Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eli Sanders, ’24, comes back to lead The Stranger

November 5, 2026

No stranger to newsrooms

After studying law at the UW, Eli Sanders returns to The Stranger—where he won a Pulitzer Prize—now as the editor.

November 4, 2026

Arts events this fall

This fall, you can find art by UW alumni and faculty in public spaces, group shows and solo shows across Seattle and beyond.

October 22, 2026

Uncovering life's stories

Get to know Ronit Plank, who teaches a 10-week continuing education course on memoir writing at the UW.

October 16, 2026

Community builders

Three Seattle institutions—Common Area Maintenance, Northwest Folklife and The Royal Room—are centering community in their programming.

Art criticism for the masses

“Anybody can write about art,” says Kemi Adeyemi, founder of The Black Embodiments Studio, an arts organization rooted in bolstering the critical conversation around Black contemporary art.

Fighting conscious erasure

Former UW professor Scott Kurashige spotlights history and community organizing in "American Peril."

October 15, 2026

Beyond the frame

A UW Tacoma assistant professor shows her work at SUNY Binghamton this fall.

Fall media recommendations from Viewpoint

A podcast from a prison, a movie about a Chicano rock band, a memoir from a UW leader and a guide to health care inequity from a gynecologist comprise our media roundup.

Events calendar

A live piano performance, a lecture from a legend and a textile exhibition that confronts stereotypes are three events we're looking forward to this season.

October 5, 2026

From the science of regenerative farming, to a mystery novel set in the 1960s, to the middle-grade debut of "We Still Belong" author Christine Day, there might just be something for everyone on this list.

October 1, 2026

Myths, mortality and motherhood

Kristen Millares Young blends personal narrative with mythology and cultural inquiry in "Desire Lines."

September 14, 2026

Hacking history

An actor who can be “sweet as pie and lethal when necessary,” this UW School of Drama alum achieves the pinnacle of her long, lauded career.

September 9, 2026

Pioneering producer and documentarian

Jean Walkinshaw pushed boundaries throughout her 60-year career in television, letting people "tell their own stories in their own words."

The rest of the story

In her newest novel, Donna Miscolta, ’80, ’90, turns her creative gaze back to an earlier work of her own making.

September 8, 2026

Around the sound

Kara Patajo, ’19, is a travel blogger and author of “52 Weekends in the Pacific Northwest,” a collection of year-round travel destinations.

September 3, 2026

Leviathan rising

Photographer Eirik Johnson took to the Duwamish River on a small kayak to photograph the hulls of freight ships.

Poetry in public

Mateo Quispe, who was the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate from 2023–2024, is spreading their love of poetry with book nooks created by Muckleshoot Tribe carvers.

August 28, 2026