival on an extra sweet note! This event features festival authors reading original poetry and prose inspired by ice-cream flavors from our favorite local ice-cream shop, The Scoop. These inspired pieces were published in the second installment of our Tiny Book Series, created by The Spokane Print and Publishing Center. Tiny Books will be available for sale, and you will have a chance to taste all of the delicious ice-cream flavors, as The Scoop will be selling all inspired flavors on-site. We would like to thank The Scoop for partnering with us on this event, and for providing our authors with inspiration pints!

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Speakers

Erin Popelka

Erin Popelka is a reader, writer, and the founder of Must Read Fiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Puerto del Sol, The Los Angeles Review, and Berkeley Fiction Review, among others. As founder of Must Read Fiction, she facilitates an online... Read More →

Wryly T. McCutchen

Wryly T. McCutchen is a multi-genre writer, interdisciplinary performer, community educator, & 2018 LAMBDA Fellow in poetry. Their work has appeared in 2020* The Year of the Asterisk. Foglifter, Papeachu Review, and Nat. Brut. Wryly earned a dual genre MFA in creative nonfiction... Read More →

Misty Grace

Misty Grace is an Indigenous writer and director from the Shoalwater Bay Tribe of Indians. Her work has been shown in One Heart Native Arts and Film Festival and the Chewelah Film Festival, respectively. Misty is a frequent film festival panelist, a member of Spokane Film Project... Read More →

Melissa Kwasny

Melissa Kwasny is the author of six books of poetry, including Where Outside the Body is the Soul Today (University of Washington Press, Pacific Northwest Poetry Series); Pictograph; The Nine Senses; and Reading Novalis in Montana (all from Milkweed Editions), as well as a collection... Read More →

Polly Buckingham

Polly Buckingham is the author of one book of poetry, The River People (Lost Horse Press 2020), and two books of fiction, The Expense of a View (Katherine Anne Porter Award, UNT Press 2016) and A Year of Silence (Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award, Florida Review Press 2015). She's... Read More →

Joseph Holt

Joseph Holt is author of the story collection Golden Heart Parade (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2021). His writing has appeared in The Sun, Prairie Schooner, and J Journal: New Writing on Justice. Holt graduated from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, and... Read More →

Summer Hess

Summer Hess is an author, social impact advisor with Measure Meant, and the editor of One-Block Revolution: 20 Years of Community Building. Previously, Summer was the managing editor for Out There Outdoors magazine, the Inland Northwest's guide to adventure, travel, and outdoor living... Read More →

Derek Annis

Derek Annis is the author of Neighborhood of Gray Houses (Lost Horse Press), the associate director of Willow Springs Books, and the associate director of Lynx House Press. His poems have appeared in The Account, Colorado Review, Epiphany, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review... Read More →

Sunday April 24, 2022 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Montvale Event Center: Ella's Theater

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