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: Shankar Narayan. This part-generative, part-analytical course will survey the breadth and reach of South Asian poetry by examining its various forms and movements over the centuries—from ancient Sanskrit religious texts to Urdu political resistance poetry.
Instructor: Gracie Bialecki. By working with a combination of prompts, group activities, and readings, we will spark our creativity while exploring methods of writing when we feel stuck.
Instructor: Carolyn Abram. In this revision-focused course, we'll work on fleshing out and finalizing stories that had previously fizzled out.
Instructor: Alma Garćia. Explore the basic craft elements of fiction writing with in-class writing, discussions, readings, and workshopping in a supportive environment.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Carolyne Wright. We'll read poems, nonfiction, and short fiction published in recent issues of well-respected online and print literary magazines and generate prompts from this work as workshop exercises.
Instructor: Sonora Jha. This craft-focused class is designed to help writers improve craft elements such as voice, characters, form, and more as they work within a cohort to determine the genre and format of their book-length material.
Instructors: Allison Ellis, Amy Bowers. This generative class will delve deep into the lore and canon of witches, examining themes such as feminism, domesticity, power, and social change.
Instructor: Anna Dorn. This workshop will help students structure, organize, and develop their novel, with assignments such as developing a three-act outline, producing the first and last pages, writing a query letter, and more.
Instructor: Sonora Jha. Book Lab is a yearlong intensive class for writers seeking to revise, restructure, rethink, and finalize a book-length manuscript.
Instructor: Stephanie Hammer. This class explores the way magical realism—in short and longer forms—can open the emotional doors of laughter, fear, and perhaps even wonder, through readings, prompts, and homework assignments.
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