Sorting Room Residency Reading
Thursday, February 2, 2017, 7PM
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122
Seattle7Writers presents a reading by Bill Carty, Wilson Diehl, and Rachel Kessler
2016 Writers-in-residence at The Sorting Room
In the residency's inaugural year, S7W was fortunate to attract these three talented writers to The Sorting Room residency, so named for the work-storage space used to sort book donations for S7W’s Pocket Library* program. Modest in its trappings, this space gives writers who need it a quiet place to do their work in exchange for help with the program. The writers will each read from work created while in residence. S7W cofounder Jennie Shortridge emcees.
Thanks to the Amazon Literary Partnership for making this writer’s residency possible.
*S7W's Pocket Library program re-homes gently used books in shelters, food banks, correctional facilities, and other places with readers in need of books. To date, over 70,000 books have been donated.
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122
Seattle7Writers presents a reading by Bill Carty, Wilson Diehl, and Rachel Kessler
2016 Writers-in-residence at The Sorting Room
In the residency's inaugural year, S7W was fortunate to attract these three talented writers to The Sorting Room residency, so named for the work-storage space used to sort book donations for S7W’s Pocket Library* program. Modest in its trappings, this space gives writers who need it a quiet place to do their work in exchange for help with the program. The writers will each read from work created while in residence. S7W cofounder Jennie Shortridge emcees.
Thanks to the Amazon Literary Partnership for making this writer’s residency possible.
*S7W's Pocket Library program re-homes gently used books in shelters, food banks, correctional facilities, and other places with readers in need of books. To date, over 70,000 books have been donated.
2016 Writers in Residence
Bill Carty has received poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Artist Trust, the Richard Hugo House, the Sorting Room, and Jack Straw. He is the author of Huge Cloudy (forthcoming, Octopus Books) and the chapbook Refugium (Alice Blue Books). His poems have recently appeared (or will soon) in the Boston Review, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Willow Springs, Conduit, and other journals.
Wilson Diehl has an MFA from the University of Iowa in Creative Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Teachers & Writers Magazine, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She’s lived in Seattle since 2002.
Rachel Kessler’s essays, poems, cartoons, videos, and visual art have appeared in The Stranger, Narrative Magazine, Literary Hub, Poetry Northwest, The Open Daybook, forthcoming Ghosts of Seattle Past, and public restrooms throughout Washington State. Kessler is cofounder of poetry performance collaborations Typing Explosion and Vis-à-Vis Society. She is currently working on a community cartography project called “Profanity Hill: A Tour of Yesler Way.” rachelkessler.org
