Next on the SAL Podcast: Ross Gay
April 9, 2020
In our latest episode of SAL/on air, our literary podcast featuring talks from across Seattle Arts & Lectures’ thirty years, we hear from poet Ross Gay. In a time like this, where do you look to...
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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...
The 2020/21 Youth Poet Laureate Applications Have Opened!
March 25, 2020
Attention all young poets, rappers, leaders, and activists in the greater Seattle area, ages 14-19: are you interested in representing Seattle as the 2020/21 Youth Poet Laureate? We’re now accep...
Legacy: The 2019/2020 Elaine Wetterauer Writing Contest Chapbook
March 24, 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...
Writing Prompt: Words and Images to Remember When Times Feel Overwhelming
March 23, 2020
Do you have a middle or high-schooler at home looking for learning opportunities? Or, maybe you’d like some inspiration for yourself? Today’s #SALMoment comes from WITS Writer-in-Residence...
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. ...
“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...
WITS Voices: Praising the Particular
March 11, 2020
By Lisa Wells, WITS Writer-in-Residence I think of writing as a practice of awareness, a habit of heightened attention to detail—to light, gesture, sensation, intonation—and I try to approach the ...
Late Bloomers: A Comic by David Lasky
March 5, 2020
At our recent Local Voices reading on February 10 at Hugo House, WITS Writer-in-Residence David Lasky gave some much-needed advice for creatives everywhere—especially for those of us who consider ou...