Long-time writer or just getting started? Writing an epic poem or a short story? Whoever you are and wherever your passions lie—if you want to write, there’s a Hugo House class for you. Explore our catalog and find yours.
When we say we want our classes to be for everyone, we mean it.
Instructor: Gina Siciliano. Using Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics as a foundation, this class is an introduction to graphic novel storytelling.
Instructor: Courtenay Hameister. This workshop explores the relationship between humor and sadness, anger, shame, and other vulnerable truths.
Instructor: Marguerite Harrold. In this course we will practice writing persona poems—poems that offer us a chance to experience empathy in new and meaningful ways while recreating our own stories.
Instructor: Taneum Bambrick. This generative course will study poems that enact care, joy, and/or humor while exploring intimacy and the intimate self, focusing on themes of love and relation.
Instructor: Anna Vodicka. Explore the ranges of short-form nonfiction, learn how restraint and constraint can enhance the power of prose, and practice the art of economy in your own micro essays inspired by readings and prompts.
Instructor: Sierra Nelson. Drawing inspiration from scientific, esoteric, and mythological moons, this course takes students through generating, workshopping, and compiling moon-themed chapbooks.
Instructor: Becca Yenser. This generative class explores the flash as a form, specifically examining five elements of flash, with discussion, peer review, and more.
Instructor: Liza Birnbaum. This class will spend eight weeks with the first volume of Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, close-reading for craft, with discussions and weekly prompts.
Instructor: Scott Driscoll. Explore narrative distance, voice, and psychic distance with readings from Olive Kitteridge and The Best American Short Stories 2022 and in-class exercises.
Instructor: Molly Schaeffer. This class will examine elements of attention, drawing from various media—writing, film, music, and the natural world—and investigate distraction, associative thinking and more with generative exercises, freewriting, and discussion.
Instructor: Peter Mountford. This workshop is designed to support students complete publication-ready work for fiction writers of any genre, with peer review, craft lectures, and more.
Instructor: Elise Hooper. For writers developing a novel seeking guidance, inspiration, and accountability; this course includes readings, discussion, in-class exercises and assignments focused on plot, voice, world-building and more.
Instructor: Meredith Arena. This genre-blurring, boundary-pushing workshop focuses on queer art as inspiration for creative writing, with other exercises like drawing, collage, and more.
Instructor: Anastacia-Reneé. This genre-bending, generative workshop explores and interrogates communal story, folklore, and archival memories; students will leave the class with three pieces of hybrid work: the haibun, nines, and epistolary poem.
Instructor: Liza Birnbaum. This nontraditional, generative workshop open to fiction, nonfiction, and cross-genre writers will use weekly writing assignments, playfulness, and rigorous reflection to building a friendly, mutually accountable community.
Instructor: Kaelie Giffel. In this class, we'll close read the work of Annie Ernaux to gather memoir-writing tools and use writing prompts to explore our own experiences.
Instructor: Gina Siciliano. Using Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics as a foundation, this class is an introduction to graphic novel storytelling.
Instructor: Ruth Joffre. Students will work toward completing a speculative fiction project, with craft lectures, writing and revision exercises, peer revision, and readings of contemporary speculative fiction.
Instructor: Karen Finneyfrock. With both large and small group workshopping, students will develop and polish a manuscript in any genre of fiction intended primarily for a younger audience.
Instructor: Corinna Cook. Learn to sculpt context and informational passages to match the impact of scene or the lyricism of reflection, with readings and weekly prompts…
Instructor: Tara Conklin. Book Lab is a year-long intensive class for writers seeking to revise and finalize a book-length manuscript, with workshops, visits from publishing professionals, and one-on-one feedback sessions, and more.
Instructor: Beth Slattery. This generative class gives students the opportunity to deep-dive into the revision of their writing and develop thoughtful, supportive, critical responses when looking at others' work.
Instructor: Tina Tocco. This class is geared towards writing for ages 8–12 and offers opportunity for writers to workshop, analyze published work, delve into the revision process, and participate in in-class writing.
Instructor: Evan Ramzipoor. For writers working in any genre, this generative class will teach students to create and populate worlds on the page, with group exercises, discussions, and more.
Instructor: Deborah Woodard. This class will closely read the poetry and letters of Emily Dickinson, with discussion, weekly prompts and read-arounds, and instructor feedback on classwork.
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