SAL/ON

A Blog of Seattle Arts & Lectures

Category: McClure Middle School

WITS Voices: Poetry as Disruption

March 13, 2019

By Christina Lee Barnes, WITS Writer-in-Residence My first-ever WITS residency started off with a fire drill. I’d made it about halfway through my introduction when the loudspeaker cut me off with a garbled a reminder that students would file out to the field in the last ten minutes of class. Covert murmurs of excitement rippled […]

“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. She read it to open for Alison Bechdel, the first presenter in SAL’s Women You Need to Know series.

SAL on Twitter

12 Jan

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7 Jan

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6 Jan

This year, we're partnering with the @UWalum Book Club for our upcoming event with @charles_yu ~ their reading period for his novel, "Interior Chinatown," begins today! To read along or learn more about UW's book club events and discussions, visit: http://ow.ly/xuaR50H3oP5

5 Jan

Local Voices returns January 13! This free reading series presents a unique opportunity to eavesdrop on the works of SAL’s Writers in the Schools resident writers. These locally acclaimed storytellers come together to read from their works in progress: http://ow.ly/j0NN50H3q3I