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Get Lit Receives Grant From the HFPA
This past Wednesday, our Head of Productions, Samuel Curtis, and Film & Media Education Coordinator, Miriam Sachs, attended the prestigious Hollywood Foreign Press Association …

Get Lit recognized as a Top-Rated Nonprofit of 2019!
In very exciting news Get Lit – Words Ignite has been acknoledged by GreatNonprofits as a 2019 top-rated nonprofit. Making the GreatNonprofits Top-Rated List …

Get Lit Poets led dozens of interactive workshops at WE RISE LA!
Get Lit Poets led dozens of interactive workshops, conducted teen town halls, judged poetry contests, were the official hype team, spoke on panels, opened …

Insurgent Art – An intimate night of music and poetry
The merging of the Ash Grove and Get Lit was celebrated May 19th at the home of Barbara Williams. The event was both a …

Project Innovation grants Get Lit $50,000
We’d like to share some great news! We are proud to announce that Get Lit is a winner of The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation’s 2019 …

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Get Lit on to Better Things and Rolling Stone
Thursday, May 9th, Get Lit had a special kind of shoutout on FX. The show ‘Better Things’, created by Pamela Adlon showcased Get Lit’s …

Brave New Voices Team Auditions
Last Saturday, May 4th, poets from all over California auditioned for a spot on Los Angeles’ very own Brave New Voices slam team. 6 …

Learn4Life a California-based educational organization featured our very own Chelsea Summer in a video
Learn4Life featured our very own Chelsea Summer in a video showing her transformation from a mentee to a mentor, and her passion as a …

Film and TV Production Company, Smuggler Site, Donates 50TB of hard drive storage
Shout out to Saagar and the entire team at @smugglersite for donating about 20 Hard drives with over 50TB of storage to the Literary …

Nanopedia – A New Book Release by Free Verse Poet Charles Jensen
Our extremely talented Free Verse member, Charles Jensen, has a new poetry book out and did a reading on Saturday the 26th at Book …

“The wise build bridges, the foolish build barriers” cites amazing young poet Khamal Iwunyanwu in his performance called ‘Daydreaming’ a tribute to MLK
Khamal Iwuanyanwu performed his poem at the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Breakfast presented by The LA County Fed. The event was …