From Seattle’s writers’ community hub, Hugo House: Introducing Misty Mint Magazine! Misty Mint Magazine is a fresh new literary journal run primarily by students from the Hugo House Young Writers Cohort (with some support from the Hugo House Youth Programs team!) and was founded with inspiring youth voices in mind. For our first issue, Misty Mint Magazine is accepting …
This is a horror book that will pull you and won’t let you go until long after you finish it. This story has so much heart, empathy and compassion. Not to mention a quirky POV from a very religious cat named Olivia. If you’re new to the horror genre, this is a good place to …
Seattle’s Book-It Repertory Theatre’s 30th season continues with The Turn of the Screw, adapted from the 1898 horror novella by Henry James. Adapted by Rachel Atkins and directed by Carol Roscoe, this production dives into the darkest corners of James’s most famous and haunting story, asking audiences to question who they trust and whose version of events …
Like many children who suffer from an abundance of imagination and a shortfall of social skills, I was always on the lookout for a door into a more magical world. Narnia, Middle Earth, Starfleet, Sherwood Forest– I wasn’t picky. Anywhere with spaceships, swordfights, or telepathic dragons would do. Reality stubbornly refused to provide me with …
The “Tiny Beautiful Things” play, adapted by Nia Vardalos from the book by Oregon author Cheryl Strayed, will be appearing on stages around the country. Strayed posted on her social media: …Chicago, Massachusetts, Colorado (in three different cities!), Michigan, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Newport, Oregon, Fernandina Beach, Florida, or Washington, D.C. … More cities to come, …
From patch.com by Neal McNamara SEATTLE, WA — There’s a new effort underway to resurrect the L.E.M.S. Life Enrichment Bookstore, which was once the only black-owned bookstore in Washington. L.E.M.S. owner Vickie Williams died on March 3, 2017, and the store had to sell off its inventory to pay down bills. But the store, located …
In palm-sized notebooks, I collect phrases that won’t go away, lines that arrive in the tunneling moments before sleep or while washing dishes or as I’m descending the last hill home as dusk is arriving. Sometimes, these unbidden words act as a door into a story or chapter or even a promising scene. Other times, …
What is Seattle? Anyone who has lived here more than a year has watched the city transform under our feet, as it has many times before. The three creators of Seattleness use their expertise in design, architecture, and geography to turn our ideas of Seattle inside-out again and again on the page. See our familiar …
reprinted from Shelf Awareness Pro, February 25, 2016 Seattle City of Literature has appointed Stesha Brandon as its interim executive director. Her role will be to strengthen the organization, lead the upcoming bid to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, and initiate a comprehensive search for a permanent executive director. Seattle has been invited to …
They say write what you know. And when you grow up in the Pacific Northwest what you know is rain. Days that begin and end with grey skies and that misty drizzle we all know so well, the kind that clings to your eyelashes and paints your clothes with its damp dew. Our suede boots …
