Internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s latest collection, The Tiny Journalist, is a collection inspired by seven-year-old Janna Tamimi, the “Youngest Journalist in Palestine,” who captured videos of anti-occupation protests with her mother’s smartphone.

Come celebrate the publication of the annual WITS Anthology, featuring the very best creative writing by K-12 students from last year’s Writers in the Schools (WITS) program. Young writers will read original works of poetry, prose, comics, and memoirs in a powerful display of youth voices.

Single tickets are sold out, but Malcolm Gladwell’s event is still available via our 6-part Literary Arts Series subscription.

Come be inspired by the courage and imagination of our next generation of creative writers. This event will raise essential funding for SAL’s Writers in the Schools (WITS) program, which matches talented professional writers with local public schools and Seattle Children’s Hospital for year-long writing residencies.

A writer, musician, and visual artist, Patti Smith rose to fame in the 1970s for her singular blend of poetry and rock music. In The Year of the Monkey, Smith embarks on a year of solitary wandering, taking us from the Santa Cruz coast, to the Arizona desert, to a Kentucky farm. This haunting memoir blends fact and fiction, illustrated by Smith’s signature Polaroid photographs.