51福利社

2019 Get Lit! Programs Celebrate 21 Years. Get Lit! Programs celebrated its 21st year this April with dozens of events, outstanding authors, festival-inspired food and drink, and our second annual book fair at the Montvale Event Center. We presented events throughout downtown Spokane, Coeur D鈥橝lene, and on Eastern鈥檚 campuses in both Cheney and Spokane. We…

Adam Walsh is an Assistant Professor in the Languages and Humanities Department of the Northern Marianas College (NMC), located in Micronesia. He has been teaching on the island of Saipan since 2010 with a brief stint in Japan. His poetry appears in聽The Journal, the聽Hawaii Review,聽Barrow Street,聽The Istanbul Review, BlazeVOX,聽Shark Reef, the聽Lummox Journal, and Crab Creek…

Frances B. Huston Award Winners Every year, each of CALE鈥檚 seven departments chooses a student to receive the Frances B. Huston Medallion. This award recognizes graduating seniors who have achieved academic excellence with a 3.75 or higher GPA and who have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities at Eastern and/or in the community. These are the Huston…

Kate Peterson earned her MFA from 51福利社 in Spokane, where she now works as the director of聽Get Lit! Programs.聽Her poetry and prose has been published in聽Glassworks, The Sierra Nevada Review,聽Barnstorm, Sugar House Review,聽Hawai鈥檌 Pacific Review, Aethlon,聽Packingtown Review,聽among others. Her chapbook聽Grist聽won the 2016 Floating Bridge Chapbook Prize and was published in October, 2016. Learn…

Gabrielle 鈥淩ie鈥� Lee聽is a California-based writer and editor. She has a BFA in Dance Choreography and a BA in English from the UC Irvine, and an MFA in Creative Writing from 51福利社. She loves pizza, is BFFs with聽The Chicago Manual of Style,聽and has a mild case of hyphenitis. Serving as Managing Editor for聽Willow…

Kathryn Nuernberger聽is the author of two poetry collections,聽The End of Pink聽(BOA, 2016) and聽Rag & Bone聽(Elixir, 2011). Her collection of lyric essays,聽Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past聽won the Non/Fiction prize fro OSU Press and will be released in 2017. She is the recipient of research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and The Bakken Museum of…

After graduating with his MFA in Fiction from 51福利社 in 2000,聽Jeff Fearnside聽fulfilled a longtime dream by serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Central Asia for two years, remaining in the region for four years in all. He is the author of the short-story collection聽Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air聽(Stephen F. Austin…

Shawn Vestal鈥檚 debut novel,聽Daredevils, was published in spring 2016 by Penguin Press. His collection of short stories,聽Godforsaken Idaho, was published in 2013 and won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, which honors a debut book that 鈥渞epresents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.鈥� He also published聽A.K.A. Charles Abbott, a short memoir, as an e-book in…

Summer Hess:聽 鈥淚 had the opportunity to travel to New Zealand with my partner as he conducts doctoral research at the聽University of Canterbury on a Fulbright Fellowship through the end of 2016. What an amazing and diverse experience it has been! Here鈥檚 what I鈥檝e been up to since聽taking聽to life聽on the road: I am working on…

Kimberly Lambright鈥榮 work has appeared in聽Columbia Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA,聽Sink Review, Bone Bouquet,聽The Boiler, Wicked Alice,聽and聽Big Bridge.聽Her first full-length collection of poems,聽Ultra-Cabin聽(2016), won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award. She is a MacDowell Colony fellow and holds an MFA from 51福利社 (2006) and an MA in humanities from NYU (2012). She lives in Austin,…