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February 21, 2024

Leadership Transition at Hugo House

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August 31, 2021 PT

Micro Lesson: How to Learn from Burnout—Or, Technically, Writing is a Ravioli by Gabriela Denise Frank

The fall before COVID hit, I was barreling towards peak burnout—but I didn’t know it. This was before the buzzy articles appeared in the New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, and

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September 6, 2021 PT

Teacher Toolkit: How to Write a Hugo House Class Proposal

Applying to teach a class at Hugo House? This post breaks down the documents we ask teachers to submit as part of their proposals and provides information from our education

September 17, 2021 PT

Teacher Toolkit: How to Become a Hugo House Teacher

Classes are central to what we do at Hugo House, but how do you become a Hugo House teacher? Each quarter, we accept class proposals from writers and teaching artists

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September 29, 2021 PT

Micro Lesson: How to Read Like a Writer by Radhika Sharma

It is no secret that reading nourishes and empowers our writing. Yet, to read like a writer may not always come naturally to us and requires us to train our

October 1, 2021 PT

Facing Fears and Other Writerly Hells by D.A. Navoti

The Season of the Witch is upon us and what frightens me most is my own writing. I sit for hours at my desk and pen a paragraph that’s eventually

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October 6, 2021 PT

How to Bake a Play, a personal recipe by Brian Dang

As any internet recipe starts, start with an intensely personal anecdote that people might scroll past to get to the ingredients list (regardless, it should mean the world to you).

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October 14, 2021 PT

How to Reinvigorate Your Poetry Revision Process by Dilruba Ahmed

Poets, are your rough drafts piling up? Maybe some draft poems seem to have potential: a strong opening. A resonant image. A metaphor that shines. And yet, something’s missing, and you

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October 19, 2021 PT

Q&A with Jessica Mehta: “The best poetry is inherently natural.”

This September, Jessica Mehta officially stepped into the role of poet-in-residence at Hugo House. Jessica is the author of fifteen books, including the collection When We Talk of Stolen Sisters (Not a Pipe Publishing),

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January 20, 2022 PT

Remembering David Wagoner: Prolific Poet and Friend of Hugo House

Written by Lillo Way David Wagoner, “a giant of Northwest poetry,” died on December 18, 2021. In addition to his renown as a poet, he was a novelist (one of

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February 16, 2022 PT

7 Types of Writing Groups

Writing may be a solitary activity, but your writing life needn’t be! Enter the writing group, which is quite simply a group of writers that meets to do writerly things.

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