BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T210000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20160909T074900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160909T074900Z UID:248389-1478804400-1478811600@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Steven Barker: 'Now for the Disappointing Part' Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Former Made at Hugo House fellow Steven Barker‘s debut book\, Now for the Disappointing Part: A Pseudo-Adult’s Decade of Short-Term Jobs\, Long-Term Relationships\, and Holding Out for Something Better (Skyhorse Publishing)\, chronicles his life moving from job to job as his contracts expire. \n“A charming page-turner of a memoir…its essays amount to more than just a tale of boxed Mac ‘n’ Cheese\, failed romantic relationships\, and miserable short-term jobs. Throughout\, Baker crafts a sensitive and principled argument in defense of an undervalued and disposable workforce. The result is an honest\, self-aware\, and funny tale of millenial malaise.” —Suzanne Morrison (YOGA BITCH) \n“Steven Barker writes beautifully and hilariously…he is a hero to me and everyone else who refuses to go along with the plan…Now for the Disappointing Part is so damn good.”—Dave Hill (Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore) \nBrian McGuigan will lead a Q&A with Barker after the reading\, followed by a book signing and performance by The Drop Shadows. \nThis event is free and the bar will be open. \n\nSteven Barker has\, in addition to big company temp jobs\, worked as a freelance journalist and his essays have appeared in Salon and Split Lip magazine\, among others. He lives in Seattle where he cofounded the local reading series Cheap Wine & Poetry and Cheap Beer & Prose. He is the host of the arts and entertainment podcast Ordinary Madness. \n\nBrian McGuigan is a writer\, performer\, and program director at Artist Trust. He is the co-founder and curator of the popular reading series\, Cheap Wine & Poetry and Cheap Beer & Prose and has been a part of the Lit Crawl Seattle team for the last three years. He was shortlisted for The Stranger‘s Genius Award in Literature and City Arts named him one of Seattle’s “Power 50 Culture Makers.” He’s currently working on a memoir about fatherhood. His essays have appeared in Gawker\, Salon\, The Stranger\, The Rumpus\, ParentMap\, and elsewhere\, and he has received support from 4Culture\, Artist Trust\, and the Office of Arts & Culture. For many years\, he ran programs and events at Hugo House. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/steven-barker-book-launch/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161111T203000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161006T025000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T025000Z UID:248417-1478890800-1478896200@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Light and Love: Poets for Dignity and Visibility featuring Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles poet Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo‘s recent collection\, Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications)\, focuses on celebrating her family’s immigration story to Boyle Heights\, Los Angeles\, in the 1950’s and speaking out on human atrocities occurring today at the Arizona-Mexico border. \n“Xochitl-Julisa Bernejo’s poems rattle the heart\, jolt the mind.” – Eduardo C. Corral\, 2011 Yale Younger Poets Prize winner for Slow Lightning \n“Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s poems are a haunting vortex from Mexican America\, detailed with the items we share\, the stories\, the names\, the old country memories\, and also deserts\, many\, many deserts. Her voice is formidable\, her language clear and complex at the same time. Here’s a millennial poet that goes beyond the millennium.” – Luis J. Rodriguez\, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles and Founding Editor of Tia Chucha Press \nTonight\, she’ll be reading from the collection along with three other writers committed to social justice: Chicano and California Indian poet Casandra Lopez; writer\, performance artist\, and Hugo House’s poet-in-residence Anastacia-Renee; and Seattle-based poet Jane Wong\, author of the recent collection Overpour (Action Books). \nThis event is free and open to the public. The bar will be open. \n\nXochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a 2016–2017 Steinbeck Fellow and a former Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grantee. She has received residencies from Hedgebrook and Ragdale Foundation\, and is a member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop. She has work published in Acentos Review\, CALYX\, crazyhorse\, and The James Franco Review\, among others. A short dramatization of her poem “Our Lady of the Water Gallons\,” directed by Jesús Salvador Treviño\, can be viewed at latinopia.com. Cofounder of Women Who Submit and curator of the reading series HITCHED\, her debut poetry collection\, Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge\, was published by Sundress Publications this October. \n\nCasandra Lopez is a Chicana and California Indian writer and educator who has received fellowships from CantoMundo and Jackstraw. She has been selected for residencies with the SFAI\, School of Advanced Research and Hedgebrook. Her chapbook\, Where Bullet Breaks\, was published by the Sequoyah National Research Center and her hybrid chapbook\, After Bullet\, is forthcoming from Yellow Chair Press. She is the managing editor of As Us: A Space For Writers Of The World and Executive Editor at The Offing. \n\nAnastacia-Renee is a queer super-shero of color moonlighting as a writer\, performance artist\, and creative writing workshop facilitator. She has received awards and fellowships from Cave Canem\, Hedgebrook\, VONA\, Jack Straw\, Ragdale\, and Artist Trust. She was recently selected as the 2015–16 Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House. Her Chapbook 26\, published by Dancing Girl Press\, is an abbreviated alphabet expression of the lower and uppercase lives of women and girls. Her poetry and fiction have been published in Literary Orphans\, Bitterzoet\, Radius Poetry\, Seattle Review\, Duende\, Bone Bouquet\, Dressing Room Poetry\, and many more. Recently\, she has been expanding her creative repertoire into the field of visual art\, and has exhibited installations surrounding the body as a polarized place of both the private and political. \n\nJane Wong‘s poems can be found in anthologies and journals such as Best American Poetry 2015\, Best New Poets 2012\, Pleiades\, Third Coast\, and others. A Kundiman fellow\, she is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships from the U.S. Fulbright Program\, the Fine Arts Work Center\, Squaw Valley\, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Currently\, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pacific Lutheran University. Along with three chapbooks\, she is the author of Overpour (Action Books\, 2016). URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/light-love-poets-dignity-visibility/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161111T210000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161019T062300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161019T062300Z UID:248419-1478890800-1478898000@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Red Badge Project's Women Veterans Reading DESCRIPTION:The Red Badge Project and mentors Suzanne Morrison and Sonya Lea invite you to hear the stories of women veterans in this remarkable evening to honor their service\, on Veteran’s Day. This is the community’s chance to go beyond the cliche’ “Thanks for your service” and to give our veterans a chance to speak freely of their experiences\, and for us who have not experienced war to hear them. Last year was so very moving. \n\nThis event is free and takes place at The Frye Art Museum (704 Terry Ave).  \n\n  URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/red-badge-projects-women-veterans-reading/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161112T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161112T150000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161111T065900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161111T065900Z UID:248427-1478955600-1478962800@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Community Writing Circle DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an open writing time to write about post-election feelings: whether grief\, hope\, fear\, rage\, despair\, or courage. \nCome and write in one of the open spaces in the House\, or take part in a writing circle facilitated by Anne Liu Kellor. You will free-write from prompts\, followed by time for volunteers to read aloud from their words. We will not otherwise be commenting\, conversing\, or debating. Just writing\, sharing\, and listening—creating a space to remember that we are in this together. \n\nAnne Liu Kellor has received support from Hedgebrook\, 4Culture\, and Jack Straw\, and taught creative nonfiction since 2006. Her essays have appeared in publications such as Waking Up American (Seal Press) and the Los Angeles Review. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/community-writing-circle/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161113T173000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20160910T003600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160910T003600Z UID:248393-1479052800-1479058200@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Kathryn Nuernberger and Maya Jewell Zeller: Taxidermy Mermaids\, the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary\, and other Marvels DESCRIPTION:Poets Kathryn Nuernberger and Maya Jewell Zeller will share the stage and read from their most recent collections. \nWinner of the 2015 James Laughlin Award\, Nuernberger’s collection\, The End of Pink (BOA Editions) is populated by strange characters—Bat Boy\, automatons\, taxidermied mermaids\, snake oil salesmen\, and Benjamin Franklin—all from the annals of science and pseudoscience. Equal parts fact and folklore\, these poems look to the marvelous and the weird for a way to understand childbirth\, parenthood\, sickness\, death\, and—of course—joy. \nZeller’s latest collection\, Yesterday\, the Bees (Floating Bridge Press)\, navigates pregnancy\, birth\, postpartum depression\, and lineage through the speaker’s nuanced relationships with family and the natural world. The speaker questions what it means to be born to a place versus naturalized\, suggesting she can’t even compare herself to somewhat useful invasive plant species; in the title poem\, Zeller asks\, “what do I have / for the bees?” \nThis event is free and open to the public. The bar will be open. \n\nKathryn Nuernberger is the author of Rag & Bone\, which won the 2010 Elixir Press Antivenom Prize. She teaches in the creative writing program at University of Central Missouri\, where she also serves as the director of Pleiades Press. She has received research grants from the American Antiquarian Society and the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life. \n\nMaya Jewell Zeller is the author of Rust Fish (Lost Horse Press) and Yesterday\, the Bees (Floating Bridge Press). Recipient of a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and a residency in the H.J. Andrews Experimental forest\, Maya edits fiction for Crab Creek Review and teaches creative writing at Central Washington University. She lives in Spokane with her husband and two children. \n  URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/kathryn-nuernberger-maya-jewell-zeller/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161116T203000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20160913T074900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T074900Z UID:248401-1479322800-1479328200@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Ed Skoog: Run the Red Lights DESCRIPTION:Washington State Book Award-winning poet Ed Skoog (Rough Day) reads from his newest collection\, Run the Red Lights (Copper Canyon Press). \n“Run the red lights” were the last words the musician Alex Chilton spoke to his wife on the way to the hospital. In Skoog’s new book the poems are running all the lights\, the way that talking casually runs and flows over itself and intertwines with what others are saying. These plainspoken poems rediscover the relationship between talking and thinking\, as they weave among enthusiastic jags about sex and love\, theater\, music\, New Orleans\, numbness\, ghosts\, wolves\, history\, violence\, rescue\, art marriage\, mothers\, fathers\, and children. \n\nPhoto by Kelly O.\nEd Skoog is the author of three books of poems: Mister Skylight\, Rough Day (winner of the Washington State Book Award)\, and Run the Red Lights\, all published by Copper Canyon Press. He has been a visiting writer at George Washington University\, Wichita State University\, and Hugo House. He has received fellowships from Lannan Foundation and Bread Loaf Writers Conference. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2015\, Paris Review\, Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, New Republic\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. He is poetry editor of Okey-Panky\, and co-host\, with novelist J. Robert Lennon\, of the podcast Lunch Box\, with Ed and John. He teaches part-time at Portland Community College\, Portland State University\, the Idyllwild Writers Week\, the Attic Institute\, and 24PearlStreet. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/ed-skoog-run-red-lights/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161117T203000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20160912T235100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160912T235100Z UID:248395-1479409200-1479414600@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Made at Hugo House 2015–2016 Final Reading DESCRIPTION:The Made at Hugo House fellows\, part of our program that provides support to emerging writers\, will read from their respective writing projects. Hear new work from poet Quenton Baker\, fiction writer John Englehardt\, writer Kathy Harding\, poet Sierra Golden\, poet Sarah Kathryn Moore\, and writer Diana Xin. \nRead more about the Made at Hugo House fellows and their projects. \n\nThis event is free and open to the public. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/made-hugo-house-2015-2016-final-reading/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T203000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20160913T082200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T082200Z UID:248405-1479495600-1479501000@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Michelle Tea and Donna Kaz Dual Book Launch with Musical Guest Jordan O'Jordan DESCRIPTION:Postpunk performance poet and writer Michelle Tea and multigenre writer and feminist activist Donna Kaz (also known by her pseudonym Aphra Behn) will read from their latest books with music provided by Jordan O’Jordan. \nMichelle Tea‘s latest is the formally innovative apocalyptic fantasy\, Black Wave (Feminist Press). Dreamlike and dystopian\, Black Wave began as a memoir but as the weird obligations of truth-telling began to pile up\, Tea allowed herself to write about her situation in the third person. \nDesperate to quell her addiction to drugs\, a disastrous romance\, and a San Francisco in the throes of the first tech bubble\, Michelle heads to L.A. As a global apocalypse approaches\, she begins an exploration of how to make queer love and art without succumbing to self-destructive vice. \n“I worship at the altar of this book.” —Maggie Nelson\, The Argonauts \nDonna Kaz began as an actress on a movie star’s arm and wound up an anonymous activist in a rubber gorilla mask. Her new memoir\, Unmasked: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour (Skyhorse Publishing) follows her story from being a young victim of domestic violence to a Guerrilla Girl\, a feminist activist who never appears in public without the guise of a rubber guerrilla mask and a pseudonym. \n“I loved this book by a woman with dreams that don’t get realized but she makes her life work\, no matter what\, and tells her story with such honesty and clarity. An incredible achievement. It is unique\, original…Donna Kaz is what Arthur Penn would say\, somethin’ else.” —Estelle Parsons\, Oscar-winning actress \nA book signing will follow the reading\, and books will be for sale from The Elliott Bay Book Company. \n\nNote: This event is free and takes place at Fred Wildlife Refuge on Capitol Hill. 21+ \n\nPhoto by Gretchen Sayers.\nMichelle Tea is the author of ten books\, the founder of literary nonprofit RADAR Productions\, the co-creator of Sister Spit\, and the curator of Amethyst Editions\, a collaboration with the Feminist Press. \n\nDonna Kaz is a multigenre writer. Aphra Behn is a performer\, playwright\, producer\, and the artistic director of Guerrilla Girls on Tour! Both live in New York City. \n  URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/michelle-tea-donna-kaz-dual-book-launch-musical-guest-jordan-ojordan/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161119T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161119T210000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20160804T022400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160804T022400Z UID:248309-1479582000-1479589200@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Word Works: Patricia Smith [CANCELLED] DESCRIPTION:General admission: $12 | Hugo House member: $10 | Student: $5 \n \nTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED\, AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED.\n  \nThe Anatomy of a New Book \nPatricia Smith is the author of six critically acknowledged volumes of poetry\, including National Book Award-finalist Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press)\, and National Poetry Series winner Teahouse of the Almighty (Coffee House Press). \nIn her latest collection\, Incendiary Art (Northwestern University Press)\, Smith confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers\, envisioning\, reenvisioning\, and ultimately reinventing the role of witness with an incendiary fusion of forms—from prose poems to sestinas and sonnets. \nIn her Word Works talk—”The Anatomy of a New Book”—Smith will focus on her process completing Incendiary Art and other recent collections\, walking us through the conception\, trajectory\, and difficulties of crafting a cohesive manuscript. \nFollowing her talk\, poet and educator Quenton Baker\, who is a former student of Patricia’s\, will lead a Q&A. \n\nNote: This event takes place at The Frye Art Museum. \n\nAbout Word Works events and the 2016–2017 Season. \n\nPatricia Smith is the author of six critically-acknowledged volumes of poetry\, including Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah; Blood Dazzler\, a National Book Award finalist; Teahouse of the Almighty\, a National Poetry Series winner (all from Coffee House Press); Close to Death and Big Towns\, Big Talk\n(both from Zoland Books); and Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha Press). She is a Cave Canem faculty member\, a professor of English at CUNY/College of Staten Island\, and a faculty member of the Sierra Nevada MFA program. \n\n \nQuenton Baker‘s work has appeared or is forthcoming in anthologies such as Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters and It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. He has a chapbook\, Diglossic in the Second America from Punch Press\, and his book This Glittering Republic is forthcoming from Willow Books. He has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine\, and he writes poetry reviews for Poet by Poet. \n\nStamping the Word with You: A Creative-Writing Class with Patricia Smith\n  \nSmith is also teaching a half-day class before her Word Works talk. More info on the class\, which is open to all levels of writers across all genres\, can be found on the class page here. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/word-works-patricia-smith/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T200000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161101T075500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161101T075500Z UID:248425-1480618800-1480622400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Kerry Cohen: Girl Trouble @ Elliott Bay Book Company DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Elliott Bay Book Company \nBestselling memoirist and psychotherapist Kerry Cohen reads from her new book\, Girl Trouble: An Illustrated Memoir (Hawthorne Books)\, which explores complicated female friendships. \nBeginning with her relationship with her sister\, Tyler Cohen (who illustrates the memoir)\, Kerry examines the many ways female friendships can affect a girl’s life—from bullying and failed friendships to competition and painful breakups. \n“I was mesmerized by Girl Trouble.” — Cheryl Strayed\, author of Wild \n“Cohen bravely details how one’s family of origin impacts our later relationships\, and accurately demonstrates how we must first sort ourselves out before we can establish healthy bonds with others.” — Blake Nelson\, author of The City Wants You Alone \n“This book is so goddamn good\, you’ll plotz.” — Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Chronology of Water \n\nThis event is free and takes place at The Elliott Bay Book Company. \n\nPhoto by Heather Hawksford\nKerry Cohen is a psychotherapist and is on the faculty of the Red Earth Low-Residency MFA program. She is the author of the memoirs Loose Girl (Hyperion) and Seeing Ezra (Seal Press)\, as well as seven other books. She lives with her family in Portland\, Oregon. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/kerry-cohen-girl-trouble/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161203T180000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161130T074300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T074300Z UID:248463-1480766400-1480788000@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Write-O-Rama DESCRIPTION:Write-O-Rama is your chance to try out several Hugo House classes and workshops in one writing-packed day—plus get special discounts on a one-year Hugo House membership. \nEvent Overview\nRegistration begins at 12 p.m. The first class begins at 1 p.m. There are five class choices per 50-minute session. Choose your favorite\, head to the room in which it’s held\, and the instructor will give a brief talk on the topic followed by a writing prompt or exercise. \nAt the 50-minute mark\, we’ll race through the halls ringing the Write-O-Rama bell\, and you can head to your next class of choice. After the last bell at 6:00 p.m.\, join your fellow writers and teachers\, too\, for a happy hour. \nClasses & Teachers\nA full list of classes on offer can be found here. \nTickets\n\n$45 gets you in the door and access to five classes of your choice. Low-income and student tickets are also available for $25.\n$90 gets you admission plus a one-year discounted membership to Hugo House for $45 ($15 off). A full list of membership benefits can be found here. Discounted membership will also be available the day of the event for $50. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/write-o-rama-5/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161206T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161206T203000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161123T040500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T174852Z UID:248435-1481052600-1481056200@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento: Donna Miscolta\, Joshua Mohr\, and Sierra Nelson DESCRIPTION:Will you get that job you’re gunning for? Should you tell her you love her? Do you dare disturb the universe?\n  \nHugo House and Hotel Sorrento team up for this monthly divination series hosted by poet Johnny Horton. Come early\, write your most burning questions down\, and the panel of writer-oracles will divine your fate by choosing a random passage from their respective books. Donna Miscolta (When the de la Cruz Family Danced); Joshua Mohr (All This Life; Some Things that Meant the World to Me); and poet\, teacher\, and performer Sierra Nelson are tonight’s featured writers. \nFeel free to come at 7\, get a drink\, and write your questions down. Divination begins at 7:30 p.m. \n\n \nDonna Miscolta is the author of the short story collection Hola and Goodbye\, just out in November from Carolina Wren Press having been selected by Randall Kenan for the Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman. Her novel When the de la Cruz Family Danced was published in 2011 by Signal 8 Press. \n  \n  \n  \n\nJoshua Mohr is the author of Damascus\, his 2011 novel called “Beat-poet cool” by The New York Times. He’s also written Fight Song and Some Things that Meant the World to Me\, one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009\, as well as Termite Parade\, an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List. \n  \n  \n  \n\nSierra Nelson\, author of I Take Back the Sponge Cake\, has poems in Crazyhorse\, DIAGRAM\, and Poetry Northwest. Earning her MFA from UW (2002)\, Nelson is a MacDowell Colony Fellow\, Seattle City Artist Project Grant winner\, and Vis-à-Vis Society co-founder. \n  \n  \n  \n\nJohn Wesley Horton (aka Johnny Horton) co-directs the University of Washington’s summer creative writing program in Rome. He’s received a Washington Artist Trust GAP grant and his poems appear in Poetry Northwest\, Cutbank\, Notre Dame Review\, Borderlands\, and The Los Angeles Review. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/ask-oracle-hotel-sorrento-donna-miscolta-joshua-mohr-sierra-nelson/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States CATEGORIES:Reading END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161207T210000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161118T081800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T081800Z UID:248431-1481137200-1481144400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Randa Jarrar with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha DESCRIPTION:The monthly series hosted and curated by Lambda Literary Award-winning writer Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore continues with December’s installment\, featuring award-winning novelist Randa Jarrar and writer and cultural worker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. \nRanda Jarrar is the author of the recent story collection Him\, Me\, Muhammad Ali (Sarabande Books)\, called an extraordinary debut by People magazine. Jarrar’s stories grapple with love\, loss\, displacement\, and survival in a collection that moves seamlessly between realism and fable\, history and the present. \n“These stories laugh with and think through and rise against\, which is just to say they brilliantly demonstrate Jarrar’s huge talent\, compassion and range. Him\,Me\, Muhammed Ali astonishes from start to finish.” — Sam Lipsyte \nLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s memoir Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home was a Publisher’s Triangle and Lambda Award finalist and American Library Association Stonewall Award winner in 2016. From 2006-2016\, she co-founded and co-directed Mangos With Chili\, North America’s longest running QTPOC performance art tour. She is a lead artist with the disability justice performance collective Sins Invalid\, and is a weirdo who writes about survivorhood\, disability justice\, queer femme of color bodies and lives and Sri Lankan diaspora. \nJarrar and Piepzna-Samarasinha will read from their respective works\, followed by an onstage conversation with Sycamore. \n\nNote: This event is free and open to the public. The bar will be open. Accessibility info can be found here. \n\nRanda Jarrar is the author of Him\, Me\, Muhammad Ali. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Utne Reader\, Salon.com\, Guernica\, The Rumpus\, The Oxford American\, Ploughshares\, Five Chapters\, and others. Her first novel\, A Map of Home\, was published in half a dozen languages & won a Hopwood Award\, an Arab-American Book Award\, and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the Barnes and Noble Review. She has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation\, the Lannan Foundation\, Hedgebrook\, and others\, and in 2010 was named one of the most gifted writers of Arab origin under the age of 40. She runs RAWI (the Radius of Arab-American Writers) and loves coordinating events and strengthening communities. \n\nPhoto by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes\nLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled nonbinary femme writer and cultural worker of Burger/ Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/ Roma ascent. The author of Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (Publisher’s Triangle and Lambda Award 2016 finalist\, American Library Association Stonewall Award winner 2016)\, Bodymap (Publisher’s Triangle 2016 finalist)\, Love Cake (Lambda Award 2012)\, and Consensual Genocide\, and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities\, her work has been widely anthologized\, most recently in Glitter and Grit and Octavia’s Brood. She is currently working on her next book of poems\, Tonguebreaker\, and a collection of essays. \n\nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is most recently the author of a memoir\, The End of San Francisco\, which won a Lambda Literary Award\, and the editor of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?\, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. \n  URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/contagious-exchanges-randa-jarrar-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161209T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161209T203000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161101T051500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161101T051500Z UID:248422-1481310000-1481315400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Quenton Baker: This Glittering Republic DESCRIPTION:Poet\, educator\, and 2015–2016 Made at Hugo House fellow Quenton Baker reads from his debut collection\, This Glittering Republic (Willow Books). \nBaker’s work focuses on the fact of blackness in American society. Following Baker’s Hugo Lit Series performance\, Paul Constant of The Seattle Review of Books wrote that this collection “will likely establish [Baker] as a staple of the Seattle literary scene.” \n“In language as beautiful as it is merciless\, these poems comprise a primer for the discussion that must be ongoing if we are ever to establish a just and sane society.”  — Tim Seibles (Fast Animal) \n“This Glittering Republic will save you with its Holy Blackness whether you want to be saved or not— Baker’s work unapologetically hovers over and houses a place of surrender and pain\, each poem a roadmap for systemic blood clotting…a place of giants\, boys\, neighbors and all things between: God cast a shadow on the branches and spit stuck in my thick naps.” — Anastacia-Renee (26) \n\nThis event is free and open to the public. The bar will be open. \n\nQuenton Baker is a poet and educator from Seattle. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Jubilat\, Vinyl\, Apogee\, Poetry Northwest\, The James Franco Review\, and Cura and in the anthologies Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters and It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. He has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine and is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is a 2015–2016 Made at Hugo House fellow and the recipient of the James W. Ray Venture Project award from Artist Trust. He is the author of This Glittering Republic (Willow Books\, 2016). URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/quenton-baker-glittering-republic/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161210T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161210T210000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161123T062700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161123T062700Z UID:248442-1481396400-1481403600@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Conjuring: An Evening of Poetry & Performance on Nature\, Justice & Magic DESCRIPTION:In honor of their book publication\, Wilderness Lessons (FutureCycle)\, poet JM Miller hosts a celebration of Seattle artists exploring how nature\, social justice\, and magic conjure the human spirit for a night of poetry\, experimental writing\, and performance by Samar Abulhassan\, Natasha Marin\, Cody Pherigo\, Hugo House’s poet-in-residence Anastacia-Renee\, Jane Wong\, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. \nWilderness Lessons is a poetry collection that is a love letter to the planet that explores human violences. The book seeks to dissolve binaries between self and world\, city and nature\, body and spirit. In this “unbetween” space\, the book finds a place in which identity becomes fluid. \n\nThis event is free and open to the public. The bar will be open. \n\nJM Miller is a trans-identified poet\, essayist\, instructor\, and healer living on a 10-acre organic farm on Vashon Island\, Wash. They won the Grand Prize for the Eco Arts Awards in 2014 and was a finalist for terrain.org’s 2013 poetry contest. JM teaches poetry and creative nonfiction writing at the University of Washington in Tacoma and is an instructor at Hugo House. JM’s debut poetry collection\, Wilderness Lessons\, has been described as work reaching toward the inherent value of life\, and they have one chapbook\, Primitive Elegy (alicebluebooks). Visit their website at jm.poet.com. \n\nSamar Abulhassan is a Seattle poet and teaching artist born to Lebanese immigrants and raised with multiple languages. She recently received a 2016 CityArtist grant to complete a novel-in-poems reflecting on the Arabic alphabet while exploring themes of longing and memory. She is a 2006 Hedgebrook alum and has published six chapbooks including Farah and Nocturnal Temple. \n\nNatasha Marin is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a Hedgebrook alum who has been published in periodicals like the Feminist Studies Journal\, African American Review\, and The Caribbean Writer. She has received grants from the City of Austin\, Artist Trust\, and the City of Seattle for community projects involving text-based\, visual\, performance\, and multimedia art.\n \n\nCody Pherigo is “a queer writing animal” from Kalamazoo\, MI\, who found his poet-throat at Seattle’s Bent Writing Institute where he studied\, taught\, and performed for five years. He is a 2016 Ruth Stone Poetry prize finalist and was awarded the 2016 4Culture Artists Grant for a project on trans resilience. He has two self-published chapbooks: Blue Thunder Children and Animal’s Sabbath.  \n\nAnastacia-Renee is the 2015-2016 Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House. She has received awards and fellowships from Cave Canem\, Hedgebrook\, VONA\, Jack Straw\, Ragdale and Artist Trust. Her poetry and fiction have been published in Literary Orphans\, Bitterzoet\, Radius Poetry\, Seattle Review\, Duende\, Bone Bouquet\, and Dressing Room Poetry. Recently Anastacia has been expanding her creative repertoire into the field of visual art. \n\nJane Wong‘s poems can be found in anthologies and journals such as Best American Poetry 2015\, Best New Poets 2012\, and Third Coast. She received the 2016 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review. Currently\, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pacific Lutheran University. Along with three chapbooks\, she is the author of Overpour (Action Books\, 2016). \n\nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet and essayist who has lived the experiences of a first-generation American\, immigrant\, and expatriate. Her heritage is Palestinian\, Jordanian\, and Syrian and she is fluent in Arabic and English\, and has academic proficiency in French. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee for her poems\, “Immigrant” (2014)\, “Middle Village” (2015)\, and “Maqaam” (2016). Many of her poems are inspired by the experience of crossing cultural\, geographic and political borders\, borders between languages\, between the present and the living past. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/conjuring/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161213T220000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161104T002200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161104T002200Z UID:248426-1481655600-1481666400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Seattle Fiction Federation No. 8 DESCRIPTION:Join us for another evening of fiction\, open mic genius\, and mad science\, featuring Steve Sibra\, Anca L. Szilágyi\, Donna Miscolta\, and SFF No. 7’s open mic champion Lucy Hitz. \nSteve Sibra reads regularly around the Seattle area and has been published in numerous literary magazines in the United States\, Canada\, and the UK. His poetry chapbook is titled The Turtle Is Not A Metaphor. \nAnca L. Szilágyi is the recipient of the inaugural Artist Trust / Gar LaSalle Storyteller Award. Her writing appears most recently in The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, and The Rumpus\, among other publications. \nDonna Miscolta is the author of the short story collection Hola and Goodbye\, just out in November from Carolina Wren Press having been selected by Randall Kenan for the Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman. Her novel When the de la Cruz Family Danced was published in 2011 by Signal 8 Press. \n\nLucy Hitz is a Content Marketing Manager by day and poet by night. Her work has appeared in Lucia\, Canyon Voices\, La Fovea\, and elsewhere. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/seattle-fiction-federation-no-8/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161214T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161214T213000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161123T075200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161123T075200Z UID:248448-1481745600-1481751000@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Origin Stories: All We Left Behind | Sarah Galvin\, Robert Lashley\, Michelle Peñaloza\, and Jessica Mooney DESCRIPTION:Free | The Pine Box | 21+ \nHosted by Ramon Isao\, Origin Stories: All We Left Behind will feature the commissioned work of poet and writer Sarah Galvin; poet and Stranger “Genius” nominee Robert Lashley; poet and writer Michelle Peñaloza; and fiction writer and former Made at Hugo House fellow Jessica Mooney. \nIn comic books\, an origin story often refers to the backstory revealing how a character gained their superpowers and/or the circumstances under which they became heroes or villains. Origin stories can also refer to myths and narratives for how the world began\, how creatures and plants came into existence\, and why we’re here. Or\, for mere mortals\, origin stories serve as a starting point for identity metamorphosis; the self transformed by a series of firsts—first love\, first loss\, and so on. Each writer will read personal work that speaks to the theme. \nThis event is funded in part by the City of Seattle and the Office of Arts and Culture as part of Jessica Mooney’s City Artist Project. \n\n \nSarah Galvin is the author of a book of poems\, The Three Einsteins (Poor Claudia\, 2014) and a book of essays\, The Best party of Our Lives (Sasquatch 2015.) Her poetry and essays can be also found in iO\, New Ohio Review\, Vice Magazine\, and Pinwheel\, among others. She is a regular contributor to The Stranger newspaper. She is a winner of the 2015 Lottery Grant\, a 2015 James W. Ray award nominee\, and was considered for what would have been the first Radio Flyer Wagon DUI in Washington State history. \n\n \nRobert Lashley is a 2016 Jack Straw Fellow\, Artist Trust Fellow\, and nominee for a Stranger Genius Award\, Robert Lashley has had poems published in such journals as Feminete\, Seattle Review Of Books\, NAILED\, and The Cascadia Review . His work was also featured in Many Trails To The Summit\, an anthology of Northwest form and Lyric poetry\, and It Was Written\, an anthology of poetry in the hip hop era. His full length book: The Homeboy Songs\, was published by Small Doggies press in April 2014. \n\n \nMichelle Peñaloza is the author of two chapbooks: landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias Press) and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts). Her work has been featured most recently in Poetry Northwest\, Vinyl\, The Margins\, and Waxwing. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Kundiman\, 4Culture\, and Artist Trust\, as well as scholarships from VONA/Voices and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, among others. Michelle lives in Seattle working as a sometimes teacher and staff member of The Seattle Human Services Coalition. \n\nJessica Mooney’s short stories\, essays and poetry have appeared in the Seattle Book Review\, The Rumpus\, Salon\, City Arts Magazine\, Arcade\, the What to Read in the Rain Anthology published by the Bureau of Fearless Ideas\, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of awards from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture\, 4 Culture\, and was a recent finalist for Washington State’s Gar LaSalle Storyteller Award in 2015. Jessica was a Made at Hugo House Fellow in 2014. \n\n \nRamon Isao is a recipient of the Tim McGinnis Award for Fiction\, as well as fellowships from Artist Trust and Jack Straw Cultural Center. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review\, Ninth Letter\, CityArts\, Hobart\, and The American Reader. His screenplay credits include Zombies of Mass Destruction\, Dead Body\, and Junk (in which he co-stars). He has an MFA from Columbia University\, and he teaches at Hugo House\, and he loves you all very\, very much. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/origin-stories/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170104T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170104T210000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161130T043900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T043900Z UID:248452-1483556400-1483563600@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Queer Writers in Conversation | Sarah Galvin with David Schmader DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. Information on accessibility and getting here can be found on the FAQ page. \n \nLocal lit favorites Sarah Galvin and David Schmader join host and curator Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore for CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Queer Writers in Conversation\, a reading series that takes place the first Wednesday of every month at Hugo House. Galvin is the author of the book of essays The Best Party of Our Lives (Sasquatch Books)\, a collection inspired by The Stranger‘s Wedding Crasher column. Schmader is a writer and performer and most recently known for being a spokesmodel for marijuana\, writing the book Weed: The User’s Guide (Sasquatch Books).  \n\nCONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES features two dynamic writers bridging genre\, style\, sensibility\, and all the markers of identity in queer lives. The event cross-pollinates spoken word with literary fiction\, poetic experimentation with creative nonfiction\, and hybrid work with narrative prose. \n“If you’re out at a literary event and you see Seattle author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore\, you know you’ve made the right choice for the evening\,” writes Paul Constant in The Seattle Weekly. “But more than just a promising reading series\, what Bernstein Sycamore is doing with CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES is claiming a space to discuss queer issues in literature. [The series] is proof that there’s more to be said\, written\, and discussed about the state of queer writing in America…” \n\n \nSarah Galvin is a Northwest poet and the author of the collection The Three Einsteins (Poor Claudia). She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She is the winner of the 2015 Lottery Grant and a 2015 James W. Ray award nominee. Her poems and essays can be found in iO\, Pleiades\, New Ohio Review\, Dark Sky\, Pinwheel\, Alive at the Center\, and Vice Magazine. \n\nDavid Schmader is a writer and performer whose solo plays\, Straight\, Letter to Axl\, and A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem have been performed in Seattle and around the country. Since 2015\, he’s been the creative director of the award-winning nonprofit writing center for kids The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas. His writing has appeared in OUT magazine and on Newsweek.com. \n\n \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is most recently the author of a memoir\, The End of San Francisco\, which won a Lambda Literary Award\, and the editor of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?\, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/contagious-exchanges-queer-writers-in-conversation-sarah-galvin-with-david-schmader/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170109T190000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20170103T033500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T175642Z UID:248490-1483988400-1483988400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Works in Progress DESCRIPTION:Held on the first and third Monday of every month in the Hugo House Cabaret at 7:00 p.m.\, Works in Progress is an open mic for all comers. Read your work\, meet other writers\, and find out what’s going on in the literary community. Poetry\, fiction\, essays\, memoirs\, plays\, unclassified\, and unclassifiable work are all welcome. \nApplause for all. No judgment. Some content not suitable for children or small animals. Listeners welcome. \n\nHow Works in Progress Works\nSign-ups begin at 6:30 p.m. Toss your name into one of two jars — the first flight is limited to 10 names with a guaranteed slot\, the second flight draws until we run out of names or time. Show up early to get your name into the first half\, meet other writers\, found literary movements\, or launch global conspiracies. \nThe first name is drawn at 7 p.m. and the reading begins; when the first jar is empty\, a break gives time to hobnob and replenish beverages at the open bar. Then words flow again until 9 p.m. \nSlots are limited to five minutes\, so practice your piece in advance to make sure it doesn’t go into overtime. \nAdmission is free and the bar is open to provide hydration and courage. \nQuestions? Email welcome@hugohouse.org or post a question on the Works in Progress: Hugo House Facebook group here. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/works-in-progress-4/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Mic END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170109T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170109T203000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161130T052600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T174854Z UID:248456-1483990200-1483993800@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento: Tod Marshall\, Storme Webber\, Rebecca Hoogs DESCRIPTION:Will you get that job you’re gunning for? Should you tell her you love her? Do you dare disturb the universe?\n  \nWashington Poet Laureate Tod Marshall\, poet and performer Storme Webber\, and poet Rebecca Hoogs are tonight’s featured writers for the monthly divination series\, hosted by poet Johnny Horton and generously sponsored by Hotel Sorrento. Write your most burning questions down and if fates allow it\, it will be posed to the panel of writer-oracles\, who’ll give you a glimpse into the future by reading a random passage from their respective books. \nCome at 7:00 p.m.\, get a drink\, and write your questions down! Divination begins at 7:30. \n\nThis event is free and takes place at Hotel Sorrento. \n\nTod Marshall is an award-winning poet and author of three collections of poetry\, most recently Bugle (Canarium Books)\, winner of the 2015 Washington State Book Award. He holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University and a PhD from the University of Kansas. He teaches at Gonzaga University and is serving from 2016-18 as Washington State Poet Laureate. \n  \n\nStorme Webber is a poet\, playwright\, educator\, and interdisciplinary artist. She creates blues-influenced\, socially engaged texts and images exploring identity\, art activism\, and the intersections of race\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, memory\, and spirit. She was recently honored to be a recipient of the James W Ray Venture Project award\, granted by Artist Trust and The Frye Museum. \n\n \nRebecca Hoogs is the author of Self-Storage (Stephen F. Austin University Press)\, a finalist for the 2013 Washington State Book Award in Poetry\, and a chapbook\, Grenade (GreenTower Press). Her poems have appeared in Poetry\, AGNI\, FIELD\, Crazyhorse\, Zyzzyva\, The Journal\, Poetry Northwest\, The Florida Review\, Cincinnati Review\, and others. She won the 2010 Southeast Review poetry contest and is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Artist Trust of Washington State. She is the Associate Director for Seattle Arts & Lectures and occasionally co-directs and teaches in the summer Creative Writing in Rome program for the University of Washington. \n\nJohn Wesley Horton (aka Johnny Horton) co-directs the University of Washington’s summer creative writing program in Rome. He’s received a Washington Artist Trust GAP grant and his poems appear in Poetry Northwest\, Cutbank\, Notre Dame Review\, Borderlands\, and The Los Angeles Review. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/ask-oracle-hotel-sorrento-tod-marshall-storme-webber/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States CATEGORIES:Reading END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170110T200000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161130T070900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T070900Z UID:248458-1484074800-1484078400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Joshua Mohr: Sirens DESCRIPTION:Free | Information on accessibility and getting to Hugo House can be found on the FAQ page. \nWith vulnerability\, grit\, and hard-won humor\, acclaimed novelist Joshua Mohr (All This Life\, winner of the Northern California Book Award) returns with his first book-length work of nonfiction\, Sirens (Two Dollar Radio)\, a raw and big-hearted chronicle of substance abuse\, relapse\, and family compassion. Mohr will read from Sirens\, followed by a book signing. \n“To the short list of genuinely great addiction memoirs we can now add Sirens\, a searing and at times hilarious account of Mohr’s lost years in the dive bars and gutters of San Francisco. Like Mary Karr and Jerry Stahl\, there is no line Mohr won’t cross\, either in his erstwhile quest for self-immolation\, or his fearless honesty in reporting back from that time. But what sets this book apart is Mohr’s unwillingness to traffic in pat notions of redemption.”—Ron Currie\, Jr. \n“This isn’t your average recovery memoir. Mohr’s honesty in this book is astonishing and necessary\, his candor about hitting bottom and relapsing deeply moving and important. It’s a hell of a compelling read.”—Cari Luna \n\nJoshua Mohr is the author of Damascus\, which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written Fight Song and Some Things that Meant the World to Me\, one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009\, as well as Termite Parade\, an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List. \n  \n  URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/joshua-mohr-sirens/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170111T213000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20170107T023300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170107T023300Z UID:248494-1484161200-1484170200@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:UW Castalia DESCRIPTION:Castalia is a monthly reading series at Hugo House featuring graduate students\, faculty\, and alumni from the University of Washington MFA program. This evening features first-year poet Garrett Evans\, second-year poet writer Maria Mills\, second-year prose writer Daniel J Cecil\, alumnus Jim Snowden\, and faculty member Pimone Triplett. \n\nLike many potatoes\, Garrett Evans was born in Boise\, Idaho. He grew up in an Air Force family\, and spent his childhood being uprooted every year or two\, only to be replanted on various beige military installments around the world. He has a BA in English and Creative Writing from University of Washington\, is fond of Gouda\, and is now working toward his MFA in poetry. \nMaria Mills is a second-year poet at UW. She’s lived her whole life in Washington State\, and attended Gonzaga University in Spokane for her undergrad. Maria appreciates any explanation that can be traced back to evolution\, and doesn’t know what she’s going to do after graduation\, but suggestions are welcome. \nDaniel J Cecil is a writer and editor living in Seattle. His fiction and nonfiction work has appeared in The Heavy Feather Review\, HTML Giant\, Bookslut\, The Review Review\, Knee Jerk\, The Plant\, and The Rumpus. Daniel previously acted as Managing Editor for Versal\, the literary & arts journal from Amsterdam and is currently an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Washington\, where he also teaches. \nJim Snowden has been writing fiction for over twenty years. His first published short story appeared in Pulphouse in 1995. He has since published short stories in Mind In Motion\, The King’s English\, MAKE\, and elsewhere. His novella\, Escape Velocities\, was named a notable story in 2004 by the editors of StorySouth. An early version of his first novel\, Dismantle the Sun\, took the David Guterson award in 2004. The novel went on to be published in 2012. A second novel\, The Summer of Long Knives\, came out in 2013. Jim is also an award-winning playwright. His treatment of the infamous Wannsee Conference\, Dr. Kritzinger’s 12 O’Clock\, took First Prize at the Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwright’s Festival in 2015. \n\nPimone Triplett is the author of three books of poetry\, Rumor\, The Price of Light\, and Ruining the Picture\, as well as co-editor (with Dan Tobin) of the essay anthology\, Poet’s Work\, Poet’s Play.  Her most recent book\, Supply Chain\, is due out next year from the University of Iowa’s Kuhl House poetry series. She teaches in the MFA program at UW in Seattle\, where she lives with her husband\, son\, and two matching orange cats who (like all orange cats) were bred by Vikings. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/january-uw-castalia/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170121T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170121T220000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20170105T043400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170105T043400Z UID:248492-1485028800-1485036000@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:3 for 3: Music Inspired by Books Inspired by Water DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Bushwick Book Club Seattle in partnership with Seattle7Writers\, Hugo House\, Elliott Bay Book Company\, and Town Hall Seattle \nThis event takes place at Town Hall Seattle | Doors open at 7 pm | Tickets: $10 \n\n“Not your run-of-the-mill book club\,” Bushwick shows are highly entertaining\, and offer a special look at the authors and books you love. This edition of Three for Three\, a collaboration with Seattle7Writers\, brings Bushwick Book Club’s songwriters and musicians to the stage to perform original music inspired by the water-themed work of three regional Seattle7 authors: Daniel James Brown (The Boys in the Boat); Jennie Shortridge (Love Water Memory); and Jim Lynch (Before the Wind). \nBrown\, Shortridge\, and Lynch\, along with emcee Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain)\, will be on hand to mingle and sign books. \nPerformers will include Wes Weddell\, Ben Mish\, Julia Massey\, Joy Mills\, Kimo Muraki\, Emily Westman\, Annie Jantzer\, Amanda Winterhalter\, and Reggie Garrett. \n\nFor more information on the event\, including partners and sponsors\, please visit the ticketing page via Town Hall Seattle. \n  URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/3-3-music-inspired-books-inspired-water/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T210000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161213T085100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161213T085100Z UID:248481-1485370800-1485378000@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:A Reading with Arisa White\, Anastacia-Renee\, Natasha Marin\, and Naa Akua DESCRIPTION:$10 general admission | $5 Hugo House member  \n \nHugo House poet-in-residence Anastacia-Renee reads and guest curates a night of radical women and genderqueer writers of color featuring poet Arisa White\, author most recently of the smart and fearless collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury Books)\, which takes its titles from words used internationally as hate speech against gays and lesbians\, reworking\, re-envisioning\, and re-embodying the language. \n“Arisa White sharpens her words against this unpredictable world we live in…In verse that is exhilarating and unexpected\, White writes of race\, of women loving women\, of these all too human bodies we wear…You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened is an assured and memorable book of poetry\, one that provokes thought as much as it provokes a depth of feeling.” – Roxane Gay\, Bad Feminist \nAlso reading are Seattle-based writers and performers Natasha Marin and Naa Akua. Marin\, a poet and interdisciplinary artist\, is most recently known for her website and ‘social experiment’ on white privilege\, Reparations. Spoken word artist and emcee Akua’s solo mixtape Odd(s) Balance is a compilation riffing layered thoughts about love\, internal reflection\, and evolution. \nBooks will be for sale via Open Books: A Poem Emporium. \n\nNote: This event takes place at Fred Wildlife Refuge and is 21+. \n\nArisa White is an MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts and is the author of the chapbook Post Pardon\, which was adapted into an opera\, as well as the full-length collections Hurrah’s Nest and A Penny Saved. She is one of the founding editors of HER KIND\, an online literary community powered by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts\, Arisa has received residencies\, fellowships\, or scholarships from Headlands Center for the Arts\, Port Townsend Writers’ Conference\, Rose O’Neill Literary House\, Squaw Valley Community of Writers\, Hedgebrook\, Atlantic Center for the Arts\, Prague Summer Program\, Fine Arts Work Center\, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. \n\n \nAnastacia-Renee is a full-time queer super-shero of color moonlighting as a writer\, performance artist\, and creative writing workshop facilitator. Currently a writer-in-residence at Hugo House\, she has received poetry fellowships from Cave Canem\, Hedgebrook\, VONA\, Edge (Artist Trust)\, and Jack Straw\, as well as a writing residency from Ragdale. Her theatrical mixed-media project\, 9 Ounces: A One Woman Show has debuted at The Project Room\, Hugo House\, The Twilight Gallery\, and will have its fourth run at Gay City December 14–18. She is also the author of 26\, (Dancing Girl Press)\, a 2016 James W. Ray Distinguished Writers Award nominee and a 2016 Pushcart nominee. Her poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction have been published widely and two books\, Forget It (Black Radish Books) and FingerPopping (Winged City Chapbooks\, Argus Press) are forthcoming in 2017. \n\nNatasha Marin is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. Her written work has been translated into several languages and has been showcased in exhibitions\, performances\, and events around the world. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a Hedgebrook alum who has been published in periodicals like the Feminist Studies Journal\, African American Review\, and the Caribbean Writer. She has received grants from the City of Austin\, Artist Trust\, and the City of Seattle for community projects involving text-based\, visual\, performance\, and multimedia art. \n\n\nNaa Akua is a two-spirited gender-queer emcee and writer. A native New Yorker who currently resides in Seattle\, Washington\, Akua has performed at the historical Nuyorican Cafe\, the Bowery Poetry Cafe\, Lenox Coffee\, The Wow Cafe Theater\, The Shrine\, Kitchen Sessions and a slew of other venues. Akua is also former member of the unforgettable group\, Speakers of the House and the Family. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/reading-arisa-white-anastacia-tolbert-natasha-marin-naa-akua/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170129T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170129T160000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20170118T095500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170118T095500Z UID:248497-1485698400-1485705600@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Residencies Revealed: Writers and Programs Tell All DESCRIPTION:Free to the public | Central Library (Level 4\, room 2 – Howard S. Wright Family & Janet W. Ketcham Meeting Room) \n\nPresented in partnership with the Seattle Public Library \nJoin us for a two-part discussion where we’ll hear from representatives of residency programs old and new including Artsmith\, Bloedel Reserve\, Hedgebrook\, Hypatia-In-The-Woods\, Mineral School\, and Till. Then listen to local writers Cara Diacanoff\, Karen Finneyfrock\, Gabriela Denise Frank\, Jay McAleer\, and Anastacia-Renee as they share from their experiences choosing\, applying to\, and attending residencies at regional and farther-flung programs. Handouts and refreshments will make this a lively\, informative afternoon. \nFor more information on the event\, visit spl.org. \n\nCara Diacanoff is the author of Unmarriageable Daughters: Stories (Lewis-Clark Press) and a novel\, I’ll Be a Stranger to You (Outpost19 e-books). Her work has appeared in Indiana Review\, The Adirondack Review\, and other journals. She has taught creative writing most recently as a visiting professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and currently at Seattle’s Hugo House. She has attended residencies at MacDowell Colony\, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Norman Mailer Center/Ucross\, Caldera\, Mineral School\, and elsewhere. \nKaren Finneyfrock is the author of two young adult novels: The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door and Starbird Murphy and the World Outside\, both published by Viking Children’s Books. She is one of the editors of the anthology Courage: Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls and the author of Ceremony for the Choking Ghost\, both released on Write Bloody press. She is a former writer-in-residence at Hugo House and has attended residencies at Hedgebrook\, Bloedel Reserve\, Till\, and the Helen R. Whiteley Center. Karen is a full-time resident at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center’s Cooper Artist Lofts. \n\nGabriela Denise Frank is a fiction and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in journals including Brevity\, Creative Nonfiction\, Flash Fiction Magazine\, The Rumpus\, and Stoneboat. She has attended residencies at A Room of Her Own Foundation\, Mineral School\, Seattle Central Library\, NIAUSI (Italy)\, and Vermont Studio Center. \nJay McAleer‘s work has appeared in Literary Orphans\, Pacifica Literary Review\, The Far Field\, and elsewhere. He was a 2013 Jack Straw Writer and in addition to participating in the Till residency for two consecutive years\, has received residencies from the Vermont Studio Center and Centrum Arts Foundation. \nAnastacia-Renee is a writer\, performance artist\, Cave Canem Fellow\, Hedgebrook Alumna\, and Artist Trust EDGE Program Graduate. Her poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction have been published widely\, and she is currently a writer-in-residence at Hugo House. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/residencies-revealed/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T210000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161130T081700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T081700Z UID:248462-1485975600-1485982800@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Queer Writers in Conversation | John Whittier Treat\, Evan J. Peterson\, and Julene Tripp Weaver DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. Information on accessibility and getting to Hugo House can be found here. \n \nWriter and critic John Whittier Treat (The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House) was a witness to the earliest days of the AIDS epidemic in the Pacific Northwest and became involved with the local recovery community as AIDS affected gay men already struggling with addiction. \nEvan J. Peterson is a writer and author of numerous chapbooks and books\, including the forthcoming PrEP Diaries\, which chronicles his experiences with Truvada—the first daily pill prescribed to HIV-negative people that prevents the transmission of the virus—through clever and sardonic stories about sex\, intimacy\, and the wild new frontiers of queer life. \nPoet and writer Julene Tripp Weaver‘s third poetry book\, Truth be Bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS\, is a “powewrful\, readable\, nearly-impossible-to-put down\, boundary-crossing coming-out collection” (Jan Steckel\, The Horizontal Poet). \nAll three writers will briefly read from their recent work\, followed by an onstage conversation with host and curator Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. \n\nCONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES features two dynamic writers bridging genre\, style\, sensibility\, and all the markers of identity in queer lives. The event cross-pollinates spoken word with literary fiction\, poetic experimentation with creative nonfiction\, and hybrid work with narrative prose. \n“If you’re out at a literary event and you see Seattle author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore\, you know you’ve made the right choice for the evening\,” writes Paul Constant in The Seattle Weekly. “But more than just a promising reading series\, what Bernstein Sycamore is doing with CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES is claiming a space to discuss queer issues in literature. [The series] is proof that there’s more to be said\, written\, and discussed about the state of queer writing in America…” \n\nJohn Whittier Treat is the author of Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and Atomic Bomb (Chicago) and Great Mirrors Shatter: Japan\, Orientalism and Homosexuality (Oxford). He joined the Yale faculty in 1999 after teaching for eighteen years at the University of Washington\, Berkeley\, Stanford\, and Texas. He has been Professor Emeritus at Yale since 2014 and continues to teach courses in modern Japanese literature and criticism\, and occasionally Korean studies and LGBT studies. Treat’s fiction has appeared in literary journals\, and his opinion pieces have been published in the New York Times and the Huffington Post. \n\nEvan J. Peterson is the author of The PrEP Diaries\, Skin Job\, and The Midnight Channel\, as well as a Lambda Award finalist for editing Ghosts in Gaslight\, Monsters in Steam: Gay City 5. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Minor Arcana Press\, and you can find his writing in Weird Tales\, The Stranger\, Boing Boing\, The Rumpus\, Best Gay Stories 2015\, Queers Destroy Horror\, and Nightmare Magazine. Find more of his writing as well as videos of him reciting poetry in drag at evanjpeterson.com. \n  \n\nJulene Tripp Weaver moved to Seattle from New York in 1989\, she is a psychotherapist\, and worked in AIDS services for over 21 years. Her third poetry book\, Truth Be Bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS\, will be published later this month. She is also the author of No Father Can Save Her and Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues. Find more of her writing at julenetrippweaver.com or on Twitter @trippweavepoet. \n  \n  \n\nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is most recently the author of a memoir\, The End of San Francisco\, which won a Lambda Literary Award\, and the editor of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?\, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/23483/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170206T190000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20161220T091800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T175643Z UID:248489-1486407600-1486407600@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Works in Progress DESCRIPTION:Held on the first and third Monday of every month in the Hugo House Cabaret at 7:00 p.m.\, Works in Progress is an open mic for all comers. Read your work\, meet other writers\, and find out what’s going on in the literary community. Poetry\, fiction\, essays\, memoirs\, plays\, unclassified\, and unclassifiable work are all welcome. \nApplause for all. No judgment. Some content not suitable for children or small animals. Listeners welcome. \n\nHow Works in Progress Works\nSign-ups begin at 6:30 p.m. Toss your name into one of two jars — the first flight is limited to 10 names with a guaranteed slot\, the second flight draws until we run out of names or time. Show up early to get your name into the first half\, meet other writers\, found literary movements\, or launch global conspiracies. \nThe first name is drawn at 7 p.m. and the reading begins; when the first jar is empty\, a break gives time to hobnob and replenish beverages at the open bar. Then words flow again until 9 p.m. \nSlots are limited to five minutes\, so practice your piece in advance to make sure it doesn’t go into overtime. \nAdmission is free and the bar is open to provide hydration and courage. \nQuestions? Email welcome@hugohouse.org or post a question on the Works in Progress: Hugo House Facebook group here. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/works-in-progress-3/2017-02-06/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Mic END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170213T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170213T203000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20170119T074900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T174854Z UID:248500-1487014200-1487017800@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Ask the Oracle: Claudia Rowe\, Randy Sue Coburn\, and JM Miller DESCRIPTION:Hugo House and Hotel Sorrento team up for this monthly divination series hosted by poet Johnny Horton. Come early\, write your most burning questions down\, and a panel of writers will divine your fate by choosing a random passage from their respective books. \nTonight’s writer-oracles are award-winning journalist and current Seattle Times staff writer Claudia Rowe\, author of the forthcoming literary true crime book\, The Spider and the Fly (HarperCollins); journalist\, screenwriter\, and author of the novels Remembering Jody\, A Better View of Paradise\, and Owl Island\, Randy Sue Coburn; and poet and essayist JM Miller\, whose work explores environmental imagination and activism. \nFeel free to drop by at 7 pm to write your questions down and have a drink. Divination will begin at 7:30 pm. \nNote: This event takes place at Hotel Sorrento in the Fireside Room (900 Madison Street). \n\n \nClaudia Rowe is an award-winning journalist who has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been published in numerous newspapers and magazines\, including the New York Times\, Mother Jones\, Huffington Post\, Woman’s Day\, Yes! and The Stranger. Currently\, Claudia is a staff writer at the Seattle Times. Her coverage of social issues\, race\, and violence has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists\, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University\, and the Journalism Center on Children & Families\, which awarded her a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. \n  \n\nRandy Sue Coburn began her career as a journalist whose essays and articles appeared in numerous national magazines and major newspapers. Her screenplays include Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle\, the 1994 film about Dorothy Parker that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won Jennifer Jason Leigh the National Society of Film Critics Award for best actress. Film work and teaching at The University of Washington subsidized the writing of Remembering Jody\, (1999\, Carroll & Graf)\, and Randy Sue’s second novel\, Owl Island\, was published in 2006 by Ballantine\, a division of Random House Publishing Group. A Better View of Paradise\, also from Random House/Ballantine\, was published in 2009. \n\nJM Miller is a poet and essayist whose work explores environmental imagination and activism. She is founder of the anthology Ground Swell\, a developing online public forum for literary environmental activism. She teaches poetics at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her work has most recently been published in Written River: A Journal of Eco-Poetics\, Tupelo Press (online)\, and Cimarron Review. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/ask-oracle-claudia-rowe-randy-sue-coburn-jm-miller/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States CATEGORIES:Reading END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170217T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170217T220000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20160804T062700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160804T062700Z UID:248333-1487359800-1487368800@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Literary Series: Angela Flournoy\, Phillip B. Williams\, and Megan Kruse DESCRIPTION:General admission: $25 | Hugo House member: $20 | Student: $10 \n \nHugo Literary Series presents brand-new and never-before-heard work\, commissioned by Hugo House\, by three writers and a musician or band based on the same theme. \nTonight’s theme is “exile\,” and we’re excited to feature fiction writer Angela Flournoy\, author of the National Book Award-nominated and 2017 Seattle Reads pick\, The Turner House. Emerging poet Phillip B. Williams (Thief in the Interior)\, and Pacific Northwest native and writer\, Megan Kruse (Call Me Home) will also present new work\, with Seattle-based electro-pop duo Crater providing music to the same theme in between readings. \n\nNote: This event takes place at Fred Wildlife Refuge (21+) on Capitol Hill. \n\nAbout Lit Series events and the 2016–2017 Season. \n\nAngela Flournoy is the author of The Turner House\, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times Sunday Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review\, and she has written for The New York Times\, The New Republic\, and The Los Angeles Times. \n  \n  \n\nPhillip B. Williams is author of the chapbooks Bruised Gospels\, Burn\, and Thief in the Interior. He is a Cave Canem graduate and the poetry editor of the online journal Vinyl Poetry. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo\, Kenyon Review Online\, The Southern Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, West Branch\, Blackbird\, and others. \n  \n  \n\nMegan Kruse is the author of Call Me Home (Hawthorne Books). She teaches fiction at Eastern Oregon University’s Low-Residency MFA program\, Hugo House\, and Gotham Writers Workshop. She was the recipient of a 2016 PNBA Award\, and one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” for 2015. \n\nCrater is a Seattle-based electronic industrial pop duo consisting of Ceci Gomez and Kessiah Gordon. Since its 2013 inception\, the group has released a slew of singles via Mermaid Avenue/Mom+Pop and their debut full-length Talk to Me So I Can Fall Asleep on Help Yourself Records in early 2015. They have toured nationally with the likes of Canadian goth pop artist TR/ST and glitter pop band MS MR. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/lit-series-angela-flournoy-megan-kruse-phillip-b-williams/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170225T210000 DTSTAMP:20240329T035638 CREATED:20170124T021600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170124T021600Z UID:248503-1488049200-1488056400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Chelsea Werner-Jatzke Book Launch: Adventures in Property Management DESCRIPTION:Free to the public. \nIt’s an evening of release! Chelsea Werner-Jatzke presents her chapbook\, Adventures in Property Management published January 2017 by Sibling Rivalry Press. \nThis collection of flash fictions\, loosely based around Werner-Jatzke’s experience as a property manager of the Malden Apartments on Capitol Hill\, is woven together by the lives in a Seattle apartment building and the work required in order to maintain them. \nAuthor Matt Bell describes Adventures in Property Management as “unpacking the confusion and loneliness of living in spaces dense with other humans—as well as the hope we must sometimes share\, for connection and communion with those unimaginable lives surrounding our own.” \nFeaturing the talents of fiction writer John Englehardt\, poet Lauren Ireland\, and multimedia artist and writer Leena Joshi\, the evening will wrap with time to drink and chat as Isabel Von Der Ahe DJs in the atrium! \n\nChelsea Werner-Jatzke is the author of the chapbooks Thunder Lizard (H_NGM_N\, 2016) and Adventures in Property Management (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2017). She is outreach coordinator at Conium Review and co-founder of Till\, an annual writing residency. She has received support from Jack Straw Cultural Center as a writing fellow\, from Artist Trust as an EDGE participant\, and from the Cornish College Arts Incubator. She has attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Ragdale Foundation. Her writing has appeared in Cream City Review\, Bodega\, Hobart\, H_NGM_N\, Sonora Review\, Monkeybicycle\, Everyday Genius\, and Tupelo Quarterly\, among others. chelseawernerjatzke.com \n\nJohn Englehardt is a fiction writer\, editor at Pacifica Literary Review\, and a former Made at Hugo House fellow. He won the 2014 Wabash prize in fiction\, the Conium Review’s 2014 Flash Fiction Contest\, and The Stranger’s A&P story contest\, judged by Sherman Alexie and Rebecca Brown. He holds an MFA from University of Arkansas\, and his writing has appeared in Sycamore Review\, The Stranger\, Seattle Review of Books\, and The James Franco Review. \nLauren Ireland is the author of The Arrow (Coconut Books\, 2014)\, Dear Lil Wayne (Magic Helicopter Press\, 2014)\, Feelings (Trembling Pillow Press\, forthcoming 2017) and two chapbooks\, Sorry It’s So Small (Factory Hollow Press\, 2011) and Olga & Fritz (Mondo Bummer Press\, 2011). She lives in Seattle. \nLeena Joshi is a visual artist and writer in Seattle. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/chelsea-werner-jatzke-book-launch/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR