Long-time writer or just getting started? Writing an epic poem or a short story? Whoever you are and wherever your passions lie—if you want to write, there’s a Hugo House class for you. Explore our catalog and find yours.
When we say we want our classes to be for everyone, we mean it.
Instructor: Shama Shams (Sanjukta). This course based on Julia Cameron’s book, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, offers a series of prompts focusing on recovering the creative self.
This asynchronous course features online workbooks, including ten essential templates in Word and Excel to kickstart your writing life, and resources professional writers use to get published.
Through guided and practical exercises, this course will give you the confidence to turn your art into a long-term, successful business.
Instructor: Susan V. Meyers. This course will introduce students to the workshop model focusing on three key elements of fiction: description, conflict, and character.
Instructor: Jennifer Haupt. This class guides students through building a roadmap for creating logical, organic transformations of their main characters, with weekly writing exercises and discussions.
Instructor: Corinne Manning. This generative workshop examines and explores autofiction—an experimental form of autobiographical writing that considers the container of the story and examines the speaker.
Instructor: Megan Kelso. Learn how to make comics and/or use drawing as a creative tool for improving writing techniques, including using dreams and photographs to grow narratives and complete narratives inspired by drawings.
Instructor: Naa Akua. Poetry I will introduce you to poems from many different eras while exploring and practicing many essential elements of poetry, including metaphors, sound, imagination, structure, and form.
Instructor: Darien Hsu Gee. We’ll explore the roles of women in our lives and how they’ve shaped us by generating micro narratives of 300 words or less.
Instructor: Kimberly Lee. This fun and interactive class explores narratives beyond the traditional hero’s journey through their appearance in literature, film, poetry, podcasts and more.
This class has been postponed until summer quarter.
Instructor: Andrew Bell. This course explores the fundamentals of TV writing, collaborate on “spec” scripts, and develop and pitch our own original series.
Instructor: Corinna Cook. This generative workshop explores essayistic alternatives to "the story line" by discussing weekly passages from the lyric essay anthology A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays.
Instructor: Katherine E. Standefer. This class will offer generative challenges and strategies to help writers reckon with the meaning of their memories and material, and practice alchemizing what may have been unconscious into powerful story.
Instructor: Tina Tocco. With optional take-home exercises and in-class writing prompts, students will generate and workshop new work focused on writing for ages 8-12.
Instructor: Shama Shams (Sanjukta). This course based on Julia Cameron’s book, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, offers a series of prompts focusing on recovering the creative self.
Instructor: Jeanine Walker. This generative class builds on a foundation of craft elements, examining the rhetoric of contemporary published poets. Students will participate in a supportive workshop where they are creatively encouraged to grow.
Instructor: Beth Slattery. This class will explore the nonfiction story through points of view, scene, reflection, and form. Using generative writing, reading, and an introduction to the workshop model, we will investigate our own personal stories.
Instructor: Ansley Clark. This workshop explores contemporary erotic poetry as a powerful antidote to white supremacy culture and capitalism's rigid, toxic narratives of shame and fear, binaries, urgency, and profit.
Instructor: Cate Lycurgus. This generative class explores the letter poem and its opportunities for connection, social commentary or critique, catharsis, and discovery.
Instructor: Theo Nestor. This course covers the basics of platform building, from author websites to essay publication, blogs, email lists, and social media.
Instructor: Jaimie Li. This class will connect our intimate, family experiences to a broader social history, using a combination of research and in-class writing assignments.
Instructor: Liza Birnbaum. In this class, we’ll read work by authors who bring books into their accounts of daily living, looking closely at craft choices that weave literary reflection into lively narration.
Instructor: Leora Fridman. This participant-driven workshop will explore contemporary nonfiction on illness and disability, with extensive opportunities to write into the realities of vulnerable bodies and to offer one another generative feedback.
Instructor: Jonathan Escoffery. This generative intensive prompts students to create story-worthy characters and explore how craft elements can help determine the contours of the worlds we create.
Instructor: Tina Tocco. This generative class offers a low-stress, supportive environment for those eager to experiment with fiction writing, with imaginative prompts such as music, sounds, images, and more.
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