Northwest Native Writers Circle

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Grant Application Deadline January 31, 2025

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Please join us on May 16th, friends and relatives 💞 There aren't many tickets left but some *are* still available.

Settle in for a Night with ‘The Aunties: Women of the Salish Sea, Episode 2’ at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts - ThurstonTalk On Thursday, May 16, 2024, "The Aunties: Women of the Salish Sea" returns to the Washington Center for the Performing Arts.

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Next week Wednesday our $1000 Older Writers Grant opens to the public. If you are at least fifty years of age, and you're starting out on your writing career, then you are welcome to apply! It's free, easy, and straightforward! Visit bit.ly/olderwritersgrant to learn more about the grant and its guidelines.

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EDITING TO ADD: Hi, folks. SLF director, Mary Anne Mohanraj, here. This grant has received far more visibility than any of our other grants (that we've given for 20+ years, giving out over $100,000 in funds so far). I think that must be due to the conversation over this graphic pushing the post up in the Facebook algorithms. (Not a deliberate strategy on our part, I promise you!)

As a result, I suspect our volunteer jurors are going to get flooded with subs this time around, which will be an interesting challenge for us; we may need to take a little more time to read before announcing a winner this year. We'll see! Please be patient with us, and note that we're mostly volunteer run, with a few part-time staffers.

But let me take this opportunity to note that if you're eligible for this grant, you're probably eligible for other grants of ours -- at least the travel grant, which is open to all. We also have diversity grants, a working class writers' grant, and a S. Asian grant (given in memoriam of a father who loved literature). We hope you apply.

And if you're seeing this and are in a financial position to join as a member ($30 / year), details are on our website, and membership growth is the best way to help us continue giving out more grants into the future. I'd love to have a strong enough base that we could offer multiple Older Writers' Grants every year, for example. Something we're working towards. If you're interested in donating a larger sum towards a new grant, or towards one of our existing grants, please get in touch!

Do check out our other writerly offerings -- our podcast, interviews, and charted Deep Dives with writers, editors, game designers, and more. We periodically offer classes and workshops as well, so sign up for the newsletter to stay informed!

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We 💗 yəhaw̓ and everything the collective does. Go, Owen Oliver! In the course of and upon its completion this is going to be an exceptional offering ☺️

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Happy spring! We are excited to announce the launch of our Creative Residency program, where interdisciplinary Indigenous artists and thinkers will be invited to complete a site-responsive project on the land.

Our inaugural artist in residence is Owen Oliver (Quinault / Isleta Pueblo). Owen comes from the people of the Lower Columbia River, Salish Sea, and Southwest Pueblos of Isleta. He has a bachelor’s in American Indian Studies from the University of Washington and is currently pursuing a MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Owen has been drawn to writing as an outlet for creative expression since high school. But now, is strengthening his craft as a process of understanding and sharing landscape-learned knowledge of the Pacific Northwest through lyrical essays, poetry, and urban design. He recently published the Indigenous Walking tour of UW.

Owen will be composing a hybrid essay that amplifies the yəhaw̓ land through Salish & Chinook knowledge systems, wellness, language, and historical context. The essay will hone on the infancy of the plot and the reimagined futures of what kinship with the land looks like in urban Seattle.

We'll share more about this project and presentation this summer. You can also find more info on Owen's work at owenloliver.com.