SAL's 2025/26 Season

Subscriptions and SAL Presents tickets are now on sale for our 2025/26 Season! All remaining single tickets will go on sale July 8 at noon.

Seattle Arts & Lectures presents Ocean Vuong with Thanh Tan at Town Hall Seattle in Seattle, Washington, on Sunday, June 1, 2025.

It’s the 30th anniversary of Writers in the Schools (WITS)!

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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Upcoming SAL Events

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Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Chapbook Launch

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Free Events

Please join us in celebrating the launch of the 2024/25 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Janae Lu’s chapbook, In All Spaces Liminal. 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.

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A Conversation with R.F. Kuang

Friday, September 12, 2025

SAL Presents

Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F.

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Bill McKibben

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

SAL Presents

From the acclaimed environmentalist comes a call to harness solar power and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.

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A Conversation with Arundhati Roy

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Literary Arts

A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Mother Mary Comes to Me traces the complex relationship between Arundhati Roy and her mother, Mary, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Roy’s life both as a woman and a writer. Tickets with “& Book” include a copy of Mother Mary Comes to Me, shipped to your door by our bookstore partner.

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Jill Lepore

Friday, September 26, 2025

Encore

From the best-selling author of These Truths comes We the People, a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution, for a troubling new era.

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A Conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert

Monday, October 20, 2025

Colleen Echohawk Presents

In her first nonfiction book in a decade, #1 bestselling writer Elizabeth Gilbert who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free, joining Community Curated Series director Colleen Echohawk in conversation.

Seattle Arts & Lectures cultivates transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations.

Community

Summer Book Bingo

Summer Book Bingo 2025 has launched! Every summer, we partner with The Seattle Public Library and King County Library System 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.

Gift Cards

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 for in-person and streaming events.