Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our best teachers rotate on a monthly basis to bring you a range of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with
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
Write-O-Rama is your chance to try out several workshops offered by Hugo House teachers all in one writing-packed day! Sample Hugo House classes, meet our teachers, and try out genres and topics outside your purview without the pressure of registering for a full class. This season's event is presented in partnership with Secret Garden Books!Event
Hugo House is thrilled to welcome back Seattle Arts & Lectures: Local Voices, a four-part reading series features acclaimed poets, writers, and comics artists who teach in SAL’s Writers in the Schools program. These resident writers come together to read from their own works-in-progress, inspiring the same craft and performance skills they teach in the classroom. Learn
Join us for creative inspiration and fun writing projects to try! Kids Write-In is a free, weekly writing circle for elementary school-aged youth who want to write independently or with the help of an adult. In each 40-minute session, students have the opportunity to read various styles of writing, discuss these with their peers, practice
Write Time is a free weekly drop-in writing circle for teens ages 13-19. Write Time takes place every Wednesday from 5:00-6:00 pm PT throughout the school year.Want to improve your craft and learn new techniques during brief opening lessons? Bring something you’re working on and nail down your next sentence? Or simply come to share
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
Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our best teachers rotate on a monthly basis to bring you a range of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with
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,
Works in Progress is Hugo House's semi-monthly open mic series.Held on the first Monday virtually and third Monday in-person of every month at 7 pm, Works in Progress is an open mic for all writers. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with your literary community.We are actively cultivating a
Make Hugo House your lunch date with our short and sweet monthly Q&A "Ask A..." series. Each session features a different literary industry expert, from publishers to authors, illustrators to agents, and more!For November, we welcome Beth Jusino, a former literary agent and marketing director, who is now a writer, developmental editor, and publishing consultant
Join us for creative inspiration and fun writing projects to try! Kids Write-In is a free, weekly writing circle for elementary school-aged youth who want to write independently or with the help of an adult. In each 40-minute session, students have the opportunity to read various styles of writing, discuss these with their peers, practice
Write Time is a free weekly drop-in writing circle for teens ages 13-19. Write Time takes place every Wednesday from 5:00-6:00 pm PT throughout the school year.Want to improve your craft and learn new techniques during brief opening lessons? Bring something you’re working on and nail down your next sentence? Or simply come to share
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