Community Event

You can't spell beautiful prose without a P, B, and R! Guzzle cheap beer with fantastic prosies Aaron Counts, Wilson Diehl, Michelle Goodman, and Willie Fitzgerald. In his writing career, Aaron Counts has written, read and taught with professors, prisoners, dropouts & scholars (if pressed to pick his favorite, he’s probably say the dropouts). He is the co-author

NOTICE: Tickets will be $20 at the door. FEATURING SEATTLEITES SARAH GALVIN AND IDA ACTON SISTER SPIT is setting off on their 2014 spring fling, spreading queer and feminist literature and performance all across North America! The tradition of taking a vanload of edgy, intellectual provocateurs on the road, begun in 1997, continues with a

There are a million damn poetry readings going on in April, but Cheap Wine & Poetry is the one not to be missed. Here are five reasons why: 1. the spunky imaginings of Arlene Kim 2. Soul Brother #1 Robert Lashley 3. the powerfully poetic Imani Sims 4. Stranger Genius Award winner Maged Zaher 5. the sweet and stupefying

Hear works from members of the faculty of this year's Chuckanut Writers Conference. Jeff Bender is an alum of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.  His work has appeared in Guernica, First Person Arts, and The Monarch Review, and has earned honors from Glimmer

Former Made at Hugo House fellow Elissa Washuta will read from her new memoir, My Body is a Book of Rules, about her struggles with bipolar disorder, sexual assault, and antipsychotic medication. Kirkus Reviews calls the book “A fever dream of darkly personal memories and musings from the shadowy corners of sexual violence and mental

"When you are honest to your feel­ings, that triggering town chooses you." — Richard Hugo   The Triggering Town Review is a pleasant midsummer night show with all original music and literary work including poetry, stand-up, dramatic bits, cartooning, video work, and what have you. Hosted by poet Ed Skoog and musician Sam Watts (of the band Ghosts

The inimitable Hoagland will read from his new book Twenty Poems that Could Save the World (Graywolf Press). Washington State Poet Laureate Elizabeth Austen will moderate a Q&A with Hoagland after the event. The event will be $5 at the door; free for HH members. The bar will be open and books will be for sale by