Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with Us at Hugo House and Seattle Pride!Join us for an evening of community, connection, and celebration. Browse vendor tables, meet local artists, and connect with resources, all while hearing directly from queer and trans voices shaping our community.SpeakersAleksa ManilaRoesette RoyaleRae IslaAmber FlameElby BroschPerformancesClara VoyanceRae IslaAmber FlameAnya ShahThis event is made
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Does writing always fall to the last spot on your to-do list? Or maybe, lately, it hasn’t even been making it on there at all? If life keeps getting in the way of your creative practice, this monthly group is for you. During our hour-and-a-half meeting, you’ll have plenty of time to put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. Whether you’re chipping away at
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This Día de Muertos Celebration at Hugo House will feature Claudia Castro Luna and members of the 2026 Jack Straw Fellows cohort.Traditionally a Mesoamerican celebration of life for those who have passed, the evening will center cross-cultural celebrations, as cohort members remember and honor the departed in their families and communities. Come join us in this
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After a sold-out run in August, KAIDAN returns, featuring new stories and performers!WHO: Za Trans-Pacific ProductionsWHAT: KAIDAN ReturnsDirected by Mimi KatanoShow Description:Za Trans-Pacific Productions’s KAIDAN returns, featuring new stories and performers, after a sold-out run in August. Kaidan(怪談) are traditional Japanese stories of ghosts (yūrei) and supernatural beings (yokai).Join us for these frightening yet melancholy
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Inspired by improv shows and Dungeons & Dragons, Whose Crit is It Anyway combines them into a performance with a cast of professional actors that will take on the characters you create. Choose their adventure and guide their actions, and if you choose wisely, they might even survive! If you’ve never played Dungeons & Dragons, never fear,
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Ready to shake off perfectionism and fall back in love with making things? This monthly creative writing circle for adults is your invitation to play. Each session, we’ll push past what we think writing should be and plunge into the strange, the chaotic, and the ephemeral to discover what it can be. In this safe, vibrant space, we’ll explore a
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Works in Progress is Hugo House's open mic series inclusive of diverse formats and storytelling crafts. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with our literary community!We are actively cultivating a low-pressure, welcoming environment for readers and guests of all skill levels and literary experience. We especially encourage BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+,
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Collections—A Live Magazine and Public Club hosted by Ariel Basom is a monthly showcase of both live readers and video performances featuring a diversity of positions, styles, and modes: poetry juxtaposing story; literary fiction opposing memoir; drama next to genre fiction.Do you want to be a part of this community? Do you want to be
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Hugo House is excited to invite our community back to Long Story Short–a volunteer run quarterly zine event! Join us for a four hour write-in where we will introduce a theme for the quarterly issue and provide prompts that writers are welcome to use (or come up with their own–as long as it fits the
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POEMS OF DÍA DE MUERTOS: CALAVERAS LITERARIASHugo House and the Highline Heritage Museum are partnering for this special event at Hugo House!Explore the history of calaveras literarias—Día de Muertos poems that tease the living through Death's voice.Learn about this uniquely Mexican poetic tradition, then create your own calavera in a fun, guided writing workshop.
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Event descriptionMedicine is complicated: we navigate suffering and tragedy, deep human moments of love and connection, and even absurdity and hilarity. How do we hold these dialectics? Our workshop offers a space for reflection, contemplation, and also generation of stories about the many facets of health and illness that we might not otherwise make time to experience
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In this beginner-friendly writing class, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts. The session will begin with introductions and a short warm-up, after which we’ll read two separate poems and write in response. At times, you'll have the opportunity to share words and ideas with other writers in small groups. You'll leave with 2-3
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Open Mic for PlaywrightsNovember 12, 20267:00 - 9:00 pmWelcome to this special Open Mic Night for Playwrights where writers bring the writing, and the audience does the reading! We encourage dramatic writers of all experience levels to share their work in this low-pressure, welcoming, and exciting evening of scene readings.How does it work?Playwrights bring scenes
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NaNoWriMo, short for National Novel Writing Month, is an annual creative writing project where participants challenge themselves to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Bring your draft and join us at Hugo House and Folio for timed writing sprints!Write in Dates:Folio DatesSaturday Nov 7 | 12 - 3 PMSaturday Nov 21
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Event descriptionMedicine is complicated: we navigate suffering and tragedy, deep human moments of love and connection, and even absurdity and hilarity. How do we hold these dialectics? Our workshop offers a space for reflection, contemplation, and also generation of stories about the many facets of health and illness that we might not otherwise make time
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Hugo House welcomes back Castalia—University of Washington MFA program's monthly reading series featuring graduate students, faculty, and alumni. Showcasing published and unpublished drafts of work by authors from a variety of disciplines, professional backgrounds, and age demographics, Castalia offers authors a platform for community reading while putting their work in conversation with other voices, styles,
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Raven Chronicles Press in partnership with the Hugo House is pleased to announce a book launch and reading from the new anthology TRANSFORMATIONS: WOOD / METAL / STONE / SUNDRY.Join us for an evening of poetry and prose celebrating the discovery of, and connection with, found objects that hide within landscapes of urban and natural
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Join us at Hugo House’s Lapis Theater for Industry Talks: Careers in the Literary Arts, an engaging evening that explores the many professional paths within the world of writing, publishing, and literary production.This event brings together authors, editors, publishers, literary agents, and other industry professionals for insightful conversations about their work and the evolving landscape
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DUNE* Mini-Comics Night is where folks are invited to create the contents of a black and white, 5.5” x 8.5” printed anthology within a limited amount of time, in one evening with no prompts or themes. Create whatever you want but it must be physical and finished by the end of the night.An exclusive edition |
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NaNoWriMo, short for National Novel Writing Month, is an annual creative writing project where participants challenge themselves to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Bring your draft and join us at Hugo House and Folio for timed writing sprints!Write in Dates:Folio DatesSaturday Nov 7 | 12 - 3 PMSaturday Nov 21
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Does writing always fall to the last spot on your to-do list? Or maybe, lately, it hasn’t even been making it on there at all? If life keeps getting in the way of your creative practice, this monthly group is for you. During our hour-and-a-half meeting, you’ll have plenty of time to put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. Whether you’re chipping away at
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Works in Progress is Hugo House's open mic series inclusive of diverse formats and storytelling crafts. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with our literary community!We are actively cultivating a low-pressure, welcoming environment for readers and guests of all skill levels and literary experience. We especially encourage BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+,
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Collections—A Live Magazine and Public Club hosted by Ariel Basom is a monthly showcase of both live readers and video performances featuring a diversity of positions, styles, and modes: poetry juxtaposing story; literary fiction opposing memoir; drama next to genre fiction.Do you want to be a part of this community? Do you want to be
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