Seattle City of Lit

Book Review: “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change” by Angela Garbes (@agarbes @Harper_Wave @seacityoflit @EasternRegional) christinesunflower.com/2023/05/31/boo…

Q. What does @IowaCityofLit @RvkCityofLit @seacityoflit @EdinCityofLit and Odessa have in common? A: we've got applications from people in each of these places! #CitiesofLit

You're invited! @seacityoflit is hosting Heidelberg-based author Claudia Klingenschmid for a week-long residency, and she wants to meet some Seattle folks! Stop by Victrola Coffee on 15th this Tuesday (5/16) from 4-6 p.m & say "hallo". More on Claudia at: claudiaklingenschmid.com/biography

“convinced us to strip down to know nothing”

In honor of #AsianAmericanPacificIslanderMonth, Seattle’s Civic Poet @shinyupai and @KUOW launched “Ten Thousand Things,” a new podcast focused on the ordinary objects that tell extraordinary stories of Asian Americans living in the Pacific Northwest: link.chtbl.com/WhiP9eul

Applications to @SPLBuzz's Writers’ Room Residency are open. Intended to help individual writers with their projects while facilitating a supportive writing community, Writers’ Room Residents work in a variety of writing fields and genres: spl.org/hours-and-loca…

@folioseattle friends - we have a new #GiveBig 5K challenge match! Donate before midnight tonight and double your impact. Thanks to all who helped us reach our 10K match. #reading #librarytwitter #bannedbooks bit.ly/42lGGAN

Funded writing residency opportunity from the Caselberg Trust, open to writers resident in any of the UNESCO Cities of Literature. Work on a piece of creative writing & foster connections w/writers in Aotearoa New Zealand. D/l 14th April caselbergtrust.org/news/caselberg…

New release from @SwanIslePress: Someone Speaks Your Name Luis García Montero Tr. by Katie King press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book… @UChicagoPress swanislepress.com/?gs_bookshowca… @InstCervantes @lgm_com @KTKING @CervantesLondon @wwborders @Chicago_IC @seacityoflit @babelia_elpais @penguinrandom

Our CityArtist Grant for Seattle-based individual artists/curators is open. This cycle funds literary, media/digital/film (incl. screenwriting), and visual artists. Info also available in Amharic, Chinese, Korean, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese: #cityartist" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">seattle.gov/arts/opportuni…

Spotlighting recent work by Sesttle Civic Poet @shinyupai in celebration of #WorldPoetryDay

Happy #WorldPoetryDay everyone. Celebrate the changing season with a new poem by Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate: ow.ly/825U50NnCoV Plum Tree Among The Skyscrapers is the first in a collection of works inspired by #BlossomWatch and the arrival of spring.

Have you read literature laureate Rabindranath Tagore's 'Gitanjali'? 'Gitanjali' from 1910 is one of Tagore's most famous literary works. His poetry is felt to convey the peace of the soul in harmony with nature. #WorldPoetryDay

Happy #WorldPoetryDay! Let's embrace the beauty & diversity of poetry in all its forms! As we share these verses by Brazilian poet António Gonçalves Dias, whose 200th anniversary we celebrate this year, we invite you to share your favourite ones too. on.unesco.org/Poetry

“I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.” Love poems to the planets (which inspired Carl Sagan) themarginalian.org/2013/02/19/dia… #WorldPoetryDay

21 March is #WorldPoetryDay! Let's celebrate the power of #poetry to shake us from everyday life! 📝 on.unesco.org/Poetry

Happy #WorldPoetryDay! The Gaia Papers includes original writing by @UNESCO cities of literature Exeter & Devon, Melbourne, Nottingham, Heidelberg, and Leeuwarden. exetercityofliterature.com/current-projec…

Save the date! 📅 The CityArtist 2024 grant opens up in one week on Tuesday, March 28, at 8 a.m. (Pacific). This year's cycle is open to artists in literary, media/digital/film (including screenwriting), and visual arts. Learn more: bit.ly/ca_grant

Este evento es presentado en asociación por la @seacityoflit, #LaSala, @SeattleEscribe y la @SPLBuzz. eventbrite.com/e/poetry-for-l…

@MelCityofLit Yeah! DM me details.

Past @seacityoflit any chance to get a few maps sent over? Met a Seattle expat whose brain was blown when we told them about it