An Interview with BookTree—Kirkland’s Independent Bookstore
March 20, 2020
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore.
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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
March 19, 2020
Dear friends, I write you in literally unprecedented times.
An Interview with King County Sexual Assault Resouce Center
March 18, 2020
April is coming soon, and while there may be a lot going on in our communities right now, it’s important to remember that April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. That means it’s the perfe...
“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
March 17, 2020
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 ...
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...
Faces of SAL: Lynn Dissinger
March 9, 2020
We’ve enjoyed Lynn Dissinger’s warm presence at our events so much! A SAL volunteer, she’s helped us out at many events over the course of the year, so we’re excited to feature...
Meet Nancy Tollefson, our Words Matter 2020 Committee Chair
March 5, 2020
SAL Board Member Nancy Tollefson picked up the baton to chair this year’s Words Matter 2020 Gala Committee, and she’s had a smile on her face the entire time. An inspiring, fun, and natural leader...