SAL/ON

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Category: Ocean Vuong

A Comic from Ocean Vuong’s Event

June 15, 2021

If you’ve been following us for a while, you may know of Tessa Hulls, the “SAL Official Doodler” and author of the forthcoming graphic novel Feeding Ghosts (MCD Books, 2023). Tessa was recently honored with a 2021 Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust. On June 9, Tessa joined us to watch Ocean Vuong’s live and online-only […]

WITS Voices: Writing Letters We May Never Send

April 19, 2018

By: Minh Nguyen, WITS Writer-in-Residence I teach high school juniors and seniors, and for one writing lesson, we focus on the epistolary format. I ask them to think of a person for whom they have very strong, likely mixed feelings, and to write a letter to them that is so honest they may not be […]

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WITS Student Zia Agarwala wrote a poem called “Words to Remember” while attending Hamilton International Middle School with WITS Writer-in-Residence Sara Brickman. Last night Zia her beautiful poem to open for Billie Jean King. Read it on the SAL/ON blog: http://ow.ly/170b50Gc6bo

"Doerr’s excited by the prospect of speaking to a live audience when he comes to Seattle; it’s something he hasn’t done since February 2020. “I’m pretty sure I’ll cry,” he said, laughing." We're with you, Tony. Get your tissues, everyone!

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/pulitzer-winner-anthony-doerr-discusses-his-new-novel-the-timeless-power-of-books-and-more/

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Thank you for helping to raise $120,205 to send WITS writers back into classrooms! Your support ensures that our writers can continue to encourage students in discovering their voices & writing toward meaningful futures. We're so grateful! https://youtu.be/dB5k0VlZJcw

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On 9/28, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Anthony Doerr returns to SAL to talk about "Cloud Cuckoo Land," a novel about children on the cusp of adulthood searching for hope in a broken world. #SALDoerr
Tickets: http://ow.ly/x2OS50FSZGo
Partner bookstore: @ElliottBayBooks