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Our Commitment to Our Community

February 5, 2025

Dear friends of Jack Straw, In these times when our rights, freedoms, livelihoods, and abilities to express ourselves are being made more and more precarious, the Jack Straw board and staff want to state openly that we are an organization and place where everyone is welcome and accepted for who they are. We openly reaffirm […]

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Announcing the 2025 Jack Straw Writers

January 28, 2025

This year’s Writers Program Curator, Kathleen Alcalá, has selected the 2025 Jack Straw Writers: Mateo Acuña, Hillary Behrman, Asha Dore, Makayla Danielle Gay, Jenny Harrington, Bill Hollands, Sigrun Susan Lane, Nhatt Nichols, Monique Ouk, Jason Prokowiew, Mia Tong, and Connor Watkins-Xu. Our writing fellows will be hard at work for the next few months writing […]

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Apply now for our 2025 Artist Residencies!

July 25, 2024

THE JACK STRAW ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMS offer established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs. Artists may apply to only one program per year. Writers Program Deadline: Thursday, October 31 […]

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The Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series

April 4, 2024

The Jack Straw Writers Program is still going strong in its 28th year, and we are proud of the work our program alumni continue to produce. The Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series is a chance to catch up with some of our poet alumni and celebrate their recent books. We are amazed – and yet […]

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Announcing the 2024 Jack Straw Writers

January 5, 2024

This year’s Jack Straw Writers Program Curator, Nisi Shawl, has selected the 2024 Jack Straw Writers! We’re thrilled to welcome our new writing fellows: Amontaine Aurore, E.J. Batiste, Catherine DeNardo, Josh Griffin, Becca Rose Hall, Elyse Hauser, Stacy Nathaniel Jackson, Allison Masangkay, Gabriel Moseley, Mary Pan, McKenna Princing, and Jarrett Ziemer. Our writing fellows will […]

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Announcing Summit Sound, a public audio gallery at the Seattle Convention Center

December 19, 2023

Jack Straw is thrilled to announce Summit Sound, an audio gallery at the new Seattle Convention Center Summit Building on Pine St. Summit Sound was envisioned by the SCC Art Program as “an outdoor space where residents and visitors can immerse themselves in one of our region’s revered creative disciplines–sound.” As the new home to […]

Wooden bench and platform adjacent to a glass and metal building in the background. Speakers mounted on black columns over the bench.

Categories: Art and Heritage Partnerships, Artist Support Program, Writers Program, Youth Education Programs

Apply now for the 2024 Jack Straw Artist Residencies!

August 8, 2023

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Jack Straw Writers and Artists at AWP 2023!

March 6, 2023

The annual AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Conference is coming to Seattle this week, and you will have many opportunities to see and hear Jack Straw Writers and Artists reading and talking about their work, both at the conference and at countless public offsite events around the city. In addition, Jack Straw will […]

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Congratulations to the 2023 Jack Straw Writers!

January 5, 2023

This year’s Writers Program Curator, 2009 Jack Straw Writer Priscilla Long, has selected the 2023 Jack Straw Writers! We’re thrilled to welcome our new writing fellows: Jim Cantú, Hana Choi, Brian Dang, Geri Gale, Stephen Reed Griggs, Garfield Hillson, Nancy Mburu, David Rea, Carla Shafer, Sumu Tasib, Kaitlyn Teer, and Julene Tripp Weaver. Our writing […]

Portrait of Priscilla Long, smiling, with shelves of books behind her.

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Announcing the 2023 Jack Straw Writers Program Curator

September 14, 2022

Priscilla Long is the 2023 Jack Straw Writers Program Curator! Priscilla is a Seattle-based writer of poetry, creative nonfiction, science, history, and fiction, and a long-time independent teacher of writing. Her seventh book is Dancing with the Muse in Old Age (Coffeetown, 2022). Her two poetry books are Holy Magic (MoonPath Press) and Crossing Over: […]

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