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You Think Seattle Has a Lot of Writers Now? Just Wait.
Aspiring authors growing up in Seattle are in pretty good shape. They have 826 Seattle, Hugo Scribes
summer camps, and the longest running (as far as I know) kids' writing program, Writers in the Schools.
Last year alone, 5,000 local students got to work with visiting writers Ha Jin, Frank McCourt, Terry Tempest Williams, Adam Gopnik, Jack Prelutsky, and Pam Houston. I mean, how cool would it be to have the column you write for your high school paper critiqued by Adam Gopnik? Or to be an 8-year-old poet getting your start lines from Jack Prelutsky?
If you want a peek at Seattle's literary future—or you just want to support a group of smart kids who've worked really really hard, and whose writing was selected from hundreds of submissions—there's a launch party tonight at SAM for WITS' 2008-09 anthology, Wake Up in Brightness .
Seattle Art Museum, Plestcheeff Auditorium, 7 p.m., free.
Last year alone, 5,000 local students got to work with visiting writers Ha Jin, Frank McCourt, Terry Tempest Williams, Adam Gopnik, Jack Prelutsky, and Pam Houston. I mean, how cool would it be to have the column you write for your high school paper critiqued by Adam Gopnik? Or to be an 8-year-old poet getting your start lines from Jack Prelutsky?
If you want a peek at Seattle's literary future—or you just want to support a group of smart kids who've worked really really hard, and whose writing was selected from hundreds of submissions—there's a launch party tonight at SAM for WITS' 2008-09 anthology, Wake Up in Brightness .
Seattle Art Museum, Plestcheeff Auditorium, 7 p.m., free.
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