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Lit Fest 2025
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Saturday, June 7
 

10:00am MDT

Queer Creatives Brunch
Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am MDT
Lighthouse
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It’s brunch! Come celebrate Lit Fest with a dazzling morning of Drag Brunch Bingo, featuring the fabulous Alice Glamoure, with your fellow LGBTQIA+ writers and creatives! We’ll be serving up delicious bites from Scratch Kitchen, along with a selection of cocktails and mocktails.
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MI
Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205
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5:30pm MDT

Faculty Showcase
Saturday June 7, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
Lighthouse
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Grab a refreshment and hear readings from recently published works by Lighthouse faculty members:
  • Juan Morales
  • Teow Lim Goh
  • David J. Rothman
  • Erika Krouse
  • Austin Segrest
  • Poupeh Missaghi
  • Anthony D'Aries
  • R.L. Maizes

Speakers
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Anthony D'Aries

Instructor
Anthony D'Aries is the author of The Language of Men: A Memoir (Hudson Whitman Press, 2012), which received the PEN/New England Discovery Prize and an INDIES Gold Medal. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Boston Magazine, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. He... Read More →
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Teow Lim Goh

Instructor
Teow Lim Goh is the author of three poetry collections, Islanders (2016) and Faraway Places (2021), and Bitter Creek (2025). Her essay collection titled Western Journeys (2022) was a finalist for the 2023 Colorado Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction. Her essays, poetry, and criticism... Read More →
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Erika Krouse

Instructor
Erika Krouse has taught at Lighthouse since 2008; she is a Book Project mentor and a winner of the Lighthouse Beacon Award. Erika's most recent collection of short stories, Save Me, Stranger, is out with Flatiron Books in January 2025. It has garnered starred reviews from Kirkus and... Read More →
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Poupeh Missaghi

Instructor
Poupeh Missaghi is a writer, translator, and editor. Her debut book trans(re)lating house one was published in 2020 and her second book Sound Museum was published in 2024 (Coffee House Press). Her most recent translation In the Streets of Tehran, a book of witness narratives, was... Read More →
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Juan J. Morales

Instructor
Juan J. Morales is the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father. He is the author of three poetry collections, including The Handyman’s Guide to End Times, winner of the 2019 International Latino Book Award. Recent poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Laurel Review... Read More →
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Austin Segrest

Instructor
Austin Segrest is the author of the poetry collections Groom (Unbound Edition Press, 2025) and Door to Remain, winner of the 2021 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award. Originally from Alabama, he lives in Appleton, Wisconsin... Read More →
Saturday June 7, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205
  Fiction   Nonfiction/Memoir   Poetry   Hybrid

7:00pm MDT

Visiting Authors Reading: Nicole Chung, Claire Dederer, Katie Kitamura, and Solmaz Sharif
Saturday June 7, 2025 7:00pm - 8:15pm MDT
Lighthouse
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Hear your favorite visiting author perform their recent works. Shop at the Lit Fest pop-up bookstore operated by The Bookies and get your book signed afterward.
Speakers
avatar for Nicole Chung

Nicole Chung

Visiting Author
Nicole Chung is the author of the award-winning memoir A Living Remedy, which was named a Notable Book by The New York Times and a Best Book of the Year by over a dozen other outlets. Her 2018 debut All You Can Ever Know was a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book... Read More →
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Claire Dederer

Visiting Author
Claire Dederer is a memoirist, essayist, and critic. Her most recent book is the national bestseller Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (Knopf, 2023), a New York Times Notable Book that was named a best book of 2023 by The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Elle, Esquire, Kirkus, Electric... Read More →
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Katie Kitamura

Visiting Author
Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Audition. She is also the author of Intimacies, one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021 and one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021. It was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist... Read More →
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Solmaz Sharif

Visiting Author
Solmaz Sharif is the author of two books of poetry, most recently Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) which Publisher’s Weekly praised as “complex and confident” in a starred review. Her first book, Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New... Read More →
MI
Saturday June 7, 2025 7:00pm - 8:15pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205
  Fiction   Nonfiction/Memoir   Hybrid   Poetry

7:00pm MDT

Visiting Authors Reading: Nicole Chung, Claire Dederer, Katie Kitamura, and Solmaz Sharif (Livestream)
Saturday June 7, 2025 7:00pm - 8:15pm MDT
Zoom
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Hear your favorite visiting author perform their recent works. Shop at the Lit Fest pop-up bookstore operated by The Bookies and get your book signed afterward.
Speakers
avatar for Nicole Chung

Nicole Chung

Visiting Author
Nicole Chung is the author of the award-winning memoir A Living Remedy, which was named a Notable Book by The New York Times and a Best Book of the Year by over a dozen other outlets. Her 2018 debut All You Can Ever Know was a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book... Read More →
avatar for Claire Dederer

Claire Dederer

Visiting Author
Claire Dederer is a memoirist, essayist, and critic. Her most recent book is the national bestseller Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (Knopf, 2023), a New York Times Notable Book that was named a best book of 2023 by The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Elle, Esquire, Kirkus, Electric... Read More →
avatar for Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura

Visiting Author
Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Audition. She is also the author of Intimacies, one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021 and one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021. It was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist... Read More →
avatar for Solmaz Sharif

Solmaz Sharif

Visiting Author
Solmaz Sharif is the author of two books of poetry, most recently Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) which Publisher’s Weekly praised as “complex and confident” in a starred review. Her first book, Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New... Read More →
MI
Saturday June 7, 2025 7:00pm - 8:15pm MDT
Zoom
  Fiction   Nonfiction/Memoir   Hybrid   Poetry
 
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