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Thu 6/1, 2023, 6:00pm
Seattle Arts & Lectures presents
WITS Year End Reading and Celebration
Literary Work from Youth Writers Around the Puget Sound Region

Seattle Arts & Lectures cultivates transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations. Our Writers in the Schools (WITS) program places professional local writers in public elementary, middle, and high school school classrooms for extended creative writing residencies. Founded in 1994, the program has supported over 100,000 young people throughout the Puget Sound Region in discovering and developing their authentic writing and performance voices. Through WITS, students become authors of their own lives.Every year, WITS culminates in a program-wide reading and celebration of student work that features student readers from approximately 30 schools and Seattle Children’s Hospital. This year, elementary and middle school students will read on Wednesday, May 31, and middle and high school students read on Thursday, June 1.

About Seattle Arts & Lectures

Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL) cultivates transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations. Learn more about SAL programs here.

Presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures.

For questions about this event, please contact grajendran@lectures.org or call (206) 621-2230.

Thu 5/26, 2022, 6:00pm
Seattle Arts & Lectures presents
WITS Year End Reading and Celebration
Work from Young Writers Around the Puget Sound Region

WITS (Writers in the Schools), a program of Seattle Arts & Lectures, has been working with public K-12 schools throughout the Puget Sound region, bringing professional published poets, prose and comics writers to classrooms for extended creative writing residencies that help students become authors of their own lives. The WITS program culminates each year in a program-wide reading and celebration of student work that includes students from approximately 30 schools throughout the Puget Sound Region and Seattle Children’s Hospital.

To wrap up the 2021/22 WITS residencies, WITS students read from their work over two nights. Elementary and middle school students read on Wednesday, May 25, and middle and high school students read on Thursday, May 26.

About Seattle Arts & Lectures

Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL) cultivates transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations. Their Writers in the Schools (WITS) program places professional local writers in public elementary, middle, and high school classrooms, empowering young people to discover and develop their authentic writing and performance voices. Since 1994, the program has served over 100,000 students throughout the Puget Sound region. Learn more about WITS here.

Presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures.

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