It’s hard to believe that 2020 is almost over. As we look forward to the 2021, we’re also taking a moment to reflect on some of the books that got us through this year. Get one last great read in…
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Hugo House’s Best-Loved Books of 2020
Posted Tue, 12/15/2020 - 10:41am by Megan Gallagher | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Literature, Poetry, Reading
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Micro Lesson: Writing From Nature by John Farnsworth
Posted Tue, 12/17/2019 - 9:22am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Poetry, Writing, Writing Advice
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When people learn that I’m a nature writer, there’s a natural assumption that what I spend most of my time doing is writing about nature. While it would not be unkind or even inaccurate to characterize my work this way,…
Hugo House’s Best-Loved Books of 2019
Posted Tue, 12/10/2019 - 9:30am by Katie Prince | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Literature
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The end of the decade is here! As we move in to the ’20s, we’re looking back on this past year to celebrate some truly great books. End 2019 with a bang (or start 2020 fresh!) with these 19 fiction…
Three Strategies for Reclaiming Your Writing Time by Liza Birnbaum
Posted Tue, 10/29/2019 - 9:35am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Poetry, Writing, Writing Advice
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At the top of every slippery slope is a spot that feels like solid, level ground. For me, the top of one such slope came around mid-May of this year. After holding out for over 10 years, I’d gotten a…
Writing Architecture through Fiction by Ayad Rahmani
Posted Tue, 10/22/2019 - 8:46am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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The objective of this workshop is to practice architectural criticism through the lens of insight. Where most architectural criticism is evaluatory, leveling judgment on a given project, this form of feedback is not. It assumes that the world is complex…
Widening the Scope of Your Personal Essay by Santi Elijah Holley
Posted Fri, 10/11/2019 - 12:01pm by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Personal essays can do many things. They can help us navigate our experiences, our grief, our trauma, or our joy. They can help show others how to navigate these for themselves. And they can unite us—author and reader—in a shared,…
Looking at Ledes (in Critical Writing) by Kevin O’Rourke
Posted Thu, 10/10/2019 - 9:50am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Openings are important in any piece of writing, but they’ve always struck me as particularly important to critical writing. Why? Well, because critical writing bears the burden of always being about something else, often something readers have heard of and…
What I am Trying to Say: A Micro Lesson in Revising for Truth by CMarie Fuhrman
Posted Wed, 10/09/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Poetry, Writing, Writing Advice
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It was an essay about climate change. At least that is what I wanted the essay to be about. I wrote passionately about finding trash on the trail, the bear hunter who passed us on the road, a meadow in…
Motherhood is Not a Niche Topic: Writing Mother and Child with Anne Liu Kellor
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As a mother, I know how hard it is to find time to write. In the early years, it was all I could manage to scribble out a short journal entry in a 10-minute burst while someone else held the…
Lyric Essay 101 by Jessica Mooney
Posted Tue, 9/03/2019 - 9:34am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Don’t know what a lyric essay is? Not sure if you’re even intending to write one? Don’t worry! My class, Structuring the Lyric Essay, will explore the lyric essay as a form that can be used to help inspire your…
Titles That Don’t Let You Go by Susanne Paola Antonetta
Posted Tue, 8/20/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Writing a title for a flash fiction or nonfiction piece is like dipping your oar into the roaring water while whitewater rafting. That oar stroke had better do some major work. The flash title is the oar that steers your little…
Writing Prompt: Affected Bodies, Trauma, and Non-Human Encounters by Janice Lee
Posted Thu, 8/01/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Poetry, Writing Advice
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What really exists is not things made but things in the making. —William James How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things. —Eduardo Kohn In my upcoming class, Memory Space: Inherited…
Micro Lesson: A Short Meditation on the Glamorous Refusal of No! by Anastacia-Renée
Posted Fri, 7/12/2019 - 4:21pm by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Poetry, Writing, Writing Advice
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In the beginning of my writing career, it was a given that I’d say “Absolutely” or “Yes” to almost anything asked of me—oftentimes watching others reaping the benefits or, even worse, finding out that the heartfelt energy I’d put into…
Micro Lesson: How to Write Yourself Home by Merna Ann Hecht
Posted Fri, 6/28/2019 - 9:43am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Poetry
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“To be an immigrant is to always live in some state of exile, even if its shadow seems to have grown faint inside us; you cannot forget your old homes, no matter how comfortingly familiar your new destination becomes, or…
What is Speculative Nonfiction? by Kathleen Alcalá
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la·cu·na (ləˈk(y)o͞onə): n. (plural lacunae). 1. an unfilled space or interval; a gap. (“the journal has filled a lacuna in Middle Eastern studies”). 2. a missing portion in a book or manuscript. 3. (anatomy) a cavity or depression, especially in bone….
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