Community (Local) Literature: Local Services

Local Services

Find local writing workshops, retreats, classes, and funding opportunities..

4Culture
Offers financial support for public cultural programs.
Artist Trust
"Dedicated exclusively to supporting Washington State artists working in all creative disciplines."
Centrum
Offers classes and workshops for youth and adult writers.
The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas
Writing and tutoring center dedicated to helping youth improve their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.
Hedgebrook
A retreat on Whidbey Island serving women authors of all ages, ethnicities, backgrounds, writing genres, and levels of writing experience.
Jack Straw Writers Program
Introduces "local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to encourage the creation of new literary work; and to present the writer and their work in live readings, in this anthology, on the web, and on broadcast radio."
Puget Sound Writers Guild
Offers classes and critique groups to local aspiring novelists.
Richard Hugo House
Offers classes, contests, and mentors for youth and adult writers.
SPLAB: Northwest Spoken Word Lab
Offers classes, workshops, and performances.
Washington Center for the Book
"Devoted to celebrating the written word and to encouraging the exchange of ideas evoked by literature and the humanities."
Washington State Arts Commission
"Cultivates a thriving environment for creative expression and appreciation for the arts for the benefit of all."
The Writers Workshop
Offers online and in-person classes on various genres of writing.
Youth Speaks
Works to empower the next generation of leaders, artists, and activists through written and oral literacies, and challenging youth to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of social change.