Pie & Whiskey at Get Lit

For twelve years, Pie & Whiskey has been part of Spokane’s literary festival Get Lit! The event is hosted by writers Samuel Ligon and Kate Lebo, and features readings of flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and poetry inspired by everyone’s favorite food and drink.

Pies served at the event are baked by Kate Lebo, with help from other heroic pie bakers of Spokane. Christine Holbert of Lost Horse Press designs a chapbook featuring the pieces written for Pie & Whiskey, which is printed by Gray Dog Press and hand-stitched by EWU students. Sales of the book help support the event. Donations are also gladly accepted. Whiskey is generously donated by Spokane’s delicious and award-winning Dry Fly Distilling.

 

April 11, 2024, 8:01 p.m., doors at 7:29, Overbluff Cellars Event Center, in the Cracker Building, 304 W Pacific Avenue, Spokane:

Pie & Whiskey is back in the Cracker Building, exactly where we belong, inspired this year by  Loretta Lebo’s matricidal and grand-matricidal holiday aside — “Your pie is good, Kid, but not as good as your mother’s,” and the drunken, extra-legal ravings of Sinclair Lewis in the novel Mantrap — “He had never found that more than five whiskeys and soda were beneficial to law-practice.” And while we won’t be recognizing any holidays except Pie & Whiskey itself, nor filing any writs of habeas corpus or quo warranto, we will be falling down weeping at the unbearable beauty and pathos of readings by:

  • Beyoncé
  • Eliza Billingham
  • Carla Crujido 
  • Anna King
  • Liina Koivula 
  • Kate Lebo 
  • Samuel Ligon
  • Robert Lopez
  • Rick Misterly
  • Daniel Orozco
  • Cara Strickland
  • Taylor Swift
  • Jess Walter
  • Kary Wayson

Thanks to the following organizations for support of Pie & Whiskey readings in Spokane.

PIE & WHISKEY at GET LIT

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Pie & Whiskey 9 (2023)

Pie & Whiskey 8 (2019)

Featuring:

  • Polly Buckingham
  • Ben Cartwright
  • Kevin S. Decker
  • Nicholas Deshais
  • Jill Herrera
  • Kate Lebo
  • Samuel Ligon
  • Gary Copelnd Lilley
  • Emma Noyes
  • Rochelle Smith
  • Jess Walter
  • Lisa Wells

Featuring:

  • Anastacia-Renee
  • Anthony Flynn
  • CMarie Fuhrman
  • Bruce Holbert
  • Kate Lebo
  • Samuel Ligon
  • Chris Maccini
  • Tommy Orange
  • Alexis Smith
  • Matthew Sullivan
  • Jess Walter
  • Leni Zumas

Pie & Whiskey 7 (2018)

Pie & Whiskey 6 (2017)

Featuring:

  • Dawn Pichón Barron

  • Luke Baumgarten

  • Jamie Gwinn

  • Adriana Janovich

  • Kim Kent

  • Kate Lebo

  • Samuel Ligon

  • Brooke Matson

  • Tiffany Midge

  • Chelsea Martin

  • Travis Laurence Naught

  • Jess Walter

 

Featuring:

  • Elissa Ball
  • Jeffrey G. Dodd
  • Melissa Huggins
  • Robert Lashley
  • Kate Lebo
  • Samuel Ligon
  • David Ratcliff
  • Katrina Roberts
  • Kathryn Smith
  • Jess Walter
  • Katherine Whitcomb

Pie & Whiskey 5 (2016)

Pie & Whiskey 4 (2015)

Featuring:

  • Mark Anderson
  • Devin Becker
  • Kris Dinnison
  • Jacob H. Fries
  • Leyna Krow
  • Kate Lebo
  • Samuel Ligon
  • Kristina Poffenroth
  • Mandy Smoker
  • Jess Walter
  • Elissa Washuta
  • Ellen Welcker
  • Joe Wilkins

 

Featuring:

  • Thom Caraway
  • Renee E. D’Aoust
  • Tim Greenup
  • Jordan Hartt
  • Kate Lebo
  • Samuel Ligon
  • Gary Copeland Lilley
  • Jessica Lohafer
  • Benjamin Percy
  • Don Poffenroth
  • Rachel Toor
  • Jess Walter
  • Kristen Millares Young

Pie & Whiskey 3 (2014)

Pie & Whiskey 2 (2013)

Featuring:

  • Anthony Doerr
  • Adrianne Harun
  • Jonathan Johnson
  • Kate Lebo
  • Samuel Ligon
  • Kate Reed
  • Nicole Sheets
  • Sharma Shields
  • Alexandra Teague
  • Jess Walter
  • Maya Jewell Zeller

Cover Art, Larry Vienneau

Featuring:

  • Kim Barnes
  • D. S. Butterworth
  • Jonathan Evison
  • Kate Lebo
  • Samuel Ligon
  • Jim Lynch
  • Laura Read
  • Marianne Salina
  • Gregory Spatz
  • Shawn Vestal
  • Jess Walter
  • Robert Wrigley

Pie & Whiskey 1 (2012)

Featuring:

  • Steve Almond
  • Elizabeth Austen
  • Caitlin Horrocks
  • Chris Howell
  • Laurie Lamon
  • Kate Lebo
  • Samuel Ligon
  • Tod Marshall
  • Shann Ray
  • Molly Tenenbaum
  • Nance Van Winckel
  • Jess Walter