Available from Washington State Council of Teachers of English, 1121 Scrivner Rd., Port Angeles, WA 98362.

Centrum
Sponsor of the Port Townsend Writers' Conference, Centrum is a non-profit organization founded in 1973. The conference, which is 30 years old, presents workshops, readings, and events every summer. Centrum is located at historic Fort Worden State Park in the Victorian seaport of Port Townsend, WA.

Inland Northwest Center for Writers
The Eastern Washington University MFA program offers a number of special programs. Of particular note are Writers in the Community and the secondary emphasis in literary editing and design. Writers in the Community is a project which places MFA students as creative writing teachers in public schools, alternative schools, hospitals, corrections facilities, factories, halfway houses, nursing homes, and other locations throughout the Spokane area.

The Northwest Spoken word Lab
SPLAB is an intergenerational spokenword performance, resource and outreach center based in Auburn that offers workshops to improve writing and performance skills, hosts writing circles, and sponsors programs for youth, including a teen slam (SPLAM!). The center also sponsors reading by visiting writers.

Richard Hugo House
Richard Hugo House is a vibrant, all ages-and-backgrounds, literary place in Seattle. Hugo House holds a theater, café, classrooms, offices for independent publishers, writer-in-residence offices, resource library, zine archive, and publishing center.

Temple School of Poetry
The Temple School of Poetry is located in a loft apartment/communal space of 4500 square feet in The Temple building in Walla Walla. It provides ample space for all manner of presentations by poets.

Bumbershoot
Literary Arts at Bumbershoot in Seattle includes writers, essayists, slam artists, panel discussions and a small press bookfair. From young writers from local middle schools to award-winning novelists, Bumbershoot Literary Arts showcases more than 50 authors, spoken word artists and profound performers for four days of literary daredevilry and discourse.

It's About Time Writers Reading Series
One Thursday a month, Seattle writers and teachers speak on craft and read from their work at the Ballard Library, in Seattle. The series runs throughout the year.

Blue Begonia Press
Blue Begonia Press began publishing poetry books in 1991, and currently publishes two to three titles a year. The press has published about a dozen books combining handmade and computer technologies called Working Signs. Contact Blue Begonia Press by mail at 225 So 15th Ave, Yakima, Wa 98902, or call (509) 452-9748.

Copper Canyon Press
Copper Canyon Press was founded in 1972 in the belief that good poetry is essential to the individual spirit and a necessary element in a thriving culture. The Press publishes poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to its authors, editorial acumen, and dedication to expanding the audience of poetry. Since 1974, the Press has been in residence with Centrum, a nonprofit arts agency, at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, Washington.

Crab Creek Review
A literary journal with a strong Northwest flavor, which is published in Vashon.

Willow Springs
Willow Springs was founded in 1977 and has become an internationally known literary journal.The journal earned the prestigious Citation of Excellence for Editorial Vision. Published at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, Willow Springs offers students the opportunity for real editorial work and influence on the design and composition of the magazine, which is published twice yearly. Email willow.springs@mail.ewu.edu for more information.

Wave Books
An independent poetry press founded in 2005, Wave Books is devoted to "publishing strong innovative work and encouraging our authors to expand and interact with their readership through nationwide readings and events, affirming our belief that the audience for poetry is larger and more diverse than commonly thought."

Eastern Washington University
The Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University is located in Spokaneand offers a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing or a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a Creative Writing emphasis. The program offers writing workshops, literary studies, and form and theory courses in poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.

Hedgebrook
Hedgebrook is a publicly funded, not-for-profit retreat for women writers of all ages and from all cultural backgrounds. Overlooking Puget Sound on Whidbey Island in Washington state, the Hedgebrook community seeks through principles of land stewardship to balance human needs with those of the earth while providing a nurturing environment in which creativity can thrive. In a setting of meadow, forest, and garden, six cottages house individual writers. The cottages create a place for stories, poems, novels, plays, essays, and films to emerge and form a small village of working writers. The retreat provides privacy and solitude for residents to work during the day; in the evenings a community exists in which to share ideas and work.

University of Washington
The University of Washington English Graduate Program offers a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Students participate in writing workshops in fiction and poetry, and undertake coursework in literary periods and types, and critical theory.