Join us as we bid farewell to writers-in-residence—and dear friends of Hugo House—Ryan Boudinot and Karen Finneyfrock and youth writers-in-residence Katie Carr and Pete Oliver.Each will read from work created during the residencies and reminisce about their times at the House.The bar will be open serving both "adult" and "youth" beverages. The reading is free.About

This is not your mother’s memoir. Lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful Lidia Yuknavitch accepts a college swimming scholarship in Texas in order to escape an abusive father and an alcoholic, suicidal mother. After losing her scholarship to drugs and alcohol, Lidia moves to Eugene and enrolls in the University of Oregon, where she is accepted

Whether you’re new to creative writing, wanting to kick off some rust or an old hand looking for some new tricks, this class will offer a variety of innovative approaches to writing poetry that will make the process fun, leave you feeling creatively invigorated and fill your notebook with promising starts and new ideas. We’ll