The first cohort of Spanish-language writers from the Seattle Escribe and Mineral School residency will present their literary work and share their experience. Get to know how the residency works and get inspired by their work! Escritores de la primera cohorte en espaùol de la residencia Seattle Escribe y Mineral School presentarån sus obras literarias y compartirån sus
Join Hugo House in welcoming Phong Nguyen for a special reading and craft talk around his latest book, Bronze Drum. Nguyen, a hapa (half-Asian) writer, will be giving readings from his work over the years and discussing them in the context of his development as a literary artist, offering a panorama, rather than a snapshot
The second annual James Welch Prize reading, celebrating two Indigenous poets from the U.S., is presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures and Poetry Northwest, featuring judge Elise Paschen and winners Halee Kirkwood and Melanie Merle.Purchase tickets through Seattle Arts & Lectures website here Judge Elise Paschen, an enrolled member of the Osage Nation, is the author
Join Hugo House in welcoming Kwame Alexander for a conversation around and reading from his highly anticipated new childrenâs book, The Door of No Return (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers).For tickets and more information please visit Elliot Bay's Eventbrite page here.Along with our friends and colleagues at Elliott Bay Book Company and The Seattle Public Library,
Join Hugo House in welcoming back CastaliaâUniversity 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 Showcasing published and unpublished drafts of work by authors from a variety of disciplines, professional backgrounds, and age demographics, Castalia offers authors a platform for community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
Hugo House presents a conversation between writers Aisha Sabatini Sloan, author of Captioning the Archives, and Lilly Dancyger, author of Negative Space. Join the artists as they discuss writing books using their fathers' artistic archives, reckoning with the myth-making of those men and their art, as well as curating their families' stories through the lens of
Join Hugo House in welcoming back CastaliaâUniversity 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 Showcasing published and unpublished drafts of work by authors from a variety of disciplines, professional backgrounds, and age demographics, Castalia offers authors a platform for community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 Hugo House in welcoming back CastaliaâUniversity 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 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 theyâve 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 CastaliaâUniversity 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 âwhere the Pulitzer Prize meets the poetry slam," and was founded at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. Different poetsâsome who write primarily for the page and others who are more performance-orientedâtake 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
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