Community Event

The beer's back. The writers are back. The community is back. Come to the first Cheap Beer & Prose event of the season to hear readings from memoirist and eyeglasses-collector Claire Dederer, fiction writer and Hugo cocktail-mixer extraordinaire Ian Denning, fiction writer and cat-mom Lacey Jane Henson, and fiction writer and crazy-book-title-having person Jarret Middleton.

Charles Shaw wrote us a letter. He said he's missed all of you, and he's only a dollar on November 6 at Cheap Wine & Poetry, and that you should come hear poets Bill Carty, Lauren Ireland, Shin Yu Pai, and Michelle Penaloza read in the Hugo House Cabaret.   Bill Carty has recently published in Poetry

Join us for the book launch of Exercises to Free the Tongue – poems and text by award-winning poet Molly Tenenbaum, 42-page artist's book by Ellen Ziegler. Illuminated with historic images and ephemera from Molly's grandparents, ventriloquists on the vaudeville circuit in the early 1900s, this book of poems plays with ventriloquial metaphors of voice

We're kicking off the first cheap wine event of the season with avid '80s science textbook collector Bill Carty, fashion authority and admirer of Lil' Wayne's muscles Lauren Ireland, poet and oral historian Shin Yu Pai, and heartbreak documenter and avid gif user Michelle Peñaloza. The evening will be hosted by queen of author bios Jeanine Walker.

Fiction writers, you can leave your bedroom again: we're back for the second installment of the Seattle Fiction Federation. Hooray! The featured readers are: Len Kuntz – The Dark Sunshine; My Long, Uncertain Search for Myself  Julie Trimingham – Mockingbird; Way Elsewhere Scott Broker – Winner of SFF#1 open mic Chelsea Werner-Jatkze – Fiction editor,

Start the New Year off in the Hugo House Cabaret with some hilarious and heartbreaking writers, a couple of your coolest friends (we won't tell the other ones), and $1 PBRs. Nonfiction writer Litsa Dremousis, standup comic and writer Brett Hamil, fiction writer Len Kuntz, and nonfiction writer Corina Zappia will read. Litsa Dremousis is the

Note: This event occurs at the University Bookstore, 4326 University Way Northeast A tender yet brutal love story about an illegal Chinese immigrant and Iraqi War veteran trying to survive in New York City, Atticus Lish's debut novel, Preparation for the Next Life, has captured audiences and critics alike with its painfully honest look at life

Every single day is National Poetry Month at Cheap Wine & Poetry, but we hear April is supposed to be the month where everyone reads, writes, and breathes poetry. Or something like that, right? This month's Cheap Wine & Poetry features Zubair Ahmed, Larry Crist, Laura Da', and Karen Finneyfrock, plus the instant hangover elixir,

It's hard to believe Cheap Wine & Poetry has been giving you words—and cheap booze—for ten years now, but we have. Now it's time to celebrate! For the ten-year anniversary, we're getting a little wild and splitting the show in two: one part Cheap Wine & Poetry, one part Cheap Beer & Prose. Robert Lashley and Imani Sims represent

Enjoy a porter beer float from Elysian and Bluebird, see three great local writers, and sign up for the second annual 30/30 Writing Challenge! Featuring readings from poet Lauren Ireland, Hugo poet-in-residence Anastacia-Renee, fiction writer Matthew Simmons, and a special guest who participated in last year's 30/30. The party is a great opportunity to meet other participating writers,

Three slipstream fiction writers—Matt Bell, Jedediah Berry, and Maya Sonenberg—read their work and then demonstrate for the audience the rollicking process of revision via whatever means possible. Novelist and Hugo House events curator Peter Mountford will host. Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novel Scrapper, which will be published in September 2015

Four Seattle poets — Kevin Craft, Nicole Hardy, Nikkita Oliver, and Ed Skoog — will blow your ears off at this last installment of the Cheap series in 2015. Practice for Thanksgiving at Hugo House with $1 Chuck Shaw wine. Kevin Craft is the editor of Poetry Northwest. His books include Solar Prominence (Cloudbank Books, 2005), and

Shields will read the intro to and present a slideshow of his new book, War is Beautiful: A New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict, which Noam Chomsky called "shattering." Organizing the photos into chapters such as Beauty, Movie, Painting, and Pietà, Shields demonstrates how the photos aestheticize both war as

Featuring: Holiday book sale! Poetry reading by Deborah Landau, Dean Young, and others! Behind-the-scenes stories from the press! More! Join Copper Canyon Press and Hugo House for a celebration of the gift that is given between the poem and the poetry reader. Meet Copper Canyon authors DEAN YOUNG and DEBORAH LANDAU and other surprise guests.

Seattle poet and writer Sarah Galvin's moving collection of true stories about gay weddings shows how LGBT couples have overcome cultural and personal obstacles to their unions, making wedding traditions their own and showing what everyone can learn from them. Told in a series of essays that mimics the course of a traditional wedding, from