A Blog of Seattle Arts & Lectures
Each year, in a project led by Sierra Nelson and Ann Teplick of Writers in the Schools, and the School of Visual Concepts, long-term patients from Seattle Children’s Hospital and a team of letterp...
By Sharon N. Williams, Executive Director of the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas I am so excited to be here today and to be teaming with Seattle Arts & Lectures.
I may not be perfect but I can bake. I always try my best to understand people. I want people around me to feel happy, safe and scared. Because if you are never scared you do not care about yourself o...
As a special Thanksgiving treat, make your own poem-map of wonder with this lesson and writing prompt inspired by poet and author of World of Wonders, Aimee Nezhukumatathil! In celebration of our bran...
We hope you enjoy this holiday gift guide, featuring picks from the staff at Seattle Arts & Lectures! With the usual emphasis on independent shops and literary-themed gifts for every budget, thi...
Born from island clay Red and wet, with eyes open Crawl to a garden Place me in a bed of ferns I grow, I am energy. I’ll tell you of my first time talking to a plant. Most was listening. I swam fore...
By Liz Keenan, SAL Volunteer When SAL asked me to write a blog about 2020 Summer Book Bingo, I was more than thrilled to accept the challenge. As a volunteer for SAL, I was asked to do a roundup of al...
Each year, in a project led by Sierra Nelson and Ann Teplick of Writers in the Schools, and the School of Visual Concepts, long-term patients from Seattle Children’s Hospital and a team of letterpre...
The silence stretches, yawning across the land. Quiet, so quiet. A strange reverie, unbroken by sound. The bombs have stopped. The children, born in a wo...
This essay appears in Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature, an anthology edited by Kristen Millares Young, featuring writers from all across the city. Seattle was designated a UNESCO City of Literatu...