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Writing Scenes
Super-Powered Storytelling
AWP Prep for First-Timers, Introverts, and the Intimidated
Produce, Publish, and Market Your Book
The Art of Getting Published Without an Agent
Owning the Nasty: Writing the Personal Sex Essay
The Essay as Adventure
Writing and Fear
Don’t Kill Your Darlings Yet: The Bold Art of Revision
Jumpstart Your YA Novel
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Poetry III
You Must Change Your Life: Rilke Inspired Writing Practices
The First Rough Draft of History
Writing with Richard Hugo
Story Structure for Fiction Writers Online
Rule #1: Never Be Boring (There are no other rules.)
Revising and Submitting the Short Story
Revising the Divine
Plot: It’s Not a Four-Letter Word
Fairy Tales as Inspiration
How to Break Hearts
How to Get Started as a Freelancer (Online)
The Art of the Question
Writing Our Monsters
Graphic Novel Memoir
Writing in Times of Social Unrest and Political Upheaval
Writing Philosophy
Generating Short Forms
As Deep As You: Creating Complex Characters
When Memoir Meets Poetry
Writing Alongside The Best Small Fictions 2018
Write a Chapbook
Generating New Poems
Generating Associative Verse
Picking Up the Stitches
Nurturing Your Idea Nursery
Finding Your Authority in Nonfiction
Taming the Beast: the Work-Writing Balance
Suspenseful Writing
Reading Like a Writer
Shapes of Stories
Language Renovation via the Lyric Essay
From History to Story: Writing Your Life
Show & Tell
The Power of Place in Fiction
Close Reading
Plot and the Role of the Fantastic
How to Turn Your Obsessions into Awesome Prose
Dazzle the Reader: Why “Show, Don’t Tell” is a Crock
The Art of Seeing Through Words
How to Write a Poem
Making Art with Impact
Creative Nonfiction I
Poetry I
Yearlong in Prose
Yearlong in Poetry
Yearlong in Science Fiction
Plot in Memoir: Developing the Arc of Your Story
Yearlong in Short Story
Book Lab
Writing Mother and Child
A Field Researcher’s Guide to Authoritative Storytelling
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Advanced Memoir Manuscript
Poems that Connect Us
Writing the TV Pilot
Yearlong in Young Adult Fiction
Advanced Young Adult & Middle Grade Manuscript
Storytelling Secrets
Poetry II
The Most Personal Essay
Writing Alongside Mary Shelley & Percy Bysshe Shelley
Writing Fiction that Dares
Short Story Generator
Novel Outline Bootcamp
Travel Writing Comprehensive
Magazines as Muse: Models and Markets for Your Work
The Micro Essay
Finding and Freeing Your Voice
Publish or Perish: Pitching Your Work
Writing the New Seattle
Poetry I Online
Kick-Starting the Memoir
Creative Nonfiction I Online
Writing Literary Journalism
Metaphor in Theory & Practice
Comics: Taking it to the Next Level
Novel Prep
How to Break Hearts
Fiction I Online
Fiction I
Novel Immersion
The Words to Say It: Writing About Illness, Trauma, and Healing
The Anatomy of a Sentence
How to Get Started as a Freelancer Online
Creating Tension in Prose
Researching and Writing True Crime
Time Traveling and Time Keeping: Conversations with Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler
Incorporating Research and Data into Nonfiction
Finish Your Chapbook
Mind the Gap
Exploring Genre Through Jorge Luis Borges
Writing with Russian Fairy Tales
The Writer’s Notebook
Make it New
Architectural Stories
Mapping the Illogical Landscape
Narrative Time Travel
More or Less?
Characters, Plot, and the Whole Damn Thing
Making a Scene
Imitation Game
The Lyric Self
How to Start a Novel You Can Actually Finish
Mindful Writing
Writing Snappy Openings
Building the Story
Writing What Matters
The Real News in Poems
The Nonfiction Book Proposal
Chaotic, Inconvenient, Beautiful Humans
Unleashing the Healing Power of Personal Narrative
After, Before, and Outside an MFA
Writing Dialogue
Finding Your Voice in Children’s Writing
Writing About Almost Nothing
Break it Down
Yearlong in Memoir
Nicole Hardy
World Building with Foreign and Invented Languages
How to Write a Memoir Book Proposal
How to be an Effective Ally on The Page (and in the World)
Getting Unstuck
The Hero’s Journey: Writing the Quest Narrative
Writing with South Asian Ghazals
Unleashing the Healing Power of Personal Narrative
Bring Your Characters to Life
How to Hook Your Reader
Breathing Life into Secondary Characters
The Sizzle of the Feast—A Song of Reimagined Forms
Making Sense of Memory
Writing with Your Languages
Back to the Basics: A Painless Review
Critical Thinking: Writing a Review
Commit to Submit
The Other Side of Fire: Writing the Trauma Essay
Memoir Jumpstart
Finding Inspiration in Dreams
Four Novels, Four Structures
Hybrid Writing
Writing as Curation
Writing Scenes
Experimental Autobiography
Mastering the Short Essay
Writing Beyond Description
Generative Revision
Locate & Generate
Submission Strategies
Magical Realism 101
Writing Effective Dialogue
Issues of Craft
Memoir and Its Potential Impact
Finishing Your Book Online
Money in Writing
Write, Revise, Workshop, Submit!
The Political Essay
Travel Writing as Pilgrimage
Telling Life Stories
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Paulette Perhach
The Finances of Self-Publishing
Bring It Back, Come Rewind: A Generative Workshop
Intensive Workshop
Publishing Intensive
Flash Fiction Workshop
Novel Outline Boot Camp
Deep Revision
Creative Nonfiction I
Kick-Starting the Memoir
Fiction III Online
Poetry I
Poetry III
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Creative Nonfiction III
Fiction III
Screenwriting for Fiction Writers
Writing Women’s Lives
A Field Researcher’s Guide to Authoritative Storytelling
Urban Pastoral: The City Poem
Writing for Procrastinators
Writing Life
Comedy Writing Workshop
Shapes of Stories
Follow the Thread
The Lyric Essay
In Dialogue with the Body
Writing with Bishop in Brazil
Accessing Hinduism in Your Writing
Let’s Get Physical
Fiction I
Creating Strong, Effective Characters in Fiction
How to Come Out as a Writer
Unsafe Spaces
Create Effective Settings in Young Adult and Middle Grade
Scenes
Memoir Writing Intensive
Renewal: Writing About Change
Writing as the Next Career
Exercises in Empathy
Exploring Hopkin’s Sprung Rhythm
The Elegy
Wrestling with Time in Memoir
Alternate Realities in Short Fiction
Patience and Pacing
To Make a Human Thing
Finding a Home for Your Work
Story Starter
Spring Clean Your Manuscript
Nature and Adventure Writing
Writing Affinities: The Impelled Second-Person Story
Obsessions and Prose Poems
Truth or Fiction?: Writing Life Stories
Unleashing the Healing Power of Personal Narrative
As Scene in Memoir
Bold Beginnings
Graphic Novel Memoir
Donate to the New Hugo House
How to Create an Irresistible Narrator Section II
Scene and Story
Jarret Middleton
Nicole Dieker
Corbin Lewars
Creative Nonfiction I Online Section II
Sublime Locations
The Short Short Fiction Lab Section II
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Writing Believable Time Travel In Sci-fi and Fantasy
Submission Strategies
Introduction to Literary Journalism
Autobiographical Fiction Workshop
Foundation and Frame
Jumpstart Your Story
Rage Is a Red Lesson: How to Turn Anger into Charged Prose
How to Create an Irresistible Narrator
Retreat in the City
Writing Fiction That Dares
Writing to the Moon and Back
Meditation for Writers
Poetry III
Fiction II
The Country You Come From: Exploring Your Sense of Place
The Most Personal Essay
Making Memory into Memoir
Imagining the Other: Writing and Reading Inclusively
The Romance of Travel Writing
Poetry II Online
Written on the Body: Corporeal Nonfictions
Writing Stories through Revision
Breaking the Narrative Mold
Radical Essays and Personal Opinions
The Persona Poem
Poetry II
The Telling Itself: Illness Narratives as Healing and Craft
Philosophy for Poets
Writing Maximalist Prose
Ways of Seeing: What Can the Photo Tell Us?
Mindsets in the Making of Fiction
Literary Horror
Creative Nonfiction II Online
The Hero’s Journey for Storytellers
Advanced Workshop in Poetry
The Mechanics of Comics and Graphic Novels
Desire as Craft
Writing the City
Sustaining Wonder: The Art of Narrative
Chapter One: Beginning Your Memoir
Understanding Audiobooks: A New Chapter for Writers
The Shorter Story
What to Leave In, What to Leave Out: The Art of Editing Your Work
The Micro Essay
Fiction II Online
Poem Generator
Effective Allyship in Writing
Writing Dialogue
3-D Storytelling
Body of Memory: Writing Innovative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction II
Techwashed! The Language of Data, Surveillance, and Technology
Write Like a Nerd: Footnotes & Lists
Line Editing for Prose Writers
Museum as Muse: Writing at the Frye
Novel Immersion Section II
Susan Meyers
Jaimee Garbacik
Experimental Writing for Non-Experimental Writers
Making Memoir Matter
Jumpstart Your Engines Poetry Workshop
Word Works Workshop
The Short Short Fiction Lab
Word Works Workshop
Map Out Your Memoir
Finish a Personal Essay in November
Generative Science-Fiction Workshop
Building the Perfect Beast: Creating Strong, Effective Characters in Fiction
Creative Nonfiction I
Poetry I
Kick-Starting the Memoir
Poetry of Disability
How Not to Write a Novel
Creative Nonfiction II
Yearlong in Prose
Yearlong in Memoir
Writing alongside Gwendolyn Brooks and Alice Notley
Yearlong in Young Adult Fiction
Yearlong in Poetry
Yearlong in Short Story
Advanced Poetry Workshop
A Field Researcher’s Guide to Authoritative Storytelling
Poetry II
Telling Life Stories
The Musical Sentence: The Prose Poem or Poetic Prose
Building a Writing Practice
Poets of Witness and Engagement
Making a Scene
Revision as Inquiry Workshop
Generating Associative Verse
Poetry I Online
Introduction to the Lyric Essay
Creative Nonfiction I Online
Oulipo: The Creative Beauty of Constraints
Virginia Woolf’s Aquatic Poetic
The Words to Say It: Writing About Illness, Trauma, and Healing
Novel Immersion
Fiction I Online
Fiction I
Short Story Generator
The Language of Loss: Creativity in Response to Grief
A Poet’s Approach to National Novel Writing Month
Mini-Memoirs for Podcast, Radio, or Reading Aloud
The Writer’s Notebook
Writing Children for Adults
Performance for Writers
Introduction to Scrivener
Writing Sex
Writing Liminal Experiences
The Art of Interviewing
Wall-to-Wall Writing Prompts
Writing an Expansive “I”
Scattered Eden: Testifying for Natural Places
How to Sequence a Prizewinning Poetry Manuscript
Gentrification & Nostalgia: A Poetry Workshop for Poets of Color
The Essay
Leaving Places: Tapping into Memory
Unleashing the Healing Power of Personal Narrative
What You Don’t Know About Your Character
The Craft of Subtext
The Art of the Agent Query
How to Write a Memoir Book Proposal
Scene Writing Intensive
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow: Writing Believable Time Travel In Sci-fi & Fantasy
Political Essay
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Short Story Workshop
Discovering Poetic Voice
Memoir: Picking Up the Stitches
Essay Experiments
Sculpting the Novel: A Revision Workshop
Let Your Poems Surprise You
Seattle Poets Respond
The Arc of Your Memoir
Generative Revision
Hybrid Points of View
Read it and Weep: the Art of Emotion
Writing Dialogue
The Art of Literary Blogging
Listen Up! Conversations With Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, June Jordan and Lucile Clifton
Writing with Maggie Nelson
Summer Comics Intensive
Writing as a Spiritual Practice
Writing Scenes
Generative Workshop in Suspense and Momentum
Freelance Writing
Giving Readings that Matter
Teaching Creative Writing
Writing for Procrastinators
Sentences ARE the Story
Strategies for Editing
How to Stick with a Long-term Project
You Are What You Want
Body Language: Exploring Your Secondary Intelligence
Flashback Techniques
So You Want to Write a Picture Book
Matthew Bennett
Self and World: Writing the Poems that Matter
The Art of Interviewing
What You Don’t Know about Your Character
Humor in Heartache
To MFA, or not to MFA?
The Craft of Subtext
Map Out Your Memoir
Unleashing the Healing Power of Personal Narrative
Poems for a Better Nation
Writing Radical Essays
Creating Character in Nonfiction
Master Class with Karen Russell: Cartographers of Imaginary Places
Memoir Writing Intensive
Deep Novel Revision
Write Like a Badass Woman Essayist
Building Characters from Real Life
Creative Nonfiction for Beginners
Introduction to Fiction
The Micro Essay
Intermediate Poetry Workshop: Your Craft
Introduction to Poetry
Memoir in Vignettes
Writing Alongside Plath and Roethke
Write & Revise Workshop
Writing Stories Through Revision
Disturbing the Peace
Short Story Workshop
Memoir as Collage
Writing Fiction that Dares
Advanced Workshop in Poetry
Reclamation of Self & Power: Feminist Trauma Poetry
Jumpstart Your Story
Bringing Lives to Life: the Alchemy of Memory
Writing Life
Graphic Memoir
Homes and Homelands: Exploring Belonging Through Writing
Art of the Sentence
Tools for a Life in Art
Bringing People to Life on the Page
Home as Metaphor
The Craft of Obsession
Building Your Online Presence for Authors
Publishing Intensive II
Self-Love & Neocolonialism: A Poetry Workshop for Writers of Color
Keeping it Real Section II
Taking Flight: Writing Beyond the Real
Public Notebook to Book
Twenty Poems in a Day
Snap Sonnets
Stephanie Kuehnert
From Novice to Novelist
Gail Folkins
Politics and Fiction
The Modern Love Essay
The Romance of Travel Writing
Writing About Illness, Health & Healing
Memoir Essentials
The Sounds of Poetry
Asking the Right Questions
The Political Essay
Short Nonfiction
Scene Writing Intensive
Short-Short Stories & Vignettes
Making a Scene
Reading and Writing for Novelists
How Not to Write a Novel
Styles of Flash Fiction
Short Stories & Shorter Stories
Thematic Fiction Workshop
Turn a Jewish Tale into a Story
Writing About Place
The First Thirty Pages: A (Partial) Novel Workshop
Comedy Writing Workshop
The Art of the Essay
Writing about Spaces In Between
Kick-Starting the Memoir
Generating Poetry
Writing Alongside Local Poets
Writing Our Obsessions
Saturday Morning Fiction Workshop
Winter Poetry Workshop
Short Story Workshop
The Most Personal Essay
Master Workshop in Poetry
Poetry of Place
When the Color Blue Was Born
Jumpstart Your YA Novel
The Metaphor of Painting
Writing About the Environment
Alternative Narrative Shapes
Writing the New City
Burning Down the House
The Anti-Workshop: Writing as Creative Practice
Mechanics of Comics & Graphic Novels
Poetry & Pop Culture
Time in Fiction
Memory and Character
Introduction to Scrivener
The Stuff of Place
Keeping It Real
The Arc Nemesis: Finding and ‘Betraying’ Poetic Structure
Magical Realism as Truth Telling in Poetry
Writing About Wounding Experiences
Improv for Writers Workshop
Your Hugo House Instructor
Megan Snyder-Camp
Building a Writing Practice Section II
Personal Coaching for the Writer’s Welcome Kit
Submissions Craft Session
The Wild Self Part I
The Wild Self Part II
Intro to Fiction
The Micro-Essay: Adventures in Short Form Nonfiction
Fiction Workshop: Fairy Tales as Inspiration
Writing Literary Journalism
Writing Poetry with Literary Journals
Generative Poetry Workshop
Short Story Workshop
Writing Alongside John Keats and Brenda Hillman
Master Workshop in Poetry
The Most Personal Essay
Writing New Poems
Introduction to Feature Stories
Yearlong Class in Poetry
Memoir as Quest
Muse and Material: Using Books to Kick-start Our Writing
Introductory Poetry Workshop
Fall Poetry Workshop
The Poet’s Craft in Nonfiction
The Perfect Sentence
Memoir Essentials
Novel Immersion
Writing with Neil Gaiman
Electric Nonfiction
Map Out Your Memoir
Boot Camp for Writers’ Conferences
Point of View in Fiction
Yearlong Manuscript Class in Memoir
Put the Pieces Where You May: On the Use of Literary Fragments
Publishing Intensive I
Pleasures and Pitfalls of Writing Memoir
Thirty Ways to Tell a Story
Women in Indy Comics
The Writer’s Voice
Be the Hero of Your Writing Process
Query Writing for Children’s Book Writers
Evasive Protagonist Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment
Writing Out of Context
From Scene to Plot
The Art of the Interview
The One-Two Punch
13 Steps to Finding an Agent or Publisher
Getting Started as a Freelancer
Vaporizing the Other Version
Building a Writing Practice
Writing in First Person
Building a Mystery
Writing and Social Change
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
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Literary Friendship: Erica Jong and Kim Dower
Seconds, Anyone?: The Pain (and Pleasure) of Follow-Up Books
Bushwick Book Club: Seattle7Writers
UW Castalia
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
Yoga for Writers
Yoga for Writers
Yoga for Writers – Cancelled
[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?
[Tasveer South Asian LitFest] Amitava Kumar on
Immigrant, Montana
Bushwick Book Club: Original Music Inspired by James Baldwin’s Another Country
UW Castalia
UW Castalia
The Zeitgeist and Me with Jeanne Heuving
UW Castalia
UW Castalia
Winter Write-In with Write Our Democracy: State of the Union
Release Party: PageBoy Magazine, Issue 10
Lit Jam: A Night of Words & Music
Short Story Form and Function: Five Seattle Short Fiction Writers in Conversation
Works in Progress
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Works in Progress – Cancelled!
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A Very Didion Christmas
Poetry Party with Copper Canyon Press
Write-O-Rama
UW Castalia
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
NaNoWriMo Community Write-In
NaNoWriMo Community Write-In
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
Yoga for Writers
Yoga for Writers — CANCELLED TONIGHT
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
UW Castalia
UW Castalia
Shankar Narayan: Postcards from the New World Chapbook Launch
UW Castalia
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
Janet Buttenwieser: GUTS | Book Launch
UW Castalia
Ask the Oracle: Steven Barker, Nadine Antoinette Maestas & Lily Ann Baumgart
Works in Progress
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
UW Castalia
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
Word Works: Ruth Ozeki
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
UW Castalia
3 for 3: Music Inspired by Books Inspired by Water
Works in Progress
Works in Progress
Morgan Parker: There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
A Reading with Arisa White, Anastacia-Renee, 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
Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento
Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento
Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento
Cheap Beer & Prose
Cheap Wine & Poetry
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
Works in Progress
Works in Progress
Works in Progress
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-Renee
9 Ounces: A One-Woman Show by Anastacia-Renee
9 Ounces: A One-Woman Show by Anastacia-Renee
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
A Damn Fine Reading! And Hot!
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
Be My Valentine (Or Not): Michelle Peñaloza’s
landscape/heartbreak
Release Party
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
Works in Progress
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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
UW Castalia
UW Castalia
UW Castalia
UW Castalia
UW Castalia
UW Castalia
UW Castalia
UW Castalia
Lit Crawl Seattle at Hugo House
Family Matters: Works in Progress
Cheap Wine & Poetry: Bill Carty, Lauren Ireland, Shin Yu Pai, Michelle Peñaloza
Cheap Wine & Poetry
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
Word Works: Charles Baxter on Plot
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
Hugo Literary Series: The Parent Trap
Hugo Literary Series: Laugh after Death
Book Launch Party for Elissa Washuta’s
My Body is a Book of Rules
Path with Art Summer Voices Showcase
The Triggering Town Review
A Reading with Katie Crouch and Harold Taw
Exceptional Emerging Novelists: Alexi Zentner, Urban Waite, Jennifer Murphy
Write-O-Rama
Cheap Wine & Poetry
Book Release Party for Karen Finneyfrock’s Starbird Murphy and the World Outside
A Chuckanut Writers Conference Showcase
The Editor as Therapist: A Weekend Workshop with Alan Rinzler
Cheap Wine & Poetry
UW Castalia
UW Castalia
A Reading with David St. John
Works in Progress
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Little Big Show: Cloud Cult in support of Hugo House Youth Programs
Works in Progress
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UW Castalia
Cheap Beer & Prose: Aaron Counts, Wilson Diehl, Michelle Goodman, Willie Fitzgerald
Works in Progress
AWP Offsite Event: University Of Washington CW Program Celebration
Made At Hugo House Mid-Year Reading
Sister Spit
A Reading With Kevin Young
APRIL Independent Publishing Expo
APRIL Pizza Party
AWP Offsite Event: Nelson Bentley Memorial and Poetry Extravaganza
UW Castalia
AWP Offsite Event: Getting Personal with A Public Space
Writing as Healing with Pongo
Hugo Literary Series: Some Like It Hot
Hugo Literary Series: Family Ties
Must the Gun Always Fire? And Other Rules of Writing
Antonya Nelson on Archetypes
Sven Birkerts on Structure
Word Works: Writers on Writing—Major Jackson on Metaphor
Bob Shacochis on Time
AWP Offsite Event: St. Mary’s College of California Reading
AWP Offsite Event: Penguin Poets Reading
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
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