Summer quarter at Hugo House is within berry-stained reach, and we want to introduce you to our brand-new instructors joining us this sizzling season! Welcome to The House Lauren Davis,
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Listen to “Oil Rig 707” by the Radio Drama Scribes Camp
This summer’s Radio Drama Scribes camp, hosted in partnership between Hugo House and the Jack Straw Cultural Center, created space for students to utilize their creativity and collaboration skills to
Criticism as Equipment for Living by Kevin O’Rourke
Toward the end of his recent book, Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist, Patrick Nathan offers a robust defense of the art of criticism. Here, despite the
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
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).
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
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
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
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
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