A Letter from the SAL Board
April 6, 2021
Dear SAL community, We are writing to provide an update on our search for the next Executive Director! The Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the Search Committee has engaged Koya Partners...
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Bookshop Superheroes: University Book Store
April 6, 2021
Bookstore workers and owners have been absolute essential workers during this pandemic—heroes on the frontlines of our mental health. After those first months when reading felt really hard, when the...
A World Full of Heroes: A WITS Intern Reflects on Event with Lawrence Wright
April 2, 2021
Akshaya Ajith, a high school student doing a remote internship with the Writers in the Schools program at SAL, attended SAL’s Journalism Series event with Lawrence Wright, investigative journalist f...
Faces of SAL: Akshaya Ajith
April 1, 2021
By Gabriela Denise Frank Writing serves many purposes for Writers in the Schools (WITS) Intern Akshaya Ajith. “It’s a tool and a gateway for people to connect and to understand and open doors to m...
“The Book Thief” by Juliana Agudelo Ariza
March 30, 2021
Juliana Agudelo Ariza of McClure Middle School read this original comic to open our Poetry Series event with Douglas Kearney. This comic was written during the 2019/20 school year with WITS Writer-in-...
Bookshop Superheroes: Paper Boat Booksellers
March 29, 2021
Bookstore workers and owners have been absolute essential workers during this pandemic—heroes on the frontlines of our mental health. After those first months when reading felt really hard, when the...
Introducing the 2021 Prowda Literary Champions!
March 25, 2021
At SAL, we envision a future in which story and language continuously and courageously revitalize equity, justice, and belonging. Since 2014, The Prowda Literary Champion Awards, selected by a group o...
The 2021/22 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Application is Now Open
March 23, 2021
Seattle Arts & Lectures is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications to the 2021/22 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Cohort, from now until Friday, April 23, 2021. Program Ove...
The 2020/21 Elaine Wetterauer Writing Contest is Now Open
March 22, 2021
Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program is delighted to announce the theme of this year’s Elaine Wetterauer Writing Contest! Every year, WITS holds the Elaine Wetter...
“Family Hair” by Lorenzo Hernandez
March 19, 2021
My sister’s hair is very straight and smooth. Normally it looks like she just combed it even if she just woke up.