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Tuesday, June 16
 

9:00am MDT

Literary Lightning: Finding the Poetry in Your Prose (V)
Tuesday June 16, 2026 9:00am - 11:30pm MDT
Virtual
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Are there lines in your stories or essays that, when you reread them, contain multitudes? Ideas in which your thinking has deepened or changed? How do you pull threads from previously written prose and turn it into prose poetry or hybrid prose? What was once an essay may carry the seeds of a flash essay, prose poem or song. We’ll explore work that began in one form and transformed into another and talk about how to do that for a piece of our own.
Speakers
avatar for Ellen Blum Barish

Ellen Blum Barish

Faculty
Ellen Blum Barish is the author of the spiritual memoir Seven Springs: A Memoir and the essay collection Views from the Home Office Window: On Motherhood, Family and Life. Her work explores themes of identity, family, and spirituality. You can find her essays and prose poems in Brevity... Read More →
Tuesday June 16, 2026 9:00am - 11:30pm MDT
Virtual
  Poetry, Multi-Genre

12:00pm MDT

Lunchtime Business Panel: After the Debut—Life as a Working Writer (Livestream)
Tuesday June 16, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Virtual
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Panelists include: Claire Jia, Simone Stolzoff, Seth Brady Tucker, and Hannah Strouth (Sanford J. Greenburger Associates).

Debut year has a shape everyone recognizes—the thrill, the terror, the mystifying silence that follows. But what happens after? Four writers with books out in the last year talk honestly about what the debut actually taught them, how they're thinking about the next book, and what building a sustainable literary life really looks like once the confetti settles. Less "how to launch" and more "how to last"—useful for writers at every stage. This crew will also be joined by one of our visiting agents, who will give their take.
Speakers
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Hannah Strouth

Agent, Greenburger Associates
Hannah is looking for literary and upmarket fiction, as well as select nonfiction. In fiction, she gravitates toward nuanced and compelling work that digs deep into a wide range of emotions. She’s automatically drawn to stories that help discover and explore new aspects about people... Read More →
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Nini Berndt

Faculty
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, and... Read More →
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Claire Jia

Faculty
Claire Jia's debut novel Wanting (Tin House) was an NPR, Elle, Public Books and Chicago Sun-Times Best Book of 2025. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Modern Love column, The Rumpus, Reductress, and more. She writes for television and co-wrote the Peabody Award-winning video... Read More →
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Simone Stolzoff

Faculty
Simone Stolzoff is an author and journalist who explores big questions about work, meaning, and identity. A former design lead at the global innovation firm IDEO, he is the author of two books: The Good Enough Job and How To Not Know. His work has been featured in The New York Times... Read More →
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Seth Brady Tucker

Faculty
Seth Brady Tucker is a poet and fiction writer originally from Lander, Wyoming. His first book won the 2011 Elixir Press Editor’s Poetry Prize (Mormon Boy), and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. His second book won the Gival Press Poetry Award (We Deserve the Gods We Ask... Read More →
Tuesday June 16, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Virtual
  All Genres

1:30pm MDT

Finding the Heart and Body of Your Memoir (V)
Tuesday June 16, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Virtual
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One of the biggest challenges in writing memoir or essays is finding the focus and structure. So many directions tempt us before we find our best way forward. In this invigorating seminar, we’ll explore tools and approaches for sussing out the heart of the memoir, and from there, consider possibilities for organizing it (chronologically, thematically, as an essay collection, or even as a collage of vignettes). We’ll do some short exercises to clarify what our memoir or essay wants to be and how we can realize that potential. Ample handouts will be provided.
Speakers
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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Faculty
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ph.D, the 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate is the author of 24 books, including How Time Moves: New & Selected Poems; Miriam's Well, a novel; Needle in the Bone, a nonfiction book on the Holocaust; The Sky Begins At Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and... Read More →
Tuesday June 16, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Virtual
  Fiction, Nonfiction/Memoir

1:30pm MDT

Survey of Interiority (Livestream)
Tuesday June 16, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Virtual
Using readings and examples from a variety of modes—short fiction, novels, cinema, and drama—this seminar provides a survey of interiority in narrative writing. We’ll examine and explore the technical challenges of writing interiority as well as the narrative and aesthetic motivations that accompany the concept. At the end of the seminar, we’ll engage in short writing exercises to synthesize and practice these techniques.
This is the livestream version of this event.
Speakers
avatar for Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor

Visiting Author
Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels Minor Black Figures, The Late Americans, and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature... Read More →
Tuesday June 16, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Virtual
  Fiction

4:00pm MDT

Black Doubt, Revision, and Faith (Livestream)
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Virtual
Albert Camus reminds us that we cannot be successful writers without “black doubt.” What do we do, then, when this doubt feels overwhelming? What do we do when we’ve lost faith, not only in what we’re working on, but in our ability to ever write anything worth reading ever again? Often, what is needed in these disheartening moments is deep revision, a stage of artistic effort and creation that is absolutely essential and which too many writers give short shrift.

This is the livestream version of this event.
Speakers
avatar for Andre Dubus III

Andre Dubus III

Visiting Author
Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His most recent novel, Such Kindness, was published in June 2023, and a collection of personal essays, Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, was... Read More →
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Virtual
  Nonfiction/Memoir

4:00pm MDT

ChatGPT Is My Secretary (V)
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Virtual
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ChatGPT is awful. It’s a plagiarist, it lies and fabricates, it will run us out of our jobs…but it’s also free, exploitable, non-human labor! AI can be the answer to our harried dreams: a sometimes-reliable entity to perform research, consolidation, organization, and administrative tasks that would otherwise take us hours or months to do. What are the many ways a writer can use recent technologies to save ourselves valuable time and labor? How much can we trust it, and what are the ways we really shouldn’t? No technical knowledge needed; your instructor doesn’t have any, either.
Speakers
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Erika Krouse

Faculty
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 →
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Virtual
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre

4:00pm MDT

Two-Day Intensive: Being a Romantic Poet in the 21st Century
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
Virtual
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How might Romanticism translate to our time? In this workshop, we'll carry its core precepts—spontaneity, accessible language, the connection between nature and human creativity, the power of individual imagination—into contemporary poetry. Drawing on Keats, Wordsworth, and Blake, we'll make our own departures into visionary lyricism.
Speakers
avatar for Elizabeth Robinson

Elizabeth Robinson

Faculty
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 →
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
Virtual
  Poetry

4:30pm MDT

Lit Fest Fellows Showcase and Reading (Livestream)
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm MDT
Virtual
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Help us celebrate the exceptional talent among this year’s Lit Fest Fellowship winners. Happy Hour beverages and snacks available (and see below about sober space options). Our lineup:

Veteran Writing Awardees
Reed Kuehn
Matt Eidson

Fellowship for Emerging Writers
Poetry: Christiana Castillo
(selected by Eduardo Corral)

Fiction: Marcie Alexander
Runner up: Blake Foster-Wagamon
Distinguished finalists: Hema Padhu & Evander Reyes
(selected by Ramona Ausubel)

Nonfiction: Sarah Kiley
Runner Up: Julia Marquez-Uppman
(selected by Elissa Washuta)

LARRK Fellowship Winners
Rachel Nielsen
Max Miller
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm MDT
Virtual
  All Genres

7:00pm MDT

Visiting Authors Reading: Emily Rapp Black, Mat Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, and Beth Nguyen (Livestream)
Tuesday June 16, 2026 7:00pm - 8:15pm MDT
Virtual
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Grab a drink or a bite from our food truck and buckle down in Beacon Hall to hear your favorite visiting author perform their recent works. Afterwards, you can shop at the Lit Fest pop-up bookstore operated by Spell Books and get your book signed. This is the livestream version of this event.
Tuesday June 16, 2026 7:00pm - 8:15pm MDT
Virtual
  All Genres
 

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