Read local and join us for a free virtual book launch with Seattle-based authors Corinne Manning, Kristen Millares Young, and E.J. Koh! After a brief reading, they will be joined by renowned writer Paul Lisicky, who will host a conversation about literary community and how the gifts writers offer can be transformed.

Join us for a virtual celebration of the extraordinary poetry, prose, and comics created during the 2019/20 school year! This digital gallery will feature our WITS students sharing work written throughout the Puget Sound region and Seattle Children’s Hospital, with special introductions from their WITS mentors—plus an array of student writing designed in high-quality, downloadable digital posters.

This event will be streamed online—click the “Learn More” button to see details. Min Jin Lee is the author of Pachinko, a sweeping, four-generation epic celebrated as the first novel written for an adult audience in English that focuses on Japanese-Korean culture. A finalist for the 2017 National Book Award in fiction, Pachinko is “a beautifully crafted story of love, loss, determination, luck, and perseverance” (Library Journal).

This event will be streamed online—click the “Learn More” button to see details. Carol Anderson’s viral op-ed for the Washington Post explored the concept of “white rage” after Ferguson, Missouri erupted in 2014. Her subsequent book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Her latest book, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy (2018), is an urgent history of voter suppression in America.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED. Each Moth Mainstage features simple, old-fashioned storytelling, by five wildly divergent raconteurs who develop and shape their stories with The Moth’s directors. Click below to see the line-up. Theme and remaining two storytellers to be announced soon!

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED. The illustrator, author, and designer behind The Principles of Uncertainty, And the Pursuit of Happiness, and many a New Yorker illustration, Maira Kalman’s multi-faceted projects are filled with a sense of wonder, humor, and beauty.

THIS EVENT HAS BEE N RESCHEDULED. Natalie Diaz is the author of two poetry collections: When My Brother Was an Aztec, which centers on her brother’s addiction to crystal meth, and Postcolonial Love Poem, forthcoming in 2020. Adrian Matejka calls When My Brother Was an Aztec “a spacious, sophisticated collection, one that puts in work addressing the author’s divergent experiences—whether it be family, skin politics, hoops, code switching, or government commodities.”