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: Lauren Davis. Through a series of deconstructing exercises, we will dismantle our darling drafts to see if there is anything else they want to tell us.
In this camp, a partnership between Hugo House and Northwest Film Forum, students will write original poems and create short videos to accompany them. The week will culminate with a presentation of student work.
Instructor: Jeanine Walker. Students will read and write in response to a wide array of contemporary poets, participate in a mock editorial committee, and submit work to a literary journal for publication.
Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. With quiet writing time and poetry prompts, this class will identify key craft strategies at play in several contemporary odes and unpack how form and content come together to celebrate both the elevated and the mundane.
Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. Explore how poets bring form and content together to forge innovative and engaging approaches to autobiographical material, and experiment with strategies weave narrative and lyric.
Instructor: Janée J. Baugher. This one-day class will aim to demystify the question, "What do poetry editors really want?"
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: 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: Leonora Simonovis. In this workshop, we will read and discuss poems written by Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color about the more-than-human world, exploring different aspects of craft and storytelling.
Instructor: Veronica Golos. This generative workshop will examine how three American poets—Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, and Patricia Smith—changed and moved the sonnet in new directions.
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.
Find delight, magic and surprise in writing short pieces (all under 1000 words)—defying genres, packing power and imagination. The week will culminate with a reading and/or presentation of student work.
In this camp, students will delve into diverse forms of written expression to nurture their inner creative, sprouting new buds of poetry all their own. 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.
Instructor: Alyse Knorr. This generative writing course, explore how sci-fi helps us imagine better futures through the lenses of feminist and queer theory, Afrofuturism, disability rights, and more.
Instructor: Nicole Sealey. Participants in this all-level, generative workshop will review poems with images that reverberate and draft poems inspired by that work.
Instructor: Joy McCullough. For women, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming writers only, this is a class will emphasize writing freely without self-censorship and validating anger by supporting its expression through writing.
Instructor: Meghan Lamb. Through a combination of discussions, exercises, and readings this class will explore how writing itself can be a controlled conversation with death.
Instructor: Aimee Suzara. Read and discuss works by diverse, predominantly BIPOC writers challenging the "canon" and forging the path for other writers speaking to moments that make movements.
Instructor: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello. Part lecture and part workshop, this class gives you a hands-on approach to finding the best order for your manuscript to keep readers (and contest judges) hooked.
Students will explore exhibits and materials at the Bellevue Arts Museum, participate in artistic activities, and write to prompts inspired by BAM's collections. The week will culminate with a reading and/or presentation of student work.
Instructor: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello. In this generative workshop, we will examine poems, write into the darkness together, exorcise some demons, and re-emerge still intact without looking away even if we flinch.
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