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ARTICLES
April, 2009, Seattle’s Child Magazine: Behind the walls of the tiny, not-so-serious Greenwood Space Travel Supply Company in Seattle, seriously amazing stories are coming to life…
February 2009, City Arts Magazine: One enters the 826 Seattle writing center through the front door of Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co., a business that advertises rooftop parking…
January 27, 2009, The Stranger: Even for someone who doesn’t necessarily believe that children are intrinsically interesting, it was completely adorable…
January 20, 2009, Seattle Times: Give everybody, the homeless included, $10 a day. Stop the Iraq war and use the money to help schoolkids…
January 18, 2009, Seattle PI: Asked to write a letter to the president-elect, 7-year-old Avante Price came up with a lot of questions…
November 6, 2007, Seattle PI: Dave Eggers, in his quiet and unassuming way, has become a publishing colossus. In 1999, his best-selling memoir with its mouthful of irony…
November 6, 2007, Seattle Times: It’s up to you how you handle this thing.You can write letters seething with frustration with Seattle Public Schools. You can cite the school closures…
October 11, 2007, The Daily: One wouldn’t think, when walking past a space travel supply store, that hidden inside was a nationally renown and highly respected…
September 17, 2007, Seattle PI: Writing lab 826 Seattle, which provides creative-writing coaching and instruction to youth, will get 10 percent of the $250,000 recently awarded its founder…
September 5, 2007, Ballard News Tribune: On display in the window of the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. are…
January 20, 2007, Seattle PI: In the windows of Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. are cans of Dark Matter brand rocket fuel, a box labeled “Gravity” and a full-sized chrome rocket bike straight from the 1950s…
December 2006, Seattle Metropolitan: . . .Six months ago when you spied a dude with a mustache you pegged him for a porn star, a fireman, or over 55…
November 2006, Seattle Magazine: 826 Seattle founder Teri Hein is honored as one of the city’s 26 most influential people…
November 2, 2006, The Stranger: 826 Seattle workshop participant Rose Fredericks makes her publishing debut with an article on Lemony Snicket….
October 4, 2006, The Seattle Weekly: I used to think all teenagers were like me: completely unmotivated and worthless…. So naturally, when Sub Pop’s regional publicist Joan Hiller and I were asked to teach a music writing workshop to teenagers last year at 826 Seattle…it was apparent I had vastly underestimated them….
September 28, 2006, The Seattle Weekly:…We rarely publish these sorts of things verbatim, but then again, we rarely get press releases this good and amusing….
September 3, 2006, Seattle Times: …when Eggers took the stage Friday night at “People Talking and Singing,” the Bumbershoot benefit for 826 Seattle, to talk about the work his nonprofit writing centers do in our town and five other cities….
June 7, 2006, Seattle Times: …But sympathy is not what Devonte was after when he wrote down his life story. He was hoping “just to be heard,” he said….
December 4, 2005, Seattle Times: 826 Seattle held its grand opening yesterday, pulling people of all ages through its new, space-travel-themed storefront…
November 29, 2005, ConvergenceZone (Seattle Times blog): Greenwood’s new Space Travel Supply store sells imagination…
November 2005, Seattle Magazine: With a little help from well-loved author Dave Eggers, a fresh youth writing center opens in Greenwood…
September 15, 2005, The Stranger: Dave Eggers read at McCaw Hall during Bumbershoot, along with Sarah Vowell, Daniel Handler, Mike Doughty, and Death Cab for Cutie, in a benefit for 826 Seattle…
September 5, 2005, Seattle PI: Hearing [Lemony] Snicket, Doughty, and Death Cab thunder through a Death Cab tune brought the capacity crowd to its feet…”
September 5, 2005, Seattle P-I: The riveted audience — 2,900 packed the house — chuckled often as Eggers read a letter to Seattleites… with Ben Gibbard of DCFC accompanying the reading on guitar…
July 25, 2005, Seattle P-I: Sprawling Dracula novel gives Historian author her first taste of stardom, and her generosity was revealed at a private reception to support the launch of 826 Seattle…
September 16, 2004, The Stranger: “It’s the first day of September, and Teri Hein is walking down Rainier Avenue South in Columbia City… giving me a tour of the neighborhood…”
PRESS RELEASES
October 24, 2007: KCTS 9 announces winners of the 16th annual Golden Apple Awards.
September 12, 2007: 826 Seattle benefits from the $250,000 Heinz award for arts and humanities.
July 20, 2006: Proceeds from Pearl Jam’s July 22-23 Gorge concerts will benefit 826 Seattle.
October 27, 2005: 826 Seattle announces its first round of workshops for students, ages 6-18.
October 10, 2005: New youth writing center offers after-school tutoring five days a week.
July 15, 2005: Youth writing center recently invited to become a chapter of Eggers organization.