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Ready to shake off perfectionism and fall back in love with making things? This monthly creative writing circle for adults is your invitation to play. Each session, we’ll push past what we think writing should be and plunge into the strange, the chaotic, and the ephemeral to discover what it can be. In this safe, vibrant space, we’ll explore a
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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+,
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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
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Join us for an evening of poetry and discussion as Seattle poet Michael Grodesky reads from his chapbook Absence On Water recently released by Bottlecap Press. The poems explore how themes of absence and presence and other dialectics may play out in complex human experiences such as suicide and bullying. Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 from
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Come to hear from novelist/poet Kirsten Kaschock as she excavates the paintings and images that have animated her recent work.
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In this beginner-friendly writing class, 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. At times, you'll have the opportunity to share words and ideas with other writers in small groups. You'll leave with 2-3
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Jack Straw writing fellows Natalie Pascale Boisseau, Kevin Dean, Elissa Favero, BeeLyn Naihiwet, Diane Nguyen, and Ruth Marie Tomlinso read some of the poetry and creative non-fiction they’ve been working on this year.Jack Straw Cultural Center’s Writers Program was founded in 1997 to introduce writers to the medium of recorded audio; to develop their presentation
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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+,
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Join us at Hugo House’s Lapis Theater for Industry Talks: Careers in the Literary Arts, an engaging evening that explores the many professional paths within the world of writing, publishing, and literary production.This event brings together authors, editors, publishers, literary agents, and other industry professionals for insightful conversations about their work and the evolving landscape
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Great Minds 2026Join us on Thursday, September 17 for our annual Great Minds event exploring Optimism, Speculative Futures, and the Worlds We Dream Into Being. This is an evening about the futures we can still choose: worlds where communities thrive through cooperation, where technology supports rather than replaces a deeper human connection, and where hope is treated as |
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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
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Does writing always fall to the last spot on your to-do list? Or maybe, lately, it hasn’t even been making it on there at all? If life keeps getting in the way of your creative practice, this monthly group is for you. During our hour-and-a-half meeting, you’ll have plenty of time to put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. Whether you’re chipping away at
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Join us to celebrate the first-ever issue of Long Story Short! Writers hand wrote and submitted their pieces within a four-hour window, and will be sharing their work on the theatre lobby stage. This issue's theme was gonzo writing--in the action, fully biased, emotional work with a limit of 500 words. Doors open at 6pm,
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Hugo House Music Open MicJoin us for Hugo House's first ever music-forward open mic night centered on original work only, no covers. This event brings together musicians, writers, and hybrid performers. With a limited lineup and a community-centered atmosphere, each performance is given space to be fully experienced. Whether you're performing or attending, expect a
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Meet Sara Nović the author of "True Biz," the Seattle Reads 2026 selection. Sara Nović will appear in conversation with Ross Showalter.About the Book“True Biz” by Sara Nović (Random House)True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talkTrue biz: The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, |
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Join Serena Chopra and Jane Wong in conversation about writing complex family stories, including those contending with trauma, immigration, loss, absence, and erasure. Both Wong's and Chopra's books approach writing about family via poetry and memoir, employing dynamic formal methods that aptly attend to the needs of dynamic familial narratives. In this conversation, the authors
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Join tabletop game designer Banana Chan as she leads you through her solo journaling game, Forgery, a story about a down-on-her-luck art forger who is commissioned to recreate a cursed painting. Players who join the immersive reading will answer prompts when called upon and color a paint-by-numbers demon, supplied by Banana.Event Schedule:6-8 PM: Event8-9 PM:
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Let’s celebrate PK, Cancer & the Tragic Ruts of Time—a Jewish and Japanese American queer love story of 45 years that began on Capitol Hill. It is about survival via love, cancer, and adversity. How two lesbians grew up in a politically charged era and grew older together in a defining, radical, post-pandemic world.
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