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Music Department Welcomes New Major

Sound Design equipment

Music Technology and Entrepreneurship Major – Mixing Music, Engineering and Design, and Entrepreneurship The Eastern Washington University Music Department is excited to announce that they are offering a B.A. in Music Technology and Entrepreneurship this fall. The degree is designed to provide professional training for students who aim to succeed as creative entrepreneurs, performers, songwriters,

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A Look Back at Get Lit! 2019

Get Lit Panel

2019 Get Lit! Programs Celebrate 21 Years. Get Lit! Programs celebrated its 21st year this April with dozens of events, outstanding authors, festival-inspired food and drink, and our second annual book fair at the Montvale Event Center. We presented events throughout downtown Spokane, Coeur D’Alene, and on Eastern’s campuses in both Cheney and Spokane. We

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Adam Walsh

Adam Walsh

Adam Walsh is an Assistant Professor in the Languages and Humanities Department of the Northern Marianas College (NMC), located in Micronesia. He has been teaching on the island of Saipan since 2010 with a brief stint in Japan. His poetry appears in The Journal, the Hawaii Review, Barrow Street, The Istanbul Review, BlazeVOX, Shark Reef, the Lummox Journal, and Crab Creek

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CALE 2019 Awards Ceremony

CALE Awards

Frances B. Huston Award Winners Every year, each of CALE’s seven departments chooses a student to receive the Frances B. Huston Medallion. This award recognizes graduating seniors who have achieved academic excellence with a 3.75 or higher GPA and who have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities at Eastern and/or in the community. These are the Huston

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Kate Peterson

Kate P bio feature

Kate Peterson earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University in Spokane, where she now works as the director of Get Lit! Programs. Her poetry and prose has been published in Glassworks, The Sierra Nevada Review, Barnstorm, Sugar House Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Aethlon, Packingtown Review, among others. Her chapbook Grist won the 2016 Floating Bridge Chapbook Prize and was published in October, 2016. Learn

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Gabrielle “Rie” Lee

Gabrielle Rie Lee bio feature

Gabrielle “Rie” Lee is a California-based writer and editor. She has a BFA in Dance Choreography and a BA in English from the UC Irvine, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University. She loves pizza, is BFFs with The Chicago Manual of Style, and has a mild case of hyphenitis. Serving as Managing Editor for Willow

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Kathryn Nuernberger

Kathryn Nuernberger bio feature

Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of two poetry collections, The End of Pink (BOA, 2016) and Rag & Bone (Elixir, 2011). Her collection of lyric essays, Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past won the Non/Fiction prize fro OSU Press and will be released in 2017. She is the recipient of research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and The Bakken Museum of

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Jeff Fearnside

Jeff Fearnside bio feature

After graduating with his MFA in Fiction from EWU in 2000, Jeff Fearnside fulfilled a longtime dream by serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Central Asia for two years, remaining in the region for four years in all. He is the author of the short-story collection Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air (Stephen F. Austin

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Shawn Vestal

Shawn Vestal bio feature

Shawn Vestal’s debut novel, Daredevils, was published in spring 2016 by Penguin Press. His collection of short stories, Godforsaken Idaho, was published in 2013 and won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, which honors a debut book that “represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.” He also published A.K.A. Charles Abbott, a short memoir, as an e-book in

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Summer Hess

Summer Hess bio feature

Summer Hess:  “I had the opportunity to travel to New Zealand with my partner as he conducts doctoral research at the University of Canterbury on a Fulbright Fellowship through the end of 2016. What an amazing and diverse experience it has been! Here’s what I’ve been up to since taking to life on the road: I am working on

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