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: Jos Charles. This workshop explores and examines devotional threads across various poetries and traditions guided by an orientation to the beyond—poems that have an address or charge beyond its author and readers.
Instructor: Katherine E. Standefer. Through writing exercises and readings, we'll explore how scenes develop characters, seed tension, build deeper themes in a story/essay, and more!
Instructor: Lyzette Wanzer. This workshop offers information, guidance, and strategies for writers ready to present their work at a professional writers' conference.
Instructor: Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum. For writers who have completed a yearlong workshop in prose and are developing manuscripts, with focused discussions on issues of craft and a casual tour through Charles Baxter's Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.
Using generative writing, reading, and an introduction to the workshop model, we will investigate our own personal stories. We examine and explore the true topics of our pieces through points of view, scene, reflection, and form.
Instructor: Rachel Sobel. In this workshop, we'll discuss how to learn from books you love, books you hate, and everything in between, with close attention to the technique on the page.
Instructor: Mary Lane Potter. Learn to build sentences that grip the reader, evoke tone, deepen mood, reveal character, advance plot, and help a narrative breathe.
Instructor: Beth Jusino. Take an unbiased, unvarnished look at current publishing options and how to approach them, examining the pros and cons of each choice, realistic costs, income potential and more.
Instructor: Sally Ashton. This generative workshop takes a comparative look at the prose poem, brief essay, and flash fiction, with writing prompts to experiment in each genre.
Instructor: Nicole Hardy. Through readings and discussions, explore how various authors effectively travel through time in memoir.
In this exploratory camp, students will engage with artistic activities, embark on field trips in-person and virtually, and write to creative prompts all designed to ignite their imaginations. The week will culminate with a reading and/or presentation of student work.
Instructor: Peter Mountford. For anyone struggling to finish their book, with discussions on revision, productivity, and the business of finding an agent/publisher.
Instructor: Natalie Serianni. In this introductory class, students will read and discuss personal essays, write to small prompts, and share their work in a supportive workshop environment.
Instructor: Theo Nestor. Learn how to craft spectacular overviews that can be adapted for query letters, book proposals and more.
Instructor: Kevin O'Rourke. Discuss and read data-centric writing and examine the storytelling possibilities that data offers.
Instructor: April Dávila. This session will begin with a series of meditations on touch, sight, sound, smell, and taste, from which we will then practice integrating and workshopping our observations into our writing.
Learn the fundamentals of making comics and graphic novels in this half-day, week-long camp, focusing on a different theme or genre each day. The week will culminate with a reading and/or presentation of student work.
Instructor: Zain Shamoon. This class is dedicated to the role of storytelling in finding relief from distress; students will learn how to use storytelling for personal and communal reclamation.
Instructor: Amy Bowers, Allison Elis. In this generative class, we will (re)learn to open our eyes, send you on local outings, and build a tool kit that turns the messy world into that dreamy writing office.
Instructor: Nicole Hardy. Discuss four specific techniques for writing the things you don't remember, and read published examples of how different authors handle this problem in their work.
Instructor: Molly Schaeffer. Mining our own notes and fragments for use in writing prompts, we'll recycle and experiment with our own words, utilizing techniques including collage, mapping, poetry, and memoir.
Instructor: Sarah Dalton. This craft intensive will study contemporary creative nonfiction authors; students will generate new work that experiments with the nuances and possibilities of point of view.
Instructor: Sierra Nelson. This generative writing class uses in-class prompts and naturalist insights inspired by Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry to reinvigorate students' wonder and creative processes.
In this exploratory camp, students will engage with artistic activities, embark on field trips in-person and virtually, and write to creative prompts all designed to ignite their imaginations. The week will culminate with a reading and/or presentation of student work.
Instructor: Darien Hsu Gee. This generative workshop explores the food of our lives as a way of mapping our personal history.
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