A good poem makes feeling and thinking scrutable, and makes use of any number of tools (think sonics, image, tone, diction, figurative speech, lineation, white space) to help the writer go more deeply into the material of the poem and engage the readerâs imaginative participation as fully as possible. In this talk, Mark Doty read and discuss
Works in Progress is Hugo House's semi-monthly open mic series inclusive of diverse formats and storytelling crafts. Read your workâpoetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and moreâand connect with our literary community! We are actively cultivating a low-pressure, welcoming environment for readers and guests of all skill levels and literary experience. We especially encourage BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+,
Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our instructors rotate on a monthly basis to bring you an array of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, youâll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with other
Join us for creative inspiration and fun writing projects! Kids Write-In provides free monthly opportunities for youth in Kindergarten-5th grade to explore writing with creative writing projects and/or prompts, facilitated by a published writer and experienced educator. Kids Write-In is geared toward elementary school kids who want to write independently or with the help of
If you are a middle school student who loves creative writing, join us at Just Write! A free, monthly drop-in writing circle where young writers can acquire new skills, experiment with a variety of genres, and meet other young writers, too! All Just Write! sessions are facilitated by a published writer and experienced youth educator.  Just
Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our instructors rotate on a monthly basis to bring you an array of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, youâll get time to write and the opportunity to connect 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,
Creative writing teens are invited to join this free bi-monthly drop-in writing circle where young writers can explore a variety of writing genres and techniques, flex and perfect their skills, and celebrate their work in community with their fellow young writers. All sessions are facilitated by a published writer and experienced youth educator. Come join
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
Seattle is the only major city in the United States named after a native chief. It has grown from a tribal center and logging town into an international engine of economic and cultural innovation. And since 2017, a City of Literature.Storytellers have always shaped how the world sees Seattle. The Coast Salish peoples have lived
It's a night of firsts and of celebration! For the first time ever, former Hugo House Fellows from both the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 cohorts will take the stage together. Hear work from local luminaries s.c. bostwick, Brian Dang, Cassidy Dyce, CR Glasgow, Marguerite Harrold, Clare Johnson, Troy Osaki, & Stephanie Segura.Hosted by former Hugo House
Donât miss A Very Important Karaoke Party, the living musical lit mag, a collaboration between songwriters and audience singers for a night of belting parody songs about being a writer. Weâll commiserate, celebrate, and sing to works by an incredible list of writers, from Steve Almond to Vanessa Hua.Singers from terrible to not very good
Zoeglossia and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU welcome the Hugo House community and AWP attendees to an evening of Disability Poetry & Poetics. With readings from Raymond Antrobus, Ilya Kaminsky, Khadijah Queen, and L. Lamar Wilson.Zoeglossia Fellows will also share brief readings and reflections, followed by a conversation with the
Our mission during this time of distraction, artistic fatigue, and social isolation is to create a regular time and space for writers to write and to meet each other. In this group, writers introduce themselves and are provided optional fiction, poetry and nonfiction prompts to work on for 60-70 minutes of sustained silent writing time,
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