A Letter from Ruth
April 2, 2020
Dear friends, I’ve been thinking a lot about these words: unprecedented, unimaginable, unknown. Perhaps like many of you, I keep notes on the moments from lectures and conversations that particularl...
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The Home Library Reading Challenge
April 1, 2020
Many of us are searching for something we can hold onto right now. A sense of normality, the absence of fear, a story to escape in—a feeling that will extend us past our limitations, and past this s...
Play WITS Writing Bingo, A Fun New Writing Challenge!
March 30, 2020
Dreamed up by our WITS team as a way to keep students engaged with creative writing outside of schools, we’re excited to present our WITS Writing Bingo Board for today’s #SALMoment! We hop...
Next on the SAL Podcast: Valeria Luiselli
By Alexis Chapman, Public Programs Intern In our latest episode of SAL/on air, our literary podcast featuring talks and readings from across Seattle Arts & Lectures’ thirty years, we hear from V...
An Interview with BookTree—Kirkland’s Independent Bookstore
March 20, 2020
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore.
WITS Voices: Do Writing Savants Exist?
March 19, 2020
By Peter Mountford, WITS Writer-in-Residence This year’s two-week fiction-writing residency—my ninth, I believe, with the eighth grade class at Blue Heron Middle School—was my favorite to date. ...
A Letter from Ruth
Dear friends, I write you in literally unprecedented times.
“They Said”: The Winning Poem from the 2019/20 Elaine Wetterauer Writing Contest
March 17, 2020
Every year, Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program holds the Elaine Wetterauer Writing Contest to celebrate the wisdom, creativity, and heart captured in student and teac...
Find Connection with the #SALMoment of the Day
With our daily lives disrupted, we are all working to finding new forms of togetherness. From balconies, Italians break into song and Spain applauds its healthcare workers. Bookshops hand-deliver to S...
Next on the SAL Podcast: Adam Davidson
March 10, 2020
In our latest episode of SAL/on air, our literary podcast featuring talks from across Seattle Arts & Lectures’ thirty years, we hear from Adam Davidson, the co-founder of NPR’s Planet Money a...