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Events Calendar

Listen, learn, and engage with us

Whether it’s a reading, discussion, craft talk, or interview, find these events and more featuring renowned authors, emerging writers, and talented new and local voices.

Background Events

Works in Progress (In-Person)

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! 

Tara Campbell reading & workshop – City of Dancing Gargoyles

HUGO HOUSE SALON STAGE IN-PERSON

Please join us for a special reading and workshop by Tara Campbell in celebration of her new novel, City of Dancing Gargoyles. After reading an excerpt from the novel, Campbell will lead a mini workshop to invite participants into her creative process. Come ready to write and invent new cities of your own!

Write with Hugo House with Miz Floes

Write with Hugo House is a free drop-in writing circle for adults of all experience levels and genres of writing.

Bilingual Open Mic / Micrófono Abierto

Join Us for a Free Bilingual Open Mic at Hugo House!

We are excited to invite you to the first of what we hope will become a series of bilingual open mic nights at Hugo House, where art, literature, and music can be shared in either English or Spanish.

¡Únase a nuestro Micrófono Abierto Bilingüe Gratuito en Hugo House!

Nos complace invitarle al primer evento de micrófono abierto bilingüe en Hugo House, donde esperamos que el arte, la literatura y la música se compartan tanto en inglés como en español.

Works in Progress (Virtual)

Works in Progress is an open mic for all writers. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with your literary community!

Write with Hugo House with Alma García

Write with Hugo House is a free drop-in writing circle for all ages and genres. In this group, writers are provided prompts for sustained silent writing time followed by small group sessions to share.

Write with Hugo House with Jeanine Walker

Write with Hugo House (in partnership with the Seattle Public Library) is a free drop-in writing circle for adults of all ages and genres of writing. In this session, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts.

Sahar Education presents “A Night in Afghanistan Annual Gala”

Celebrate The Resilience of Afghan Women

Join Sahar Education for an unforgettable evening at "A Night in Afghanistan Annual Gala," a fundraising event to benefit Sahar Education. On October 10, from 6 PM to 9 PM PST at Hugo House in Seattle, and live-streamed on YouTube, immerse yourself in Afghan culture while supporting a vital cause.

Deaf Lit Fest

Deaf Spotlight presents the inaugural Deaf Lit Fest, which aims to spotlight Deaf authors of various backgrounds, provide workshops related to writing and the literary world, and give opportunities for people to meet other like-minded people.

Deaf Lit Fest

Deaf Spotlight presents the inaugural Deaf Lit Fest, which aims to spotlight Deaf authors of various backgrounds, provide workshops related to writing and the literary world, and give opportunities for people to meet other like-minded people.

Works in Progress (In-Person)

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! 

Write with Hugo House with Miz Floes

Write with Hugo House is a free drop-in writing circle for adults of all experience levels and genres of writing.

Walter Simon reading

Please join for a special reading by Walter Simon. HIs recently published, SOUL, encompasses poems from over 4 decades of verse.

Works in Progress (Virtual)

Works in Progress is an open mic for all writers. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with your literary community!

Works in Progress (In-Person)

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! 

Write with Hugo House with Miz Floes

Write with Hugo House is a free drop-in writing circle for adults of all experience levels and genres of writing.

Works in Progress (Virtual)

Works in Progress is an open mic for all writers. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with your literary community!

Works in Progress (In-Person)

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!