Events at SAL
Upcoming Events
Local Voices: Live & Online-Only
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Free Events
Now in a digital format, Local Voices presents a unique opportunity to eavesdrop on the works of SAL’s Writers in the Schools resident writers. View the event as a Zoom Webinar on May 12th at 7:00 p.m, or catch it streaming on Facebook Live! Click “Learn More” to see the line-up of readers.
The Moth Mainstage: Live & Online-Only
Friday, May 21, 2021
SAL Presents
One of our most popular events of the year, each Moth Mainstage features simple, old-fashioned storytelling, by five wildly divergent raconteurs who develop and shape their stories with The Moth’s directors. Theme, host, and storytellers to be announced in spring! This event is live and online only.
Alberto Ríos: Online & Pre-taped
Friday, May 28, 2021
Poetry
Alberto Ríos is the author of fourteen books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. He has garnered acclaim as a writer who uses language in lyrical and unexpected ways, containing elements of magical realism, to reflect on his Chicano heritage. Q&A with Donna Miscolta. This event will be online only and pre-recorded.
Ocean Vuong: Live & Online-Only
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Literary Arts
Ocean Vuong is a poet and fiction writer whose work considers class, queerness, family, and identity. His epistolary novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019), was an immediate and enduring bestseller described by the Los Angeles Times as a “series of high notes that trembles exquisitely almost without break.” Q&A moderated by musician Perfume Genius. This event will be live and online only. Please note: this event begins at 6:00 p.m. (PDT).
Archive
Patrick Radden Keefe: Online & Pre-taped
May 10, 2021
Mary Roach: Live & Online-Only
May 9, 2021
Natalie Diaz: Online & Pre-taped
April 30, 2021
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Live & Online
April 21, 2021
Ibram X. Kendi: Live & Online
April 7, 2021
A Talk by Douglas Kearney: Online & Pre-taped
March 31, 2021
Luvvie Ajayi Jones: In Conversation—Live & Online
March 19, 2021
Maira Kalman: Online & Pre-taped
March 15, 2021
Toi Derricotte: Online
February 26, 2021
Bill Bryson: Online
February 21, 2021
Bill Gates: Interviewed by Anderson Cooper—Online
February 18, 2021
Lawrence Wright: Online
February 9, 2021
Gabrielle Hamilton: Online
February 5, 2021
Madeline Miller: Online
January 27, 2021
Maggie Smith: Online
January 22, 2021
SAL & CD Forum Present: Black Futures with Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham
December 2, 2020
Yaa Gyasi: Online
November 16, 2020
Yamiche Alcindor: Online
November 10, 2020
Tana French in Conversation with Ruth Ware: Online
October 12, 2020
Claudia Rankine: Online
September 25, 2020
Margaret Atwood: Online
September 9, 2020
David Mitchell: Online
July 23, 2020
Carol Anderson: Online
June 21, 2020
Min Jin Lee: Online
June 15, 2020
Launched: Corinne Manning, Kristen Millares Young, & E.J. Koh
May 28, 2020
Luis Alberto Urrea: Online
May 20, 2020
Rick Barot: Online
May 15, 2020
Elizabeth Kolbert: Online
April 22, 2020
Paisley Rekdal
February 6, 2020
Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
February 5, 2020
Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
January 29, 2020
Carmen Maria Machado
January 24, 2020
Adam Davidson
January 22, 2020
Lindy West
November 26, 2019
Mary Ruefle
November 21, 2019
Amor Towles
November 12, 2019
Hanif Abdurraqib
October 23, 2019
A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
October 20, 2019
Richard Kenney
October 17, 2019
Rachel Maddow
October 11, 2019
An Evening with Patti Smith
October 6, 2019
Malcolm Gladwell
September 23, 2019
Naomi Shihab Nye
September 19, 2019
Imbolo Mbue
June 7, 2019
Solmaz Sharif
June 3, 2019
The Moth Mainstage
May 23, 2019
Jericho Brown
May 21, 2019
Tayari Jones
May 14, 2019
A Conversation with Melinda Gates
May 9, 2019
Kara Swisher
May 7, 2019
Anthony Ray Hinton
April 30, 2019
HERE: Poems for the Planet, featuring Francisco Aragón & Kimiko Hahn
April 25, 2019
Valeria Luiselli
April 17, 2019
Tara Westover
April 14, 2019
Ilya Kaminsky
April 1, 2019
An Evening with Dean Baquet & Jim Rainey
March 5, 2019
A Conversation with Zadie Smith
February 27, 2019
Soraya Chemaly
January 31, 2019
Katherine Boo
January 28, 2019
Danez Smith
November 26, 2018
Pete Souza
November 11, 2018
Barbara Kingsolver
October 25, 2018
Phoebe Robinson
October 19, 2018
Jill Lepore
October 12, 2018
Van Jones
October 10, 2018
Alice Walker
October 4, 2018
Doris Kearns Goodwin
October 1, 2018
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
May 21, 2018
Ariel Levy
May 15, 2018
Viet Thanh Nguyen
May 7, 2018
An Evening with Jenny Han & Nicola Yoon
May 4, 2018
Of an Impossible Country: Rachel McKibbens, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, and Javier Zamora
April 27, 2018
Madeleine Albright
April 24, 2018
Questlove on Creativity
April 20, 2018
A Conversation with Lidia Bastianich
April 13, 2018
Laura Lippman & David Simon
March 30, 2018
Daniel Pink
March 5, 2018
Tyehimba Jess
March 4, 2018
Colson Whitehead
February 15, 2018
Gregory Orr
February 7, 2018
An Evening with Terese Mailhot, Tommy Orange, & Swil Kanim
February 2, 2018
Ijeoma Oluo
January 25, 2018
Jesmyn Ward
January 17, 2018
Nikki Giovanni
January 16, 2018
Tom Hanks
December 6, 2017
Kevin Young
November 30, 2017
Isabel Allende
November 28, 2017
Reza Aslan
November 14, 2017
A.E. Stallings
November 13, 2017
Ta-Nehisi Coates
November 5, 2017
Ron Chernow
October 18, 2017
Stephanie Burt
October 9, 2017
Janet Mock
October 4, 2017
A Conversation with Jeffrey Tambor
May 23, 2017
The Moth Mainstage
May 17, 2017
First Loves Debut Novelists: Patricia Park, Ariel Schrag, & Sunil Yapa
May 11, 2017
Emily Nussbaum
May 4, 2017
Carl Phillips
May 2, 2017
Helen Oyeyemi
April 25, 2017
Alec Baldwin
April 14, 2017
Alice Notley
April 5, 2017
Bryan Stevenson
March 28, 2017
Ben Fountain
March 1, 2017
Ellen Bass
February 28, 2017
Roxane Gay
February 22, 2017
A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment: Karen Russell
February 17, 2017
Sybrina Fulton & Tracy Martin: A Conversation with Trayvon Martin’s Parents
February 15, 2017
Ross Gay
February 7, 2017
Helen Macdonald
February 1, 2017
Emily St. John Mandel
November 23, 2016
Marina Abramović
November 18, 2016
Rachel Zucker
November 14, 2016
Nick Offerman
October 28, 2016
Timothy Egan
October 26, 2016
Bryan Cranston
October 16, 2016
Ada Limón
October 5, 2016
Ann Patchett
September 19, 2016
Annie Proulx
June 23, 2016
The Moth Mainstage
May 18, 2016
Claudia Rankine
May 13, 2016
Teju Cole
April 21, 2016
Pablo Neruda’s Lost Poems: A Book Launch Featuring Forrest Gander and Friends
April 19, 2016
Jacqueline Woodson
April 12, 2016
Joshua Roman & Tracy K. Smith
February 25, 2016
Amber Tamblyn
February 10, 2016
Geraldine Brooks
January 28, 2016
Srikanth Reddy
December 1, 2015
A Lecture by Timothy Donnelly
November 19, 2015
Anthony Doerr
November 18, 2015
Linda Pastan
November 10, 2015
James McBride and The Good Lord Bird Band
November 9, 2015
Drew Barrymore
November 7, 2015
Ta-Nehisi Coates
October 29, 2015
Alison Bechdel
October 22, 2015
Elizabeth Gilbert
October 6, 2015
Mary Szybist & Robert Wrigley
September 29, 2015
Saul Williams
September 24, 2015
The Moth Mainstage
June 2, 2015
A Lecture by Terrance Hayes
May 5, 2015
Frank Bruni
May 1, 2015
Lucie Brock-Broido
April 23, 2015
An Evening with Ann Hamilton
March 30, 2015
Cheryl Strayed
March 5, 2015
Sheri Fink
February 10, 2015
Sherman Alexie
February 4, 2015
Patton Oswalt: Off the Page
January 31, 2015
Ruth Ozeki
November 20, 2014
Matthea Harvey
November 7, 2014
Colm Tóibín
November 3, 2014
James McBride
October 15, 2014
An Evening with Nicholas Kristof
October 6, 2014
Ted Kooser
October 2, 2014
In Conversation with John Darnielle
September 26, 2014
Rebecca Solnit
June 5, 2014
Juan Felipe Herrera
June 2, 2014
An Evening with Timothy F. Geithner
May 16, 2014
Anne Carson & Robert Currie in Performance
May 13, 2014
Gillian Flynn
April 17, 2014
George Saunders
March 24, 2014
Christine Deavel & J.W. Marshall
March 19, 2014
Chip Kidd & Chris Ware
February 19, 2014
Bob Hicok
February 13, 2014
Dorothea Lasky
November 21, 2013
Madhur Jaffrey
November 19, 2013
Stephen Dunn
October 16, 2013
Malcolm Gladwell
October 11, 2013
Jorie Graham
September 17, 2013
Amy Tan
June 5, 2013
Susan Orlean
May 14, 2013
Nikky Finney
April 25, 2013
Karen Russell
April 3, 2013
Stanley Plumly on John Keats
March 19, 2013
Stephen Greenblatt on “The Survival of Dangerous Ideas”
March 4, 2013
Al Gore
February 14, 2013
Nick Flynn: The Intersection of Poetry & Memoir
February 13, 2013
Julie Otsuka
January 29, 2013
Amy Wilentz
January 23, 2013
David Wagoner: Northwest Master
January 16, 2013
Miranda July
December 5, 2012
Eileen Myles & Maggie Nelson: Poets on Painters
November 15, 2012
Hari Kunzru
October 23, 2012
Louise Erdrich
October 15, 2012
Jeffrey Toobin
October 10, 2012
Dean Young
October 2, 2012
T.C. Boyle
September 24, 2012
Mark Bittman
September 19, 2012
Colum McCann
May 24, 2012
Matthew Dickman & Michael Dickman
May 15, 2012
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
May 2, 2012
Etgar Keret
April 25, 2012
Delia Ephron
April 18, 2012
Troy Jollimore & John Koethe
April 4, 2012
Alain de Botton
March 16, 2012
Louise Glück
March 15, 2012
Amanda Hesser
March 8, 2012
Albert Goldbarth
February 9, 2012
Jennifer Egan
February 1, 2012
Pico Iyer
January 25, 2012
Terrance Hayes
December 8, 2011
Tom Brokaw
November 30, 2011
Dennis Lehane
November 15, 2011
David Grossman
November 10, 2011
Chris Matthews
November 7, 2011
Translators on Translation: Peter Cole, Bill Porter (Red Pine), & Nikolai Popov
November 6, 2011
Stacy Schiff
October 26, 2011
Amitav Ghosh
October 17, 2011
Khaled Hosseini
October 11, 2011
Dorianne Laux
October 5, 2011
Ann Patchett
June 16, 2011
Oscar Hijuielos
June 13, 2011
Roy Blount Jr.
May 25, 2011
Wendell Berry
May 24, 2011
Billy Collins
May 22, 2011
Richard Ford
May 10, 2011
Joyce Carol Oates
April 18, 2011
Brian Turner, Major Jackson, & Susan Rich
April 14, 2011
Marie Howe
March 15, 2011
Tracy Kidder
March 2, 2011
Dambisa Moyo
February 18, 2011
Patricia Smith
February 15, 2011
Nell Irvin Painter
February 8, 2011
Elizabeth Strout
January 24, 2011
Lucia Perillo
January 20, 2011
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
January 12, 2011
John Richardson & Gijs van Hensbergen
December 8, 2010
Nora Ephron
November 18, 2010
Daniel Handler
November 9, 2010
Robert Hass
October 28, 2010
Sara Paretsky
October 19, 2010
Robert Pinsky
October 15, 2010
T.R. Reid
October 5, 2010
Jonathan Franzen
September 14, 2010
Rita Dove
May 13, 2010
Laila Lalami
May 10, 2010
Dr. Atul Gawande
May 3, 2010
Elaine Pagels
April 30, 2010
David Remnick
April 19, 2010
Sharon Olds
April 18, 2010
Barry Lopez
April 7, 2010
Arundhati Roy
March 29, 2010
Linda Gregg
March 25, 2010
Michael Chabon
March 9, 2010
Mark Doty
February 26, 2010
Dr. Abraham Verghese
February 10, 2010
Patti Smith
January 25, 2010
Kim Addonizio with Gary Lilley
January 21, 2010
Jane & Michael Stern
January 12, 2010
Richard Price
December 1, 2009
Isabella Rossellini
November 18, 2009
Tomaž Šalamun with Matthew Zapruder
November 14, 2009
Lydia Davis
November 4, 2009
Martín Espada
October 23, 2009
Annie Proulx
October 7, 2009
Gary Snyder
May 27, 2009
Shirin Ebadi
May 19, 2009
Naomi Shihab Nye
May 7, 2009
Mira Nair
April 28, 2009
Simon Armitage
April 21, 2009
Yusef Komunyakaa
March 26, 2009
Scott Simon
March 18, 2009
Jane Hirshfield
March 12, 2009
Junot Díaz
February 24, 2009
Donald Hall
February 17, 2009
Michael Pollan
January 12, 2009
Annie Leibovitz
November 19, 2008
John Updike
November 12, 2008
W.S. Merwin
November 7, 2008
Terry Tempest Williams
October 7, 2008
Richard Russo
September 17, 2008
John Waters
June 3, 2008
Pico Iyer
April 29, 2008
Edward Hirsch
April 21, 2008
Lucille Clifton
April 7, 2008
Lois Lowry
March 15, 2008
Richard Powers
March 5, 2008
Eavan Boland
March 3, 2008
Li-Young Lee
February 19, 2008
Mary Oliver
February 4, 2008
Colson Whitehead
January 14, 2008
Diane Ackerman
November 19, 2007
Orhan Pamuk
October 15, 2007
Wangari Maathai
September 19, 2007
Jonathan Lethem
April 18, 2007
Charles Simic
April 10, 2007
Carolyn Forché
March 26, 2007
Kevin Young
March 13, 2007
Art Spiegelman
March 5, 2007
Mark Strand
February 27, 2007
Suzan-Lori Parks
February 7, 2007
Edwidge Danticat
January 8, 2007
Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate Change
December 5, 2006
Frank McCourt
November 21, 2006
Stephen King
November 1, 2006
Eric Carle
October 21, 2006
Frank Rich
October 9, 2006
Peter Matthiessen
April 25, 2006
Peter Gizzi, Tyehimba Jess, and Mary Ruefle
April 10, 2006
Tony Hoagland
April 4, 2006
Adrienne Rich
March 22, 2006
Robert Bly
March 6, 2006
Azar Nafisi
February 28, 2006
Paul Auster & Siri Hustvedt
January 23, 2006
Subhankar Banerjee, Terry Tempest Williams, & David Allen Sibley: Wilderness & Imagination
December 6, 2005
Alexander McCall Smith
November 14, 2005
Charles Jencks
November 2, 2005
Simon Winchester
October 19, 2005
Cynthia Ozick
September 21, 2005
Suheir Hammad, Alia Mamdouh, and Fadia Faqir: Women Writers of the Arab World on Art & Identity
May 10, 2005
Edward P. Jones
April 20, 2005
Maxine Kumin
April 11, 2005
W.S. Merwin
March 28, 2005
Ted Kooser
March 16, 2005
Adam Gopnik
March 2, 2005
Kay Ryan
February 16, 2005
Tracy Chevalier
February 9, 2005
Terrence McNally
January 24, 2005
Oliver Sacks
December 1, 2004
Chris Van Allsburg
November 21, 2004
Roddy Doyle
November 15, 2004
T.C. Boyle
October 5, 2004
Zelda, Scott, and Ernest: featuring Robert Stone, Calvin Trillin, and Mary Karr
May 9, 2004
Anne Fadiman
April 27, 2004
Carol Muske-Dukes
April 20, 2004
Paul Theroux
April 8, 2004
Ian McEwan
March 31, 2004
Charles Wright
March 30, 2004
Paul Muldoon
March 15, 2004
Ellen Bryan Voigt
February 23, 2004
Billy Collins
January 13, 2004
Garry Willis
December 1, 2003
Sandra Cisneros
October 27, 2003
Jeffrey Eugenides
September 29, 2003
Ira Glass
September 24, 2003
David Mamet
April 1, 2003
Andrea Barrett
March 11, 2003
Francine Prose
February 18, 2003
George Plimpton
January 21, 2003
Zadie Smith
November 12, 2002
Tim O’Brien
November 4, 2002
Seamus Heaney
October 7, 2002
Ursula K. Le Guin
April 8, 2002
Jorie Graham
April 1, 2002
Heather McHugh
March 25, 2002
Robert Creely
March 11, 2002
J. M. Coetzee
March 3, 2002
Cornelius Eady
February 25, 2002
Anchee Min
February 4, 2002
Writers on Writers: An Evening of Biography with James Atlas, Francine du Plessix Gray, and Edmund White
January 15, 2002
Edna O’Brien
November 27, 2001
Edward Albee
October 30, 2001
Stephen Jay Gould
October 3, 2001
Joan Didion
September 25, 2001
Sharon Olds
May 15, 2001
Terry Gross
April 24, 2001
Greil Marcus
April 2, 2001
Adam Zagajewski
March 21, 2001
Claudia Rankine & Matthew Rohrer
March 13, 2001
Gao Xingjian
February 24, 2001
Peter Carey
February 13, 2001
Marilynne Robinson
January 8, 2001
John Ridley
November 8, 2000
Jeanette Winterson
November 8, 2000
Ira Glass
October 28, 2000
Reynolds Price
October 2, 2000
Michael Ondaatje
May 22, 2000
Frank O. Gehry
May 15, 2000
The Century in Poems: Robert Hass, Linda Bierds, Richard L. Kenney, Alan Chong Lau, Colleen McElroy, and music by Brian Butler
April 23, 2000
Nathan Englander
April 12, 2000
Michael Cunningham & Amy Bloom
April 10, 2000
Frank Bidart
March 21, 2000
Susan Sontag
March 14, 2000
Ron Chernow
March 7, 2000
Anne Carson
March 6, 2000
Philip Levine
February 28, 2000
C.K. Williams
January 29, 2000
Elizabeth McCracken & Ann Patchett
January 10, 2000
Wole Soyinka
December 6, 1999
Jamaica Kincaid
November 15, 1999
Ursula Hegi
November 1, 1999
James Fenton
October 4, 1999
John le Carré
March 23, 1999
Barbara Kopple
January 5, 1999
Richard Ford
October 26, 1998
Ursula K. LeGuin
October 22, 1998
Charles Frazier & Kaye Gibbons
September 14, 1998
Chinua Achebe & Robert Lyons
May 11, 1998
Jules Feiffer
April 6, 1998
Frank McCourt & Mary Gordon
March 9, 1998
Julia Alvarez
February 19, 1998
Sherman Alexie, Cristina García, Gish Jen, & David Foster Wallace
February 2, 1998
The Poets Among Us: Sherman Alexie
February 2, 1998
Amos Oz
January 5, 1998
Orville Schell
December 8, 1997
Grace Paley & Anne Lamott
November 17, 1997
Don DeLillo
October 20, 1997
Elaine May
September 23, 1997
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
May 1, 1997
Maya Lin
April 14, 1997
Jim Harrison
March 3, 1997
Michael Ondaatje
January 9, 1997
Mary Karr
December 9, 1996
Antonia Fraser
October 28, 1996
Elmore Leonard
September 30, 1996
Edward O. Wilson
May 14, 1996
John Fowles
April 22, 1996
Salman Rushdie
January 23, 1996
Tim O’Brien
January 9, 1996
Anna Deavere Smith
December 11, 1995
Paul Theroux
October 25, 1995
Kazuo Ishiguro
October 16, 1995
David Sedaris
June 12, 1995
Bailey White
June 12, 1995
Nicholson Baker
May 8, 1995
Patrick O’Brian
April 25, 1995
A. S. Byatt
April 11, 1995
Edward Said
March 6, 1995
Robertson Davies
January 17, 1995
Lorrie Moore
December 12, 1994
Tony Hillerman
October 5, 1994
Saul Bellow
April 20, 1994
Tony Kushner
February 22, 1994
Margaret Atwood
February 3, 1994
Terry McMillan & John Edgar Wideman
January 11, 1994
Robert Hass
December 1, 1993
Czeslaw Milosz
December 1, 1993
Jan Morrison
October 20, 1993
Robert Hughes
May 7, 1993
Charles Johnson
April 13, 1993
Bill Buford
February 23, 1993
James Fenton
February 23, 1993
Hanif Kureishi
January 5, 1993
Dave Barry
November 17, 1992
Doris Lessing
November 10, 1992
Philip Roth
October 21, 1992
Joan Didion
September 21, 1992
John Gregory Dunne
September 21, 1992
Carolyn Heilburn
May 13, 1992
Jamaica Kincaid
May 5, 1992
Annie Dillard
April 28, 1992
Robert Coles
April 24, 1992
Toni Morrison
March 18, 1992
Maxine Hong Kingston
January 8, 1992
V. S. Naipaul
December 29, 1991
Garry Trudeau
November 19, 1991
William Styron
October 8, 1991
Jane Smiley
May 8, 1991
Eduardo Galeano
April 16, 1991
E. L. Doctorow
March 12, 1991
Jonathan Miller
February 28, 1991
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
February 12, 1991
Amy Tan
January 9, 1991
Wallace Stegner
November 28, 1990
August Wilson
October 3, 1990
Richard Ford & Tobias Wolff
May 31, 1990
Wendy Wasserstein
May 2, 1990
May Sarton
March 28, 1990
Andre Dubus
March 14, 1990
Brendan Gill
February 13, 1990
Peter Gay
January 10, 1990
Joyce Carol Oates
November 2, 1989
John McPhee
October 13, 1989
Rosamond Bernier
May 24, 1989
Louise Erdrich & Michael Dorris
April 12, 1989
Isabel Allende
March 14, 1989
Donald Barthelme
February 7, 1989
Calvin Trillin
January 11, 1989
John Updike
November 16, 1988