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May 31, 2023 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces 2022/23 Youth Poet Laureate Sah Pham’s Book Release
June 14, 2022 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces 2021/22 Youth Poet Laureate Zinnia Hansen’s Book Release
June 13, 2022 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces 2022/23 Season Featuring Masha Gessen, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Amor Towles, Isabel Wilkerson & More
May 5, 2022 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Connie Walker’s Event Has Moved to Next Season
March 29, 2022 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Venue Change for Richard Powers
February 1, 2022 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces New Date for Michael Schur
January 21, 2022 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Format & Time Change for Ed Yong
January 7, 2022 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Format Change for Bernardine Evaristo: Event Will Be Online-Only
December 2, 2021 — Comedy Television Creator Michael Schur Joins Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2021/22 Season
November 3, 2021 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Indigenous Literature and Land-Based Pedagogy Workshop with Laura Da’
October 25, 2021 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces New Date for Jelani Cobb
October 21, 2021 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Names Rebecca Hoogs as New Executive Director
July 27, 2021 — Added to Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2021/22 Season: Billie Jean King, Patrisse Cullors, Sonya Renee Taylor, Peter Wohlleben, & Ed Yong
June 7, 2021 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces 2021/22 Season Featuring Louise Erdrich, Cathy Park Hong, Daniel James Brown, Richard Powers, & More
May 28, 2021 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces 2020/21 Youth Poet Laureate Bitaniya Giday to Publish Her First Book in June 2021
March 25, 2021 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Names Ijeoma Oluo and Jack Straw Cultural Center as 8th Annual Prowda Literary Champions
March 5, 2021 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Ibram X. Kendi, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Mary Roach, & Ocean Vuong Will Be Live at 6 PM (PDT) & Online Only
February 18, 2021 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Ibram X. Kendi Event Changes
February 10, 2021 — Luvvie Ajayi Jones Joins Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2020/21 Season
January 5, 2021 — Bill Gates Joins Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2020/21 Season
December 3, 2020 — ‘Black Futures’: A Timeless Capture of What it Means to be Black and Alive—South Seattle Emerald
December 1, 2020 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Winter Events Will Be Online-Only
November 9, 2020 — Seattle Arts & Lectures & Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas Present Black Futures with Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham
August 14, 2020 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Yaa Gyasi Event to Be Online-Only
August 13, 2020 — Tana French to Join Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2020/21 Season
June 16, 2020 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces 2020/21 Season Featuring Yamiche Alcindor, Madeline Miller, Ibram X. Kendi, Ocean Vuong, & More
June 2, 2020 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Date Change for The Moth Mainstage
May 27, 2020 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces 2019/20 Youth Poet Laureate Wei-Wei Lee to Publish Her First Book on June 9, 2020
May 6, 2020 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Date Change for Natalie Diaz
April 24, 2020 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces May and June Events Moved Online
April 9, 2020 — Seattle Arts & Lectures and The Seattle Public Library Announces Seattle Walk Report Cartoonist to Illustrate Summer Book Bingo
April 2, 2020 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Online Event With Elizabeth Kolbert on 50th Anniversary of Earth Day
March 2, 2020 — In the Dream House: A Writer’s Journey Through and Past Abuse—KUOW
February 7, 2020 — Her Creativity and Other Inspirations—TeenTix
February 5, 2020 — SAL Names Books to Prisoners and Amy Wheeler, Outgoing Executive Director of Hedgebrook, As Seventh Annual Sherry Prowda Literary Champions
January 28, 2020 — In ‘Tightrope,’ Pulitzer-winning writers examine the woes of the U.S. working class in their hometown—The Seattle Times
January 22, 2020 — Reporters who broke Harvey Weinstein story to speak at Benaroya Hall—The Seattle Times
January 9, 2020 — In her haunting memoir, Carmen Maria Machado tackles abuse in queer relationships—The Seattle Times
June 30, 2019 — Student voices shine through Seattle Arts & Lectures program—KUOW
June 3, 2019 — “Make it as intimate as possible:” Solmaz Sharif at Seattle Arts & Lectures—Poetry Northwest
May 15, 2019 — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Malcolm Gladwell among Seattle Arts & Lectures speakers in 2019-20 season—The Seattle Times
February 11, 2019 — SAL Names Claudia Castro Luna and Hugo House as Sixth Annual Sherry Prowda Literary Champion Winners
February 1, 2019 — Tara Westover Joins Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2018/19 Season
January 30, 2019 — Melinda Gates Joins Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2018/19 Season
October 19, 2018 — Phoebe Robinson Gets Real About Confidence, Honesty and Writing in Her Own Way—The Seattle Times
October 19, 2018 — Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on ‘Leadership: In Turbulent Times’ and lessons for the Trump Era—The Seattle Times
October 19, 2018 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Comes To Central—The Seattle Collegian
August 2, 2018 — SAL Announces 2018/19 Season Featuring Alice Walker, Barbara Kingsolver, Van Jones, & More!
February 16, 2018 — Madeleine Albright to Join Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2017/18 Season
December 15, 2017 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Event with Daniel Pink, March 5
July 7, 2017 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Additions to Their 30th Anniversary Season
June 15, 2017 — NEA Approves $25,000 Grant for Seattle Arts & Lectures to Support Writers in the Schools
June 14, 2017 — SAL Announces 2017/18 Youth Poet Laureate and Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador
May 18, 2017 — Seattle Arts & Lectures and The Seattle Public Library Present the Third Year of Summer Book Bingo, a Reading Program for Adults
May 4, 2017 — SAL Receives Major Support from M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust for “Bridge to 30” Capital Project
April 25, 2017 — Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces 30th Anniversary Season to Feature Ron Chernow, Isabel Allende, Colson Whitehead, & More
February 23, 2017 — SAL Announces 2017 Prowda Literary Champion Award Winners