Crab Creek Review and Friends: Celebrating Seattle's Literary Community

Come celebrate literary Seattle! Join us for an evening of celebrating what is most essential about literature: truth-telling, community-building, and creativity as a response to challenge. This event brings together several pillars of our local literary community, including Hinton Publishing, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Moss, Poetry Northwest, and Crab Creek Review in a showcase of local literary talent.

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In print since 1983, Crab Creek Review is a literary journal dedicated to publishing the best new poetry and prose from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Crab Creek Review publishes in print twice a year and publishes our online issue, The Spring Crab, annually.

Hinton publishes books by authors who identify as part of an underinvited community, including but not limited to people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, individuals with disabilities, and individuals from low-income backgrounds. Hinton elevates the voices, work, and talents of authors from communities that have historically faced disadvantage, disregard, and marginalization. Our mission is to uplift and resurface work that inspires, fosters belonging, challenges convention, stimulates thought, provokes action, and entertains while informing. We recognize the immense power stories hold to transform. It’s a power we wish to broaden to those who have historically been excluded by the wider publishing industry.

Jack Straw Cultural Center is the Northwest’s only non-profit multidisciplinary audio arts center, dedicated to keeping art, culture, and heritage vital through sound. We work with emerging and established writers of all ages and backgrounds to write and present their work both on and off the page through our annual Writers, Artist Support, and Gallery residencies, and youth education programs. We provide additional support for writers and literary organizations through training, podcasts, media preservation, events, and office space. We have been committed to encouraging individuals to find their voices and tell their stories since founding the Northwest’s first community radio station, KRAB-FM, in 1962.

After more than 60 years, Poetry Northwest remains committed to publishing the best in contemporary poetry, especially work willing to take risks and push readers to the emotional and intellectual edge of what poetry makes possible. Edited and published on the lip of the Pacific Rim, the magazine is a place where poems, visual arts, and cultural commentary are orchestrated to bring a robust awareness and investigation of this complex life to the printed page. Our mission to employ equitable editorial practices runs parallel to our mission to publish the most exciting poetry we can find.

Moss is a literary journal of writing from the Pacific Northwest. Published annually, Moss is dedicated to showcasing the region's outstanding writers and bringing their work to the broadest possible audience.

Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events

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