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…
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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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“You Have to Let Your Obsessions Guide You”: An Exclusive Q&A with Tom Perrotta
Posted Mon, 11/04/2019 - 9:52am by Megan Gallagher | Category: Events, Fiction, Word Works, Writing Advice
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Tom Perrotta is the author of nine works of fiction, including Election and Little Children, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films, and The Leftovers, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Peabody Award-winning HBO series. His other books include Bad Haircut, The Wishbones, Joe College, The…
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…
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…
Using Sound: An Exercise by Corinne Manning
Posted Fri, 10/04/2019 - 9:10am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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In a workshop, the writer Dorothy Allison had us go around the room and all fake an orgasm. She critiqued the authenticity and then had us write a sex scene where sound was present. This idea came up when she…
4 Tips for Writing Good Dialogue by Ana Pastor
Posted Tue, 10/01/2019 - 9:01am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Writing for the stage offered me an opportunity to explore the mechanics of dialogue. In a play, the spoken word carries a weight that in other genres it shares with written descriptions, insights into situations, references… On stage the word…
Seven Signs You Should Write a Novella by Jesse Edward Johnson
Posted Mon, 9/30/2019 - 9:41am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Do you write fiction? Maybe you’ve got a shoebox full of short stories, or the drafts of various novels. Maybe you haven’t yet found the right form in which to realize the full potential of your story. Maybe you’re wondering…
How to Find Story Ideas when You’re Feeling Uninspired by Alma García
Posted Fri, 9/27/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Creativity is a slippery thing. There’s nothing so thrilling as being in the flow of the creative zone…until the day your inspiration is gone. Then it’s like you’ve been dumped on the side of the highway. You’re lost, tired, stuck,…
Micro-Lesson: Goal vs. Need by Jeff Bender
Posted Thu, 9/12/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Writing Advice
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There are a lot of names for these two ideas. Whatever we call them, they can shape some of our biggest decisions as storytellers. The Goal, or what Robert McKee (Story) calls the “conscious desire,” is the concrete and unconcealed…
What Can We Learn from Harry Potter? by Karen Finneyfrock
Posted Tue, 9/10/2019 - 9:41am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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It was July 2007 and I was in line outside the bookstore at quarter to midnight. I was in Maryland and the mosquitos were still biting and the heat of the day clung to the sidewalk. I was only a…
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…
Navigating to the Heart of the Story by Diana Xin
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I just need to find the right way to write this. This is the refrain that comes up sometimes when I open a new blank document for an old story I’ve tried to write about seven times over the course…
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…
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