WITS Voices: Stories in Progress
January 3, 2019
By David Lasky, WITS Writer-in-Residence The fourth graders in Mrs. Kahn’s and Mr. Moreno’s classes at Lowell Elementary are learning one of the most important, most vital skills practiced by huma...
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WITS Voices: Getting Around the Real
May 18, 2017
By Kelly Froh, WITS Writer-in-Residence I had an idea to engage my middle-schoolers with a series of curated exercises that would magically entwine, crossover, and accelerate their understanding of th...
WITS Voices: Teaching William Steig
February 17, 2017
By Greg Stump, WITS Writer-in-Residence Most people who know William Steig’s work think of him as the creator of classic children’s books like Shrek and Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. But in the ...
Helen Macdonald at Benaroya Hall: A Comic
February 16, 2017
By Greg Stump, WITS Writer-in-Residence This amazing comic was created by WITS Writer-in-Residence Greg Stump after he attended SAL’s Literary Arts Series lecture by memoirist, nature writer, an...
SAL Comics: Geraldine Brooks at McCaw Hall, by Greg Stump
February 11, 2016
Greg Stump is a WITS Writer-in-Residence at SAL and has been a regular contributor to The Stranger for more than a decade. He is the co-creator of the comic book series Urban Hipster, a former ...
Following In Her Own Footprints: Alison Bechdel’s Circles of Creativity
November 13, 2015
By Amelia Peacock, SAL Community Engagement Coordinator In one of A. A. Milne’s most iconic stories featuring everyone’s favorite “bear of very little brain,” Pooh and his best friend Piglet s...
“My Blankie,” by WITS Student Daniella Edwards
November 6, 2015
Daniella Edwards wrote this comic while a student at McClure Middle School in 2014-15, with WITS Writer-in-Residence Greg Stump.
Introductions: Alison Bechdel
On October 22 at Town Hall Seattle, SAL Executive Director Ruth Dickey introduced Alison Bechdel, the first author in SAL’s new Women You Need to Know series. When I came out to my family, in 1...
Myself in Translation: An Essay on Alison Bechdel
November 3, 2015
By Corinne Manning, WITS Writer-in-Residence This essay was first published on October 19, 2015 on LitHub, on the occasion of SAL’s program featuring Alison Bechdel in the 2015/16 Literary Arts...