Hotel Sorrento Fireside Room (900 Madison Street) | free Join us for Ask the Oracle, a quarterly series where local writers answer your most burning questions through literary divination. Come early, write your questions down, and—if fates allow—our host Johnny Horton will pose your question to the panel of writers, who'll then choose a passage from
A glowing collection of new stories from up-and-coming voices and celebrated authors alike, Small Odysseys celebrates the latest gems of contemporary short fiction. Striking and joyful, the collection elucidates the character of the current literary landscape while featuring the voices of thirty-five luminaries testing the limits of the form. Small Odysseys is a celebration of the exhilarating diversity of
Join us in the Hugo House Lapis Theater for the launch of Kathryn Schulz‘ national bestseller and New York Times‘ Editors’ Choice, Lost & Found. Hailed as a “profound meditation on grief and joy,” Lost & Found tells the story of the author’s incalculable loss amidst finding the love of her life.Pre-order a copy of
Kundiman and Hugo House present a reading showcasing local writers of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) diaspora in honor of heritage month. Featuring Betsy Aoki, Troy Osaki, Ari Laurel, and Nari Kirk with hosts Jordan Alam and Shankar Narayan, this series of poets and prose writers bring us new work after a long
Castalia is a monthly reading series featuring graduate students, faculty, and alumni from the University of Washington MFA program. Learn more about UW Castalia and who will be reading at this month’s event here.
This spring, the 2021-22 Hugo House Fellows invite you to their reading, “Rituals for Perennial Awakening: a reading inspired by & in search of healing.”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 Scott Bentley, s.c.
Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature (published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in their Composition, Literacy, and Culture series) presents the experiences and voices of Black creative writers who are also teachers. The authors in this collection engage poetry, fiction, experimental literature, playwriting, and literary criticism. They provide historical and
"I flew home— / then I flew from home— / having found my home is flight." Expatriate voices have always enriched our collective experience of literature. As Tolstoy asserted: "If literature is NOT translated . . . it's like blood that stays locked in one part of the body." Translation, while often a primary transfusion, is
University of British Columbia forest ecologist Suzanne Simard, long renowned among people who study forests and trees, showed the world what she has been about in decades of life and work in her brilliant book first published last year, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Vintage). She kindly gave Elliott Bay
One of our favorite writers, and human beings who are of the writerly persuasion, novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki makes this most welcome in-person Seattle return for the paperback release of last year’s luminous novel, her fourth, The Book of Form and Emptiness (Penguin). We had a wonderful online launch for this
In a new collection of autobiographical essays, Uncle Rico’s Encore, award-winning author Peter Bacho shares stories that illuminate the Filipino American experience. Bacho relates vivid stories of community, generational connection, defiance, and activism, including resistance to the union-busting efforts of the federal government and organizing for decent housing and services for elders. He also illustrates the
Please join 18 women and nonbinary writers of color in what promises to be a dynamic, inspiring evening. Each of these writers was a student in Anne Liu Kellor’s Hugo House classes, and many are taking the stage for the first time. Come to listen, come to engage.Readers include Auzin Ahmadi, Portia Botchway, Aleyda Marisol
Join us for a reading borne out of a conversation between award-winning Ogala-Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier and MarginShift co-curator Thomas Ahneesan (Santee Sioux, Dakota Nation) about the mass graves of Indigenous children discovered recently in Canada. The evening will feature a sampling of North American Indigenous poets for a night of poetry and a
Join us for a virtual reading with Lucas Scheelk as they read from and share their latest work, A Prayer for a Non-Religious Autistic. Lucas' work is not afraid to be intimate with multilayered truths: a family history book for those who (in various ways) choose their own, a Jewish conversion story, disability advocacy, a
For the West Coast debut of her memoir Poetry’s Possible Worlds, Lesley Wheeler leads a reading and discussion about what reading and writing poetry can do for individuals and communities. According to cognitive scientists, the experience of “literary transportation”—getting lost in a book—can change a person, starting with small physical alterations in heartrate and respiration, but sometimes
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