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About three weeks ago, Trish Fancher was lying in bed and thinking about how folks she knew in big cities got the chance to enjoy literary festivals as part of Pride celebrations. But Santa Barbara, even with its strong literary community, didn’t have an equivalent.
“We have a good Pride here, and we have different things to do, but we don't have anything like bookish or poetry [based] or literary,” she said.