Whatcom READS announces 2025 book selection

Whatcom READS 2025 selection: No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister. Read the book. Join the conversation. Whatcom Writes prompt: The book that changed my life.

No Two Persons by Port Townsend, Wash.-based author Erica Bauermeister is the Whatcom READS 2025 book selection. Sasha taqʷšəblu Lapointe, author of the 2024 featured title, Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk, made the announcement at the close of the March 15 Whatcom READS author event at the Mount Baker Theatre. Liane Moriarty, bestselling author … Read more

Whatcom READS announces community programs and conversations that explore 2024 book selection, Red Paint by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe 

Whatcom Reads presents Red Paint

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  BELLINGHAM/WHATCOM COUNTY, WASH., Dec. 22, 2023 – Library staff and booksellers who organize and present Whatcom READS have announced the literary program’s 2024 schedule of community and author events, celebrating Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe. Winner of the Washington State Book Award for … Read more

Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe wins Washington State Book Award 

Congratulations to the Washington State Book Award Winners.

Sept. 26, 2023  The 2024 Whatcom READS selection, Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, has won the Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir. LaPointe, who is a Coast Salish author from the Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian tribes, will visit Whatcom County March 14-16, 2024, for … Read more

Whatcom READS announces Oct. 15 submission deadline for annual writing challenge

Whatcom Writes. One Book Together

Aug. 11, 2023 (Bellingham/Whatcom County, WA) — Whatcom READS invites writers of all ages and experience levels to submit original work for its annual writing challenge, Whatcom WRITES. This year’s prompt is legacies, which is inspired by Whatcom READS 2024 featured title, Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe. Submission deadline is Oct. … Read more

Whatcom READS announces 2024 selection

Red Paint. The Ancestral autobiography of a coast salish punk by Sasha Lapointe

Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe is the Whatcom READS 2024 book selection. Jess Walter, author of the 2023 featured title, The Cold Millions, announced the book and author during the March 3 author event at the Mount Baker Theatre. Winner of a 2023 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association award, Red … Read more