Hello Seattle!

Can’t wait to see so many alumni (with at least twenty appearing on panels)

as well as our some of our beloved organizational partners

in the next few jam-packed days!

MARK YOUR SCHEDULE!

SATURDAY — MARCH 11, 12:10pm — 331 SUMMITT

50 YEARS OF SUPPORTING GIFTED POETS & WRITERS

Join us as we kicking off our year-long series of events celebrating our momentous history, as one of the longest-running multidisciplinary residencies in the world. Four of our gifted writing alums will read excerpts from their work, share their experiences of the residency, speak about the legacy of Vincent as well as Norma Millay Ellis (the founder of the residency commemorating her maverick sister) and answer questions from the audience.

ANI GJIKA — August 2022, Nonfiction

Ani Gjika is an Albanian-born writer, literary translator, educator, and author of eight books and chapbooks of poetry. Her translation from the Albanian of Negative Space (New Directions, 2018) was a PEN Award finalist and shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize. She is an English PEN winner, NEA fellow, Robert Pinsky Global Fellow, and her forthcoming memoir is the recipient of 2021 Restless Books’ New Immigrant Writing Prize.  Click HERE for more.

STACY NATHANIEL JACKSON — October 2021, Poetry

Originally from Los Angeles, is a trans writer and artist of African American and Filipino descent. He is a Cave Canem poetry fellow, recipient of an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, and recipient of Millay Arts Vincent Prize in 2021. His work has been published or forthcoming in Electric Literature, Foglifter, The Georgia Review, New American Writing and elsewhere. His debut novel The Ephemera Collector is forthcoming from Liveright. Click HERE for more.

JOAN NAVIYUK KANE — July 2021, Poetry

Inupiaq poet Joan Naviyuk Kane grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, Alaska. She earned a BA at Harvard University and an MFA at Columbia University. Click HERE  for more.

ANNIE LIONTAS — May 2021, Fiction

Annie Liontas’ debut novel, Let Me Explain You (Scribner), was featured in The New York Times Book Review as Editor’s Choice and was selected by the ABA as an Indies Introduce Debut and Indies Next title.  She is the co-editor of the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors.  Annie’s work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Gay Magazine (Best of 2019), BOMB, Guernica, McSweeney’s, and Ninth Letter, and she is a contributor to Tolstoy Together: Reading War & Peace with Yiyun Li.  Her informed memoir, Sex with a Brain Injury, (Scribner) is out in 2024. Click HERE for more.