Join Big Brothers Big Sisters and the South Sound Reading Foundation for our 2nd annual Trick-or-Read Drive Thru at our Olympia office. This is a completely FREE event for all community families–you do not need to be a part of […]
Gather ‘round the spooky virtual campfire on Friday, Oct 29 at 5pm on Zoom as local spec fic writer Aigner Loren Wilson reads from her two new releases: Plagued Company & Other Stories and to be haunted. A collection of short stories and […]
Blue Cactus Press presents a night of live reading, performance, and giant puppetry. Moss Covered Claws Live adapts the short story “Boggy” from Olympian author Jonah Barrett’s debut book, Moss Covered Claws, released March 2021 by Blue Cactus Press. Author […]
Ready to spring into online learning? Senior Services for South Sound’s Virtual Senior Academy Spring Quarter registration is open! This quarter we have 8 fantastic online courses to deepen your learning and help you gain a better understanding of the […]
By Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS In June, Lakewood Playhouse will host a staged reading of a play based on the best-selling novel The Eagle Tree by Olympia novelist Ned Hayes as a special presentation of the Northwest Playwrights Alliance. […]
by Ned Hayes for OLY ARTS “Books by the Bay,” an annual music-and-literary party, will fill the Port Plaza on July 28. The event, which expands every year, is a fundraiser for the activities of the 16-year-old South Sound Reading […]
by Christina Butcher for OLY ARTS Few authors can boast having worked as a porter, jujitsu fighter, lawyer and translator in their short lifetime, nor can most say they’ve lived in such diverse places as Indonesia, Japan, Nepal or the […]
Anna Badkhen writes about people in extremis, exposing the world’s iniquities by honoring the lives these iniquities most affect. Her investigation into what it means to live in the Global South has yielded five books of lyrical nonfiction, most recently […]
by Molly Gilmore for OLY ARTS Consider those impassioned poems about the state of the world—poems that are being not simply read but performed—that one sees all over social media. That socially conscious, brutally honest poetry is also happening in […]
by Jonah Barrett for OLY ARTS This summer Olympia will host a number of authors and writers at events ranging from book signings to story readings. Literary enthusiasts are encouraged to come out and lend their support to the written […]
