Sign the Seattle City of Literature Petition

You know that Seattle is one of the most creative cities in the world. It's time to let the rest of the globe know. With your voice, we will. Please add your signature to our petition expressing support for our 2015 bid to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a City of Literature. It'll take less than a minute:

I support Seattle's City of Literature bid!

Previously, we asked for your expressions of support to Seattle City Council and Mayor Murray. Thanks in large part to your emails, we were able to forge a partnership with Seattle's Office of Intergovernmental Relations, which manages our Sister Cities programs. We're now working closely with the OIR to prepare our bid. Democracy in action!

Reykjavík Writing Jam

I think it’s fair to say the Reykjavík Writing Jam, October 10 at Elliott Bay Book Company, was a smashing success. Many thanks and þakka þér to authors Bragi Ólafsson and Karen Finneyfrock, Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature, Iceland Naturally, ZAPP Zine Archive & Publishing Project, Elliott Bay Book Company for hosting, Sabrina Wilbert for manning the mailing lists, Samudre Media for the video, and most of all to the capacity crowd who made this first Seattle City of Literature event instantly legendary. Let’s do it again next year, with T-shirt cannons and a full band!

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New Video: CityStream from Seattle Channel

The Seattle Channel, which previously produced a video of our City of Literature gathering at Town Hall in March has produced another slick-looking clip for their program CityStream, hosted by Penny LeGate. Interview subjects include City Councilmember Nick Licata, Elliott Bay Book Company’s Rick Simonsen, Hugo House’s Tree Swenson, Seattle Public Library’s Chance Hunt and me. Many thanks to the Seattle Channel for the coverage (after the jump).

To clarify two points that come up in the video, while I can: 1) We’re now working on getting designated in 2015; we won’t be designated this November, and 2) More than one city can get designated at a time.