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WA, For All Location
Seattle, WA Pongo is a non profit organization that engages youth in writing poetry to inspire healing from traumas such as abuse, neglect, and exposure to violence.
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Middle Eastern, WA, South Asian, Asian, Persian Location
Bellevue, WA Community Focus
WA, American (US), Native American Location
Seattle, WA Raven Chronicles, a Seattle-based literary magazine and organization, began in 1991, when Kathleen Alcalá and Philip H. Red Eagle guest-edited several King County Arts Commission Newsletters. They recognized the lack of diverse, multicultural writing being published in Seattle and the Northwest region in general. The result of this collaboration has been a magazine that strives to reflect several sides of each topic, like a many-faceted bauble held up to the light by Raven.
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WA, Black Location
Seattle, WA Amontaine Aurore is a playwright, actor and performance artist. Having been drawn to creative expression from a young age, she is grateful for an evolving artistic path from which to explore her mind, create worlds and investigate the complexities of human nature. As an actress, she has performed on stages and sets in Seattle, Montana, Los Angeles and New York, and is the winner of a national acting competition sponsored by Inspirational Productions.
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WA, For All, Multicultural Location
Olympia, WA We believe we write our future with the stories we narrate, and we are committed to co-creating a more inclusive, connected, and just world. We envision a local community that honors, seeks out, and is shaped by the many histories, identities, and stories that reflect the people we are in this place.
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WA, For All Location
Roslyn, WA Oyez Roslyn! is a series of readings, verbal riffs, and pronouncements held in Roslyn, WA, where beer, wine, and conversation mix it up with pool, tie-die, and the occasional dog.
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African American, WA, American (US) Location
Seattle, WA “I am a Painter, an Author, and Filmmaker and a Community Social Justice Art Educator, focused on chronicling the African American diaspora.”
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WA, Hispanic, Indigenous, Latina/e/o/x, Nicaraguan, For All Location
Seattle, WA We are a community library and online bookstore with books focused on social justice, ethnic studies, and liberation movements. We invite everyone to use our library space as a community center; come cozy up with a book, learn about social justice, and connect with likeminded people. The space and books at our library are free to everyone and anyone.
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WA, For All Location
Seattle, WA Since 2003, Youth Speaks Seattle has been the city’s premier collective for youth spoken word poetry, creating avenues for youth voices through creative writing instruction and performance opportunities.
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WA, For All Location
Seattle, WA Hugo House is now a hub for a swelling community—one that is producing some of the nation’s most dedicated writers. Hugo House opened a brand-new home for writers in the fall of 2018, a place tailored to programs for writers and readers and dedicated to everyone who loves the art of writing.
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WA, For All Location
, WA In March 2004, King County Council Member Julia Patterson hosted a community luncheon to discuss the artistic and cultural vitality of South King County. Out of this the South King County Cultural Coalition, better known as SoCoCulture, was born.
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OR, American (US), Native American Location
Portland, OR Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. was founded in 1993 by the late Martin High Bear, Lakota medicine man and spiritual leader, and Rose High Bear, Deg Hit'an Dine (Alaskan Athabascan). Wisdom of the Elders office is located in Portland, Oregon.
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OR, Black Location
Portland, OR The Skanner is a website and newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Established in 1975, The Skanner News Group has advanced the cause of the Black Press in the North Western United States. Through the newspapers and the Web site The Skanner has provided regional and national corporate advertisers a variety of methods to effectively market their products and services to our readers.
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OR, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), For All Location
Portland, OR Literary nonprofit providing free creative writing workshops and publishing opportunities to those with the least access to the arts since 1999.
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American (US), Asian Location
New York, NY The Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW) is a national literary nonprofit dedicated to publishing, incubating, and amplifying work by Asian and Asian diasporic writers and artists. Since our founding in 1991, we have provided a countercultural literary space that operates at the intersections of migration, race, and social justice. At a time when migrants, women, people of color, Muslims, and LGBTQ people are specifically targeted, we offer a new countercultural community space in which to imagine a more just future.