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: Gracie Bialecki. This course is designed for writers of fiction who want to fine-tune the first chapter of a longer work of fiction.
Instructor: Heidi Seaborn. In this class students will examine powerful dramatic dialogue and persona poems, generate and share new persona poems, and discuss what it means to assume another’s identity.
Instructor: Katherine Standefer. In this 6-hour intensive, writers will identify potential "centers of gravity" in their material, and pinpoint their work's central questions, considering narrative arc, repetition, and more.
Instructor: Kendra Levin. This workshop offers a hands-on introduction to writing picture-books for readers aged 0-7.
Instructor: Charles Mudede. This class introduces writers to philosophical ways of thinking and writing about what is always arriving: the future.
Instructor: Sally Ashton. Take a guided tour through this year’s edition of the renowned, sometimes controversial, anthology, with discussions about poetry, craft elements, about "bests" and who says so, and more.
Instructor: Kate Lebo. This class considers how writers today imagine the voices of plants to reach for new language, insight, and emotion. We'll read plant-voiced poems and write our own poems or essays.
Instructor: Carolyn Abram. Focused entirely on weird stories, this workshop discusses elements of crafting the bizarre, from world-building, genre expectations, publication, and more.
Instructor: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. This workshop focuses on structuring, ordering, and creating a chapbook manuscript to submit to publishers or self-publish.
Instructor: Sasha LaPointe. This class will radicalize our approach to the personal narrative, intertwining poetry and memoir. We will write lyric essays and explore the braided form that celebrates both personal story and the lyricism of poetry.
Instructor: Meghan Lamb. This course will examine the methodology of writing about bodily experiences and explore the merits of engaging deeply and precisely with sex, aging, illness, and more.
Instructor: Kristi Coulter. This generative class blends seminar-style lecture, weekly readings, informal feedback sessions, and flexible prompts as a portal to writing about the workplace.
Instructor: Beth Jusino. Guided by a professional editor, this class offers questions and exercises each week to apply a developmental editing perspective to students' works in progress, including tips to tackle revision.
Instructor: Aimee Suzara. This class will focus on poetry by Asian American writers in the United States, engaging with and considering themes of belonging, otherness, homeland and loss, racism and immigration, and more.
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: Darien Hsu Gee. This generative workshop uses prompts about archetypes to help you generate a draft of a chapbook.
Instructor: Gracie Bialecki. This course is designed for writers of fiction who want to fine-tune the first chapter of a longer work of fiction.
Instructor: Michele L. Simms-Burton. This class will delve deep into the structure of Toni Morrison's masterpiece, Beloved, focusing on themes of loss, violence, memory, and healing.
Instructor: Mark Doty. This generative workshop will utilize a series of writing exercises to take a single image from memory and view it from many perspectives, accumulating a rich body of material that explores layers of experience.
Instructor: Melinda Ruth. For students who have completed a collection of poem drafts, this workshop offers craft discussion, peer revision, and close readings of contemporary poems.
Instructor: Holly Day. Learn how to compile a bibliography from sources including online and physical collections of newspaper archives, library special collections, photo banks, and more, with info on tracing source material and tips for staying organized.
Instructor: Ingrid Ricks. With individual coaching sessions, learn how to identify structure and tap into the healing power of writing personal narrative.
Instructor: Piper Lane. In this generative course, we’ll examine practical issues of the collective first person and narrative distance, with short discussions, writing prompts, and writing time.
Instructor: Ansley Clark. This workshop explores how translating dreams into poems helps us access subconscious, creative energies. Participants will develop their own at-home, dream-based writing rituals to generate poems.
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