Microfiction Lab: The Drabble & the Six-Word Story
Join us at Hugo House in the Lapis Theatre for Microfiction Lab: Form, Prompt, Write, an engaging and laidback writing environment to dive into the art of microfiction, free to attend. Each session will include two forms of microfiction with a quick lesson, some examples, and time to try them out utilizing prompts in class. We will also have time to share how it felt to try each new form.
Writers of all genres are encouraged to join, as microfiction can help hone the skills of even the longest-form writers.
July 11th: The Drabble & the Six-Word Story
This series is great preparation for our August event, Long Story Short—a quarterly magazine run by Hugo House volunteers. At our August live event, writers will write and submit pieces on the spot—and witness the magazine take shape in real time. Come for a four-hour communal creation event, write a submission of up to 500 words from prompts and themes provided on the spot, and see your work go from page to publish-ready before you leave.
Lauren Wainwright
Lauren Wainwright is a writer and barista from the Greater Philadelphia area. She's part of the 2025 Seattle Public Library Writers-in-Residence cohort, an active volunteer, student, bartender, and occasional event facilitator at Hugo House since September 2025, and a barista and educator at CoffeeTAB, a nonprofit cafe that teaches underserved youth barista skills to help escape the cycle of homelessness. Lauren has been working on three autofiction novels during her residency and time at Hugo House, and plans to help launch a volunteer-run lit zine at Hugo House in August. She also has two brown tabbies named Monkey and Lonnie
