# @themaneater on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-04-21T20:17:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Maneater (@TheManeater) — https://gondola.cc/TheManeater

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The fourth annual Lit Crawl kicked off the 2026 Unbound Book Festival. Locations across downtown Columbia featured events that included readings of short stories, poetry memorization competitions and word games.

Cara M. Basset is an author who submitted her work for Without A Net, an event where 12 authors have to write a story not exceeding 400 words in 40 minutes based on one of two prompts. 

Basset said that, despite this being her first year participating in Unbound, she already appreciates the community that it fosters.

“I’ve been to a couple of (book fairs) and they’re a lot of fun, but that’s more of, like, you go and you buy books. But this seems a lot more like, no, you go and you, like, hear authors talk about what it’s like to write. And I think that that’s so cool that we have a community that’s interested in that kind of stuff.”

Read more at the link in our bio.

Story | Isa Kennedy
Photo | Summer Suarez 

#unboundbookfestival #litcrawl #columbia #themaneater #unbound

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