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: Natasha Moni. Learn from a former editor and author how to examine and respond to rejections and strategize for publication success.
Instructor: Gabriela Denise Frank. In this generative course, we’ll experiment with different models and create image/text hybrids, concrete poems, and docupoetic essays.
Instructor: Aimee Suzara. This class is inspired by the anthology Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. We will read, discuss, and write at the intersections of identity, race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and more.
Instructor: Marguerite Harrold. In this class, we will explore the ways in which people of color write about the natural world, including relationships to the land, traditional cultural practices, herbal healing, and more.
Instructor: Noah Zanella. This generative seminar examines the various relationships between language, beauty, and truth, responding to questions such as, "Can beauty save us?", and "Is the truth beautiful?."
Instructor: Meghan Lamb. This course will examine body-centered prose and explore the merits of engaging deeply with illness, bodily change, and bodily difference.
Instructor: Lauren Davis. In this generative poetry workshop, participants will write love poems to the self.
Instructor: Molly Schaeffer. Looking at a range of work that combines writing and visual art, we will challenge the idea of the book while also creating and discussing our process, investigating alternative forms such as chapbooks, artist books, zines, and more.
Instructor: Anastacia-Reneé. This generative class will explore the work of poets from Furious Flower, the nation's first academic center for Black poetry, engaging with each poet's voice, interrogating format and structure, and much more.
Instructor: Naa Akua. In this class, we will set our intentions to engage love as a "practice," through writing epistolary poems, journal prompts, and mini memoirs.
Instructor: Kimberly Lee. This class will investigate the narratives that go beyond the traditional hero's journey—the heroine's journey, the journey of integrity, the seeker's journey, the healing journey, and others—through their appearance in literature, film, poetry and more!
Instructora: Rosario López. En este taller, estudiaremos el duelo en la literatura, veremos las maneras en que lo abordaron otros autores y aprenderemos modos para crear arte con lo perdido.
Instructor: Natasha Moni. Develop publication and marketing strategies with a former editor and award-winning poet, published in seventy markets including Indiana Review, VERSE, and [PANK].
Instructor: Jose Hernandez Diaz. This workshop will guide writers through the revision and submission process in poetry and prose poetry, exploring revision strategies such as condensed language, musicality, form, to submission strategies, rejection rates, and more.
Instructor: Alyse Knorr. This class for writers of all genres and levels offers a crash course in how to control the rhyme, rhythm, and meter of your writing for maximum sonic impact.
Instructor: Sally Ashton. This class will use the new 2023 edition of Best American Poetry to offer insight, inspiration, and a supportive place for inquiry as you become familiar with contemporary poetry.
Instructor: Cynthia Manick. In this craft talk and workshop, participants will explore and generate their own creation myths through direct address, confessional poems, and persona.
Instructor: Kaveh Bassiri. This class will explore techniques for writing and revising poems to animate our work with new and distinct language.
Instructor: Jennifer Perrine. This class will offer methods for assembling a poetry collection, including exercises to help you identify themes, experiment with sequence and structure, and recognize opportunities for further development.
Instructor: Darien Hsu Gee. As writers, our ancestral history breathes through our bodies and appears on the written page; this class will explore ancestors both known and unknown through micro narratives and prose poems.
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.
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