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:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170213T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170213T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T214434 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 END:VCALENDAR