For Kids
Words
Event: August 22
Words
Words of all types: writing, spoken word, storytelling and more! All genres welcome. Seek out a book club or writing group, mark your calendar for visiting authors, or find ways to tell your story live onstage. If you are specifically interested in poetry, check out our Poet Laureate page, too!
Words
Event: August 8
Breaking Barriers: Publishing Presentation & Panel
Join local authors Lora Senf, Polly Buckingham, Leyna Krow, Aimee Brooks, and Livia Koh for an event making publishing in literary magazines and presses easier, more accessible, and fun!
Words
Grantee
Spokane is Reading
Spokane Is Reading is proud to announce that award-winning novelist and Afrofuturist, Tananarive Due, will visit Spokane on October 23, 2025, to discuss her gripping novel “The Reformatory.”
Words
Grantee
Kate Reed
Wonder Killer encourages a return to relational knowledge and collective imagination.
Visual
Artist
Leslie Plum
My focus tends to be animals and pop culture with some eclectic choices in between. My favorite medium is copic markers and multiliners on paper, sometimes canvas.
Music
Artist
awilddeadthing
awilddeadthing is a multidisciplinary artist and poet whose work explores the strange, tender, and haunted edges of experience.
New Media
Artist
Bongo Thompson
I make passion project zines for Spokane Zine Fest and try to stay sane during the off season.
Visual
Artist
Seava “Macyn” Garcia
Macyn specializes in painting, creating artwork with a focus on identity, the natural world, and self-image through a deeply rooted emotional lens.