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February 21, 2024

Leadership Transition at Hugo House

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Revision Process Blog

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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 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).

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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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

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 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

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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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June 15, 2021 PT

Waste in Place: Let’s Look at Some Trash (Data) by Kevin O’Rourke

A few months ago, the New York Times published one of the most arresting wildlife stories I’ve ever read. The story itself—about efforts to save the dwindling population of

Writing Writing Tips/Advice

June 4, 2021 PT

Genre Roulette: The Creative’s Game of Chance by Rachel Werner

My only true obsession is writing. At any given moment, I am likely starting a new poem, editing a flash fiction piece in addition to wrapping up a new beauty

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April 19, 2021 PT

Transition Updates: Collaboration, commonality, and our upcoming meeting with WOCA

Dear friends, Many of you have written me, wondering how Hugo House is doing during this time of transition—so I’d like to write some occasional letters to keep you all

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