The anthology When Home Is Not Safe: Writings on Verbal, Emotional and Physical Abuse (McFarland, 2021) features work from several Seattle area poets, as well as writers from the US, Canada, and around the world. We welcome the community to this reading and discussion for an evening of vulnerability and healing.
Hugo House welcomes author John Whittier Treat as he launches his new novel, First Consonants, the story of a boy who grows up a stutterer in the Pacific Northwest. Using his fists whenever words fail him, Brian's acts of violence are exacerbated by the abuse he suffers as a teenager at the hands of his
Join Laura Warrell to celebrate the release of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, a thrilling debut novel about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, following a jazz musician and an ensemble cast of women—some charmed by him, others scorned—who discover the power of their own voices. Warrell will be in conversation with Monica West.About Sweet, Soft, Plenty RhythmIt’s 2013,
Four poet friends gather in a virtual circle of memory and reflection to read from and talk about their recent work, especially the shared sensibilities, experiences and concerns that led them to provide pre-publication comments for Carolyne Wright's new book, Masquerade (Lost Horse Press, 2021).Masquerade is a jazz-infused memoir in poetry involving an interracial couple trying to find
Kundiman and Hugo House present a fall reading showcasing local writers of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) diaspora. Featuring Liezel Moraleja Hackett, Kalehua Kim, Lavanya Vasudevan and Shankar Narayan with hosts Ari Laurel and Perry Meas, this series of poets and prose writers bring us new work.
After nearly a decade of huddling in bars in the rain listening to the poets woo us in verse, of laughing and labiating over great fiction, of fanboying at afterparties as local artist sign our books, it is time, alas, to say goodbye to Lit Crawl Seattle. Come and celebrate the Last Lit Crawl October
Join Hugo House in welcoming six writers who have written and translated pieces into a chosen language for a multilingual reading leaning into the things we wish we could say. For each of these artists, language and translation means something different—specific, dangerous, beautiful, hopeful, or de/constructive. In the crossing, they hope to find something.Featured readers are
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 español de la residencia Seattle Escribe y Mineral School presentarán sus obras literarias y compartirán 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 children’s 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 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
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 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 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
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