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Write with Hugo House with Jeanine Walker (Virtual)

In this group, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts. The session will begin with introductions and a short warm-up, after which we’ll read two separate poems and write in response to those. At times writers will be invited to create community through sharing words or ideas with other writers in small groups. Attendees

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. This event is occurring in person at the Hugo House Lapis Theater. Read Hugo House’s current COVID safety policy for in-person

Free

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. This event is occurring in person at the Hugo House Lapis Theater. Read Hugo House’s current COVID safety policy for in-person

Free

Community Write-In with Marguerite Harrold (Virtual)

Virtual Event Virtual Event

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

Community Write-In with Marguerite Harrold (Virtual)

Virtual Event Virtual Event

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

Hugo Literary Series | Uncountable: Jami Attenberg, Deesha Philyaw, E. Lily Yu, & Nic Masangkay

There’s little doubt that time has felt weird over these last two years. For this season’s Hugo Literary Series, twelve writers and musicians will be riffing on variations of time. For this evening's event, writers Jami Attenberg, Deesha Philyaw, E. Lily Yu, and Nic Masangkay started from the prompt of Uncountable—time flashing ahead or away. Time

$5 – $15

Works in Progress (Virtual)

Works in Progress has gone virtual! Via the magic of Zoom, Hugo House’s semi-monthly open mic series is back. Please RSVP at the "tickets" button to receive the Zoom link and reserve your place in the reading lineup. Held on the first and third Monday of every month at 7 p.m., Works in Progress is

Write with Hugo House with Alma GarcĂ­a (Virtual)

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,

Personal as Prelude: A Poetry Reading with Gabrielle Bates, Julia Guez, Luther Hughes, Dujie Tahat, and Tess Taylor

In this in-person reprisal of an October 2020 virtual event, Seattle-based poets Dujie Tahat, Luther Hughes, and Gabrielle Bates join Tess Taylor from El Cerrito, California, and Julia Guez from New York City to read original work that evokes bell hooks's notion of "the personal as a prelude" for investigations into collective themes. (Illustration: Juliana

Free

Book Launch: All the Secrets of the World by Steve Almond, in Conversation with Maria Semple

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

Join New York Times best-selling author and Hugo House teacher Steve Almond (Candyfreak, Against Football) for a reading from his long-awaited debut novel, All the Secrets of the World, followed by a candid conversation with local Lit Goddess Maria Semple (Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Today Will Be Different). Among the topics on tap: how humor helps us contend with tragedy, what we can

Free

Write Time

Write Time is a writing circle for teens that takes place every Thursday from 4:30-5:30 pm PT during 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 your work with other young

Community Write-In with Marguerite Harrold

Virtual Event Virtual Event

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

Free

Community Write-In with Marguerite Harrold (Virtual)

Virtual Event Virtual Event

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