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: Sabra Boyd. Review tools and resources to develop strategies that preserve your privacy and develop self-care tools for writing and building a network for community care.
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.
Through guided and practical exercises, this course will give you the confidence to turn your art into a long-term, successful business.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Instructor: Tamara Dean. This workshop explores techniques for expanding the dimensions of creative nonfiction, including speculation, research, structural invention, and stylistic innovation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Instructor: Charles Mudede. This class will be about death, writing about death, and the history of thinking philosophically about death.
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.
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.
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.
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