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Ask the Oracle: Claudia Rowe, Randy Sue Coburn, and JM Miller

Hugo House and Hotel Sorrento team up for this monthly divination series hosted by poet Johnny Horton. Come early, write your most burning questions down, and a panel of writers will divine your fate by choosing a random passage from their respective books. Tonight's writer-oracles are award-winning journalist and current Seattle Times staff writer Claudia

Ask the Oracle: Melissa Febos, Elissa Washuta, and Quenton Baker

Hugo House and Hotel Sorrento team up for this monthly divination series hosted by poet Johnny Horton. Come early, write your most burning questions down, and a panel of writers will divine your fate by choosing a random passage from their respective books. Tonight’s writer-oracles are Melissa Febos, author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Whip

Ask the Oracle: Suzanne Morrison, Doug Nufer, and Megan Snyder-Camp [Offsite]

Hugo House and Hotel Sorrento team up for this monthly divination series hosted by poet Johnny Horton. Come early, write your most burning questions down, and a panel of writers will divine your fate by choosing a random passage from their respective books. Tonight's panel of writer-oracles are fiction writer and memoirist Suzanne Morrison, author

Ask the Oracle: Margot Kahn Case, Chelsea Werner-Jatzke, and Samar Abulhassan [Offsite]

Hugo House and Hotel Sorrento team up for this monthly divination series hosted by poet Johnny Horton. Come early, write your most burning questions down, and a panel of writers will divine your fate by choosing a random passage from their respective books. Tonight's writer-oracles are nonfiction writer and author of the High Plains Book

Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento: Richard Chiem, Meredith Clark, and Marie-Caroline Moir

Hotel Sorrento Fireside Room (900 Madison Street) | free Ask the Oracle is back—and now quarterly! Join us in the cozy Fireside Room at Hotel Sorrento for a special spooky Halloween edition of literary divination, hosted by Johnny Horton. Tonight's writer-oracles are Richard Chiem, Meredith Clark, and Marie-Caroline Moir. Come early, write your most burning

Ask the Oracle: Michael Shilling, Amber Flame, and Montreux Rotholtz

Hotel Sorrento Fireside Room (900 Madison Street) | free Join us for the next installment of Ask the Oracle, a quarterly series where 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

Ask the Oracle: Steven Barker, Nadine Antoinette Maestas & Lily Ann Baumgart

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

Ask the Oracle: Anca SzilĂĄgyi, Bill Carty, and Marie-Caroline Moir

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

The Art of the Short Story: Small Odysseys with Edwidge Danticat, Omar El Akkad, Hannah Tinti, and J. Robert Lennon

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

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Book Launch: Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

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

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Kundiman Asian American Writers Showcase

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

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

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UW Castalia

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.

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2021-22 Hugo Fellows Final Reading

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

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.

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Teaching Black: Creating Community

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

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

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Exiled Home: An Evening with Two Expatriate Poets

1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United States

"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

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