Known for her poetry, her essays, and the way she lights up the world, Aimee Nezhukumatathil restores our astonishment again and again.

Author of the sensational Braiding Sweetgrass—a book that forever changed nature writing—Robin Wall Kimmerer returns with The Serviceberry.

Join us for a poetry reading featuring SAL’s talented Youth Poetry Fellows. At Youth Poetry Fellowship (YPF) meetings this year, fellows have been honing their craft and strengthening their performance.

Join SAL and our friends at The Seattle Public Library and Silent Book Club Seattle for another wonderful evening of silent reading! Make your way to the stunning 10th floor of the Seattle Central Library for a silent reading evening with fellow book lovers. Enjoy quiet, camaraderie, and literary “tasting menus” of some fan favorite books from 2024 Summer Book Bingo categories. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required!

This four-part reading series features acclaimed poets, writers, and comics artists who teach in SAL’s Writers in the Schools program.

Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Percival Everett a “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James—his powerful retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.

For decades, Michele Norris has been at the heart of American journalism, with her role as host for NPR’s flagship radio show All Things Considered from 2002-2011, and her other work at multiple outlets through the years. She was the first African American female host at NPR, and she has won multiple awards for her journalistic contributions. In 2010, Norris began the Race Card Project, in which she invited people to share their thoughts about race.

Naomi Shihab Nye has spent more than forty years as a self-described “wandering poet,”  traveling the country and the world to lead writing workshops and inspiring students of all ages.

 Described as one of the “ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities,” and the former Digital Minister of Taiwan, Audrey Tang has made it her mission to align technology with democracy, and to counteract the polarization, inequality, loneliness, and fear that digital technology has catalyzed. Q&A with Community Curated Series director Ted Chiang.

Can you keep a secret? As the pandemic forced us to socialize at a distance, Kelsey McKinney was mourning the juicy updates, jaw-dropping stories, and idle chatter that she’d typically collect over drinks with friends, encouraging her to create the blockbuster Normal Gossip podcast.

From the bestselling author of Between the World and Me comes a new collection of visionary essays, The Message.

Maggie Smith is the author of the instant bestseller You Could Make This Place Beautiful, a bittersweet recollection of the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, as well as stunning collections of poetry such as Good Bones, and essays like the ones in Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change.

This four-part reading series features acclaimed poets, writers, and comics artists who teach in SAL’s Writers in the Schools program.

Natasha Lyonne continues to push boundaries as an Emmy- and Golden Globe nominated producer, actor, writer and director with more than three decades in the industry to her name.

Join us for a poetry reading featuring SAL’s talented Youth Poetry Fellows. At Youth Poetry Fellowship (YPF) meetings this year, fellows have been honing their craft and strengthening their performance.

The event will feature a lively reception and delicious multi-course dinner, an engaging program featuring a special guest author and youth poet, and a live and online silent auction of unique literary experiences and treasures.

Emma Donoghue, the “soul-stirring” (Oprah Daily) nationally bestselling author of Room, returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station.

Abby Jimenez, “full of fierce humor and fiercer heart,” (Casey McQuiston) is the bestselling author of seven wildly popular, laugh-out-loud, pull-at-your-heartstrings romantic novels, including Just for the Summer, The Friend Zone, The Happy Ever After Playlist, and more.

Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball growing up in Columbus, Ohio, one which inspired the writing in his memoir, There’s Always This Year—a triumph, which is brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope.

C Pam Zhang has stunned audiences with her rapturous and revelatory storytelling in her acclaimed bestselling novel Land of Milk and Honey.

This four-part reading series features acclaimed poets, writers, and comics artists who teach in SAL’s Writers in the Schools program.

A plant scientist, microbiologist, and ecologist, Merlin Sheldrake has dedicated his scientific career to the relationship between humans and “more-than-human” organisms.

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.

Bring a listening ear and a joyful spirit to the WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration! Every year, WITS culminates in a program-wide reading and celebration of student work that features student readers from approximately 30 schools and Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Bring a listening ear and a joyful spirit to the WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration! Every year, WITS culminates in a program-wide reading and celebration of student work that features student readers from approximately 30 schools and Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Please join us in celebrating the launch of the 2024/25 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Janae Lu’s chapbook. Published by Poetry Northwest Editions this is the tenth edition of the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate series. Janae Lu will read from the collection alongside other talented poets.