Get Lit! celebrates 25 years of creating literary magic in Spokane

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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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