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Yearlong in Poetry II: Advanced Workshop

You’ve built a foundation. You’ve written poems. (Maybe you’ve even published a few!) Now you’re ready for what comes next: experimentation, risk, and the wide, strange world of what poetry

Poetry III

You know how a poem moves. Now it’s time to ask what else it can hold—and where it might take you next. In this ten-week course, you’ll deepen your practice

Poetry II

You’ve started to find your voice. Now it’s time to lean in, listen closely—to your lines, your images, your rhythm—and deepen your poetic craft. In this eight-week course, you’ll build

Yearlong in Speculative Fiction II: Advanced Craft

You’ve built worlds, conjured futures, written monsters and miracles—and now you’re ready to go deeper. This yearlong cohort is designed for speculative fiction writers who want to sharpen their craft,

Silent Reading Night

Silent Reading Nights at Hugo House Date: Wednesday, January 14 Time: 6:00–9:00 PM Theme: Short but Mighty: A Silent Reading Night Celebrating Novellas + Microfiction Challenge Community Partner: Page 2 Books Each month, we

Green Was the Silence: A Generative Rainbow

“Era verde el silencio, mojada era la luz… / Green was the silence, wet was the light…”  – Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XL,” from 100 Love Sonnets  Winter softens the world into muted tones—grays, greens, the dusty blue of early evening.

Finding the Heart of Your Story

You sit down to write…and suddenly everything feels foggy. You know the story matters, but you’re not sure what it’s about. You can describe the plot, but not the deeper thread. You feel the momentum

Love Poems Across Time

Love poems have never belonged to a single era or a single definition of love. They’ve chronicled stolen glances and ecstatic devotions, marriages arranged and broken, the specific grief of losing a secret love, the astonishment of discovering tenderness in