Teacher Feature: Daemond Arrindell
April 5, 2016
“Ever since Daemond started coming to my third period class, I have found a healthy way to express my emotions and thoughts.
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On Emily St. John Mandel and Station Eleven
April 1, 2016
By Justine Chan A few months after the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong, my family and I took our usual summer family trip there. For some bizarre reason, the travel package even threw in a free month-long ...
Five Questions: Lannan, SAL’s Mascot
March 25, 2016
Although she makes it look effortless, being an office dog at a literary arts organization isn’t all naps and kibbles. We sat down with Lannan, Executive Director Ruth Dickey’s new pup, to...
Five Questions: Colleen Rain & Neil Tennyson, SAL Volunteers
March 21, 2016
Rebecca Hoogs calls the extraordinary husband and wife duo, Colleen Rain and Neil Tennyson, “the wonder vols behind it all.” Dedicated SAL volunteers for the past several years, they̵...
What SAL’s Reading: Favorite Love Stories
February 12, 2016
When we asked the different folks at SAL about the best writing on love, it was hard to know what to expect. The topic is so widely written about and so subject to cliché.
SAL’s Literary Resolutions for 2016
January 25, 2016
Knowing your resolutions for a new year is generally the easiest part of these annual aspirations. The real work invariably comes in executing them, though when we asked SAL staff and WITS Writers to ...
Five Questions: Tim Griffith, SAL Board Vice-President
January 14, 2016
By Alison Stagner, Words Matter Event Coordinator “The thing I keep circling back to over and over is why didn’t I get involved sooner?” Tim Griffith tells me on a drizzly afternoon. Tim has bee...
What SAL’s Reading: Best of 2015
December 31, 2015
Just before 2016 begins to reveal all of the new places literature will take us, we asked SAL staff, WITS Writers and board members to share the best books they read in 2015, to continue our What SAL...
What SAL’s Reading: Winter Break Edition
December 22, 2015
“So, what was going on the week before Thanksgiving?” This is the question I anticipate coming from my husband, when we wait to board our plane to Santa Fe for the holidays tomorrow. It will be pr...
Five Questions: Pam Jolley, SAL Board President
December 17, 2015
By Simon Tran, Development Intern As Development Intern at Seattle Arts & Lectures, much of my time is spent writing grant renewals and working on mailings (lots of mailings…). Having major holi...