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Monday, June 9
 

9:00am MDT

Advanced Weeklong Workshop
Monday June 9, 2025 9:00am - 11:30am MDT
Advanced weeklong workshops include those with Steve Almond, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Eduardo Corral, Paul Harding, Mat Johnson, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Elizabeth McCracken, Eileen Myles, Helen Phillips, Tony Tulathimutte, and Matthew Zapruder.
Monday June 9, 2025 9:00am - 11:30am MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

12:00pm MDT

Lunchtime Business Panel: Getting Past the Gatekeepers
Monday June 9, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
This panel of writers and editors will share their screening process for determining what manuscripts make it into publication or the final rounds of a contest. We’ll share some suggestions for what to do (and what not to do) to make your work stand out and get the green light. Panelists include Jenny Shank, who served as a screener judge for this year’s Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Michelle Dotter, the publisher of Dzanc Press, and authors Kristin Koval and Steven Dunn.
Speakers
avatar for Denne Michele Norris

Denne Michele Norris

Panelist
Denne Michele Norris is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature, winner of the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. She is the first Black, openly trans woman to helm a major literary publication. A 2021 Out100 Honoree, her writing has been supported by MacDowell, Tin House, and... Read More →
avatar for Steven Dunn

Steven Dunn

Steven Dunn is a 2021 Whiting Award winner and author of the novels Potted Meat (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2016) and water & power (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2018). He was born and raised in West Virginia, and after 10 years in the Navy, he earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University... Read More →
avatar for Michelle Dotter

Michelle Dotter

Michelle Dotter is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Dzanc Books, a nonprofit press devoted to championing innovative and brilliant literary fiction. Since starting her career with noted San Francisco publishing house MacAdam/Cage, she has worked with New York Times bestsellers... Read More →
avatar for Kristin Koval

Kristin Koval

Instructor
Kristin Koval is a former lawyer who always wanted to be a writer but initially wandered down other paths. Her debut novel, Penitence, was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick for February 2025, a People Magazine Best Book of the Week, a Book of the Month Pick, an Indie Next, an Apple... Read More →
avatar for Jenny Shank

Jenny Shank

Instructor
Jenny Shank's short story collection, Mixed Company, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and is a finalist for the Colorado Book Award (General Fiction). Jenny Shank's novel, The Ringer, won the High Plains Book Award in fiction, was a finalist for the Mountains & Plains Independent... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

12:00pm MDT

Lunchtime Business Panel: Getting Past the Gatekeepers (Livestream)
Monday June 9, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
This panel of writers and editors will share their screening process for determining what manuscripts make it into publication or the final rounds of a contest. We’ll share some suggestions for what to do (and what not to do) to make your work stand out and get the green light. Panelists include Jenny Shank, who served as a screener judge for this year’s Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Michelle Dotter, the publisher of Dzanc Press, and authors Kristin Koval and Steven Dunn.
Speakers
avatar for Denne Michele Norris

Denne Michele Norris

Panelist
Denne Michele Norris is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature, winner of the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. She is the first Black, openly trans woman to helm a major literary publication. A 2021 Out100 Honoree, her writing has been supported by MacDowell, Tin House, and... Read More →
avatar for Steven Dunn

Steven Dunn

Steven Dunn is a 2021 Whiting Award winner and author of the novels Potted Meat (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2016) and water & power (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2018). He was born and raised in West Virginia, and after 10 years in the Navy, he earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University... Read More →
avatar for Michelle Dotter

Michelle Dotter

Michelle Dotter is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Dzanc Books, a nonprofit press devoted to championing innovative and brilliant literary fiction. Since starting her career with noted San Francisco publishing house MacAdam/Cage, she has worked with New York Times bestsellers... Read More →
avatar for Kristin Koval

Kristin Koval

Instructor
Kristin Koval is a former lawyer who always wanted to be a writer but initially wandered down other paths. Her debut novel, Penitence, was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick for February 2025, a People Magazine Best Book of the Week, a Book of the Month Pick, an Indie Next, an Apple... Read More →
avatar for Jenny Shank

Jenny Shank

Instructor
Jenny Shank's short story collection, Mixed Company, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and is a finalist for the Colorado Book Award (General Fiction). Jenny Shank's novel, The Ringer, won the High Plains Book Award in fiction, was a finalist for the Mountains & Plains Independent... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Zoom

1:30pm MDT

How to Create Unforgettable Characters (Livestream)
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
In this seminar, we’ll work through the process of building a character (or characters) who can serve as a catalyst for a larger narrative, propelling the story forward. From navigating backstory to placing characters in scene, we’ll focus on getting protagonists and antagonists out of our heads and onto the page through a series of writing exercises, discussion of example texts, and optional sharing.
This is the livestream version of this class, if you would like to attend in person, click here.
Speakers
avatar for Steve Almond

Steve Almond

Visiting Author
Steve Almond [www.stevealmondjoy.org] is the author of a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. His first novel, Which Brings Me to You (co-written with Julianna Baggott) was made into a major motion picture starring Lucy Hale. His second... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Zoom

1:30pm MDT

How to Create Unforgettable Characters
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
In this seminar, we’ll work through the process of building a character (or characters) who can serve as a catalyst for a larger narrative, propelling the story forward. From navigating backstory to placing characters in scene, we’ll focus on getting protagonists and antagonists out of our heads and onto the page through a series of writing exercises, discussion of example texts, and optional sharing.
Speakers
avatar for Steve Almond

Steve Almond

Visiting Author
Steve Almond [www.stevealmondjoy.org] is the author of a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. His first novel, Which Brings Me to You (co-written with Julianna Baggott) was made into a major motion picture starring Lucy Hale. His second... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

1:30pm MDT

The Laundry Line (V)
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
The journalist Michael Pollan asserts that every piece of nonfiction needs a “laundry line”: a main conceptual through-line that is strong yet flexible enough to hold the various vignettes and reflections that make up the piece. The same is true for fiction: even with plot to guide us, fiction writers need to think about how to balance the narration of physical events with psychological ones, how to weave backstory with present action. This class will offer writers a new vocabulary for articulating and experimenting with structure through lecture, discussion, and a writing exercise.
Speakers
avatar for Natalie Hodges

Natalie Hodges

Instructor
Born and raised in Denver, Natalie Hodges has performed as a classical violinist throughout Colorado and in New York, Boston, Paris, and the Italian Piedmont, as well as at the Aspen Music Festival and the Stowe Tango Music Festival. Her first book, Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Zoom

1:30pm MDT

Borderless: Writing Against Containment
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
The border is highly permeable for some and completely rigid for others, as the pandemic, various humanitarian crises, and recent elections in the West have underscored. The terror of the border remains relentless. In this generative seminar, we'll discuss and write in response to the work of (im)migrant writers who question the border and contend with its shifting, dislocating provocations. We’ll consider how and why certain bodies and literatures are (b)ordered through denial, displacement, dispossession, and detainment. And we’ll explore how we can write to confound the ideologies, policies, and practices that seek to contain us.
Speakers
avatar for Kanika Agrawal

Kanika Agrawal

Instructor
Kanika Agrawal is a queer Indian writer, editor, and educator. As a mad diasporic hybrid who developed over six countries on four continents, she works between and across languages, geographies, and disciplines. She received a BS in Biology and a BS in Writing from MIT. She then earned... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

1:30pm MDT

So You Want to Go Indie
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
As the quality and readership of indie/self-published books increases, indie publishing—once considered a “less than” alternative to traditional publishing—is becoming a progressively popular choice for authors at all stages of their careers. What does it take to independently publish your book? In this seminar, we’ll explore what goes into the indie decision, the pros and cons of this publishing method, and the must-have attributes of a successful independently published book.
Speakers
avatar for Cynthia Swanson

Cynthia Swanson

Cynthia Swanson is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of The Bookseller, The Glass Forest, and Anyone But Her. An Indie Next selection and the winner of the 2016 WILLA Award for Historical Fiction, The Bookseller has been translated into a dozen languages... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

1:30pm MDT

Symbolism and Metaphor: They Aren’t Just For Fiction (V)
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Humans are symbolic beings. We create symbols, we use them, we misuse them. In this class, we’ll first take a deep dive into the symbolic and the metaphorical in our everyday lives. We’ll analyze several examples of literary nonfiction that use the same devices fiction writers employ to layer meaning. We’ll talk about ways nonfiction writers can both deepen and complicate their own narratives and, in the process, understand the universalities embedded in our experiences.
Speakers
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Zoom

1:30pm MDT

Tragedy Plus Time: Writing Traumedy
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Tragedy plus time equals comedy, and in this seminar, we'll do that math and make readers laugh while PUNCHING THEM IN THE HEART.
People listen to a joke when they ignore a sob story or a rant, and humor can get your point and feelings across in more palatable and profound ways. To repurpose tragedy, we’ll read other sad-funny writers to steal their tricks, and we’ll cover every known device to turn a diary entry into publishable writing. Because if you can’t say something straight (if it’s too saccharine, confessional, or harrowing), then say it slant. Prerequisite: being in therapy.
Speakers
avatar for Elissa Bassist

Elissa Bassist

Instructor
Elissa Bassist is the editor of the “Funny Women” column on The Rumpus and author of the tragicomic memoir Hysterical, a semifinalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor. As a founding contributor to The Rumpus, she’s written cultural and personal criticism since the website... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

1:30pm MDT

My Own Alphabet
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Using letters from the alphabet, participating writers will utilize free-association and automatic writing to generate ideas and call upon their memories to begin drafting and crafting their own lyric essays. This class will primarily be a generative space. The title of the workshop pays homage to Bobbie Louise Hawkins who published a collection of stories, essays, and memoirs of the same name with Coffee House Press in 1989 (there is no need to read this book).
Speakers
avatar for Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

Instructor
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado in a Victorian-era farmhouse where her family is surrounded by open sky and century-old cottonwoods. She literally grew up in a bookstore with parents who worshipped all things literature... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

1:30pm MDT

Just Two Poems
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
In this class, we’ll experience the power of deep reading. Before class, you’ll be given two poems that serve as jumping-off points to explore and be inspired by master poets of exceptional craft. We’ll explore both the measured unfolding of a longer poem and the lyric compression of another. Exercises, experiments, and your own poems will follow.
Speakers
avatar for Lynn Wagner

Lynn Wagner

Instructor
Lynn Wagner is the author of No Blues This Raucous Song, which won the Slapering Hol Chapbook competition. She received an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, where she won the Academy of American Poets prize. She has earned fellowships to the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

1:30pm MDT

Practical Publishing: Journals as Models for Your Work
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
This workshop will focus on studying several literary journals and the writings they publish in order to plan better where to submit our work. We'll read several genres recently published in journals such as The Adroit, The Sun, Guernica, and others to get down to business—discovering prompts from what we find for workshop exercises. We’ll also discuss cover letters, author bios, and aesthetics within journals to avoid pitfalls when submitting.
Speakers
avatar for Hillary Leftwich

Hillary Leftwich

Instructor
Hillary Leftwich is a neurodivergent, multimedia writer and the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press, 2019 and Agape Editions, 2023 new edition), Aura (Future Tense Books and Blackstone Audio Publishing, 2022), and Saint Dymphna’s Playbook (forthcoming... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

4:00pm MDT

Writing in Color Presents: Finding the Ghost
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
This all-genre craft seminar will include a literature survey, highlighting moments when strangeness enters the room, and what it can offer a narrative, as well as in-class generative prompts based on readings. We'll take a look at nonfiction from Daisy Lafarge and Anna Lindsey, the poetry of Anna Swir, the prose-meets-poetry of Anne Carson, and the fiction of Victor Heringer. One of the most valuable modes a writer can be in is a blissful state of porosity. No matter our genre, we’ll open ourselves to the possibilities and tools of other genres to see what we can take away and bring back to our own. This seminar will encourage you toward strangeness, to investigate and play with structure and form.
Speakers
avatar for Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Visiting Author
Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of the author's lineage of curanderos, or shamans, and her mother, who was the first woman in her family to become... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

4:00pm MDT

Writing Thrillers
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
You’re looking to write that unputdownable thriller that agents and publishers can’t say no to. Pacing, cliffhangers, and empathy are just some of the tools you’ll learn to write your page-turning, pulse-pounding novel. In this craft seminar, we'll learn how to approache the craft of thriller writing, which includes art, science, and trusting your instincts.
Speakers
avatar for Carter Wilson

Carter Wilson

Instructor
Carter Wilson is the Publishers Weekly and USA Today bestselling author of ten award-winning psychological thrillers. His works have earned starred reviews from all major trade publications, have been optioned for television and film, and his 2025 release Tell Me What You Did was... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

4:00pm MDT

Building the Writer's Notebook
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Have you ever stared at a blank page and had no idea how to fill it? In this class, we'll learn how keeping a vibrant writer's notebook can provide us with material to use, whether we're trying to craft a compelling personal essay, fill a novel with vivid characters and settings, or capture the perfect image for a poem. We'll examine the notebook practices of some of the greats, including Joan Didion, Mark Twain, and Charles R. Johnson, and embark on our own journals. Bring in a fresh notebook, and we'll set it up to capture the inspiration, observations, and ideas that will fuel your next literary work.
Speakers
avatar for Jenny Shank

Jenny Shank

Instructor
Jenny Shank's short story collection, Mixed Company, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and is a finalist for the Colorado Book Award (General Fiction). Jenny Shank's novel, The Ringer, won the High Plains Book Award in fiction, was a finalist for the Mountains & Plains Independent... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

4:00pm MDT

Channeling Palimpsest in Your Writing
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Drawing inspiration from the idea of a palimpsest—medieval manuscripts on papyrus or parchment whose text was scraped or washed off, and then written over—the workshop will consider what is erased from the past versus what remains and how that shows up in our lives and our writing. We’ll try techniques that sample the writing of others, such as erasure or the cento, and also write from prompts that consider what parts of ourselves have been erased and written over, or how scraps of the past are embedded in the places and objects that surround us.
Speakers
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Malinda Miller

Instructor
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

4:00pm MDT

The Big Voice: How to Amplify Your Narratives
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
In this seminar, we'll contemplate what Chuck Palahniuk refers to as the big voice and little voice; we'll look at the different strategies writers have used to amplify the little voices they have to use in both fiction and creative nonfiction. We'll learn how to create tension via the back-and-forth “dialogue” a big and little voice can evoke while paying attention to the ways the big voice can be utilized to make a character’s motivations more believable. Finally, the big voice can serve as a loophole to get around the limitations of first-person or close-third points-of-view for revealing big picture information the reader needs to know.
Speakers
avatar for Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

Instructor
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado in a Victorian-era farmhouse where her family is surrounded by open sky and century-old cottonwoods. She literally grew up in a bookstore with parents who worshipped all things literature... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

4:00pm MDT

Writing the Self: Considerations of Character, Perspective, and Scene (V)
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
In order for your memoir to work, you need to be a character with flaws, with conflict, with desires—in short, with very human traits. This workshop explores how to explore and write your “Self” on the page in a way that allows the reader to know you, to like you, and go along for the ride.
Speakers
avatar for Karen Auvinen

Karen Auvinen

Instructor
Karen Auvinen (she/her/hers) is poet, mountain woman, life-long westerner, writer, and the author of the memoir Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living, a finalist for the 2019 Colorado Book Award. Her body of work traverses the intersection of landscape and place, examining... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Zoom

4:00pm MDT

The Art of Iteration: How to Revise Your Poetry Manuscript
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
When is a poetry manuscript truly “done”? This seminar explores the balance between productive revision and perfectionism, drawing insights from poets like Ocean Vuong and Victoria Chang. Learn to approach your manuscript as a cohesive body of work, clarifying its themes, voice, and style. We’ll challenge the myth of linear progression, embrace curiosity, and help you recognize when your work feels whole enough to share with the world—so that you can seek publication with confidence.
Speakers
avatar for Radha Marcum

Radha Marcum

Instructor
Radha Marcum, MFA, won the 2023 Washington Prize for her forthcoming collection, Pine Soot Tendon Bone (2024). She was also awarded the New Mexico Book Award in 2018 for her first collection of poems, Bloodline (3: A Taos Press), about her grandfather's work building the first atomic... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

4:00pm MDT

Lament (V)
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lament can be elegy or protest, memoir or lyric outpouring. This craft workshop will explore this fertile and necessary genre, offering examples and prompts to encourage writers to articulate their own lament whether it be personal, political, environmental, or spiritual.
Speakers
avatar for Elizabeth Robinson

Elizabeth Robinson

Instructor
Elizabeth Robinson is the author of over a dozen volumes of poetry. Her most recent books are Three Novels (Omnidawn), Counterpart (Ahsahta), and Blue Heron (Center for Literary Publishing). Robinson’s mixed genre meditation, On Ghosts (Solid Objects), was a finalist for the Los... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Zoom

4:30pm MDT

First Draft Live: The Debut Journey
Monday June 9, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm MDT
Join Mitzi Rapkin for a live episode of her popular First Draft podcast. This one will feature a conversation between debut authors Nini Berndt and Evanthia Bromiley and as they discuss their publication journeys, their book launch learning curve, their inspiration and challenges, and more. Mitzi's First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing, a literary podcast now in its 12th year of production, has more than 500 interviews in the archive.
Speakers
avatar for Mitzi Rapkin

Mitzi Rapkin

Panelist
Mitzi Rapkin is the founder, host and producer of the literary podcast, “First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing,” which features a new author interview each week. She has interviewed more than 500 contemporary writers of fiction, nonfiction, essays, and poetry over the past twelve... Read More →
avatar for Nini Berndt

Nini Berndt

Nini Berndt's debut novel, There Are Reasons for This, comes out from Tin House Press in spring 2025. She's a graduate of the MFA program in Fiction at the University of Florida, and her work has appeared in The Southampton Review, Subtropics, Adroit, Passages North, Blackbird... Read More →
avatar for Evanthia (Evie) Bromiley

Evanthia (Evie) Bromiley

Evanthia Bromiley is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and the recipient of scholarships from the Aspen Institute, a Lighthouse Fellowship, a Lisel Mueller scholarship, and Elizabeth George and Carol Houck-Smith awards. She is the 2025 Grace Paley Fellow for... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

7:00pm MDT

Visiting Authors Reading: Mat Johnson, Alex Marzano-Lesnevitch, and Elizabeth McCracken
Monday June 9, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
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 Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson

Visiting Author
Mat Johnson is a Philip H Knight Chair of Humanities at the University of Oregon. His publications included the novels Invisible Things and Pym, the nonfiction novella The Great Negro Plot, and the graphic novel Incognegro. Johnson is the recipient of the American Book Award, the... Read More →
avatar for Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Visiting Author
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices Elle, the Prix des Libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD. It has been translated into 11 languages... Read More →
avatar for Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken

Visiting Author
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books: Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Bowlaway, The Souvenir Museum, and The Hero of This Book. She’s... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

7:00pm MDT

Visiting Authors Reading: Visiting Authors Reading: Mat Johnson, Alex Marzano-Lesnevitch, and Elizabeth McCracken (Livestream)
Monday June 9, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
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 Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson

Visiting Author
Mat Johnson is a Philip H Knight Chair of Humanities at the University of Oregon. His publications included the novels Invisible Things and Pym, the nonfiction novella The Great Negro Plot, and the graphic novel Incognegro. Johnson is the recipient of the American Book Award, the... Read More →
avatar for Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Visiting Author
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices Elle, the Prix des Libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD. It has been translated into 11 languages... Read More →
avatar for Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken

Visiting Author
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books: Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Bowlaway, The Souvenir Museum, and The Hero of This Book. She’s... Read More →
Monday June 9, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
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