• 4Culture
  Offers financial support for public cultural programs.
• 826 Seattle
  Writing and tutoring center dedicated to helping youth improve their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.
• Artists Trust
  "Dedicated exclusively to supporting Washington State artists working in all creative disciplines."
• Bent: A Writing Institute
  Beginner and advanced writer workshops for multiple literary genres.
• Cascadia Community College Continuing Education
  Offers writing and literature classes.
• Centrum
  Offers classes and workshops for youth and adult writers.
• Field's End
  Offers workshops, classes, and lectures on various writing genres as well as an annual conference.
• Hedgebrook
  A retreat on Whidbey Island serving women authors of all ages, ethnicities, backgrounds, writing genres, and levels of writing experience.
• Jack Straw Productions' Writers Program
  Introduces "local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to encourage the creation of new literary work; and to present the writer and their work in live readings, in this anthology, on the web, and on broadcast radio."
• Out of the Margins
  Literary arts weekly workshops (poetry and short stories to bookarts and drama) offered by a partnership between Real Change and the Seattle Public Library.
• Paul G. Allen Family Foundations: Arts and Culture
  "Fosters creativity and promotes critical thinking by supporting projects that feature innovative and diverse artistic forms and by helping strong arts organizations become more sustainable."
• Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project
  Works with teens who are in jail, on the streets, or in other ways leading difficult lives, to express themselves through poetry and other forms of writing and publish annual anthologies of their work.
• Puget Sound Writers Guild
  Offers classes and critique groups to local aspiring novelists.
• Richard Hugo House
  Offers classes, contests, and mentors for youth and adult writers.
• SPLAB: Northwest Spoken Word Lab
  Offers classes, workshops, and performances.
• University of Washington Extension Program
  Offers many writing and literature classes.
• Urban Wilderness Project
  Provides culturally and environmentally based service-learning projects for youth and adult participants. Note their Griot Works and Restoration Works programs with a literary slant.
• Washington Center for the Book
  "Devoted to celebrating the written word and to encouraging the exchange of ideas evoked by literature and the humanities."
• Whidbey Island Writers Association
  Offers classes to improve your craft, find new inspiration and meet other local writers.
• Washington State Arts Commission
  "Cultivates a thriving environment for creative expression and appreciation for the arts for the benefit of all."
  
• The Writer's Workshop
  Offers online and in-person classes on various genres of writing.
• Youth Speaks
  Works to empower the next generation of leaders, artists, and activists through written and oral literacies, and challenging youth to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of social change.

See also: Literary Events & Conferences