Seattle has one of the most active literary communities in the nation. Several literary magazines are published here, including The Seattle Review and Crab Creek Review; David Shields, the acclaimed author of “The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead,” lives and gives readings here, as well as respected poets Rick Kenney and Cody Walker; and last year, Seattle came in first for combined word count during National Novel Writing Month’s annual write-a-thon.
Wait, what?
You’re probably not to blame if you didn’t know about any of that. It’s not easy to keep on top of the literary happenings in Seattle; writers seems to lack marketing skills in favor of having developed, well, writing skills. So if book readings and poetry slams won’t find you, you’ll have to find them.
Here’s a better idea: I’ll find them and tell you. I’ll use this blog to keep you abreast of things happening in the city related to prose and poetry; I’ll even let you know how some of them go if you can’t make it.
Writing is about picking the right words and putting them in the right order. When it comes to Seattle’s literary scene, this blog will help you pick and order what to attend.
