Book Launch

Writers in the Schools is looking forward to our first-ever book launch! Our annual anthology of student writing will be released at a book launch party on September 24.

Please join us for the party at the Seattle Public Library with the Washington Center for the Book!

Sunday, September 24
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Seattle Public Library Central Branch
1000 Fourth Ave.
FREE

The Universal Controversial Hive is a sleek volume of stunning prose, poems, and memoirs by 49 students from Seattle, Renton, and Tukwila public schools. Inspired by Pablo Neruda, Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros and others, by imagination and experience, "each poem, short story, and memoir in this book is buzzing with images, opinions, and emotions. Each piece is its own unique world—a distinct construct containing both sugar and sting." For the first time in WITS history, it will be for sale at local bookstores, including City Books on Madison.

Self-Portrait

Bold girl caught waving to firemen
Making friends with strangers
Eating cow tongue in Italy
Playing bongos at Bumbershoot

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I'll have to warn you
She is many things at the same time
She is wearing her huge ski jacket
And she's painting the rainbow
With her tongue
If you ask the sky where her head went
It will shrug and point to the clouds

—Sophia Hannaford

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