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Diversity and Discovery: The Arvada Hard Times Writing Workshop

April 20, 2018

By Patricialyn Veal There are many in the United States that still do not have medical insurance. I am one of them. So...
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I Found a Tribe

April 13, 2018

By Michael Fischer I have to confess something. When I first registered for last summer’s Lit Fest, a part of me...
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The Truth About False Names

April 10, 2018

When I teach nonfiction classes, I arrive with a list of essays to read and craft points to discuss. It’s true that...

Lit Matters: Read. Rinse. Repeat.

November 17, 2015

By Megan Nix

Lit Matters: Finding Comfort on "Bunny Planet"

November 16, 2015

by Susan Knudten

Lit Matters: The Staying Power of "Bullet in the Brain"

November 15, 2015

by Jenny Wortman

Lit Matters: Reading Literature from the Middle East

November 14, 2015

by Poupeh Missaghi

Lit Matters: Home Can Be a Book

November 13, 2015

by Amanda Boldenow

Lit Matters: The Best Literature Isn't On The Classics Shelf

November 12, 2015

By Benjamin Whitmer

Lit Matters: Thank You. Merry Christmas. Denis Johnson.

November 11, 2015

by Josh Dinar

Lit Matters: Lydia Davis is Waiting for You

November 10, 2015

by Christophe

Lit Matters: The Surprising Brilliance of "The Martian Chronicles"

November 09, 2015

by Matt Chiabotti

Lit Matters: My Latest Literary Addiction

November 08, 2015

by Jennifer Itell

Lit Matters: What "The Giving Tree" Gave Me

November 07, 2015

by Corey Dahl

Lit Matters: Beating Loneliness with Lorrie Moore

November 06, 2015

by Alexander Lumans

Lit Matters: The Perks of Revisiting "Perks"

November 05, 2015

by Kate Barrett

Lit Matters: Learning to Read Again

November 04, 2015

by Kimberly O'Connor

Lit Matters: This Might Be Jane Austen's Weirdest Novel

November 03, 2015

by Theodore McCombs

Everyone knows Jane Austen’s dirtiest joke, right?

Lit Matters: What "My Brilliant Friend" Tells Us About Survival

November 02, 2015

by Erika Krouse

Lit Matters: 2015's Feast of Books

November 01, 2015

by Tiff

Hope and Heartbreak with Fly-by Writer Cristina Henriquez

October 28, 2015

by Zoe Knight, a member of the Young Authors Collective

A Flash Interview with Visiting Author Liam Callanan

October 26, 2015

by Emil

Writer’s Buzz: Alice Maxine Bowie Fellowship Reading with Tessa Cheek

October 15, 2015

The Alice Maxine Bowie Fellowship sponsors a member of the Lighthouse writing community to a full year of literary su

Reading Gothic Fiction: Thirteen Stories that Haunt

October 14, 2015

by Lindsey Drager

The Comic Drama of the Tragicomic: Reading Alison Bechdel

October 12, 2015

By Alexander Lumans

A Flash Interview with Lighthouse Instructor Jennifer Denrow

October 08, 2015

Jennifer Denrow’s Lyric Essay Workshop was my first class here at Lighthouse, my first writing course after my MFA, a

2015 Lit Fest Author Reading

October 05, 2015

The 2015 Lit Fest Author Reading Series features some of the amazing authors of the week-long juried intensives.