Class Catalog

There’s a class for everyone.

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.

Nonfiction, Poetry, The Writing Life, Memoir, Novel, Short Story, Essay, Fiction

Writer’s Welcome Kit (ASYNCHRONOUS)

This asynchronous course features online workbooks, including ten essential templates in Word and Excel to kickstart your writing life, and resources professional writers use to get published.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length:
Start: April 9, 2023 , 12:00am PT
Format: Online Asynchronous
Nonfiction, The Writing Life, Essay

Freelance Going Pro (ASYNCHRONOUS)

Through guided and practical exercises, this course will give you the confidence to turn your art into a long-term, successful business.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 12 sessions
Start: April 9, 2023 , 12:00am PT
Format: Online Asynchronous
Novel, Short Story, Essay, Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir

Autofiction

Instructor: Corinne Manning. This generative workshop examines and explores autofiction—an experimental form of autobiographical writing that considers the container of the story and examines the speaker.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 4 sessions
Start: April 11, 2023 , 7:10pm PT
Format: In Person
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Writing About the Women in Your Family

Instructor: Darien Hsu Gee. We’ll explore the roles of women in our lives and how they’ve shaped us by generating micro narratives of 300 words or less.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 5 sessions
Start: April 11, 2023 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir, Novel, Short Story, Essay

Beyond the Hero’s Journey: Exploring the Paths of the Heroine, Healer, & Seeker

Instructor: Kimberly Lee. This fun and interactive class explores narratives beyond the traditional hero’s journey through their appearance in literature, film, poetry, podcasts and more.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Introductory
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 12, 2023 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Nonfiction, Reading, Essay

A Harp in the Stars: Intro to the Lyric Essay

Instructor: Corinna Cook. This generative workshop explores essayistic alternatives to "the story line" by discussing weekly passages from the lyric essay anthology A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Advanced, Intermediate
Length: 4 sessions
Start: April 12, 2023 , 7:10pm PT
Format: Online
Nonfiction, Memoir

Self-Researching as a Memoirist

Instructor: Katherine E. Standefer. This class will offer generative challenges and strategies to help writers reckon with the meaning of their memories and material, and practice alchemizing what may have been unconscious into powerful story. 

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Intermediate
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 12, 2023 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Nonfiction, Memoir, Essay

The Artist’s Way

Instructor: Shama Shams (Sanjukta). This course based on Julia Cameron’s book, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, offers a series of prompts focusing on recovering the creative self.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 10 sessions
Start: April 12, 2023 , 7:10pm PT
Format: Online
Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction I

Instructor: Beth Slattery. This class will explore the nonfiction story through points of view, scene, reflection, and form. Using generative writing, reading, and an introduction to the workshop model, we will investigate our own personal stories.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Introductory
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 13, 2023 , 10:00am PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading

Contextualizing the Family Story

Instructor: Jaimie Li. This class will connect our intimate, family experiences to a broader social history, using a combination of research and in-class writing assignments. 

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 13, 2023 , 7:10pm PT
Format: In Person
Essay, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, The Writing Life, Memoir, Novel, Short Story

Writing the Reading Life

Instructor: Liza Birnbaum. In this class, we’ll read work by authors who bring books into their accounts of daily living, looking closely at craft choices that weave literary reflection into lively narration.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Intermediate
Length: 8 sessions
Start: April 13, 2023 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir, Novel, Short Story, Essay

Writing Vulnerability, Writing Resilience

Instructor: Leora Fridman. This participant-driven workshop will explore contemporary nonfiction on illness and disability, with extensive opportunities to write into the realities of vulnerable bodies and to offer one another generative feedback. 

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Intermediate
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 13, 2023 , 1:10pm PT
Format: Online
Short Story, Essay, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir, Novel

Tracing the Map of Translation

Instructor: Eugenia Toledo, Carolyne Wright. Poets and translators Eugenia Toledo and Carolyne Wright will share translations from several Chilean poets and present poems from Eugenia's award-winning bilingual volume, Map Traces, Blood Traces

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Length: 4 sessions
Start: April 15, 2023 , 10:00am PT
Format: Online
Nonfiction, Memoir, Essay

Short Essays for the Internet

Instructor: Kimberly Dark. In this workshop, we'll cover how to identify themes, outline, and write essays about single issues (750-1,000 words). We'll discuss different forms, finding publications, and how to tailor your writing to publications you admire.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 1 session
Start: April 15, 2023 , 1:10pm PT
Format: Online
Poetry, Memoir, Novel, Short Story, Essay, Fiction, Nonfiction

Museum as Muse

Instructor: Deborah Woodard. Explore your writing with four Seattle museums—the Frye Art Museum, the National Nordic Museum, the Seattle Asian Art Museum, and the Henry Art Gallery. 

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 15, 2023 , 1:10pm PT
Format: Online
Nonfiction, Memoir, Essay

Adding Dimensions to Creative Nonfiction

Instructor: Tamara Dean. This workshop explores techniques for expanding the dimensions of creative nonfiction, including speculation, research, structural invention, and stylistic innovation.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 16, 2023 , 10:00am PT
Format: Online
Nonfiction, Reading, Memoir, Novel, Short Story, Essay, Fiction

Sara Stridsberg’s Valerie: Writing Against Patriarchy

Instructor: Kaelie Giffel. This class will examine Sara Stridsberg's Valerie, with discussions and prompts utilizing Stridsberg's techniques, such as play-like dialogues, abecedaria, court records, and history to jump-start our work.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Intermediate
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 16, 2023 , 10:00am PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, The Writing Life

Unstuck: Strategies & Meditations

Instructor: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. In this workshop, we'll use guided meditation, visualization, and writing exercises to identify and soften our own particular versions of resistance and to reconnect with the parts of us that use language to create. 

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 1 session
Start: April 16, 2023 , 1:10pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Memoir, Novel, Short Story, Essay

Lost in Longing With Middlemarch

Instructor: Corinne Manning, Jay Aquinas Thompson. With discussions and generative prompts, this co-taught class will adopt feminist and queer explorations of George Eliot's Middlemarch

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 8 sessions
Start: April 17, 2023 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Essay, Nonfiction, Memoir

Telling Life Stories

Instructor: Susan V. Meyers. This class offers the chance to try out several genres in creative nonfiction—from memoir to lyricism, nature writing to travel writing. 

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Introductory
Length: 8 sessions
Start: April 17, 2023 , 12:00am PT
Format: Online Asynchronous
Nonfiction, Memoir, Essay

Writing a Philosophy of Death

Instructor: Charles Mudede. This class will be about death, writing about death, and the history of thinking philosophically about death. 

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 17, 2023 , 7:10pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction

The Making of a Story

Instructor: Beth Slattery. This class will use Alice LaPlante’s The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing as a guide to crafting polished, successful prose. 

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Introductory
Length: 8 sessions
Start: April 18, 2023 , 1:10pm PT
Format: Online
Poetry, Reading, Memoir, Novel, Short Story, Essay, Fiction, Nonfiction

Out of the Blue, a Meteorite: Writing with South Asian Bhakti Poetry

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. In this part-generative, part-analytical course, we'll examine the diverse voices of South Asian bhakti poetry—a centuries-old movement of devotional poetry that finds divinity in the beloved.

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 19, 2023 , 7:10pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

The Micro Prose Chapbook: The Body

Instructor: Darien Hsu Gee. In this six-week generative workshop, we'll write micro prose using prompts inspired by the body to discover the stories that are waiting to be told. 

Course Status: Seats left
View Details
Level: Open to all levels
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 19, 2023 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online