
Events at SAL
Upcoming Events

Rick Riordan: In-Person & Online
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
SAL Presents
For fifteen years, Rick Riordan taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay and in Texas. Today, he is a beloved novelist for young readers, with over 190 million copies of his books in print worldwide from the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, to the Trials of Apollo, and many more. In this SAL Presents event, Riordan returns to his first beloved epic series with Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods, to delight dedicated fans and entice new readers alike. All tickets, with the exception of a limited number of Pay What You Can tickets, include a copy of Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods, shipped to the ticket holder’s door by our partner bookstore, Elliott Bay Book Company. All books will be pre-signed, there will be no signing line after the event. Q&A with Donna Barba Higuera. Please note: This event has a 6:30 p.m. start time to better accommodate families.

Jane Hirshfield: In-Person & Online
Monday, October 2, 2023
Poetry
Iconic poet Jane Hirshfield addresses the urgent immediacies of our time in her long-awaited The Asking, which assays the full ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and our responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensions of perception; the willing plunge into an existence both perishing and beloved, recognized in these poems as dazzling, “even now, even here.” All Poetry Series, Create Your Own Series, and Super SAL subscribers receive a copy of The Asking, shipped to their doors by our partner bookstore, Open Books. Please note: complimentary subscriptions and single tickets do not include the book.

Oliver Jeffers: In-Person & Online
Thursday, October 5, 2023
SAL Presents
In his first illustrated book created specifically with a wider audience in mind, the iconic Northern Irish artist Oliver Jeffers gives a very brief history of humanity, reviews our current position, and shares his dreams for where we go from here. All tickets, with the exception of a limited number of Pay What You Can tickets, include a copy of Begin Again: The Story of How We Got Here and Where We Might Go shipped to the ticket holder’s door by our partner bookstore, Queen Anne Book Company. Q&A with Julia Kuo.

Barbara Kingsolver: In-Person & Online
Monday, October 16, 2023
Encore
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Barbara Kingsolver is lauded as one of the most celebrated novelists of our time. With her latest novel, Demon Copperhead, Kingsolver takes on David Copperfield as her inspiration for a story following one boy through the mountains of Southern Appalachia. Reckoning with institutional poverty, opioid addiction, and class divides visible and unseen, Kingsolver’s voice resonates with the truth of loving a place others will hardly believe exists. Kingsolver will appear in conversation with Ruth Dickey, the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. Single tickets and Create Your Own Series subscriptions, with the exception of a limited number of Pay What You Can tickets, include a copy of Demon Copperhead, shipped to the ticket holder’s door by our partner bookstore, University Book Store. Encore Series subscriptions do not include the book.

Indigenous Literature & Land-Based Pedagogy Workshop with Laura Da’
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Community
Landing in Spaces of Learning: Celebrating Literacy and Care in the Classroom and Introducing Place as a Foundational Element of Learning Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is Eastern Shawnee. Her first book, Tributaries, was published by the University of Arizona Press and won a 2016 American Book Award. Da’ has held residencies at the Richard Hugo House, Tin House, and Jack Straw. Her newest book, Instruments of the True Measure, is the winner of the Washington State Book Award. Da’ lives near Seattle with her husband and son. This professional development is designed to combine Indigenous literature and writing with land-based pedagogy. The intention for this training is to offer practical content and strategies that are suitable for all students and to encourage open discussion about how to meaningfully incorporate Indigenous literacy and tenants of land-based pedagogy in diverse learning settings.Educators will leave this class with a bundle of teaching resources including suggested readings, activities, thinking strategies, engagement techniques, and culturally responsive standards alignment. Additionally, each professional development will address one institutional challenge and pose thinking strategies to address it. This professional development workshop will include: Creative writing and thinking prompts to engage with place and season Classroom ready discussion strategy to encourage noticing and building on observations Classroom ready reading and writing strategy to encourage visual thinking Consideration of an institutional challenge: How to reframe decontextualized foundations of learning from outside the land to a place informed approach and alternatives to institutional hierarchies of worldview Connection to other content areas: SEL strategies Resources and places to learn more This two-hour workshop will fulfill OSPI’s Continuing Education clock hours (2) for all state educators, and meets the requirements for ongoing Racial Equity Training for teacher certification.

Mary Beard: In-Person & Online
Friday, October 27, 2023
Literary Arts
In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before. All Literary Arts Series, Create Your Own Series, and Super SAL subscribers receive a copy of Emperor of Rome, shipped to their doors by our partner bookstore, University Book Store. Please note: complimentary subscriptions and single tickets do not include the book.

Viet Thanh Nguyen: In-Person & Online
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Encore
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life in A Man of Two Faces. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, Nguyen expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. All Encore Series, Create Your Own Series, and Super SAL subscribers receive a copy of A Man of Two Faces, shipped to their doors by our partner bookstore, Elliot Bay Book Company. Please note: complimentary subscriptions and single tickets do not include the book.

Trust For Public Land & SAL Present: An Evening with the Full Circle Everest Team
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Community
Join Trust for Public Land and SAL for a free community event with the Full Circle Everest Team, the first all-Black team to summit the highest mountain on earth. Full Circle lead Philip Henderson and mountaineer Demond “Dom” Mullins will join TPL’s Northwest Director, Mitsu Iwasaki, to amplify a national conversation about inclusion and equity in outdoor recreation.

David Brooks: In-Person & Online
Monday, November 20, 2023
SAL Presents
David Brooks, one of the nation’s leading writers and commentators, delivers a practical, heartfelt guide in How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. In order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives, Brooks digs into the essential conversations and questions of any community or relationship: how do we feel seen? Q&A with award-winning author Timothy Egan. All tickets, with the exception of a limited number of Pay What You Can tickets, include a copy of How to Know a Person, shipped to the ticket holder’s door by our partner bookstore, University Book Store.

Steve Inskeep: In-Person & Online
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Literary Arts
As the host of NPR’s Morning Edition for almost two decades, Steve Inskeep has mastered the art of bridging divides and building constructive debate in interviews. In Differ We Must, his new nonfiction, he brings his skills to bear on a prior master, forming a fresh and compelling narrative of Abraham Lincoln’s life and expanding our understanding of a politician who held strong to his moral compass while navigating between corrosive political factions. All Literary Arts Series, Create Your Own Series, and Super SAL subscribers receive a copy of Differ We Must, shipped to their doors by our partner bookstore, Secret Garden Books. Please note: complimentary subscriptions and single tickets do not include the book.

Murmurations: Local Voices Taking Flight
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Community
This four-part reading series features acclaimed poets, writers, and comics artists who teach in SAL’s Writers in the Schools program. These resident writers come together to read from their own works-in-progress, inspiring the same craft and performance skills they teach in the classroom. Free (no RSVP necessary; just come)

Murmurations: Local Voices Taking Flight
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Community
This four-part reading series features acclaimed poets, writers, and comics artists who teach in SAL’s Writers in the Schools program. These resident writers come together to read from their own works-in-progress, inspiring the same craft and performance skills they teach in the classroom. Free (no RSVP necessary; just come)

A Conversation with Deb Perelman: In-Person & Online
Thursday, January 25, 2024
J. Kenji López-Alt Presents
Deb Perelman is the self-taught home cook and photographer and the creator of the award-winning blog SmittenKitchen.com. The author of three cookbooks, most recently Smitten Kitchen Keepers, Perelman is hailed as one of the original food bloggers and beloved for her endlessly comforting, faithfully tested recipes. She will be joined in conversation by J. Kenji López-Alt, our Community Curated Series director.

Kristin Hannah: In-Person & Online
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
SAL Presents
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, novelist Kristin Hannah presents a tantalizing new novel spun with sisterhood, commitment, and the idea of home. Delving into the story of one woman gone to war, The Women shines a light on the story of all women who put themselves in harm’s way to help others and whose sacrifices have all too often been forgotten.

Joy Harjo: In-Person & Online
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Literary Arts
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022, the first Native American to receive the honor, and she is the winner of Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. Harjo has written ten books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years, several plays and children’s books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior.

Roger Reeves & Anastacia-Reneé: In-Person & Online
Monday, March 4, 2024
Poetry
Join us for a double-feature with two stunning poets! Roger Reeves is the author of Best Barbarian, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Anastacia-Reneé, a Seattle literary legend, is a queer writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, podcaster, and the author of Sidenotes from the Archivist. All Poetry Series, Create Your Own Series, and Super SAL subscribers receive a copy of Best Barbarian, shipped to their doors by our partner bookstore, Open Books. Please note: complimentary subscriptions and single tickets do not include the book.

Indigenous Literature & Land-Based Pedagogy Workshop with Laura Da’
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Community
Root Systems: Forest Canopies, Understories, and Floors of Language Learning Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is Eastern Shawnee. Her first book, Tributaries, was published by the University of Arizona Press and won a 2016 American Book Award. Da’ has held residencies at the Richard Hugo House, Tin House, and Jack Straw. Her newest book, Instruments of the True Measure, is the winner of the Washington State Book Award. Da’ lives near Seattle with her husband and son

A Conversation with Eric Kim: In-Person & Online
Thursday, March 14, 2024
J. Kenji López-Alt Presents
Join J. Kenji López-Alt and New York Times staff writer and essayist, Eric Kim. Kim is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home, and he has amassed a devoted following with his NYT Cooking videos and Food52 column.

Murmurations: Local Voices Taking Flight
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Community
This four-part reading series features acclaimed poets, writers, and comics artists who teach in SAL’s Writers in the Schools program. These resident writers come together to read from their own works-in-progress, inspiring the same craft and performance skills they teach in the classroom. Free (no RSVP necessary; just come)

Matthew Desmond: In-Person & Online
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Literary Arts
In his landmark book, Poverty, By America, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem—and also helps us imagine solutions. In his follow up to Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Desmond investigates why the United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?

Victoria Chang: In-Person & Online
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Poetry
Victoria Chang has garnered acclaim with her collection Obit and her nonfiction exploration Dear Memory. Her new collection of poetry, With My Back to the World, is inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief with Chang’s signature taut language and brilliant imagery.

Gabrielle Zevin: In-Person & Online
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Literary Arts
Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Hailed as a “tour de force” by Ron Charles of the Washington Post, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow has found both critical and commercial success, named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, and Oprah Daily.

Terrance Hayes: In-Person & Online
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Poetry
So to Speak, a powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead, reminds us of the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling. On the one hand, these fabulous fables, American sonnets, quarantine quatrains, and ekphrastic do-it-yourself sestinas animate what Toni Morrison called “the writerly imagination of a black author who is at some level always conscious of representing one’s own race.” On the other hand, these urgent, personal poems contemplate fatherhood, history, and longing with remarkable openness and humanity. So To Speak is the mature, restless work of one of contemporary poetry’s leading voices.

A Conversation with Pailin Chongchitnant: In-Person & Online
Thursday, May 9, 2024
J. Kenji López-Alt Presents
Join Cordon Bleu-trained chef Pailin Chongchitnant for an evening of Thai cooking discussion with J. Kenji López-Alt! In addition to hosting the sensational Youtube channel Pailin’s Kitchen with 1.7 million subscribers, Chongchitnant is the author of two definitive Thai cookbooks, Hot Thai Kitchen and Sabai: 100 Simple Thai Recipes for Any Day of the Week.

Luis Alberto Urrea: In-Person & Online
Monday, May 20, 2024
Encore
Hailed by NPR as a “literary badass” and a “master storyteller with a rock and roll heart,” Luis Alberto Urrea is a prolific and acclaimed writer who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph. Urrea’s newest book, Good Night, Irene, takes as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service.

Murmurations: Local Voices Taking Flight
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Community
This four-part reading series features acclaimed poets, writers, and comics artists who teach in SAL’s Writers in the Schools program. These resident writers come together to read from their own works-in-progress, inspiring the same craft and performance skills they teach in the classroom. Free (no RSVP necessary; just come)

WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration: Elementary & Middle Schools
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Youth Programs
Bring a listening ear and a joyful spirit to the WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration! Every year, WITS culminates in a program-wide reading and celebration of student work that features student readers from approximately 30 schools and Seattle Children’s Hospital. This year, elementary and middle school students will read on Wednesday, May 29, and middle and high school students read on Thursday, May 30. This event is free and open to the public.

WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration: Middle & High Schools
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Youth Programs
Bring a listening ear and a joyful spirit to the WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration! Every year, WITS culminates in a program-wide reading and celebration of student work that features student readers from approximately 30 schools and Seattle Children’s Hospital. This year, elementary and middle school students will read on Wednesday, May 29, and middle and high school students read on Thursday, May 30. This event is free and open to the public.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: In-Person & Online
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Literary Arts
From National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honoree, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s hotly anticipated debut novel Chain-Gang All-Stars has swept the bestseller charts. In this explosive novel, two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own. From the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black, Adjei-Brenyah paints a dystopian world blazingly close to our own.
Archive

Ann Patchett in Conversation with Melinda French Gates: In-Person & Online
September 6, 2023

2022/23 Youth Poet Laureate Release
June 13, 2023

WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration: Middle & High Schools
June 1, 2023

WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration: Elementary & Middle Schools
May 31, 2023

The Moth Mainstage: In-Person & Online
May 25, 2023

Local Voices: In-Person & Online
May 24, 2023

A Conversation with Tom Hanks: In-Person & Online
May 17, 2023

A Conversation with Louise Penny: In-Person & Online
May 15, 2023

Connie Walker: In-Person & Online
May 8, 2023

Pico Iyer: In-Person & Online
May 2, 2023

A Conversation with James Spooner: In-Person & Online
April 20, 2023

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
April 19, 2023

Masha Gessen: In-Person & Online
April 17, 2023

Chris Abani: In-Person & Online
April 3, 2023

Indigenous Literature & Land-Based Pedagogy Workshop with Laura Da’
March 30, 2023

A Conversation with Michelle Zauner: In-Person & Online
March 30, 2023

Local Voices: In-Person & Online
March 28, 2023

Ruth Ozeki: In-Person & Online
March 18, 2023

A Conversation with Jason Reynolds: In-Person & Online
March 13, 2023

Kate Baer: In-Person & Online
March 2, 2023

On Being: Krista Tippett with Isabel Wilkerson—In-Person & Online
February 15, 2023

Reginald Dwayne Betts: In-Person & Online
February 9, 2023

Ross Gay: In-Person & Online
February 6, 2023

Amor Towles: In-Person & Online
January 31, 2023

An Evening with Razelle Benally, Tania Larsson & Migizi Pensoneau: In-Person & Online
January 23, 2023

Local Voices: In-Person & Online
January 18, 2023

Jenny Xie: In-Person & Online
January 17, 2023

Patti Smith: In-Person & Online
December 2, 2022

An Evening with Pete Souza: In-Person & Online
November 29, 2022

Indigenous Literature & Land-Based Pedagogy Workshop with Laura Da’
November 17, 2022

An Evening with Nigella Lawson: In-Person & Online
November 13, 2022

Rick Steves: In-Person & Online
November 10, 2022

James Welch Prize Reading: In-Person & Online
November 3, 2022

Local Voices: In-Person & Online
November 1, 2022

Jon Meacham: In-Person & Online
October 30, 2022

John Irving: Online-Only
October 26, 2022

A Conversation with Julian Aguon: In-Person & Online
October 19, 2022

A Conversation with Celeste Ng: In-Person & Online
October 17, 2022

A Conversation with Maggie O’Farrell: In-Person & Online
October 11, 2022

Abdulrazak Gurnah: In-Person & Online
September 20, 2022

A Celebration of Alice Wong’s Year of the Tiger: Online-Only
September 15, 2022

Maribel Morey and Megan Ming Francis on White Philanthropy
September 12, 2022

The Persuaders: A Conversation with Anand Giridharadas—Online Only
September 8, 2022

Science + Literature: Reading the Natural World
June 8, 2022

Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Showcase
May 28, 2022

WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration: Middle & High Schools
May 26, 2022

WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration: Elementary & Middle Schools
May 25, 2022

The Moth Mainstage: In-Person & Online
May 18, 2022

Local Voices: In-Person & Online
May 9, 2022

Natalie Baszile: In-Person & Online
May 5, 2022

Sonya Renee Taylor in Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo: In-Person & Online
May 2, 2022

Richard Powers: In-Person & Online
April 19, 2022

Don Mee Choi: In-Person & Online
April 7, 2022

Abolition. Feminism. Now.—A Conversation About the Politics & Practice of Abolition Feminism
April 6, 2022

Local Voices: In-Person & Online
March 29, 2022

Daniel James Brown: In-Person & Online
March 15, 2022

Mira Jacob: In-Person & Online
March 8, 2022

Michael Schur in Conversation: In-Person & Online
March 4, 2022

Charles Yu: In-Person & Online
February 15, 2022

Ed Yong: Online-Only
February 10, 2022

Becoming Abolitionists–A History of Failed Police Reforms & Vision for True Public Safety
February 3, 2022

Cathy Park Hong in Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo: In-Person & Online
January 28, 2022

Bernardine Evaristo: Online-Only
January 24, 2022

Local Voices: Online
January 13, 2022

2021 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Winter Reading
December 11, 2021

A Conversation with Lucy Bernholz & Vu Le: Online-Only
December 8, 2021

Rita Dove: Online-Only
December 3, 2021

Peter Wohlleben in Conversation: Online-Only
November 16, 2021

Louise Erdrich: Online-Only
November 10, 2021

Jelani Cobb: In-Person & Online
November 7, 2021

Sherwin Bitsui & Kenzie Allen: Online-Only
November 5, 2021

Patrisse Cullors in Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo: Online-Only
October 27, 2021

Lauren Groff: In-Person & Online
October 17, 2021

Kaveh Akbar: In-Person & Online
October 15, 2021

Anthony Doerr: In-Person & Online
September 28, 2021

Billie Jean King: Online-Only
September 23, 2021

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation & How the Cost of Policing Underfunds Us All
September 21, 2021

Maggie Nelson in Conversation with Danzy Senna: Online-Only
September 14, 2021

Ocean Vuong: Live & Online-Only
June 9, 2021

Dorothy Brown’s “The Whiteness of Wealth”—Free & Online-Only
June 8, 2021

Alberto Ríos: Online & Pre-taped
May 28, 2021

The Moth Mainstage: Live & Online-Only
May 21, 2021

Local Voices: Live & Online-Only
May 12, 2021

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

A Conversation about The Sum of Us: Live & Online
March 29, 2021

Local Voices: Online
March 23, 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

Local Voices: Online
January 13, 2021

Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Winter Reading
December 13, 2020

SAL & CD Forum Present: Black Futures with Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham
December 2, 2020

Local Voices: Online
November 19, 2020

Yaa Gyasi: Online
November 16, 2020

Yamiche Alcindor: Online
November 10, 2020

Seattle Youth Poet Laureate: Fall Reading
October 29, 2020

Launched: Kathleen Flenniken, Tiffany Midge, & Donna Miscolta
October 14, 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

20/21 Youth Poet Laureate Release
June 9, 2020

WITS Year‑End Celebration: A Digital Gallery
June 8, 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

Local Voices: Online
May 12, 2020

Local Voices: Online
April 27, 2020

Elizabeth Kolbert: Online
April 22, 2020

Local Voices
February 10, 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

Local Voices
November 6, 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

WITS Anthology Reading & Celebration
September 22, 2019

Naomi Shihab Nye
September 19, 2019

Imbolo Mbue
June 7, 2019

Solmaz Sharif
June 3, 2019

WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration: Middle & High Schools
May 30, 2019

WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration: Elementary & Middle Schools
May 29, 2019

Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Showcase
May 25, 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

Local Voices
April 24, 2019

Valeria Luiselli
April 17, 2019

A Celebration of National Poetry Month
April 16, 2019

Tara Westover
April 14, 2019

Ilya Kaminsky
April 1, 2019

Local Voices
March 11, 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

Local Voices
January 16, 2019

Danez Smith
November 26, 2018

Pete Souza
November 11, 2018

Local Voices
November 5, 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

WITS Anthology Reading & Celebration
September 16, 2018

WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration: Middle & High Schools
May 31, 2018

WITS Year-End Reading & Celebration: Elementary & Middle Schools
May 30, 2018
Youth Poet Laureate Commencement
May 26, 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

Local Voices
April 25, 2018

National Poetry Month at Seattle Children’s
April 25, 2018

Madeleine Albright
April 24, 2018

Questlove on Creativity
April 20, 2018

A Conversation with Lidia Bastianich
April 13, 2018

Youth Poetry Open Mic: Welcoming National Poetry Month
April 8, 2018

WITS Broadsides Reading at Jack Straw
April 7, 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

Local Voices
January 23, 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

Local Voices
November 8, 2017

Ta-Nehisi Coates
November 5, 2017

Ron Chernow
October 18, 2017

Stephanie Burt
October 9, 2017

Janet Mock
October 4, 2017

2017 WITS Anthology Reading & Celebration
September 24, 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

Local Voices
April 26, 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

Local Voices
January 18, 2017

Emily St. John Mandel
November 23, 2016

Marina Abramović
November 18, 2016

Rachel Zucker
November 14, 2016

Local Voices
November 1, 2016

Nick Offerman
October 28, 2016

Timothy Egan
October 26, 2016

Bryan Cranston
October 16, 2016

Ada Limón
October 5, 2016
WITS Breakfast
September 27, 2016

Ann Patchett
September 19, 2016

Annie Proulx
June 23, 2016

The Moth Mainstage
May 18, 2016

Claudia Rankine
May 13, 2016

Local Voices
April 27, 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

Local Voices
January 20, 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

Local Voices
November 3, 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
WITS Breakfast
September 17, 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

WITS Breakfast
September 17, 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

Jeanette Winterson
November 8, 2000

John Ridley
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

The Poets Among Us: Sherman Alexie
February 2, 1998

Sherman Alexie, Cristina García, Gish Jen, & David Foster Wallace
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

Bailey White
June 12, 1995

David Sedaris
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

James Fenton
February 23, 1993

Bill Buford
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