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Sunday April 19, 2026 5:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
We are thrilled to present one of our most longstanding festival events, our Regional MFA Reading! This event features an exciting lineup of readers from five graduate programs across the Northwest. Each school has sent us one MFA candidate to read their work, and students will be introduced by a creative writing faculty member. We are excited to get to know students and faculty members from these programs—this year we have Michelle DeLong from Boise State, James Champion from Oregon State University, Ardyn Ford from University of Idaho, Jon Culp from Eastern Oregon University, Dawn Klinge from Western Colorado University, and Kirsten Van Zee from our own Eastern Washington University. We hope you’ll join us to hear fiction, nonfiction, and poetry readings from our region’s rising talents!

*This event is virtual and will premiere on our YouTube channel at the time scheduled above. Here's the link!

Purchase the authors' books via our official festival bookseller Auntie's Bookstore!

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Authors
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Ardyn Ford

Ardyn Ford is a first-year nonfiction student at the University of Idaho. Seasonal work has taken her to strange and beautiful corners of the American West. This region, and its beings, inspires her writing. She is a sucker for alliteration, affogatos, and anything uncanny.
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Dawn Klinge

Dawn Klinge writes historical and contemporary fiction that centers women’s courage, faith, and overlooked stories. She is the author of the Historic Hotels Collection, which includes Sorrento Girl, Palmer Girl, and Biltmore Girl, a series inspired by her lifelong love of travel and history. Dawn holds a Diploma in Creative Writing from Oxford University and is earning her MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in genre fiction through Western Colorado University. She lives in central Washington wi... Read More →
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James Champion

James Champion is an MFA candidate in poetry at OSU. He is confused about how much poetry should be work and how much it should be intuition, but he works hard to listen to his intuition, that little glass hammer in his mind. He likes coins in parking lots after it rains. He likes... Read More →
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Jon Culp

Jon Culp is a second-year MFA student focusing on poetry and creative nonfiction. He writes from the high mountain country of North Central Washington. His poetry, where modern ruralism blends with the natural environment, appears in the Manastash, Arcturus, Backstory, and Perciv... Read More →
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Michelle DeLong

Michelle DeLong is a fiction writer who can’t sit still. She grew up wandering and writing in the Great Smoky Mountains and is drawn to gothic, lyrical prose with a strong sense of place. Her work has appeared in Fiction International, Nowhere Magazine, and The New York Times. When... Read More →
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Kirsten Van Zee

Kirsten Van Zee is originally from rural Illinois and got her BA from Bradley University. At Eastern Washington, she interns for Get Lit, works for Willow Springs Books, and teaches composition to undergraduate students. Her thesis is a novel that explores women's friendships, belongings... Read More →
Sunday April 19, 2026 5:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
YouTube Channel: EWU's Get Lit! Programs

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