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: Gracie Bialecki. This course is designed for writers of fiction who want to fine-tune the first chapter of a longer work of fiction.
Instructor: Melanie Figg. This class offers a close reading of Victoria Chang's powerful collection, Obit, with writing prompts based around themes of loss.
Instructor: Jose Hernandez Diaz. This workshop explores surreal and strange prose poems, with readings, sample prompts, and insight into the improvisation and editing process.
Instructor: Laura Da'. This class examines etymology as a source of creative fascination. Students will create their own etymologies, consider the nature of word connotation in poetry, and explore the narratives and lyrical possibilities within words.
Instructor: Elizabeth Mayorca. This class explores familial memoir, with readings and guided prompts for in-class writing.
Instructor: Jessica Gigot. Students will learn from contemporary ecopoets and investigate their interior and exterior landscapes in order to craft new poems that probe and illuminate their experiences around ecological grief.
Instructor: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. In this three-hour workshop, students will explore the relationships between poems and their titles, discuss several intriguing examples, then play with techniques for titling their own work.
Instructor: Anca Szilagyi. This workshop will explore the creative process and examine the relationship between writing and visual art.
Instructor: Sabra Boyd. Whether you're working toward your first byline, or you want to improve your acceptance rate, this class will help you develop strong pitches, build relationships with editors, and negotiate contracts.
Registration dates:
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December 6: Member registration opens
December 13: General registration opens
Instructor: Holly Day. Designed specifically for beginners, this class explores basic poetic forms and styles, including structure, time, place, and more.
Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. This mixed-genre class will explore "hermit crab" forms for our poems, prose, and prose poems, using the language and architecture of borrowed forms.
Instructor: Simon Wolf. Part Seattle history, part eco-poetics, we will read excerpts of history texts and discuss poets that engage rivers, industry, and pollution in their work, and students will leave class with two river poems of their own.
Instructor: Emily Sernaker. This class will demystify the idea that poetry is for the select few and explore the art form through the lens of legacy and community.
Instructor: Liza Birnbaum. This generative workshop will explore the power of detail and description in prose.
Instructor: Darien Hsu Gee. As writers, our ancestral history breathes through our bodies and appears on the written page; this class will explore ancestors both known and unknown through micro narratives and prose poems.
Instructor: Paulette Perhach. Prep for AWP with a guide to networking, using the AWP app, and developing a personalized a game plan to enjoy the programming.
Instructor: J. Ryan Stradal. This class will explore the components and utility of memorable characters, focusing on character’s desires, behavior, and limitations that create and evolve plot.
Instructor: Kimberly Dark. This generative workshop will open a number of creative doorways to mine meaning from memories, connecting students' unique perspectives to culture, history, and zeitgeist.
Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. This class examines how writers can use craft strategies to establish an interplay between stabilizing and destabilizing forces in their work while engaging the reader in a journey of discovery.
Instructor: Leigh Sugar. Using CAConrad's Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness we will examine process, content, form, and product and practice writing poems in the borrowed style.
Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. Get past the writers' block with this whirlwind session of poetry prompts to help you crank out a new batch of draft material.
Instructor: Elaine Castillo. Revisit the classics in ways that are novel, galvanizing, and reparative. With a short lecture, class time will be devoted to a generative writing workshop and discussion.
Instructor: Michael Overa. From first dances, road trips, and karaoke, this class will investigate the role that music plays in fiction and how it can help us develop characters, settings, and scenes.
Instructor: Jessica Gigot. This workshop will look at the work of contemporary poets who also write memoir, exploring the opportunities and potential obstacles in writing effectively across genres.
Instructor: Melanie Figg. With a mix of writing exercises, small groups, lecture, and discussion/Q&A, learn practical ways to build a sustainable writing practice that works for you.
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