Crab Creek Review & Friends

Come together to share one of the best parts of literary community: hearing great works in a room full of readers and writers. It will be an evening of connection, exchanging ideas, and finding camaraderie with others looking to create and celebrate moving works. 

This event will feature several pillars of our literary community, including Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle Arts & Lectures, Kelsey Street Press, Poetry Northwest, Generous Press, and Crab Creek Review in a showcase of Pacific Northwest literary talent. Crab Creek Review will launch their new issue, and each contributing group will bring a few readers to share the stage!

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About Crab Creek Review

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.

About Jack Straw Culture Center

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.

About Poetry Northwest

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.

About Kelsey Street Press

Kelsey Street Press was founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers by small press and mainstream publishers. From the beginning, we linked our editorial policy to a poetics of allowance, encouraging women to write directly from their own creative imperatives, and to a poetics of inclusion that embraces racial and cultural diversity.

About Seattle Arts & Lectures

Seattle Arts & Lectures cultivates transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations.

About Generous Press

Generous Press acquires, edits, publishes, and sells lush, high-caliber romance fiction and other joyful content, centering LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and disabled love stories. Generous Press is an independent publishing startup already making an impact on the book industry, leading the conversation about the changing face of romance.

About Third Place Books

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