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Community Write-In with Marguerite Harrold

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our best teachers rotate on a monthly basis to bring you a range of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with

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Book Launch: Peter Bacho’s “Uncle Rico’s Encore” with Shawn Wong

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

In a new collection of autobiographical essays, Uncle Rico’s Encore, award-winning author Peter Bacho shares stories that illuminate the Filipino American experience. Bacho relates vivid stories of community, generational connection, defiance, and activism, including resistance to the union-busting efforts of the federal government and organizing for decent housing and services for elders. He also illustrates the

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Community Write-In with Dr. Zain Shamoon (Virtual)

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Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our best teachers rotate on a monthly basis to bring you a range of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with

Community Write-In with Marguerite Harrold

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our best teachers rotate on a monthly basis to bring you a range of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with

Free

Grasses Grasses Grasses: A Night of Poetry & Healing with Six Indigenous Poets

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

Join us for a reading borne out of a conversation between award-winning Ogala-Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier and MarginShift co-curator Thomas Ahneesan (Santee Sioux, Dakota Nation) about the mass graves of Indigenous children discovered recently in Canada. The evening will feature a sampling of North American Indigenous poets for a night of poetry and a

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Community Write-In with Lydia K. Valentine

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our best teachers rotate on a monthly basis to bring you a range of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with

Free

Ask a Historical Fiction Novelist with Elise Hooper

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

Join writer Elise Hooper for a free one-hour virtual Q&A session. Elise will offer some tips, tricks, and advice on the art and craft of writing a historical fiction novel. Come to the call with questions about your work-in-progress or for ideas about how to get started.

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Kids Write-In

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

Join us for creative inspiration and fun writing projects to try! Kids Write-In is a free, weekly writing circle for elementary school-aged youth who want to write independently or with the help of an adult. In each 40-minute session, students have the opportunity to read various styles of writing, discuss these with their peers, practice

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Write with Hugo House with Jeanine Walker (Virtual)

In this group, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts. The session will begin with introductions and a short warm-up, after which we’ll read two separate poems and write in response to those. At times writers will be invited to create community through sharing words or ideas with other writers in small groups. Attendees

Write with Hugo House with Jeanine Walker

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

In this group, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts. The session will begin with introductions and a short warm-up, after which we’ll read two separate poems and write in response to those. At times writers will be invited to create community through sharing words or ideas with other writers in small groups. Attendees

Free

Community Write-In with Lydia K. Valentine

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our best teachers rotate on a monthly basis to bring you a range of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with

Free

Reading: “A Prayer for a Non-Religious Autistic” with Lucas Scheelk

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

Join us for a virtual reading with Lucas Scheelk as they read from and share their latest work, A Prayer for a Non-Religious Autistic. Lucas' work is not afraid to be intimate with multilayered truths: a family history book for those who (in various ways) choose their own, a Jewish conversion story, disability advocacy, a

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Write with Hugo House with Alma GarcĂ­a (Virtual)

Our mission during this time of distraction, artistic fatigue, and social isolation is to create a regular time and space for writers to write and to meet each other. In this group, writers introduce themselves and are provided optional fiction, poetry and nonfiction prompts to work on for 60-70 minutes of sustained silent writing time,