Katharine Strange specializes in questioning received wisdom with a wink and a smirk. She writes personal essays, short stories, novels, and now, memoir! Her work has appeared in The Seattle Times, The Stranger, OC87 Diaries, Literary Yard, ScaryMommy, and anthology The Pandemic Midlife Crisis: Gen X Women on the Brink. She was a 2021 Mainstage Storyteller for The Moth. Formerly she wrote a column for Fundamentally Free, a blog for Exvangelicals and heretics. She lives in south Seattle with her family and is represented by Savannah Brooks of Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency. As a rule, she never turns down champagne.
Join us in person or online, as the Jack Straw Reading Series continues for the 26th year, with a series of readings featuring new poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from the 2022 Jack Straw Writers. Poet and program curator Michael Schmeltzer will host three readings with the writers, in person in the studio and streamed […]
Categories: Writers Program
2024 May Reading Series: Night 1
with Josh Griffin, Elyse Hauser, Allison Masangkay, and McKenna Princing
Friday, May 3, 7:00pm
7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. $10 suggested donation.
Jack Straw Cultural Center
2024 May Reading Series: Night 2
with E.J. Batiste, Mary Pan, Becca Rose Hall, and Amontaine Aurore
Friday, May 10, 7:00pm
7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. $10 suggested donation.
Jack Straw Cultural Center
2024 May Reading Series: Night 3
with Jarrett Ziemer, Catherine DeNardo, Stacy Nathaniel Jackson, and Gabriel Moseley
Friday, May 17, 7:00pm
7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. $10 suggested donation.
Jack Straw Cultural Center
Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series
Jack Straw Writers Program alumni read new poetry. Hosted by Kathleen Flenniken.
Monday, June 3, 7:00pm
7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.
Jack Straw Cultural Center
An anthology and reading from Jack Straw Cultural Center and Raven Chronicles celebrating the first twenty years of the Jack Straw Writers Program, 1997-2016
