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- How To Write Several Poems in the Course of an Afternoon by Kelli Russell Agodon
- “You Have to Let Your Obsessions Guide You”: An Exclusive Q&A with Tom Perrotta
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- 4 Tips for Writing Good Dialogue by Ana Pastor
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- How to Find Story Ideas when You’re Feeling Uninspired by Alma García
- Three Steps for Selling Your Next Book by Rachel Werner
- Motherhood is Not a Niche Topic: Writing Mother and Child with Anne Liu Kellor
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- The Hugo Literary Series 2019–2020 Lineup Is Here!
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- Writing Prompt: Affected Bodies, Trauma, and Non-Human Encounters by Janice Lee
- Navigating to the Heart of the Story by Diana Xin
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- Micro Lesson: A Short Meditation on the Glamorous Refusal of No! by Anastacia-Renée
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- Micro Lesson: Detroit or Kansas? How to Hear the Voices Inside Your Head by Emily Warn and Nadia Imafidon
- Micro Lesson: How to Write Yourself Home by Merna Ann Hecht
- Micro-Lesson: Writing Travel by Carolyne Wright
- Meet the 2019 Scribes Instructors: Nisi Shawl at Hugo House
- Hugo House Announces the 2019–20 Hugo Fellowship Recipients
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- How Writing My Story Helped Me Heal by Ingrid Ricks
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- Micro Lesson: Writing Short by Stephanie Hammer and Samantha Updegrave
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- Micro Lesson: Back to the (Plastic) Well by Kevin O’Rourke
- On Telling Life Stories by Susan Meyers
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- Meet the 2019 Scribes Instructors: Peter Mountford at Hugo House
- “Writing Saved Me”: An Exclusive Q&A with Andre Dubus III
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- Words Meet Music: Making Magic Happen by Kim Addonizio
- Micro Lesson: “Keeping Your Sh*t Detectors On” by Carolyne Wright
- Micro Lesson: Manifesting Magic with the Art of Letterwriting by Liza Birnbaum
- Micro Lesson: How To Write What Scares You by Sara Brickman
- Sophia Shalmiyev on Memoir, Mothers & Her Own Feminist Manifesto
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- Micro Lesson: The Intersection of Poetry and Activism with Demi Wetzel
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- Hugo House’s Best-Loved Books of 2018
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- Building the Story: A Q&A with Chavisa Woods by Corinne Manning
- Finishing Your Book: A Q&A with Writer and Mentor Peter Mountford
- Presenting the 2018-19 Made at Hugo House Fellows
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- Making Certain It Goes On: Writing It Out
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- Renewal: Writing About Change by Anne Liu Kellor
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- Micro Lesson: Asking and Answering Questions of Travel with Elizabeth Bishop by Carolyne Wright
- Micro Lesson: An Exercise in Empathy by Ruth Joffre
- Accessing Hinduism in Your Writing by Shankar Narayan
- Writing Women’s Lives by Susan Meyers
- Charles Johnson: Widening our Horizons on Writing and Storytelling
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- NaNoWriMo 2017: What To Do Next With Your Novel
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- Why I Write by Participants in Building a Writing Class with Anne Liu Kellor
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- Second Chances: An Exclusive Q&A With Sonora Jha, Meghan Daum, and Solmaz Sharif
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- Making Certain It Goes On: Writers Are at the Center
- Micro Lesson: Jeanine Walker on Discovering Poetic Voice
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- On the Poetry of Witness and Protest by Merna Ann Hecht
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- Making Certain It Goes On: Nothing Happens Nowhere
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- Micro Lesson: Magical Realism with Stephanie Barbé Hammer
- How to Transform the Work of Another Writer
- Micro Lesson: Poetry as Translation with Sharon Bryan
- Pretending With Karen Russell: The Pulitzer Prize Finalist Previews Her May 5 Lecture and Upcoming Master Class
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- How to Write a Collage Memoir
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- Keep Writing: Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, fiction writer and Hugo House instructor
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- At the Loom of the Inner Weave by Willie Fitzgerald
- Meet the 2017 Scribes Instructors: Roberto Ascalon & Sierra Nelson at MOHAI
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- Micro Lesson: Vignettes with Jeff Bender
- How to Get Past Writer’s Block to Writer’s Habit
- Keep Writing: Jane Wong, poet and Hugo House instructor
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- How to Hold a Literary Salon
- Hugo House’s Best-Loved Books of 2016
- On Holding a Post-Election Community Writing Circle—and How You Can Offer One Too
- The Fire and Flood of Patricia Smith
- Classy Talk with Dianne Aprile: The Art of the Interview
- Micro Lesson | Seeing Through a Prism: First Person POV and Narration with Corinne Manning
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- Classy Talk with Alice Acheson: Boot Camp for Writers’ Conferences
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- Stolen Words: An Exclusive Q&A With Téa Obreht, Eduardo C. Corral, and Quenton Baker
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- Shuck Off Tradition With Author Lidia Yuknavitch
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- Micro Lesson: Writing the Subversive with Ally Harris
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- Porcelain Magic by Janka Hobbs | Kirkland Arts Center Claygraphy Writing Contest Winner
- A Chip Off the Old Block: E. Lockhart Talks Seattle, Young Adult Fiction, and Expressing the Inside of Her Own Head
- From Scribe to Made at Hugo House Fellow: Raye Stoeve on their upcoming fellowship
- Announcing Our New Prose Writer-In-Residence and Made Fellows
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- Beyond Autobiography: Experimentation…Q&A with Sierra Nelson and Gretchen Bennett
- Micro Lesson: Revisiting the Ode with Jane Wong
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- Micro Lesson: Writing Associative Verse with Judith Skillman
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- #WhereWeWrite: Angela Wilhite
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- AWP Conference Roundup Pt. II
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- Clichés As Social Lubricant: An Exclusive Q&A With Claire Vaye Watkins, Roberto Ascalon, and Alex Osuch
- How to Write Dialogue
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- Two Sun Creatures Walk Into a Bar… Sierra Nelson and Melanie Noel Q&A
- 4 Ways to Write About Animals
- How to Apply Tarot to Character
- Three Writing Secrets from Ann Randolph
- Feeling rejected? Or, the time Stephen King almost got spooked
- Three Poems by Hugo Teen Writer Henrietta Hadley
- “I Shall Be a Bestselling Writer” — Octavia E. Butler Gives Herself the Advice We All Need to Hear
- Leave Smoke, by Jeff Walt
- Get Excited: Kellen Braddock on D. A. Powell’s Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys
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- Feeling rejected? So did Kurt Vonnegut
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- An unrevised sketch of some ideas about revision
- Books Hugo House Loved in 2015 — Read Them This Year
- How to Read Your Writing Aloud
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- The U-District Farmers Market is Prolific!
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- Micro-Lesson | Jane Wong on the Poetry of Memoir
- Featured 30/30 Writer: Beth Bacon
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- Featured 30/30 Writer: L. J. Morin
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- Phoetry: A Collaborative Poem from the Phinney Farmers Market
- Micro-Lesson | Samantha Updegrave on Starting a Lexicon
- Words from the Columbia City Farmers Market
- West Seattle Farmers Market Wrote You a Poem
- Micro-Lesson | Katinka Kraft: Step Up to the Mic
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- Get Excited: Eleanor Cummins on Sarah Galvin
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- Poem by Cedar Sigo
- Interview: Alan Sincic on the Intersection of Theater and Fiction
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- Micro-Lesson | Conscious Revision with Bill Carty
- Gordon Lish’s Brand of “Fairness” in Fiction | A Micro-Lesson by Jeff Bender
- Class Preview: “When Memory Doesn’t Serve”
- Haiku for Hire
- An Exclusive Interview with Meg Wolitzer
- Lisa C. Taylor wins the New Works Competition
- Dispatches No. 13: Joan Leegant on Reading for Writing
- Micro-Lesson | Narrative Time with Michael Shilling
- Micro-Lesson | The Chekhovian Story with Anca Szilagyi
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- Dispatches: Kary Wayson on Making Your Poetry Better
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- Dispatches No. 8: Joan Leegant on Getting Your Story to Tell Itself
- Micro-Lesson | Michael Shilling: Being Funny
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- Preparing and Submitting Your Poetry
- Yearlong Manuscript Class in Prose
- Writing Like Nabokov
- Narrative Stockholm Syndrome: Writing Characters
- Finding Your Voice
- Take Risks in Your Writing
- Techniques to Start Writing
- Flash Nonfiction and the Prose Poem
- Writing Comedy
- The Building Blocks of Narrative
- Roughing It: Write a Draft of Your Book
- Karen Finneyfrock
- Anastacia-Renee
- Anca Szilágyi
- Alma García
- Peter Mountford
- Map Out Your Memoir
- Scene Writing Intensive
- Generating Poetry
- Poetic Movements in the City
- Strategies for Editing your Memoir
- Revisiting the Ode
- Writing Associative Verse
- Extraordinary Poems in Ordinary Moments
- Experimental Essays
- Crafting the Essay Collection
- Memory & Memoir
- Memoir as Collage
- Writing through Revision
- Master Workshop in Poetry
- Writing Fiction that Dares
- Short Story Workshop
- Poetry Matters
- Demystifying Publication
- Perfomance and Media Training for Writers
- Memory and Imagination
- Freelance Writing in the Digital Age
- Fact vs. Truth in Memoir
- Beyond Autobiography: Experimentation
- Writing Multiple Point of View Stories
- Write Your $#@%!! Artist Statement
- How to Stick with a Long-Term Writing Project
- Writing and Sound
- Show, Don’t Tell: The Art of Description
- The Art of the Book Proposal
- Writing for Children and Teens Workshop
- The Anti-Workshop
- Music as Prompt
- Scribes Tuition Payment–HH First Hill and MOHAI
- Scribes Tuition Payment–EMP
- Writing the Short Story
- Red Lineage Hackathon
- Deep Revision
- Plot, Structure, and the Lyric Timeline
- Intermediate Fiction Workshop: The Short Story
- Novel Prep
- Contemporary Fairy Tales
- Scene vs. Reflection in Personal Narrative
- Writing the Tough Stuff
- Memoir Essentials
- Introduction to Literary Journalism
- Come Closer
- The Art of the Food Memoir
- Intro to Free Verse Poetry
- Master Workshop in Poetry
- Poetics of Spirituality
- Write The Letter In Your Mind
- Poet-Storytellers: Richard Hugo & Madeline DeFrees
- A Poetry Routine
- Reading and Writing Contemporary American Poetry
- How Not to be Yourself: Techniques of Othering
- Intermediate Poetry Workshop
- Hunting the Song, Hurting the Song: A Poetry Workshop
- Completing Your Memoir
- Travel Writing as Pilgrimage
- The Fiction Lab: Short Story Workshop
- Plot and Characterization
- Building the Story
- Beginnings and Endings
- Writing Characters that Breathe
- A Creative Workshop for Young Writers
- Generation Station
- Crafting Your Personal Narrative
- Finding Your Story
- Writing Life
- Shapes of Stories
- Landing a Literary Agent for Children’s Book Writers
- Screenwriting Techniques for Prose
- Poems of Praise
- Improv for Writers
- Lynda Barry’s 7-Minute Diary
- Graphic Novel Memoir
- Visual Poetry Laboratory
- No Feeling is Final
- The Blazing Thing: On Imagination in Fiction
- Personal Essay
- Write Your Life for the Page and the Stage
- New Worlds
- The Writer’s Welcome Kit
- The Most Personal Essay Section II
- The Blind Date
- Making Minicomics
- Writing About the Environment
- Reading Like a Writer
- Vision and Revision
- Level Up Your Young Adult Novel
- Secret Ingredients for Next Level Fiction
- Using Our Senses—Dozens of Them
- Free Your Voice, Throw Your Voice
- The Building Blocks of Narrative
- Thirty Ways to Tell a Story
- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Writing Dialogue
- Nonfiction Startup
- Under the Influence of Elizabeth Bishop
- Generating Poetry
- Master Workshop in Poetry
- Writing Alongside Local Poets
- The Most Personal Essay
- Points of View
- Make a Scene!
- Poetry as Séance
- Writing Fiction that Dares
- A Field Researcher’s Guide to Authoritative Storytelling
- 1000 Words a Week
- Borges: Crevices of Unreason
- Short Story Workshop
- Screenwriting & Filmmaking Fundamentals
- Beautiful Chaos: Alternative Forms in Personal Essays
- Satirize Your Life
- Brain Trust: Writing about the Brain
- Finding the Real Subject in Nonfiction
- Telling True Stories
- Experiments with Repetition in Poetry
- Recognizing Your Characters
- Six Degrees of Surrealism
- Capitalism and Writing
- The Fact of the Matter
- Prize-Winning Stories
- Your First Poetry Book
- Memoir Essentials
- Writing with Scientific Thought
- Sun Creatures: Sensory Exploration
- Sentences are the Story
- The Tarot of Character
- Writing Alongside Frank Stanford
- Roughing It
- The You Review of Books
- Screenwriting Fundamentals
- The Body in Time
- Time is an Object
- Starting a Young Adult Novel
- Poetry as Resistance
- Making Characters From Historical Figures
- First Pages Workshop
- Make Them Cry and Make Them Laugh
- Collaborating with an Editor
- Toward an Impure Poetry
- Establishing Authority
- Reading for Your Writing
- Indie Publishing 101
- Demystifying Publication
- Ready, Set, Charge!
- Brainstorming
- Blurring the Lines
- From Idea to Proposal to Sale
- Novel Immersion Section II
- Comedic Storytelling Section II
- Beginnings
- Intro to Poetry: Poetry Calisthenics
- How Not to be Yourself: Techniques of Othering
- Writing the Political Memoir/Essay
- Essay Experiments
- Novel Immersion
- Yearlong Manuscript Class in Memoir
- Adventures
- Beyond Thelma & Louise
- Writing a Screenplay That Doesn’t Suck
- Drafting and Editing Poems
- Let’s Start a Lexicon: The Art of Collecting Words
- (Troubling) Image and the Poetic Statement
- Yearlong Manuscript Class in Prose
- Advanced Personal Essay Workshop
- Introduction to Narrative Nonfiction
- Writing the Epiphany
- Memoir As Quest
- Nonfiction Book Proposal
- The Romance of Travel Writing
- Mode in Poems
- New Horizons: Writing and Other Art Forms, Writing and Other Cultures
- Seattle7x7 series: a fundraiser for Hugo House
- Plot: It’s Not a Four-Letter Word
- Finding Your Genre
- The Sentence: Acoustics, Syntax, and Style
- A Sense of Self
- Comedic Storytelling
- Master Class: States of Feeling
- Novel Prep
- Just the Basics: Foundational Elements of Writing Fiction
- Yearlong Manuscript Class in Young Adult Fiction
- Master Class: On Letting Your Fiction Be More Than One Thing
- Monster Mash-Up
- Love and Theft
- Kick-Starting the Memoir
- Retrieving Your Sense of the World
- How to Get an Agent
- Advanced Fiction Workshop
- From Fact to Fiction: How to Use Current Events as Narrative Springboards
- A Roadmap for Poets
- The Poetry of Memoir
- Master Class: Controlled Chaos
- Nonfiction: Why Should I Read You?
- Master Class: Finding Your Perspective
- Writing Alongside Yeats and Pessoa
- The Mechanics of Comics and Graphic Novels
- Master Workshop in Poetry
- Brainstorming
- Crafting Your Story
- Revision Tactics in Nonfiction
- The Next Scene: Driving the Story Forward in Nonfiction
- Writing the New Seattle
- Fall & Winter Poetry Workshop
- Master Class: How Do You Create Suspense? I’ll Tell You Later.
- Managing a Novel Using Your Word Processor
- Mind in Motion: Reading and Writing Contemporary Essays
- Visual Inspiration: Hugo at the Henry
- Second Helping: How Food Improves Your Fiction
- All Talk: Dialogue Intensive
- Readying Your Chapbook
- How Embarrassing!: Shame as Narrative Escalation
- Bound-for-Success Book Proposal
- Your Book; What’s Next?
- Publishing Choices
- Landscape/Tension
- DIY Publishing Series: Author as Entrepreneur
- DIY Publishing Series: Author as Producer
- DIY Publishing Series: Author as Designer
- DIY Publishing Series: Author in Collaboration
- DIY Publishing Series: Author in the Marketplace
- DIY Publishing Series: Author as Publisher
- He Said, She Said: Crafting Effective Dialogue
- Asking the Right Questions I: Generating Writing
- Ending it All
- Keeping It Brief: Writing Flash Fiction
- Make a Scene!
- Generation Station
- Breaking Form: Alchemies in Creative Nonfiction Structure
- Conscious Revision
- Crafting Line Breaks
- Fixed Form Foray: Adventures with Formal Poetry
- Creating (Un)likable characters
- Brainstorming
- Paying Attention
- Your Book’s Best Beginning
- Light Becomes Itself in the Dark: Experiments in Chiaroscuro
- Plot & Characterization
- POP Goes the Poem
- That Swing
- Fiction Toolbox: Writing Workshop
- Alternative Forms for Difficult Stories
- When Memory Doesn’t Serve
- Autobio Comics: Graphic Novel Memoir
- Seeing it Through: Finishing Your Novel and Preparing to Publish
- The Building Blocks of Narrative
- The Most Personal Essay
- The Grand Tour
- Hungry for Words: An Introduction to Food Writing
- Thinking Beyond the Think Piece
- Writing the Rorschach Zine
- Sun Creatures: Sensory Explorations
- Lines Are for Suckers: Writing the Prose Poem
- Photography & Poetry
- Visual Poetry Laboratory
- Experiments Writing in the Field
- Memoir Essentials Section II
- Intimacy and Distance in Nonfiction
- Doing Little Writing
- SCENES!
- Feeling It: Creating Emotional Depth in Fiction
- You’re Making a Scene! Creating Scenes in Nonfiction
- You Are Here: Creating a Sense of Place on the Page
- Writing the Collective
- Writing Life
- Write the First Page
- Visual Poetry (and Prose)
- The Great Unknowing
- The Chekhovian Story
- Taking a Turn: What Happens When a Poem Shifts?
- Shapes of Stories
- Saturday Morning Fiction Workshop (Ballard)
- Renaming the Spiritual
- Poets’ Companions: Creating and Critiquing Together
- Poetics of Objects
- Pitching a Book: the Greatest Marketing Tool of All
- Memoir Essentials
- Master Workshop in Poetry
- Master Class: Who Are These People?
- Master Class: The Hidden Architecture of the Poem
- Master Class: Mind the Gap
- Master Class: Collage
- Kick-Starting the Memoir
- Intro to Fiction: Writing the Short Story
- Insights and Answers: the Publishing Process
- Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads: Using Imagery in Poems
- How to Make The Best of Inciting Incidents
- How the Story Goes: An Intermediate Fiction Workshop
- Holding Up a Mirror: Writing Contemporary Issues
- Get it Straight, This is Queer Writing
- Game Theory and Literature
- Erasure Poems: This Vanishing is Illuminating
- Cut to the Quick: Flash Nonfiction
- Brainstorming
- Bite the Bullet: Writing Query Letters
- Believable Characters in YA and Middle-Grade Novels
- Authoring Change: Writing Socially Engaged Nonfiction
- Asking the Right Questions II: Editing
- Asking the Right Questions I: Generating Writing
- Advanced Fiction Workshop
- Novel Prep
- Memoir Writing: Writing the Good, Bad, and Ugly Self Section II
- Improv for Writers: Moving a Story Forward Section II (Matt Smith
- Improv for Writers: Moving a Story Forward
- Generating Prose Poems
- Master Class – A Planet of Lost Things: Poetry is About Memory and Loss
- Hello and Welcome to My Writing
- The Unlikable Narrator
- Master Class – A Planet of Lost Things: Poetry is About Memory and Loss
- Stories Are Everywhere
- Thomas Piketty: Capitalism and Lit
- Writing the Girl Child in Fiction and Poetry
- Being Funny
- Roughing It: Writing a Draft of Your Book in Just Six Weeks
- Limited Sight: Getting from One Sentence to the Next
- Intermediate Poetry: Signature Poems
- POV: The Basics and Beyond
- Saturday Morning Fiction Workshop (Ballard)
- Master Class: Collage
- In a Different Voice: Remixing Your Prose
- How to Begin when your Head is Empty
- The Poetry of Place
- Advanced Poetry Workshop
- Sappho and the Love Poem
- Intro to Poetry: Poems from the Everyday
- Finding First Lines (Wallingford)
- Master Class: Sub-Lit: the Contagion
- Poetry and the Senses
- Master Class in Poetry
- Six Poems in Six Weeks
- Generating Poems: Writing Alongside Local Poets
- Let’s Get Poetical: Poetry Calisthenics
- Master Class: The Theory and Practice of Trust
- Hugo at the Henry: The Senses in Reading and Writing (University District)
- How to Cook a Book
- On the Stage: Reading Your Work Aloud
- Comics: Taking It to the Next Level
- Taking the Leap: Intro to Personal Nonfiction
- Ten Keys to Nonfiction Prose
- Master Class: Making a Scene
- Master Class: A Discussion of Time in Fiction
- Deep Revision
- Building Your Young Adult Novel
- The Novel You Want to Write Vs. the Novel You Need to Write
- Intro to Fiction: Writing the Short Story
- Rule #1: Never Be Boring. (There are no other rules.) (Wallingford)
- Creating Characters (Kirkland)
- Feeling It: Creating Emotional Depth in Fiction
- Seeing it Through: Finishing Your Novel
- Advanced Fiction Workshop
- Writing to the Great White Whale
- Finding Your Genre
- Cry Out Loud
- Master Class: “Who Goes There?”: Character in Place, Place as Character
- Master Class: A Room of One’s Own, or What One Needs to Write
- Writing from the Body and Memory
- Love, Text, and Poems from the Fall
- Memoir Writing: Writing the Good, Bad, and Ugly Self
- Your Book’s Best Beginning
- The Unconventional Memoir
- Radical Memoir
- Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Style and Structure (Kirkland)
- Come Closer: Getting the Reader Inside Your Story
- The Everyday Personal Essay
- How Not to Be Yourself: Techniques of Othering
- Short but Not Sweet: Writing Short Poems
- Your Poetic Obsessions
- The Mountain’s Out: Using Landscape as a Lens for the Essay
- Story Story Story: A Novel-Writing Workshop
- The Poem Inside the Day
- Reading as Writers: Crafting the Short Story Collection
- New Year, New Poems
- Hugo House Gift Certificates
- Asking the Right Questions: Self-Inquiry in Memoir Section II
- Structuring the Longer Form, Section II
- The Most Personal Essay, Session II
- Class Title
- Found Stories and Fake Texts: Literary Artifice
- Inclusion, Omission, Precision Section III
- Inclusion, Omission, Precision Section II
- Inclusion, Omission, Precision Section I
- 50 Shades of Hot: How to Write About Sex Without Shame
- Trust the Details: Finding the Aha in Your Essay
- 7×7 Ways to Write, with Seattle7Writers
- Crash Course Rainbow: One-Day Workshop on Color and Poetry
- Put Poetry’s Nose Back On: A Discussion with Kay Ryan
- Writing Alongside Whitman & Ginsberg
- Taming the Beast: Gaining Perspective on Your Novel Draft
- Narrative Time: Balancing Pace and Plot
- Your Book Proposal: Bound For Success
- Your Book; What’s Next?
- Publishing: Everything Has Changed; Nothing is New
- Character Actors
- Writing Taboo
- The Building Blocks of Narrative
- Ending a Poem
- Politics and Poetry
- Generating New Poems
- The Poetry Collection
- Advanced Poetry Workshop
- Travel Journal in Poems
- In the Beginning: Poetry as Creation Myth
- Obsession
- Master Class in Poetry
- Anecdotes of the Jar: Create a Tiny Universe in Less Than 10 Lines
- Finding Poetry
- Sustaining Wonder: the Art of Narrative Poetry
- Bring the Kids: Writing for Parents
- Finding Your Genre
- Narrative Momentum in Memoir
- Cut to the Quick: Flash NONfiction
- Kick-Starting the Memoir
- Six Keys to Nonfiction Prose
- Chutney as Love: Harnessing the Power of the Extended Metaphor
- Asking the Right Questions: Self-Inquiry in Memoir
- Writing the City
- Form is Your Friend: Crafting Creative Nonfiction
- Memoir and Its Potential Impact
- The Fiction Workshop
- Novel Immersion
- Read, Write, Repeat: Writing Short Stories
- Doorways to the Young Adult Novel
- Let’s Not Mention the Bomb in the Room
- Feeling It: Creating Emotional Depth in Fiction
- How to Write Riveting Scenes
- Life in a Teacup
- Close Encounters of the Third-Person Kind
- Sentence and Sensibility
- Story Intensive: Assembling and Polishing Toward a Collection
- Turning Life Into Fiction
- Polishing Your Children’s Book Manuscript
- Urgency and Momentum
- Novel Prep
- Fiction Critique
- Yearlong Manuscript Class in Young Adult Fiction
- Yearlong Manuscript Class in Memoir
- Yearlong Manuscript Class in Prose
- Memoir Essentials Section II
- To the Sciences!
- Four Poems in Four Weeks
- An Intense Week of Writing for Poets
- Take-Away Poems
- Dig In
- Memoir Essentials
- First Impressions Are Everything
- Growing Pains: The Coming of Age Story
- The Funniest Workshop Ever
- Character Development
- Intro to the Short Story
- Bringing Your Novel Into the World
- Your Personal Story in Comics Form
- Writing in the Field
- The Art of the Nonfiction Book Proposal
- The Poetry of the Sentence
- Turning Life Into Fiction
- Paired Stories
- The Well-Made Story: A Fiction Workshop
- Developing the Novel
- Sense of Place in Fiction and Nonfiction
- Life Is Short—Art Is Shorter
- Reading and Writing Suspense: Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl
- The Many Ways to be a Writer
- Think With Words
- Structuring the Longer Form
- DIY Publishing
- Writing Life
- The Body Tells a Story
- Poetry as a Waking Dream
- Intro to Screenwriting
- Trust the Details: Finding the A-Ha in Your Essay, Section I
- The Most Personal Essay
- Life Stories: A Master Seminar on Memoir
- Problems in Overwhelm
- Master Class in Poetry
- The Poetry of Necessity
- The Mechanics of Comics and Graphic Novels
- Writing Nonlinear Essays and Stories
- Roughing It: A Draft of Your Book in Just 6 Weeks
- Learning from Lolita
- Generation Station
- Discovering Voice(s) | Anna Bálint – Cancelled
- Art of the Sentence, Art of the Paragraph
- Deep Revision
- Character Building
- The Building Blocks of Narrative | Irene Keliher – Cancelled
- Writing to the Great White Whale: Melville’s Moby-Dick
- Dream Logic in Writing
- Stories You Should Have Read
- David Foster Wallace
- The Greatest Marketing Tool of All
- 13 Steps to Finding an Agent or Publisher
- Your Inner Hero
- Writing Your Memoir: The Initial Stages
- Trust the Details: Finding the A-Ha in Your Essay
- Six Keys to Nonfiction Prose
- Short? Stop! Writing True Stories Less Than 500 Words
- Let’s Get Personal
- Kick-Starting the Memoir
- Genre-Bending in Memoir
- From Blog to Essay
- The Form is the Content, the How is the What
- Authoring Change: Writing Socially Engaged Nonfiction
- Asking the Right Questions: Self-Inquiry in Memoir
- Writing Alongside Emily Dickinson
- The Voice in Question
- Time and Poetry — Writing in Four Dimensions
- Sonnets
- Poetry as Bewilderment
- Poems Regarding the Soul
- Poem and Audience: Sounding the Reviews
- Miracles for Breakfast: Writing Like Elizabeth Bishop & Friends
- Odes
- Intro to Poetry
- Getting Poems Started, Keeping Them Going
- Funny 101
- Eternal Persons of the Poem
- Demystifying the Line Break
- Daily Writing in the Spirit of William Stafford
- Creatures of the Sea: Experiments in Poetry and Marine Biology
- “But This, This, This”: Writing the Long Poem
- The Braid of Time
- Your Novel, Its Structure, and Your Brain
- Young Adult Fiction Workshop
- Writing with the New Fabulists
- Writing for Children: Intro to Story Structure
- Write What You Know, Which is Literature
- Write a Short Story, Suddenly Hot
- Tension
- The Short Story for Beginners
- Plot: It’s Not a Four-Letter Word
- Just the Basics: Essential Elements of Writing Fiction
- Intro to the Fiction Workshop
- In the Beginning Was the End
- Great Short Stories: An Advanced Workshop
- Fooling Ourselves (into Writing)
- Finding the Right POV
- Fiction Writing for Poets
- Creating Characters
- Balancing the Humors: Using Humor in Your Prose
- A Writer Takes Apart His Own Stories for Your Amusement and Morbid Curiosity
- Hugo House Membership
- Donate
- NaNoWriMo! Now What?
- Intro to the Short Story
- Making a Scene
- The Necessity and Speed of Metaphors
- Stories Make You Feel Good
- Richard Hugo & His Circles
- Reading Seamus Heaney
- Plague Narratives: the Rhetoric of Catastrophe
- You are Here: Create a Sense of Place on the Page
- Writing the City
- Visual Inspiration: Hugo at the Henry
- Precision through Wildness: Building the Image
- Learning from THE GREAT GATSBY
- Being Funny
- Taking the Leap: Intro to Personal Nonfiction
- Stories are Everywhere
- Problems in Overwhelm
- The Nonfiction Book Proposal
- The Most Personal Essay
- Memoir Writing
- Master Class in Memoir: The Initial Stages
- Essential Elements of Memoir: Narrative Momentum
- Writing Toward the Dark Places
- The Thing Itself: Working with Imagery
- Master Class in Poetry
- Revising Revision
- Poets’ Companion: Creating and Critiquing Together
- Poetry as Parts of Self
- Poetic Activism
- Love and Theft
- How Not to Be Yourself
- Generating Poems: Writing Alongside Local Poets
- Intro to Poetry Writing
- Writing Very Short Stories: An Intensive
- Writing into the Conversation: Fiction by Women
- Untangling the Craft of Time
- The Shape of Stories
- POV What?
- Master Class in Short Fiction
- Magical Grab Bag of Mind-Blowing, Writerly Surprises
- Thirty Ways to Tell a Story
Venues
- Pacific Place AMC
- Volunteer Park
- Volunteer Park
- The Salon at Hugo House
- Annex Theatre
- Capitol Cider
- Sodo Park
- Northwest African American Museum
- Palace Ballroom
- SAM Pletscheeff Auditorium
- SAM Pletscheeff Auditorium
- Open Books
- The Pine Box
- The Pine Box
- The Pine Box
- Town Hall
- The Frye Art Museum
- Fred Wildlife Refuge
- Fred Wildlife Refuge
- Third Place Books Seward Park
- Third Place Books Seward Park
- Washington Hall
- Hotel Sorrento
- Hugo House First Hill
- Seattle Public Library
- Elliott Bay Book Company
- Hugo House
Organizers
Events
- Great Souls: Pacific Northwest Dreamers
- Write-O-Rama: Winter 2019
- Filipinx Lives: Ricco Siasoco and Angela Garbes
- Me, Interrupted: Mental Illness and the Search for a True Self
- Spotlight Nonfiction: Wild Ride Home by Christine Hemp
- Promises, Promises: Rebecca Clarren and Lucy Tan
- Spotlight Fiction: With Teeth by Natanya Pulley
- Spotlight Fiction: The Cactus League by Emily Nemens
- The Writer’s Life | Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum
- The Writer’s Life | Making Time: Everything You Wanted to Know about Applying for a Residency
- How Quickly She Disappears: Raymond Fleischmann & Urban Waite
- The Writer’s Life | Journey to Publication
- Copper Canyon Press Showcase and Holiday Book Sale
- Writers Under the Influence: James Baldwin
- Contando Las Historias Profundas
- Red Badge Project’s Women Veterans Reading
- Lit Crawl | How Many Voices Does It Take?
- Spotlight Fiction: Peg Alford Pursell and Sharma Shields
- Lit Crawl | House of Ink
- Lit Crawl | A Bunch of Sad Hot Trash
- Lit Crawl | After-Party
- Live Reading of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” at Hotel Sorrento
- UW Castalia
- UW Castalia
- Spotlight Poetry: Natalie Shapero and Stefania Heim
- Hugo Fellows 2018–19 Final Reading
- For Love of Orcas Anthology Reading
- Marilyn Nelson: 2019 Levertov Award Presentation & Reading
- Book Launch: Jessica Mooney’s Parting Gifts for Losing Contestants
- Novel Nights: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Novel Nights: Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Novel Nights: Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- Novel Nights: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Novel Nights: A Pilgrimage to Eternity by Timothy Egan
- NaNoWriMo Mid-Way Pie Social
- NaNoWriMo Community Write-In
- NaNoWriMo Community Write-In
- NaNoWriMo Community Write-In
- NaNoWriMo Community Write-In
- Lynch: A History—A Screening & Conversation with David Shields & Ijeoma Oluo
- Spotlight Nonfiction: Elizabeth Rosner
- La Sala presents: Siluetas De Ebano / Silhouettes of Ebony
- An Evening with YesYes Books: Diannely Antigua, Brandon Courtney, Matt Hart & KMA Sullivan
- Word Works | Chris Abani: Mining for Awe
- Word Works | Adam Johnson: The Art of Listening
- Word Works | Michael Cunningham: The Problem Is Never the Plot
- Word Works | Tom Perrotta: Laughter Is Only the Beginning
- Word Works | Gish Jen: Politics and Possibility
- Word Works | Sigrid Nunez: Giving Full Play to the Imagination
- Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place
- Hugo Literary Series: Karen Russell, Kiese Laymon, Tara Conklin, and Little Spirits
- Hugo Literary Series: Anthony Swofford, Mitchell S. Jackson, Charles D’Ambrosio, and JusMoni
- Write Our Democracy: Writers Respond
- Nathaniel Mackey & Marty Ehrlich: A Collaborative Performance
- St. Augustine and the Roots of Narrative Art with Garth Greenwell and James K.A. Smith
- Bushwick Book Club: Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
- Bushwick Book Club: Stephen King’s On Writing
- Bushwick Book Club: Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Hugo Literary Series: Jayne Anne Phillips, Mira Jacob, Ruth Joffre, and Sarah Paul Ocampo and Bo Gilliland
- Hugo Literary Series: Juan Felipe Herrera, Hannah Tinti, Richard Chiem, and Amber Flame
- This Is My Body: Cameron Dezen Hammon in conversation with Claire Dederer
- Three Ways to Disappear: A Reading & Q&A with Katy Yocom & Dianne Aprile
- Lit Crawl | Spirited Stone: Lessons from Kubota’s Garden
- Fear of Description: A Reading by Daniel Poppick, M’Bilia Meekers, and Gabrielle Bates
- Spotlight Poetry: Kenji C. Liu and Ching-In Chen
- Sun Cycle: A Reading by Anne Lesley Selcer
- Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the #MeToo Movement
- 2018–19 (Writing) Class Reunion
- Poets & Artists for Migrant Justice: Benefit Reading
- Gold That Frames the Mirror: Brandon Melendez, Jaz Sufi, and Will Giles
- Writing Motherhood: Amber Flame, Anne Liu Kellor, Mary Pan, Carla Sameth, and Samantha Updegrave
- Open Books Series | Children of Grass: B.A. Van Sise’s Portrait of American Poetry with Rae Armantrout & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
- Rabbits for Food: A Reading by Binnie Kirshenbaum
- Telling Tough Stories: Writing about Illness
- Memory’s Possibilities: Chelsea Biondolillo and Janice Lee
- Language as a Way of Knowing: Scott Cairns, Jennifer Maier & Mischa Willett
- Poetry of Collective Witness
- VOW: Voices of Womxn Salon
- Chuck Klosterman at Elliott Bay Book Co.
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- If You Want to See Something: Allen Ginsberg in Art & Action
- Write-O-Rama
- Book Launch: The World Is All That Does Befall Us by Thomas Walton
- Last Call: Seattle7Writers Writers-in-Residence Reading
- The Apology: A Reading and Conversation with Eve Ensler
- The Seventh Wave presents: What We Lose
- Black on Craft: Gabriel Teodros and Nikkita Oliver
- Summer Write-In with Write Our Democracy
- Stage Fright
- Convergence in Verse: Da’, Laser, Rivera, Schlegel, and Tahat
- Celebration of Northwest Native Writers
- VOW: Voices of Womxn Salon
- UW Bothell MFA Presents: The Writing Life
- Seattle Arts & Lectures Presents: Local Voices
- Clarion West Presents: A Reading by Amal El-Mohtar
- Clarion West Presents: A Reading by Elizabeth Hand
- Shifting Borders: Placemaking in Speculative Nonfiction
- Kundiman Showcase
- Stage Fright
- Woodland Launch: Words by Knox Gardner, Music by Aaron Otheim
- A Sand Book: An Evening with Ariana Reines
- Open Books Series: Dana Levin & Natalie Scenters-Zapico
- Bushwick Book Club: G. Willow Wilson’s Miss Marvel
- Bushwick Book Club: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
- Bushwick Book Club: Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give
- Don’t Sign That Contract—Until You Hear This
- Hugo Fellows Mid-Year Reading
- [Bibliophilia] Word Lit Zine Quiz Show!
- [Bibliophilia] Poetry Verse Play: Featuring Amber Flame
- [Bibliophilia] Based on a True Story: A Live Memoir
- [Bibliophilia] Heathcliff Letters
- [Bibliophilia] Beginning, Middle, and End
- Narratives of Pain: Healing Trauma through Storytelling
- Business Bootcamp for Writers—Apply by 3/9!
- Maid: An evening with Stephanie Land
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- Workshop: Federal Tax for Artists with Neil Sussman
- Violence & Vulnerability: Poetry for Chaotic Times with Deborah Landau and Heidi Seaborn
- Eat Read Hugo 2019: Benefit Dinner & Auction
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- The Last Romantics: Book Release Party with Tara Conklin
- Mother Country: A Reading and Conversation with Irina Reyn and Carol Cassella
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- The Sacred-Profane Self in Late Capitalism: A Reading with Janaka Stucky and Sarah Galvin
- Graywolf at 45: A Conversation with Fiona McCrae of Graywolf Press
- Death and Taxes: A Reading with Allison Ellis, Michelle Goodman, Jane Hodges, Brian McGuigan, and Jennifer Worick
- Hugo Literary Series: Domingo Martinez, Terese Marie Mailhot, Margaret Malone, and Bryan John Appleby
- I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean: A Reading by Shayla Lawson
- Mixed Bag: A Comedy and Music Show
- The Intimacy of Distance: Creating a Writing Practice through Correspondence
- Word Works: Steve Almond on Rendering the Interior Life
- Word Works: Min Jin Lee on Having Faith
- Poems of Legacy, Poems of Transformation: Monica Youn with Shankar Narayan
- Latinx in the Pacific Northwest: Casandra López, Kathleen Alcalá, and Isabel Quintero
- Word Works: Andre Dubus III on Building Characters
- How the Body Holds its Stories: A Reading and Conversation with Jordan Alam and Tessa Zeng
- Feminism and the Body: A Reading and Conversation with Sophia Shalmiyev and Claire Dederer
- Mixed Bag: A Comedy and Music Show
- Write Here, Write Now!
- Hugo Literary Series: Benjamin Percy, Vanessa Hua, Keetje Kuipers, and SassyBlack
- From Zine to Lit Scene: A Reading and Conversation with Steve Hughes and Jekeva Phillips
- Magical Negro: A Reading by Morgan Parker
- Literary Friendship: Erica Jong and Kim Dower
- Seconds, Anyone?: The Pain (and Pleasure) of Follow-Up Books
- Bushwick Book Club: Seattle7Writers
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- Poetry of the Uncanny: GennaRose Nethercott and Sierra Nelson
- The Body and Place: a reading with Michele Bombardier, Tara Hardy, and Gary Copeland Lilley
- The Dakota Winters: Tom Barbash reads with Jess Walter
- Where the Horse Takes Wing: a Madeline DeFrees Celebration and Book Launch
- [Tasveer South Asian LitFest] Writing South Asian LGBTQ Lives
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- [Tasveer South Asian Litfest] Crafting a Storyline with Indu Sundaresan
- [Tasveer South Asian LitFest] A Night of Poetry with Azura Tyabji, Ananya Garg, Vik Bahl, and Shankar Narayan
- [Tasveer South Asian LitFest] Storywallahs: What’s in Your Name?
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- Bushwick Book Club: Original Music Inspired by James Baldwin’s Another Country
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- The Zeitgeist and Me with Jeanne Heuving
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- Winter Write-In with Write Our Democracy: State of the Union
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- A Very Didion Christmas
- Poetry Party with Copper Canyon Press
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- Rebecca Makkai: Researching into the Void | Craft Talk
- Poetry for the Public: An Evening with State Poets Laureate Kim Stafford and Claudia Castro Luna
- Book Launch: Lisa Wells, Ashley Toliver, & Mohamed Asem
- NaNoWriMo Last Chance Write-In
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- Kevin Emerson Book Launch: Any Second
- Hugo Fellows 2017-2018 Final Reading
- Entre Ríos Books Anniversary Reading
- Lit Crawl 2018 | Old Hugo House: An Evening with Frances McCue
- Lit Crawl 2018 | An Evening with Richard Chiem, Rebecca Brown and JM
- Roughly for the North: Native Women Writers Kick Off Native American Heritage Month
- Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez: Lifting the Veil
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- Lit Crawl 2018 | After Party
- Vicinity/Memoryall: Christine Deavel & J.W. Marshall on Playwriting
- Poetry World Series Seattle 2018
- Writing the Personal: Neal Thompson, Wendy C. Ortiz, and Jonathan Santlofer
- Bushwick Book Club: Original Music Inspired by Sherlock Holmes
- Bushwick Book Club: Original Music Inspired by Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist
- Carolyn Forché: 2018 Levertov Award Presentation & Reading
- Ted Chiang & Karen Joy Fowler in Conversation
- A Writers Showcase featuring Cave Canem Poets
- Hugo Literary Series: Lauren Groff, R.O. Kwon, Kim Fu, and Shelby Earl
- Hugo Literary Series: Jim Shepard, Cedar Sigo, Sabina Murray, and Anhayla
- Word Works: Elizabeth George on Process
- Eileen Myles: Evolution
- Jeffrey Yang: Reading and in Conversation with Don Mee Choi
- Former Hugo Fellows Showcase
- Mixed Bag: A Comedy and Music Show
- Word Works: Sarah Manguso on Authority
- New Hugo House Opening Celebration
- Writers Under the Influence: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Readings by Katie Ford and Rae Armantrout
- South Asian Writers of the Pacific Northwest
- Word Works: Natalie Baszile on Place
- BOA Editions Showcase: Bruce Beasley, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Keetje Kuipers & Laura Read
- Half-Breed with PC Muñoz
- Natalie Diaz: Self-Portraits | Beyond the Frame
- Youth Poet Laureate Lily Baumgart Book Launch: Admitted to the Personal Ads
- Teach-In with Write Our Democracy
- Paulette Perhach Book Launch: Welcome to the Writer’s Life
- Write-O-Rama
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- Shankar Narayan: Postcards from the New World Chapbook Launch
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- Hillary Gravendyk Memorial Reading with Rae Armantrout, Ryan E. Burt, Jeanne Heuving, Rebecca Hoogs & Others
- Made at Hugo House Mid-Year Reading
- Geographies of the Land and of the Heart: Maurya Simon & Peggy Shumaker
- Anis Mojgani, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz & Derrick C. Brown
- [Cancelled] Spring Write-In with Write Our Democracy
- Innovations in the Contemporary Novel: Michael Mejia, Patrik Sampler, and Anca Cristofovici
- Alexander Chee: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
- UW Castalia
- Ask the Oracle: Anca Szilágyi, Bill Carty, and Marie-Caroline Moir
- Four Way Books Showcase: Nathan McClain, Bruce Willard, Carol Moldaw, Margaree Little
- Fernando Pérez: A Song of Dismantling | Book Launch
- Works in Progress Special Tuesday Edition
- Literary Happy Hour at Capitol Cider: A Fundraiser for Hugo House’s New Home
- Ruth Joffre: Night Beast | Book Launch
- Speak to Me! Volume II
- Lillo Way: Dubious Moon | Chapbook Launch
- A Reading with Honor Moore
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- Ask the Oracle: Steven Barker, Nadine Antoinette Maestas & Lily Ann Baumgart
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- Seattle Fiction Federation #10
- Eat Read Hugo 2018: Benefit Dinner & Auction
- Ask the Oracle: Michael Shilling, Amber Flame, and Montreux Rotholtz
- Copper Canyon Press Showcase & Holiday Book Sale
- Red Badge Project’s Women Veterans Reading
- Winter Write-In with Write Our Democracy: State of the Union
- Ross McMeekin: The Hummingbirds | Book Launch
- Alicia Eler: The Selfie Generation Book Launch
- This Is the Place Anthology Launch at Elliott Bay Book Company
- Poetry Across the Nations: An Indigenous Reading
- Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento: Richard Chiem, Meredith Clark, and Marie-Caroline Moir
- Write-O-Rama
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- Lambda Literary Fellows Reading
- Lit Crawl Seattle
- A Night of Bad Stories: Straight Talk for the Politically Heartbroken with Steve Almond
- [CANCELLED] Erik Larson in Conversation with Neal Bascomb
- Mastering the Art & Business of Freelancing | Co-Presented by Northwest Science Writers Association
- Rowan Hisayo Buchanan: Harmless Like You
- Don Mee Choi: Translation is a Mode=Translation is an Anti-Neocolonial Mode | A Bagley Wright Lecture Series Event
- Made at Hugo House 2016-2017 Final Reading
- Hugo Literary Series: Lidia Yuknavitch, Tarfia Faizullah, Ijeoma Oluo, and Nick Droz
- Hugo Literary Series: Joshua Ferris, Melissa Febos, E.J. Koh, and Tomo Nakayama
- Hugo Literary Series: Meghan Daum, Solmaz Sharif, Sonora Jha & Joy Mills
- Thalia Field: Experimental Animals | Book Launch
- Frances McCue: Timber Curtain | Book Launch
- William O’Daly: Book of Twilight by Pablo Neruda | Reading & Talk
- Hugo Literary Series: Jericho Brown, Porochista Khakpour, Rachel Kessler
- Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello Book Launch with Arlene Kim & EJ Koh
- Anca Szilágyi: Daughters of the Air | Book Launch
- Two Countries: US Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents | Anthology Launch
- International Writing Program Fall Residency Reading
- Word Works: Ben Lerner
- Word Works: Ada Limón
- Word Works: Charles Johnson
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- Word Works: Jess Walter
- Word Works: Mary Ruefle
- Word Works: Kelly Link [Sold Out]
- A Reading with Mischa Willett & Lauren Camp
- October “Write-In” | Co-Presented by Write Our Democracy
- Pleasure to the People: Stories of QTPOC Sex & Love
- Josh Weil with Carol Guess and Urban Waite
- E.J. Koh Book Launch: A Lesser Love
- A Reading with Anastacia-Reneé & Friends
- Write-O-Rama
- June “Write-In” | Co-Presented by Write Our Democracy
- Student Reading | Yearlong Manuscript Class in Memoir with Theo Pauline Nestor
- Made at Hugo House Mid-Year Reading
- Life After Death: Norm Stamper and Marti Jonjak on the Reverberations of Violent Crime
- Writers & Poets of Washington State
- Mentors & Mentees: Alessandra Lynch & Douglas Manuel with Deborah Woodard & Eli Briskin
- UW Castalia
- CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Queer Writers in Conversation | Chavisa Woods with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
- CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Queer Writers in Conversation | Corinne Manning with Matthew Schnirman
- UW Castalia
- Hannah Tinti with Laurie Frankel [Offsite]
- Seattle Fiction Federation No. 9
- APRIL in April
- April “Write-In” | Co-Presented by Write Our Democracy
- Ask the Oracle: Margot Kahn Case, Chelsea Werner-Jatzke, and Samar Abulhassan [Offsite]
- Ask the Oracle: Suzanne Morrison, Doug Nufer, and Megan Snyder-Camp [Offsite]
- Eat Read Hugo 2017 [SOLD OUT]
- Andrea Lewis: What My Last Man Did [Offsite]
- Matthew Rohrer: Poetry is Not a Symbol | A Bagley Wright Lecture Series Event [Offsite]
- UW Castalia
- A Reading with Kristiana Kahakauwila, Lauren K. Alleyne & Jamaica Baldwin
- CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Queer Writers in Conversation | Wendy C. Ortiz with Jennifer Natalya Fink
- Ask the Oracle: Melissa Febos, Elissa Washuta, and Quenton Baker
- Geoffrey Nutter: Cities at Dawn
- Siel Ju: Cake Time with Corinne Manning and Tara Atkinson
- Chelsea Werner-Jatzke Book Launch: Adventures in Property Management
- Ask the Oracle: Claudia Rowe, Randy Sue Coburn, and JM Miller
- Residencies Revealed: Writers and Programs Tell All
- Path with Art Spring Voices Showcase
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- 3 for 3: Music Inspired by Books Inspired by Water
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- Morgan Parker: There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
- A Reading with Arisa White, Anastacia Tolbert, Natasha Marin, and Naa Akua
- Julene Tripp Weaver: Truth Be Bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS
- Rosalie Moffett with Keetje Kuipers and Elyse Fenton
- CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Queer Writers in Conversation | Sarah Dowling with Imani Sims
- CANCELLED: Thalia Field | Experimental Animals: A Reality Fiction
- CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Queer Writers in Conversation | John Whittier Treat, Evan J. Peterson, and Julene Tripp Weaver
- Write-O-Rama
- Joshua Mohr: Sirens
- Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento: Tod Marshall, Storme Webber, Rebecca Hoogs
- CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Queer Writers in Conversation | Sarah Galvin with David Schmader
- Origin Stories: All We Left Behind | Sarah Galvin, Robert Lashley, Michelle Peñaloza, and Jessica Mooney
- Conjuring: An Evening of Poetry & Performance on Nature, Justice & Magic
- Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento: Donna Miscolta, Joshua Mohr, and Sierra Nelson
- CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Randa Jarrar with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Community Writing Circle
- Seattle Fiction Federation No. 8
- Kerry Cohen: Girl Trouble @ Elliott Bay Book Company
- Quenton Baker: This Glittering Republic
- Red Badge Project’s Women Veterans Reading
- Lit Crawl
- Light and Love: Poets for Dignity and Visibility featuring Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
- The Art of the Science Essay with Michelle Nijhuis
- Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento: Claudia Castro Luna, Robert Lashley, and Tara Conklin
- Michelle Tea and Donna Kaz Dual Book Launch with Musical Guest Jordan O’Jordan
- Ed Skoog: Run the Red Lights
- CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Vivek Shraya and Chase Joynt
- Made at Hugo House 2015–2016 Final Reading
- Jane Wong Book Launch: Overpour
- Kathryn Nuernberger and Maya Jewell Zeller: Taxidermy Mermaids, the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, and other Marvels
- Steven Barker: ‘Now for the Disappointing Part’ Book Launch
- Poetry World Series 2016: Seattle Edition
- Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Reading
- Jonathan Safran Foer: Here I Am
- 30/30 Kick-Off
- What I Didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher | Anthology Launch
- CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Rebecca Brown and C. Davida Ingram
- International Writing Program Fall Residency Reading
- A Night with Wave Books: Tyehimba Jess, Anselm Berrigan, Don Mee Choi, Lisa Fishman, and Joshua Beckman
- Tim Murphy: Christodora | Q&A with David Schmader
- Writing for a Cause: Muatasim Qazi, Frederica Jansz, and Mike Lewis on Censorship
- Literary Series: Anis Mojgani, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Rick Barot & Maiah Manser [Offsite]
- Literary Series: Angela Flournoy, Phillip B. Williams, and Megan Kruse
- Literary Series: Alexander Chee, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and The Royal Oui
- Literary Series: Téa Obreht, Eduardo C. Corral, and Quenton Baker with Music by ings
- Word Works: Karen Russell [Offsite]
- Word Works: Terrance Hayes [Offsite]
- Word Works: Mary Gaitskill
- Word Works: Patricia Smith [CANCELLED]
- Word Works: Lidia Yuknavitch
- Word Works: E. Lockhart In Praise of Style
- Hugo Housewarming & BBQ
- Colson Whitehead at The Seattle Public Library
- A Reading of Indigenous Writers: Elissa Washuta, Tommy Pico, Demian DinéYazhi’
- Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento: Nicole Hardy, Arlene Kim, and Michelle Peñaloza
- Ange Mlinko: A Bagley Wright Lecture Series Event
- Ask the Oracle at Bumbershoot: Ijeoma Oluo, Garth Stein, and Kristiana Kahakauwila
- Pacifica Literary Review Issue #8 Release Party
- Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento: Rich Smith, Alexis M. Smith, and EJ Koh
- Write-O-Rama
- Beacon Bards
- Megan Snyder-Camp: Wintering and The Gunnywolf
- Castalia
- Matthew Dickman: A Bagley Wright Lecture Series Event
- Seattle Fiction Federation No. 7
- Challenging Pride: A Reading
- Where the House Was
- The Poets Are In!
- Writing for a Cause: Nick Licata, Anastacia Renee’, Anne Focke, and Elissa Washuta
- Cephalopod Appreciation Society 2016
- Eat Read Hugo 2016
- Book Launch Party for Neal Bascomb’s The Winter Fortress
- Hugo Residency Reading
- Our Own Reflections: Writing Complex Characters of Color
- Weed* & Memoir with David Schmader & guests
- Happy Hour with Manuel Gonzales
- APRIL Book Expo
- Epilogue/Prologue: A Celebration of Hugo House
- Cheap Wine & Poetry
- A Reading with Nguyen Phan Que Mai
- Working Stiffs: Tales from the Grind
- An Evening with Hawthorne Books: Sallie Tisdale and Megan Kruse
- Rob Spillman at Elliott Bay Book Company
- UW Castalia
- Young Writers Cohort Reading
- Book Party for Chester Brown’s Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus
- AWP Conference Featured Event: Hugo House Literary Series All-Stars
- AWP Conference Featured Event: The Thrills and Perils of a Screen Adaptation
- Residencies Revealed: Writers and Programs Tell All
- Hedgebrook’s V-Day Event
- Writers Under the Influence: Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman
- An Evening with Librecht Baker, Kamilah Aisha Moon, and Storme Webber
- Writers Under the Influence: Octavia E. Butler
- Empty Bowl Press Reading: Michael Daley, Judith Roche, and Tim McNulty
- UW Castalia
- Book Launch Party for Jordan Hartt’s Leap
- A Poet, a Playwright, a Novelist, and a Drag Queen
- Marginalia: An Event on Revision, with Dana Spiotta, Adrianne Harun, and Ramon Isao
- Buried Alive: The Architecture of Haunting
- Family Matters: Works in Progress
- A Reading with Aline Ohanesian
- Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento
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- Cheap Beer & Prose
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- Passing the Laurel: Washington State Poet Laureate
- Bushwick Book Club: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento
- UW Castalia
- To Whom It May Concern: Writing for a Cause
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- From Haiku to Collage, a Body-Based Poetics | A Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Event
- Book Launch Party for Sean Beaudoin’s Welcome Thieves
- Noir at the Bar
- Seattle Fiction Federation No. 6
- Wage Slaves: the 78 Cents Edition
- Radical Empathy: The Role of Compassion in Our Global Economy
- Two Sylvias Press presents Martha Silano & Cecilia Woloch
- An Evening with Anis Mojgani
- Book Launch Party for Sarah Galvin’s The Best Party of Our Lives
- A CELEBRATION OF POETRY & READERS featuring Dean Young and Deborah Landau
- Book Launch Party for David Shields’s War is Beautiful
- Write-O-Rama
- 3 for 3: An evening of books, music and merrymaking
- Mark Z. Danielewski at University Bookstore
- Castalia
- 9 Ounces: A One-Woman Show by Anastacia Tolbert
- 9 Ounces: A One-Woman Show by Anastacia Tolbert
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- UW Castalia
- great weather for MEDIA Anthology Release Party
- Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Winners
- Cheap Wine & Poetry
- Fiston Mwanza Mujila with Roland Glasser
- 5 Minutes in Heaven
- #LoveWins: Celebrating LGBTQ Love Stories
- An Evening with The University of Iowa International Writing Program
- Made at Hugo House 2014-15 Final Reading
- Family Matters: Works in Progress
- SHORE: Story (curated reading)
- Best American Poetry 2015 Launch Party
- Marginalia: An Event on Revision
- Readings from Red Badge Project Women Veterans
- Kickoff Party: 30/30 Writing Challenge
- Celebration for Seattle City of Literature
- Seattle Fiction Federation No. 5
- Writers Under the Influence: Richard Hugo
- David Schmader’s A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem
- Celebration for Deborah Woodard’s Hospital Series
- Moss: Volume 1 Celebration | Rebecca Brown, Matt Briggs, Janie Miller, Charles Finn and Miriam Cook
- Poetry World Series 2015: Seattle Edition
- Cheap Beer & Prose
- Joe Meno, Nina Revoyr, and Rachel Kessler at Elliott Bay Book Company
- Launch Party for Minor Arcana’s Tarot Poetry Anthology
- Wage Slaves: Tales from the Grind
- A Reading by Blue Begonia Press Poets
- Celebration for Raising Lilly Ledbetter
- A Reading with the APR/Honickman Award Winners
- Jonathan Lethem in Conversation with David Shields
- Book Party for Alexander Chee’s The Queen of the Night
- A Craft Talk by Susan Orlean
- Join Us! An Evening of Collaborative Novelists
- Word Works: Ellen Bass on “Controlled Chaos,” co-presented by LiTFUSE
- Word Works: Benjamin Percy on “Blending Genre”
- Word Works: Maggie Nelson on “The Writing Body”
- Hugo Literary Series: Leslie Jamison, Roger Reeves, Alexis M. Smith, and Yves
- Hugo Literary Series: D. A. Powell, Heidi Julavits, Sierra Nelson, and OCnotes
- Hoa Nguyen: A Bagley Wright Lecture Series Event
- Word Works: Daniel Handler on “Writing as Burglary”
- Hugo Literary Series: Andrew Sean Greer, Claire Vaye Watkins, Roberto Ascalon, and Alex Osuch
- Word Works: Kevin Young on “Throwing Your Voice”
- Word Works: Domingo Martinez on “Fearlessness”
- Hugo Literary Series: Jenny Offill, Laura van den Berg, Maged Zaher, and Dawn Cerny
- Hugo Literary Series: Dinaw Mengestu, Alissa Nutting, Sarah Galvin, and the Foghorns
- UW Poets with Debut Books
- Wave in the PNW: An Evening with Wave Books
- Book Release Party for Elissa Washuta’s Starvation Mode
- Book Launch Party for Sonya Lea’s Wondering Who You Are
- Chapbook Release Party for Maya Sonenberg’s 26 Abductions
- Book Launch Party for Greg Stump’s Disillusioned Illusions
- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: an evening with Amy Glynn, Rebecca Hoogs, Sierra Nelson, and Julie Larios
- A Reading with Four Way Books Poets
- Cephalopod Appreciation Society
- A Celebration of Judith Kitchen
- Screening: I Think You’re Totally Wrong (James Franco, David Shields, Caleb Powell)
- Seattle Fiction Federation, No. 4
- Writing Heritage: Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
- All the Letters in the Rainbow: LGBTQI Writers Pride Month Showcase
- Cheap Wine & Poetry: Ten-Year Anniversary
- The New Hugo House: Community Forum No. 2
- Atticus Lish in Conversation with Paul Constant
- Cheap Wine & Poetry: Zubair Ahmed, Larry Crist, Laura Da’, Karen Finneyfrock
- Daniel Wolff with Lucia Perillo
- Wage Slaves: Tales from the Grind
- The Story Behind the Story: A Chuckanut Writers Conference Reading and Lecture
- Release Party: the James Franco Review
- Buddy Wakefield: Riled Up and Wasted On Light
- Hugo House Residency Showcase
- Seattle Fiction Federation #3
- Writing the City
- APRIL Book Expo
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- Cheap Wine & Poetry: Daemond Arrindell, Sierra Golden, Matt Kelsey, and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke
- Book Launch Party for Kevin Emerson’s Breakout
- Writers Under the Influence: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Lament for the Makers
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- This is Your Place: A community conversation about the new Hugo House
- Pacifica Literary Review Issue 5 Launch Party
- New England Review at Hugo House
- A Celebration of Carolyn Kizer
- Cheap Beer & Prose: Litsa Dremousis, Brett Hamil, Len Kuntz, and Corina Zappia
- Bushwick Book Club: Three for Three
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- Clare Johnson’s (love songs), an art exhibition
- Wage Slaves: Tales from the Grind
- Sílabas de viento/Syllables of Wind and Conjuro: Exploring Linguistic Diversity among Latin@s
- Seattle Fiction Federation No. 2
- Bushwick Book Club & Jack Straw Writers
- Rental: Book Launch for Exercises to Free the Tongue
- EVERY LAST WORD: a celebration of poetry and readers presented by Copper Canyon Press
- Haunted Hugo House Party
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- Lit Crawl Seattle at Hugo House
- Family Matters: Works in Progress
- Cheap Wine & Poetry: Bill Carty, Lauren Ireland, Shin Yu Pai, Michelle Peñaloza
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- A Reading with Rae Armantrout
- Hugo Literary Series: Rough Day
- Hugo Literary Series: Backseats & Bedrooms
- I Change: An Evening of Poetic Divination
- Book Launch Party for Brenda Peterson’s Your Life is a Book
- Rachel Kessler and Friends
- Native Prose Writers
- An Evening with Tony Hoagland
- Monday Night Football: the Throwdown
- Word Works: Luis Alberto Urrea on Understory
- Word Works: Kay Ryan on Rhyme
- Word Works: Dorianne Laux on Music
- Word Works: David Shields on Collage
- Word Works: Randall Kenan on Place
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- Seattle’s Favorite Poems with Robert Pinsky
- Book Launch Party for Garth Stein’s A Sudden Light
- Cheap Beer & Prose: Claire Dederer, Ian Denning, Lacey Jane Henson, Jarret Middleton
- Made at Hugo House Final Project Reading
- Seattle Fiction Federation: Robert P. Kaye, Corinne Manning, Ross McMeekin, Matthew Simmons
- Hugo Literary Series: One Hour
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- Book Launch Party for Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules
- Path with Art Summer Voices Showcase
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- A Reading with Katie Crouch and Harold Taw
- Exceptional Emerging Novelists: Alexi Zentner, Urban Waite, Jennifer Murphy
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- A Chuckanut Writers Conference Showcase
- The Editor as Therapist: A Weekend Workshop with Alan Rinzler
- Cheap Wine & Poetry
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- Made At Hugo House Mid-Year Reading
- Sister Spit
- A Reading With Kevin Young
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- AWP Offsite Event: Red Hen Press Reading
- AWP Offsite Event: McSweeney’s Poetry Series Reading
- Path With Art Winter Voices Showcase
- AWP Offsite Event: Cave Canem Fellows Reading
- AWP Offsite Event: Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Program Reading
- AWP Offsite Event: VIDA Reading
- Writers Under the Influence: Rebecca Brown on Kafka
- Cheap Wine and Poetry: Matt Gano, Rauan Klassnik, Chelsea Kurnick, and Amber Nelson
- Book Launch Party for Peter Mountford’s THE DISMAL SCIENCE
- A Night of Modern Love
- Mark Wunderlich and Friends
- A Reading with Blake Bailey
- Made at Hugo House Fellowship Reading No. 3: Memoirist Elissa Washuta
- Hugo Literary Series: Must the Gun Always Fire? (And Other Rules of Writing)
- Word Works: Writers on Writing — Bob Shacochis on Time
- Who Will Speak? — An evening in celebration of poetry and readers
- The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Poetry on Memory
- Reading with S. Bear Bergman and Ivan E. Coyote
- Book Launch Party for Nicola Griffith’s HILD
- Cheap Wine and Poetry: Frances McCue, Johnny Horton, Erin Malone, and Jane Wong
- Lit Crawl Seattle at Hugo House
- 2013 Washington State Book Awards Party
- New Voices: Performance Class Reading No. 2
- New Voices: Performance Class Reading No. 1
- UW Castalia
- Hugo Literary Series: The Paper Chase — Dorothy Allison, Stephen Elliott, Kirsten Lunstrum, and Levi Fuller
- Hugo Literary Series: People Will Talk — Richard Bausch, Roxane Gay, Kary Wayson, and John Osebold
- Spartan Issue One Release Party
- Word Works: Writers on Writing — Mary Jo Bang on translation
- Made at Hugo House Fellowship Reading No. 2: Irene Keliher, Eric McMillan, and Anca Szilagyi
- Book Launch Party for Scott Driscoll’s BETTER YOU GO HOME
- Made at Hugo House Fellowship Reading No. 1: Poets Katharine Ogle and Bill Carty
- Cheap Beer and Prose: Tara Atkinson, Sean Beaudoin, Alma Garcia, and Eli Hastings
- Book Launch Party for Kate Lebo’s A COMMONPLACE BOOK OF PIE
- Book Launch Party for Kevin Sampsell’s THIS IS BETWEEN US
- Book Launch Party for Shin Yu Pai’s AUX ARCS
- Word Works: Pam Houston on Dialogue
- Writers’ Happy Hour
- Andre Dubus III (DIRTY LOVE) and Nicole Hardy (CONFESSIONS OF A LATTER-DAY VIRGIN) with Claire Dederer at Town Hall Seattle
- An Evening with Peter Orner
- Poet Adam Fitzgerald and Friends Tom Healy, Anthony Madrid, and Leah Umansky
- Two Poets from Detroit with Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken
- Path with Art’s Summer Creative Writing and Performance Showcase
- Rental: All in the Timing produced by STAGEright
- Revise, Re-Vision: Hugo House’s New Mission
- Book Party for Deborah Woodard’s BORROWED TALES
- Stage Fright, Anthology Release, and Party!
- Marschel Paul’s The Spirit Room Book Launch Party
- Book Launch Party for Ed Skoog’s ROUGH DAY
- BOOST: Poetry to Uplift Your Spirits (A benefit for Tara Hardy)
- Girls on Fire
- What Was Your First Book?
- GiveBIG!
- Writers Get to the PowerPoint
- Jill McCorkle on the Art of Character
- Siren Songs: Fine Wine and Writing
- Book Launch Party for Nicole Hardy’s CONFESSIONS OF A LATTER-DAY VIRGIN
- A Reading with Jodi Angel, Jennine Capó Crucet, and Peter Mountford
- Tavern Books Night
- Book Launch Party for Rebecca Hoogs’ SELF-STORAGE
- AWP Panel Panel
- A Panel on E-books and E-Marketing with Hedgebrook Alumnae
- Lyrics and Prose: A Reading with Iceland’s Sjón
- Castalia Reading: April 2013
- Help Shape ZAPP’s Future!
- State of the Book Salon 3: Book Reviews in the Digital Age
- Matthew Simmons’ HAPPY ROCK Book Launch Party
- Hugh Howey Reading
- Eat Read Hugo
- Small Press Expo (a part of APRILFest)
- APRIL Showcase
- Thought Shop
- James Franco Filmed a Spencer Reece Poem?
- Mare Nostrum Reading and Release Party
- ALIVE AT THE CENTER Anthology Launch Reading
- Short Run Presents: Eamon Espey’s Ishi’s Brain Shadow Puppet Performance and Book Release
- Castalia Reading: March 2013
- Kathleen Flinn Presents Readings From Her Works in Progress
- An Evening with Sam Lipsyte
- The Bushwick Book Club Seattle and Richard Hugo House Present Original Music Inspired by Ellen Forney’s LUST
- Behind the Legend of JT Leroy
- American Library Association ZAPP Tour and Zinetalking!
- An Evening with Kjell Espmark: Poet and Chair of the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Made at Hugo House Midyear Reading
- Dusty Trails of Poetry World Tour: White Pine Press Turns 40
- Book Launch Party for Karen Finneyfrock’s THE SWEET REVENGE OF CELIA DOOR
- Yiscah Smith Reading
- Castalia Reading: February 2013
- WITS Reading
- State of the Book Salon 2
- Castalia Reading Series: January 2013
- Book Launch Party for Morris Stegosaurus’ Zebra Feathers
- Write Time Prose
- Castalia Reading Series: December 2012
- Lit.mustest: December 2012
- For You and Everything Alive Inside of You: Readings by Copper Canyon Press Poets James Arthur, Mattew Dickman, Ed Skoog and Friends
- CANCELED: Lidia Yuknavitch Reading
- Smokin’ Friggin’ Hedge
- WITs Works in Progress Reading
- Write-O-Rama December 2012
- PANEL: Residencies, Conferences and Grants
- Floating Bridge Press Reading
- Castalia Reading Series: November 2012
- Lit.mustest: Goddard College Student Reading
- Clare Johnson’s ENDLESS IMAGES: SPECIAL EXHIBITION-BASED WRITING EVENT FOR TEENS
- The Wildcard Bard: Readings by Heather McHugh, K. Silem Mohammad and Brian Reed
- The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song Book Launch Party
- Classics Revisited: Art by Derek Erdman, Clare Johnson and Mare Odomo Opening Night Party
- Castalia Reading Series: October 2012
- Rose Alley Press Reading with Kate Lebo, Carol Light, Kristen McHenry, Belle Randall, and Carolyne Wright
- Public Health Poems Exhibit and Reading
- T(OUR) Magazine Reading and Launch Party
- Elizabeth Colen’s Waiting Up for the End of the World Book Launch
- 2012 Washington State Book Awards Party
- 100 Thousand Poets for Change
- Cheap Coffee and Young Adult Fiction
- The Importance of Being Genius – Literature Nominees of 2012 Genius Awards Discuss Their Work With The Stranger and AandP Book Critic, Paul Constant
- Book Launch Party for Evan J. Peterson’s “Skin Job”/Official Debut of Minor Arcana Press
- Summer Quarter 2012 Student Reading
- State of the Book Salon
- Jody Aliesan: A Celebration of Her Life and Work
- KidLit Open Mic
- The Night We Saw the Smoke Release Party
- Goddard Informational Session
- Scribes Session I Reading
- What I Saw by Jack McCarthy: Book Release and Party
- You Are Here
- Strong Female Leads
- Ya Gotta Believe!
- ¡Viva la Revolucion!
- Books–on the bus!
- Riddled Added Date!
- “Vicious Red”/ “Daughter” Book Tour with Janice Lee, Anna Joy Springer and Leon Baham
- Greetings from the Cincinnati Review
- The Punks Are Writing Love Songs Book Launch Party
- Becoming: What Makes a Woman
- A Night of Language, Grief and Celebration
- From Failure to Hollywood: A loose evening of poetry, writing and film.
- Friends of the Children Poetry Slam
- A reading with Chloe Caldwell and Diana Salier
- Student Reading: Spring Quarter 2012
- Fault Lines Poetry
- Beautiful Trouble Book Launch Party
- Choose Your Own Adventure!
- Riddled: A New Play by Marya Sea Kaminski
- 14.3 Hands: A Reading from Lost Horse Press Poets and Friends
- The Messy Path to Enlightenment
- The Secret Life of Words
- WITS Writers Works in Progress Reading
- Fireflies and Cigarettes: American Fairy Tales by Bret Fetzer
- Lit.mustest: A Goddard College Student Reading
- What Tomorrow Holds
- Bushwick Book Club: Original Music Inspired by Local Poetry
- April Festival: Chapbook-making Workshop
- ZAPP Volunteer Orientation
- Great Beer and Poetry: the Cascadia After Party
- Alaska Literary Reading
- Juniper Literary Festival
- “All of the Above”: An Interactive Poetry-Science Installation
- Recto Verso: an Independent Press Expo
- Handstitched: Bookbinding 101 at ZAPP
- ZAPP Workshop at Women Who Rock Conference
- The Milan Review Release
- Editors Guild Meeting
- The Car that Brought You Here Still Runs: A Portrait of Richard Hugo
- Write Out
- The Silence of Our Friends
- Reading with Joshua Beckman, Michael Earl Craig and Matthew Zapruder
- A Face to Meet the Faces: A Persona Poetry Reading
- Literary Trivia
- Book Launch: Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot
- Apocalypse Not: Seven Poets for 2012
- Release Party: One More for the People by Martha Grover
- Legal Rights of Authors: Literary Agreements, Option Agreements and Copyright
- Current Volunteer Appreciation Party
- Your Zine is Alive and Well and Living in ZAPP
- A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem
- WITS Writers Works in Progress Reading
- NaNoWriMo Halfway Party
- Goddard College Presents Love and Literature
- SPREAD Release Reading
- Voices from the Edge (or Talk to Me Baby)
- Washington State Book Awards Party
- Hugo House Volunteer Orientation
- Show and Tell
- Hugo Member Happy Hour
- Local Celebrity Spelling Bee
- Me Talk Funny Someday: A Book Launch Party for Suzanne Morrison’s Yoga Bitch, with funny ladies Nicole Hardy and Tina Rowley
- Post-it Note Project
- Tag Sale and Readings by Heather Christle, Zachary Schomburg and Kary Wayson
- Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood Anthology Reading Party
- The End of the Line
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
- While You Were Sleeping
- Hugo House Literary Trivia
- Scribes Final Reading
- The Haves and the Have Nots
- Perfect Day Publishing Celebrates the Release of Yeah. No. Totally. by Lisa Wells
- Writer in Residence Farewell Reading
- Seattle Times Poetry Contest Finalists Reading
- Volunteer Orientation
- Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices Book Launch
- Poetry Reading by Maia Penfold
- Poetry Reading with Francisco X. Alarcon and Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs
- Heather Shouse Reading
- 4 Courses
- Poetry Rocks!
- Writing Classes for Teachers: Creative Writing Smorgasbord with Sierra Nelson
- Poets and Writers Informational Meeting
- What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?
- A Good Line: Artists on Poems
- Rather: The Motion Picture Soundtrack
- Recto Verso: A Small Press Expo
- Lidia Yuknavitch Book Launch
- Melissa Kwasny and Christopher Howell Reading
- A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism Book Launch Party
- King Ludd Lives: Art and Zines Unplugged
- Taking THE EDGE off Hanford
- Open Studio at ZAPP
- Seattle Weekly’s Happy Hour for Hope
- Two Books Enter, One Book Leaves
- Write Out: A Happy Hour for Writers
- Secrets
- Scribes Reunion Reading
- Writers in the Schools Reading
- NaNoWriMo Write-in
- David Schmader’s Straight
- Band of Poets
- Castalia Reading Series
- Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson
- The Beauty of a Beet: Poems from the Bedside
- Joseph Skibell
- Inviting the Truth One Personal Essay at a Time
- Uptown Writers Book Launch and Benefit for Scribes
- Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest: Words and Images by Graham Isaac
- The Novel: Live!
- Green Cammie Reading Party
- Sex in Seattle 18: An Everyday Kind of Love
- Scribes Book Launch Reading and Party
- Member Happy Hour, Sept. 15, 6-8 p.m.
- Peter Mountford Hosts Stage Fright: A Monthly Open Mic Night for Teens
- Everything Changes Everything—Theater Improv Techniques for Writing with Matt Smith
- Vera Archives: See the Wisdom
- Judith Skillman and Friends: Book Release Party for The Never
- LiTFUSE Launch Party
- The Northwest Independent Editors Guild
- An Evening with John Porcellino and Special Guest Noah Van Sciver
- Zines on Toast Tour
- An Evening with Marilyn Stablein
- Front Porch Theater: The Scarlet Letter
- Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award Reading
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Brief Encounters
- Mother Knows Best
- Under the Influence
- “Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days”: A Reading and Conversation
- Match.Bomb (Welcome to the Freak Show)
- Scribes final reading
- The Write Ties
- A Commonplace Book of Pie Party
- Wish You Were Here!
- Voices Rising Pride Show
- Word Salad at Cal Anderson Park
- Writers in Residence Farewell Reading
- Elizabeth Austen’s Book Release Party
- “Grandma ZAPP’s Rolling Thunderheart Mountain Variety Show (and Bake Sale)
- The Right Madness: Poets Derick Burleson and Ed Skoog Read New Poems and Discuss the Legacy of Richard Hugo
- Zinen Plotten Annen Kratten
- Dana Elkun’s Book Release Party
- Book Launch for Cut Away by Catherine Kirkwood
- Worst Practices for Writing Teachers
- Finding Your Readers in the 21st Century
- There Will Be Spontaneous Dancing in the Streets
- Writing 5K
- The Northwest Independent Editors Guild-Working with Local Recruiters and Placement Agencies
- Get Answers to Your Copyright Questions
- Should I Sign? What to Know About Publishing Contracts
- Writers and Free Speech: Important First Amendment Considerations
- The Skelleton of This Monster on the Sand
- Coordinates of Yes Book Release Party
- Seattle Journal for Social Justice Student Author Reading
- No More Fun: Treasures and Relics from ZAPP’s Past
- Reading by Novelist Sonya Chung
- How to Be a Creative Writing Teaching Artist for Grades K-12
- Librettist Lecture with Poet Gardner McFall: Autobiographical Writing: From Life to Text
- B-sides Reunion Show
- Red Sky Poetry Theater
- Dead Poets Society
- Lauren Weedman’s No…You Shut Up
- She Said: Women’s Lives Through Poetry and Prose
- Closing Party for Large, Hairy and Literate: Zinesters and Artists Celebrate Bigfoot
- Rose Alley Press Reading
- Stitching the Heart
- James Greer and Mark Gluth: The Failure and The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis
- Hanford Follies: Laugh and Get Serious about Washington’s Stockpile of Nuclear Waste
- Dark Coast Press Presents An Dantomine Eerly Book Release Party
- All My Children
- End of Term Reading
- Baba Femi
- Karen Finneyfrock’s Book Release Party
- Frances McCue’s Book Release Party
- The Traveling Kickapoo Indian Medicine Show
- Returning the Bones
- LACS Annual Fundraiser
- Writing Classes for Teachers: Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson
- Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
- The Northwest Independent Editors Guild: Marketing Yourself as an Editor
- Ching Chong Chinaman
- InPrint
- Letras y Poesia del Tango
- Works in Progress
- A Lot Like Afterwards
- The Northwest Independent Editors Guild-Office Organization: Clearing the Clutter, Clearing the Space
- Seattle collegiate poetry slam team showcase featuring Tara Hardy
- Band of Poets: Body Language Cabaret
- Cheap Beer and Prose
- The Imaginary History of Silver Cliffs: Literature, Art and the Mundane in Anywhere, USA
- Red Sky Poetry Theater Reunion
- Teacher reading
- Large, Hairy and Literate: Zinesters and Artists Celebrate Bigfoot
- Stamps and Image Transfer
- Operation Theater: Body Under the Knife
- Writing Classes for Teachers: Haibun
- An evening with S. Bear Bergman and Ivan E. Coyote
- Hugo House volunteer party
- NaNoWriMo Write-in/Halfway Party
- Seattle Poetry Slam’s Haiku Slam
- Closing party for Ian Ferguson’s poster art exhibit
- Writers reading
- Hugo House Kicks Off NaNoWriMo
- Stage Fright
- Write-O-Rama
- SAM Word
- End-of-term reading
- November 14 Writing 5K
- Stage Fright
- Rose Alley Press Poetry Reading
- Castalia
- Hugo Works in Progress
- Cheap Wine and Poetry
- Write Time
- SAM Word Curated by Hugo House
- Greg Hofmann’s No Surrender Book Release Party
- Trading Places
- Stage Fright: Youth Open Mic