When Christine Holbert came up with the idea for Get Lit!, Spokane’s annual literary festival, she wasn’t met with overwhelming support.
“It took some major convincing,” Holbert says. “However, I was a rambunctious graduate student with all sorts of ideas.”
Her idea was to create a celebration of all things literature in Spokane, something that had yet to be done in the area.
“I wanted to create a literary vortex,” she says.
Holbert’s then-graduate adviser at Eastern Washington University, Christopher Howell, warned her of the roadblocks she
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