ENGLISH:Join Us for a Free Bilingual Open Mic at Hugo House!We are excited to invite you to the bilingual open mic series at HugoHouse, where art, literature, and music can be shared in either Englishor Spanish.How to Register?This event is free to attend. Anyone interested can pre-register bysending an email to: mic@seattlelatino.orgHow It Works:Participants are
Works in Progress is Hugo House's open mic series inclusive of diverse formats and storytelling crafts. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and 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+,
Collections—A Live Magazine and Public Club hosted by Ariel Basom is a monthly showcase of both live readers and video performances featuring a diversity of positions, styles, and modes: poetry juxtaposing story; literary fiction opposing memoir; drama next to genre fiction.Do you want to be a part of this community? Do you want to be
Hugo House welcomes back Castalia—University of Washington MFA program's monthly reading series featuring graduate students, faculty, and alumni. Showcasing published and unpublished drafts of work by authors from a variety of disciplines, professional backgrounds, and age demographics, Castalia offers authors a platform for community reading while putting their work in conversation with other voices, styles,
Perhaps no single author has generated more controversy in recent years than Ibram X. Kendi, whose Stamped from the Beginning—published in versions for both adults and youth—outlines the history of racist ideas in America with devastating clarity. In 2020, Stamped itself was stamped as the second-most challenged book in America.Event Landing PageTickets
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
Please join us for a celebration of local author and former Hugo House Program Director Daniel Tam-Claiborne as he launches his debut novel, Transplants! He will be joined in conversation by former Hugo House Writer in Residence and The Seventh Wave Executive Director, Joyce Chen. Audience Q&A and signing will follow the reading and conversation.A harrowing and
Works in Progress is Hugo House's open mic series inclusive of diverse formats and storytelling crafts. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with our literary community! Works in Progress is a low-pressure, welcoming environment for readers and guests of all skill levels and literary experience. We especially encourage BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, and
Come and celebrate the work and creativity of urban Indigenous youth in our region who have spent the last month finding their voices through various storytelling genres in our Community Literary Series classes. This event will showcase their stories and provide insight into their journey, supported by Red Eagle Soaring, an amazing organization that empowers
On Thursday May 22nd, join Landscapes of Healing, Hugo House and Pongo Poetry Project’s co-hosted poetry reading. The event is presented as part of Seattle Reads: “You Are Here.” Mentors from Pongo Poetry Project and members of the Hugo House community will read poetry inspired by You Are Here, the recently released poetry anthology edited
DUNE* Mini-Comics Night is where folks are invited to create the contents of a black and white, 5.5” x 8.5” printed anthology within a limited amount of time, in one evening with no prompts or themes. Create whatever you want but it must be physical and finished by the end of the night.An exclusive edition
ENGLISH:Join Us for a Free Bilingual Open Mic at Hugo House!We are excited to invite you to the bilingual open mic series at HugoHouse, where art, literature, and music can be shared in either Englishor Spanish.How to Register?This event is free to attend. Anyone interested can pre-register bysending an email to: mic@seattlelatino.orgHow It Works:Participants are
On tour from Hong Kong, author Hon Lai Chu and translator Jacqueline Leung visit Seattle to celebrate the English translation of Mending Bodies, out April 29 from Two Lines Press.For readers of Ling Ma and Sayaka Murata, Hon Lai Chu’s dystopian exploration of body autonomy, relationships, and late capitalism defies and then reassembles dark realities.In a failing city, a government
Get a break from the dreary dampness of early Juneuary in Seattle with some verdant and insightful verse! MarginShift is excited to welcome the talented, Palouse-based poet, Linda Russo, to our cozy Hugo House lounge to share eco-poetic experiments in re-inhabitation.Joining Linda will be an incredible lineup of local voices, including Sarah Mangold, whose highly potent collages-in-verse
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