Join us in the Hugo House Lapis Theater for an evening of poetry and conversation between three award-winning Washington poets. Kelli Russell Agodon, Katerina Canyon, and Caitlin Scarano will read in a call-and-response style and discuss identity and writing in the complexity of our current social context.
The 2022-23 Hugo House Fellows invite you to celebrate their work and growth at their mid-year reading!The Fellows will read from the projects they’ve been working on during the Hugo Fellowship, part of our program that provides support to emerging writers. Hear work from Lili Gu, Ari Laurel, Magda Manning, Nancy Mburu, Meera Vijayann, and
Join two of contemporary poetry's formal innovators as they choose each other's set lists, live on stage, and spark conversation through this process.What draws a reader to a poem? How do poems come into their forms? What brings aesthetic delight? What is it to be writing and reading poems now, in America, in the midst
Join Hugo House in welcoming 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 Showcasing published and unpublished drafts of work by authors from a variety of disciplines, professional backgrounds, and age demographics, Castalia offers authors a platform for community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
Join us for an evening of poetry, storytelling, and performance to raise funds for the Golf Pencil Group, a creative community for writers experiencing incarceration. Featured readers include past GPG guest teacher Amber Flame, rapper and performer Julie-C, novelist and journalist Kristen Millares Young, and poets Shelby Handler and Amy Hirayama.About Golf Pencil GroupSince 2011,
Page Meets Stage, an 18-year-old poetry series with a long-time association with AWP, has been called “where the Pulitzer Prize meets the poetry slam," and was founded at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. Different poets—some who write primarily for the page and others who are more performance-oriented—take the stage one after another and answer
Join Write Bloody Publishing for an evening of poetry and dancing! The event begins with readings by Amber Flame, Courtney LeBlanc, Taylor Mali, Sheleen McElhinney, Kimberly Nguyen, and Seema Reza. Then, it's time to ditch our shoes and boogie down in our sock-clad feet!The House bar will be open to serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Admission is offered on
Seattle is the only major city in the United States named after a native chief. It has grown from a tribal center and logging town into an international engine of economic and cultural innovation. And since 2017, a City of Literature.Storytellers have always shaped how the world sees Seattle. The Coast Salish peoples have lived
It's a night of firsts and of celebration! For the first time ever, former Hugo House Fellows from both the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 cohorts will take the stage together. Hear work from local luminaries s.c. bostwick, Brian Dang, Cassidy Dyce, CR Glasgow, Marguerite Harrold, Clare Johnson, Troy Osaki, & Stephanie Segura.Hosted by former Hugo House
Zoeglossia and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU welcome the Hugo House community and AWP attendees to an evening of Disability Poetry & Poetics. With readings from Raymond Antrobus, Ilya Kaminsky, Khadijah Queen, and L. Lamar Wilson.Zoeglossia Fellows will also share brief readings and reflections, followed by a conversation with the
Join Hugo House in welcoming 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
Come celebrate the inaugural release of Misty Mint Magazine, Volume 1: The Unexpected with us! We're thrilled to introduce the visionary team of editors and some of the talented writers who made this publication possible. The event will begin with a reading from the writers featured in Misty Mint Magazine, to be followed by a
Join us for Local Voices, a reading series in celebration of the brilliance of Seattle Arts & Lectures' Writers in the Schools (WITS) cohort. SAL’s Writers in the Schools (WITS) program connects professional writers with public school classrooms throughout the Puget Sound region to elevate the expressions of all students as they discover and develop
Join Hugo House in welcoming 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
Extending a warm welcome to our neighbors across the lake, Hugo House is proud to host an evening of poetry and prose from the Redmond Association of Spokenword (RASP) featuring the talents of Catherine Kyle, Balin Lusby, Darren Nordlie, Kari Tai, Michael Dylan Welch, and Iz White.Drawing upon their varied lived experiences as a magician,
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