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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Faces of SAL: Sally Roberts & Richard Broad
April 3, 2020
If you’ve been to a SAL event, then you’ve seen couple Sally and Richard. Do you need a program? They always have one in hand. Need help finding a seat? They will search for you. Have a qu...
How to Support Local Restaurants Right Now
April 2, 2020
Tons of local restaurants are finding ways to provide to-go food for their communities while honoring Governor Inslee’s orders to stay home and stay healthy. We can’t all be Lizzo, who just genero...
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...
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
March 30, 2020
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...
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...