This event has been rescheduled from March due to the coronavirus. It will take place on Zoom. Click the tickets link to register.   Local Voices presents a unique opportunity to eavesdrop on the works of SAL’s Writers in the Schools resident writers. These locally acclaimed novelists, poets, essayists, and storytellers come together to read

Castalia is a monthly reading series featuring graduate students, faculty, and alumni from the University of Washington MFA program. Doors open at 7:15 pm; readings begin at 7:30 pm. Featuring readings by Linda Bierds, Kevin Craft, Rachel Hill, Emily Huso, and Zahra Al Zuwayed.

Vow to make a better world for the work of womxn. Please join us for a Zoom edition of our literary salon for women and womxn-identified writers, readers, and literary enthusiasts. VOW is an opportunity for women and womxn-identified folks to share stories, ideas, and business cards (virtually). Bring friends and meet new ones. RSVP

Solitude Social Club is Hugo House’s offering to readers and writers seeking connection during the social quarantine.  Each week we’ll bring a guest writer to share a drink and discuss how they’re finding happiness through art and literature in these distancing times. After the conversation, we’ll break out into smaller groups and get to know one another.  Click the "Tickets" link to RSVP for

Original Music inspired by Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Religious zealots, oddball scientists, awkward teenagers, experimental mice and (maybe) the end of the world? Zadie Smith arrived on the literary scene by combining these ingredients into a phenomenal story of history, family and change. “Frisky and irreverent…Smith’s real talent emerges not just in her voice but in

In Storytelling 101, we'll explore the fundamentals of how a great story captivate a reader. Briefly, we'll discuss essential concepts like character, stakes, and desire, as well as the five basic sentences a storyteller has in their toolbox to develop and escalate a gripping narrative. This course is geared towards beginners as well as practiced

Writing can help us process our feelings about the unprecedented events unfolding around us. But it can be hard to find the focus and the motivation when we're stressed and overwhelmed. To help get those words flowing, join us at this free weekly write-in via Zoom (this week's edition guest-taught by Anna Vodicka), where you'll

Solitude Social Club is Hugo House’s offering to readers and writers seeking connection during the social quarantine.  Each week we’ll bring a guest writer to share a drink and discuss how they’re finding happiness through art and literature in these distancing times. After the conversation, we’ll break out into smaller groups and get to know one another.  RSVP below to join the Zoom conversation, or find

Join us for a virtual evening of poetry with Portland poets Susan Leslie Moore and Ed Skoog and their new books, That Place Where You Opened Your Hands and Travelers Leaving for the City. RSVP for the Zoom conversation at the "Tickets" link. About the Books That Place Where You Opened Your Hands: Celebrating the

Join novelist Peter Mountford for a free one-hour novel-writing Q&A. Peter will offer some of his expert tips, tricks, and advice on the art and craft of novel-writing—things he’s honed over the publication of his books and his years of teaching. Come to the call with questions about your work-in-progress or for ideas about how

Join us for an online conversation between Rufi Thorpe, author of the new novel The Knockout Queen, and Laurie Frankel, bestselling author of This Is How it Always Is. About The Knockout Queen “Full of verve… Revelatory.” —Los Angeles Times A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs.

Writing can help us process our feelings about the unprecedented events unfolding around us. But it can be hard to find the focus and the motivation when we're stressed and overwhelmed. To help get those words flowing, join us at this free weekly write-in via Zoom, where you'll get writing prompts, time to write, and