👀✨ Member registration is OPEN! 🌸☀️ Become a member & get early access to our Spring classes 👁️👅👁️

Advanced Poetry Workshop

“Nothing has nothing to do with this.” —Solmaz Sharif  Advanced workshops mean different things to different poets. In this course, “advanced” simply means you know your way around a poem, have

Introduction to Publishing Short Work

You’ve written something you’re proud of—maybe a short story, a flash piece, a poem—but what happens after “The End”? How do you move from finished draft to sharing your work with real readers? For many writers, that next step can be confusing and daunting. 

Publishing Fundamentals II: Book Proposals, Query Letters, and Pitches

You’ve finished—or are close to finishing—your book.   Now that your manuscript exists, you're primed for the next challenge: helping others understand what you’ve created. Pitching, querying, and proposing a book are the art of distilling the entire universe of your work—and why it matters—into one

Creative Nonfiction Workshop

Creative nonfiction asks something tender of its writers: how do we shape lived experiences into art without flattening its complexity?   This eight-week, writer-centered workshop offers a rigorous yet supportive space for writers to workshop their

Yearlong In Screenwriting: Feature Film

If you’ve got a feature film inside you—an idea, an outline, or a half-finished draft haunting you from the depths of your laptop—this is your year to finally write it.

Fiction III

At a certain point, you stop learning how to write—and start learning how you write. In this final installment of the Fiction series, you’ll bring your full attention to the elements that

Yearlong in Short Story II: Advanced Workshop

This class meets IN PERSON at Hugo House. Face masks are required and will be available at the Hugo House front desk. You’ve written the stories. You’ve done the workshops.

Creative Nonfiction II

You’ve begun shaping your stories on the page. Now it’s time to dive into their heart—and discover the best way to tell them. In this eight-week course, you’ll build on

Advanced Screenwriting Workshop

“Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.” –Paul Thomas Anderson Designed for advanced screenwriters actively developing a script or exploring

Fiction II

This class meets IN PERSON at Hugo House in Capitol Hill. You’ve got the basics down. Now, it’s time to level up. In this intermediate course, you’ll expand your fiction