Helen K. Thomas

Helen K. Thomas

Helen K. Thomas is from Seattle, WA by way of Lagos, Nigeria. She writes Young Adult fiction that illuminates the interiority of black girls as they navigate joy and pain and love and loss while living in the Pacific Northwest. Recently, she was part of the inaugural Tin House YA Fiction Workshop and is thrilled to be a 2020 Jack Straw Writers Fellow.

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The 2020 Jack Straw Reading Series – live from our homes in June!

May 12, 2020

The 24th annual Jack Straw Reading Series is adapting for our times, with a series of live-streamed events featuring new poetry, prose, fiction, and creative nonfiction from the 2020 Jack Straw Writers. Multi-genre writer and program curator Anastacia-Renee will host three readings with the writers from their homes, streamed live via Jack Straw’s Facebook page. […]

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Announcing the 2020 Jack Straw Writers

January 10, 2020

Curator Anastacia-Renée has selected the 2020 Jack Straw Writers! Our fellows this year are Rob Arnold, Ebo Barton, Jeffrey Cheatham II, Ching-In Chen, Elaina Ellis, Michelle Goodman, Maisha Manson, Wryly McCutchen, Troy Osaki, Helen Thomas, Jose Trejo-Maya, and Arianne True. These writers will be hard at work for the next few months writing and training […]

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Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series - virtual reading

With Lana Hechtman Ayers, Jamaica Baldwin, Danielle Bero, Sharon Carter, Larry Crist, Jory Mickelson, and Emily Pérez

Monday, November 18, 6:00pm

Join on Zoom at 6pm PDT. Free.

Jack Straw on Zoom

Josephine Ensign: Homelessness and the Meaning of Home

Jack Straw Writer Josephine Ensign talks about the historical roots of homelessness and lessons we can learn from them.

Tuesday, November 19, 7:00pm

7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.

Jack Straw Cultural Center

Jack Straw Writers at RASP Reading Series

Featuring Gabriel Moseley, Mary Pan, and McKenna Princing

Friday, November 22, 6:15pm

Reading starts at 6:30pm. Free.

Centro Cultural Mexicano

Putsata Reang: Resisting Erasure through Storytelling

Putsata Reang discusses the dangers of dwelling on differences and encourages audiences to share their personal stories as an antidote to erasure. 

Tuesday, December 3, 7:00pm

7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.

Jack Straw Cultural Center

Shin Yu Pai: Ten Thousand Things: Artifacts of Asian American Life

In this talk enriched by audio clips, Pai shares intimate stories from Asian American communities drawn from two seasons of her chart-topping podcast.

Tuesday, December 17, 7:00pm

7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.

Jack Straw Cultural Center

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20 Years of Jack Straw Writers: November 18, 2016

An anthology and reading from Jack Straw Cultural Center and Raven Chronicles celebrating the first twenty years of the Jack Straw Writers Program, 1997-2016

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