Join the Seattle One-Act Play Project and Baker Theatre Workshop for a presentation of their first-ever commissioned new works, performed in a workshop with a panel of actors and writers drawn from the ACT Theatre and Hugo House communities. ABOUT THE PLAYS A New Leaf by Esteban Ortiz-Villacorta Ivan is on his third plantâŠor
2022 Jack Straw Writers Program Curator Michael Schmeltzer hosts a reading featuring Jack Straw Writers Helen Anderson, Carrie Beyer, Julie Feng, Erin Langner, Emily Parzybok, and Vincent Rendoni.Doors will open at 6:30 PM PT. The Salon bar will be open to welcome guests who may purchase alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Join artist/writer Ellen Sollod for a brief multimedia presentation of The Book of Small Regrets, followed by a spirited conversation with award-winning radio journalist Marcie Sillman. The Book of Small Regrets was created in response to the COVID crisis when even the smallest slights could seem catastrophic. Sollod tapped her social network to contribute their own small regrets,
Join us virtually for Writing Towards Justice-- a joint reading by novelist Stephanie BarbĂ© Hammer and poet Matt Sedillo from their recent books, Pretend Plumber and City on the Second Floor, followed by a discussion on how comedy and satire can push racial and economic justice and galvanize change.Â
Join us for an evening with seasoned writer and former president of the Texas Institute of Letters, Sergio Troncoso, to delve into the craft of writing. Sergio will read from and discuss his latest novel, Nobodyâs Pilgrims, and will be in conversation with author Kathleen Alcala. Kirkus Reviews: "Troncoso delivers a surprisingly fast-paced, character-driven story....A
Hugo House is pleased to welcome the return of our collaborative programming with Write Our Democracy. Join us for a new reading and community event hosted by Julia Hands and Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum.How do we as writers and community members best utilize our voices, both on and off the page, to combat the ongoing onslaught
Join Moss staff and contributors to celebrate the publication of our latest issue, with readings from Kim Fu, Matt Briggs, Nanya Jhingran, Shin Yu Pai, Rita Wirkala, and Katherine Morgan.For eight years, Moss has worked to build connections and create community among writers and readers from all over the Pacific Northwestâcome be a part of
Texas State Poets Laureate Karla K. Morton (2010) and Alan Birkelbach (2005) did what has never been done before: they traveled to all of America's 62 National Parks, wrote poetry, took photos, and put them into a beautiful full color, hard-bound coffee table book:Â The National Parks:Â A Century of Grace (TCU Press).With this winner of the
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 womenâsome charmed by him, others scornedâwho discover the power of their own voices. Warrell will be in conversation with Monica West.ï»żAbout Sweet, Soft, Plenty RhythmItâs 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 differentâspecific, dangerous, beautiful, hopeful, or de/constructive. In the crossing, they hope to find something.Featured readers are
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