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Join us for an evening of poetry, performance, and community as The Gaas Collective celebrates the release of Maandeeq, our first poetry collection. This event features performances from local writers, open mic slots, and a safe space to connect through art and storytelling.
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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
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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
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In this group, 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
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Join Seattle author Ren Cedar Fuller and a panel of Hugo House alums to celebrate our city’s center for writing. Ren took her first of many creative writing classes at
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Join us for an evening of poetry, performance, and community as The Gaas Collective celebrates the release of Maandeeq, our first poetry collection. This event features performances from local writers, open
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Build-a-Skeleton WorkshopWhat's scarier than Halloween? The blank page. Join Julie to beat the blank page blues and get organized. In this two-hour drop-in session, you'll gather the bones of your
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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
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Silent Reading Night at Hugo HouseThursday, October 23rd | 6:00–9:00 PMTheme: Tales of TerrorEach month, we host a Silent Reading Night with a rotating theme and community partner. For October, Haunted Burrow Books
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Learn how to craft your own tiny book bookmark—a miniature handbound book that doubles as a charming keepsake and page marker. Participants will explore the basics of traditional bookbinding on a
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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 |
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Dare to share... if you’re brave enough.Join us for a chilling night of storytelling at the Hugo House where the ghosts come out and make their presence known, disembodied wailings
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Enflorar: A Literary Día de los Muertos CeremonyPresented in partnership between La Sala and Hugo HouseThursday, October 30, 20256:00–8:00 pmHugo HouseThis is not a reading. It is a ceremony. An
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Join our Party and delve into the dark with a special Halloween-inspired show! Inspired by improv shows and Dungeons & Dragons, we’ve combined them into a performance with a cast
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Join us for an evening of poetry, performance, and community as The Gaas Collective celebrates the release of Maandeeq, our first poetry collection. This event features performances from local writers, open mic slots, and a safe space to connect through art and storytelling.
In Person at Lapis Theater
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!
In Person at Lapis Theater
Each month, we host a Silent Reading Night with a rotating theme and community partner. For October, Haunted Burrow Books will be featured!
In Person at Lapis Theater
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 of the book will be published and distributed to only the contributors at the following DUNE meet-up.
In Person at Lapis Theater
Presented in partnership between La Sala and Hugo House. This is not a reading. It is a ceremony. An act of honoring our literary forebearers, our literary community, and our land. A literary celebration of Día de los Muertos rooted in Latine/x tradition.
Online at Zoom: Hugo Theater
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!
In Person at Salon
Collections exists in a space in between the publishing world and the open mic—a third space. A space to present finished and polished work; a space to come together with peers and allies to share fresh ideas; a space to forge community.
Visit https://www.arielbasom.com/collections for monthly line-ups, more details, and archives of past collections.
In Person at Lapis Theater
In the first of two events, 2025 Jack Straw writing fellows Mateo Bracken, Bill Hollands, Jenny Harrington Lill, Nhatt Nichols, and Monique Ouk read some of the poetry and creative non-fiction they’ve been working on this year.
In Person at Lapis Theater
Welcome to this special Open Mic Night for Playwrights where writers bring the writing, and the audience does the reading! We encourage dramatic writers of all experience levels to share their work in this low-pressure, welcoming, and exciting evening of scene readings.
In Person at Lapis Theater
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!
In Person at Lapis Theater
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 of the book will be published and distributed to only the contributors at the following DUNE meet-up.
Online at Zoom: Hugo Theater
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!
In Person at Salon
Collections exists in a space in between the publishing world and the open mic—a third space. A space to present finished and polished work; a space to come together with peers and allies to share fresh ideas; a space to forge community.
Visit https://www.arielbasom.com/collections for monthly line-ups, more details, and archives of past collections.
In Person at Lapis Theater
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!
In Person at Lapis Theater
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 of the book will be published and distributed to only the contributors at the following DUNE meet-up.
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