Thursday, May 8, 2025 7:30 pm PST
C Pam Zhang has stunned audiences with her rapturous and revelatory storytelling in her acclaimed bestselling novel Land of Milk and Honey. Sensuous and surprising, Zhang’s prose lays provocatively bare the ethics of seeking pleasure in a dying world even as it remains a love letter to food, to wild delight, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite.
Clayton Cubitt
Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 7:00 pm
This four-part reading series features acclaimed poets, writers, and comics artists who teach in SAL’s Writers in the Schools program. Tonight’s program will feature Samar Abulhassan, Danielle Hayden, Vivian Li, Ell Lin, Clara Olivo, Ann Teplick! These resident writers come together to read from their own works-in-progress, inspiring the same craft and performance skills they teach in the classroom.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 7:30 pm PST
A plant scientist, microbiologist, and ecologist, Merlin Sheldrake has dedicated his scientific career to the relationship between humans and “more-than-human” organisms. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, has been recognized by BBC, TIME, and more, and has been heralded as dazzling, eye-opening, inspiring, and a ground-breaking account of the extraordinarily strange world of mushrooms.
For the past 30 years, WITS has matched professional local writers with K-12 public schools to support young people as they discover and develop their authentic writing voices. Since our founding in 1994, WITS has inspired over 150,000 students. This year, we will serve 6,000 students at 39 sites in six school districts!
What’s next? We’re centering students who have the least access to arts engagement opportunities through our WITS Rewritten initiative. Learn more about how you can get involved.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Community
This two-part professional development workshop is led by WITS writers, Corinne Manning and Putsata Reang.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Literary Arts
C Pam Zhang has stunned audiences with her rapturous and revelatory storytelling in her acclaimed bestselling novel Land of Milk and Honey.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Community
This four-part reading series features acclaimed poets, writers, and comics artists who teach in SAL’s Writers in the Schools program.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
SAL Presents
A plant scientist, microbiologist, and ecologist, Merlin Sheldrake has dedicated his scientific career to the relationship between humans and “more-than-human” organisms.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Meet Cute
From Kevin Kwan, the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, comes Lies and Weddings—a new outrageous, thrillingly plotted comedy of manners in which a forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding. Meet Cute Series, Create Your Own Series, Super SAL subscriptions, and single tickets, with the exception of a limited number of Pay What You Can tickets, include a paperback copy of Lies and Weddings. Q&A with Jane Hyo-Sung Park.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
SAL Presents
Ocean Vuong returns with The Emperor of Gladness, a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Seattle Arts & Lectures cultivates transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations.
This winter, consider an End of Year gift to SAL to help us continue bringing our community together – people of all ages and backgrounds – to read and write, to listen deeply, and to bring forward the voices we all need to hear. More than sixty percent of our annual revenue comes from charitable donations. We hope you will join us with a gift that powers another year of inspiration, conversation, and community.
Community
Every summer, we partner with The Seattle Public Library to create a Summer Book Bingo card as part of our free summer reading program. Adults, teens, and kids play along from May – September to be entered in a chance to win fabulous prizes.
Give the gift of SAL! If you’re looking for a literary-themed gift for loved ones near and far, SAL’s digital gift cards are on sale now.
