Seattle City of Lit

UNESCO Seattle City of Literature. Promoting and fostering what makes our city a City of Literature. DM us your awards & opps for local writers.

[eBook Dynasty @eBookDynasty]

Book Review: “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change” by Angela Garbes (@agarbes @Harper_Wave @seacityoflit @EasternRegional)

https://t.co/LooiY4qKrs

[City of Literature @MelCityofLit]

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

[NW Translators & Interpreters @notis_net]

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: https://t.co/SukNvOqTTX

[Seattle City of Lit @seacityoflit]

“convinced us to strip down to know nothing”

[Shin Yu Pai (白 欣玉) @shinyupai]

As part of my work as Civic Poet with @SeattleArts , I'm curating 30 days of Seattle poetry for @KUOW during #NationalPoetryMonth. Today's featured poet is Nadine Maestas. https://t.co/gFhT4V4k7a

[Seattle Office of Arts & Culture @SeattleArts]

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: https://t.co/qxgvOR9doU

[Seattle Office of Arts & Culture @SeattleArts]

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: https://t.co/rYq0c4qbq0

[Folio Seattle @folioseattle]

@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
https://t.co/pZ5fohNYHR

[Aki Schilz @AkiSchilz]

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 https://t.co/AFFtA1B4Lt

[Swan Isle Press @SwanIslePress]

New release from @SwanIslePress:

Someone Speaks Your Name
Luis García Montero
Tr. by Katie King
https://t.co/elQNANUYFM @UChicagoPress
https://t.co/NJ9zuzuuoG @InstCervantes @lgm_com @KTKING @CervantesLondon @wwborders @Chicago_IC @seacityoflit @babelia_elpais @penguinrandom

[Seattle Office of Arts & Culture @SeattleArts]

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: https://t.co/24w6wRlEc2

[Seattle City of Lit @seacityoflit]

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

[Shin Yu Pai (白 欣玉) @shinyupai]

My last installment of work with Khôra just published. Thanks to @LeighHereNow for publishing my work. https://t.co/2baimzxF6f

[National Trust @nationaltrust]

Happy #WorldPoetryDay everyone. Celebrate the changing season with a new poem by Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate: https://t.co/QsDekFedZV

Plum Tree Among The Skyscrapers is the first in a collection of works inspired by #BlossomWatch and the arrival of spring.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

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.

#WorldPoetryDaHave 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.

#WorldPoetryDaHave 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.

#WorldPoetryDaHave 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

[UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 @UNESCO]

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.

https://t.co/ygsuIzTfzC

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“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) https://t.co/W3idmVc0Un #WorldPoetryDay

[UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 @UNESCO]

21 March is #WorldPoetryDay!

Let's celebrate the power of #poetry to shake us from everyday life!

📝 https://t.co/ygsuIzTfzC

[Seattle City of Lit @seacityoflit]

Happy #WorldPoetryDay!

The Gaia Papers includes original writing by @UNESCO cities of literature Exeter & Devon, Melbourne, Nottingham, Heidelberg, and Leeuwarden.

https://t.co/7P8ZuztlD1

[Seattle Office of Arts & Culture @SeattleArts]

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: https://t.co/1Vyk9jjo4Z

[MariaVictoria-Author @MariaLVictoria]

Este evento es presentado en asociación por la @seacityoflit, #LaSala, @SeattleEscribe y la @SPLBuzz.
https://t.co/ncf7wOEQcu

[Seattle City of Lit @seacityoflit]

@MelCityofLit Yeah! DM me details.