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• Meet the 2019 Scribes Instructors: Nisi Shawl at Hugo House
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• How Writing My Story Helped Me Heal by Ingrid Ricks
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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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• Micro Lesson: Magical Realism with Stephanie Barbé Hammer
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• Time Traveling and Time Keeping: Conversations with Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler
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• Finish Your Chapbook
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• Making a Scene
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• Mindful Writing
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• 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
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• Yearlong in Memoir
• Nicole Hardy
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• How to Write a Memoir Book Proposal
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• Bring Your Characters to Life
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• The Sizzle of the Feast—A Song of Reimagined Forms
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• Back to the Basics: A Painless Review
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• The Other Side of Fire: Writing the Trauma Essay
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• Write, Revise, Workshop, Submit!
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• Bring It Back, Come Rewind: A Generative Workshop
• Intensive Workshop
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• Comedy Writing Workshop
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• Fiction I
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• How to Come Out as a Writer
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• Scenes
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• Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Writing Believable Time Travel In Sci-fi and Fantasy
• Submission Strategies
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• Foundation and Frame
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• Rage Is a Red Lesson: How to Turn Anger into Charged Prose
• How to Create an Irresistible Narrator
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• Meditation for Writers
• Poetry III
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• The Most Personal Essay
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• Poetry II Online
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• The Persona Poem
• Poetry II
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• Philosophy for Poets
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• Mindsets in the Making of Fiction
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• Creative Nonfiction II Online
• The Hero’s Journey for Storytellers
• Advanced Workshop in Poetry
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• Desire as Craft
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• Chapter One: Beginning Your Memoir
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• The Micro Essay
• Fiction II Online
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• Novel Immersion Section II
• Susan Meyers
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• Jumpstart Your Engines Poetry Workshop
• Word Works Workshop
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• Word Works Workshop
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• Generative Science-Fiction Workshop
• Building the Perfect Beast: Creating Strong, Effective Characters in Fiction
• Creative Nonfiction I
• Poetry I
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• Poetry of Disability
• How Not to Write a Novel
• Creative Nonfiction II
• Yearlong in Prose
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• Writing alongside Gwendolyn Brooks and Alice Notley
• Yearlong in Young Adult Fiction
• Yearlong in Poetry
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• Advanced Poetry Workshop
• A Field Researcher’s Guide to Authoritative Storytelling
• Poetry II
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• 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
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• Poetry I Online
• Introduction to the Lyric Essay
• Creative Nonfiction I Online
• Oulipo: The Creative Beauty of Constraints
• Virginia Woolf’s Aquatic Poetic
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• Novel Immersion
• Fiction I Online
• Fiction I
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• The Language of Loss: Creativity in Response to Grief
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• Mini-Memoirs for Podcast, Radio, or Reading Aloud
• The Writer’s Notebook
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• Introduction to Scrivener
• Writing Sex
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• The Art of Interviewing
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• How to Sequence a Prizewinning Poetry Manuscript
• Gentrification & Nostalgia: A Poetry Workshop for Poets of Color
• The Essay
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• 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
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• 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
• 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

• Robert P. Kaye

Events

• Book Launch | Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories by Donna Miscolta
• Virtual VOW: Voices of Womxn Salon
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Lisa Lucas
• Student Happy Hour
• Moss Volume 5 Launch
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Matthew Salesses
• Write with Hugo House with Alma García
• Write with Hugo House with Jeanine Walker
• Write with Hugo House with Brett Hamil
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Sharyn Skeeter
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Rone Shavers
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• Fight for Our Lives: Black Lives Matter Part II
• Fight For Our Lives: Black Lives Matter
• Black Lives Matter Write-In with Katrina Otuonye
• Black Lives Matter Write-In with Katrina Otuonye
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Heidi Pitlor
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Elise Hooper
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with David Heska Wanbli Weiden
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Marianne Leone
• Book Launch | The Cloven by Garth Stein
• Write with Hugo House with Brett Hamil
• Write with Hugo House with Jeanine Walker
• Write with Hugo House with Alma García
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• Virtual Screening of Shirley
• Quarantine Write-In with Anne Liu Kellor
• Quarantine Write-In with Anne Liu Kellor
• Quarantine Write-In with Anne Liu Kellor
• Quarantine Write-In with Anne Liu Kellor
• Quarantine Write-In with Amber Flame
• Quarantine Write-In with Amber Flame
• Quarantine Write-In with Amber Flame
• Quarantine Write-In with Amber Flame
• Quarantine Write-In with Amber Flame
• Black Lives Matter Write-In with Katrina Otuonye
• Black Lives Matter Write-In with Katrina Otuonye
• Black Lives Matter Write-In with Katrina Otuonye
• Black Lives Matter Write-In with Katrina Otuonye
• Kids Summer Write-In (Grades K–5)
• Kids Summer Write-In (Grades K–5)
• Kids Summer Write-In (Grades K–5)
• Kids Summer Write-In (Grades K–5)
• Kids Summer Write-In (Grades K–5)
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• Kids Summer Write-In (Grades K–5)
• Kids Summer Write-In (Grades K–5)
• Kids Summer Write-In (Grades K–5)
• Kids Summer Write-In (Grades K–5)
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• Tracing the Maps: Claudia Castro Luna, Cindy Williams Gutiérrez, Raúl Sánchez, and Carolyne Wright
• After Rubén: Francisco Aragón & Natalie Scenters-Zapico
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Jabari Asim
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Kawai Strong Washburn
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Angie Kim
• Write with Hugo House with Brett Hamil
• Write with Hugo House with Alma García
• Write with Hugo House with Jeanine Walker
• Quarantine Write-In with Anna Vodicka
• Quarantine Write-In with Anna Vodicka
• Quarantine Write-In with Anna Vodicka
• Quarantine Write-In with Anna Vodicka
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Major Jackson & Ed Pavlić
• The Knockout Queen: An Evening with Rufi Thorpe and Laurie Frankel
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Sadie Dupuis
• Quarantine Write-In with Anna Vodicka
• Quarantine Write-In with Rebecca Agiewich
• Eat a Bowl of Tea: Celebrating an American Classic
• Launched: Corinne Manning, Kristen Millares Young & EJ Koh
• FREE ZOOM CLASS: Ask a Novelist with Peter Mountford
• FREE ZOOM CLASS: Storytelling 101 with Joshua Marie Wilkinson
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with TaraShea Nesbit
• Capitol Hill Arts District Streaming Festival
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Marie-Helene Bertino
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with francine j. harris
• Quarantine Write-In with Rebecca Agiewich
• Quarantine Write-In with Rebecca Agiewich
• Quarantine Write-In with Rebecca Agiewich
• Quarantine Write-In with Rebecca Agiewich
• Speak for the Planet: An Earth Day Write-In
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Jess Walter
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Christina Chiu
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour
• Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Laura van den Berg
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
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• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• (Virtual) Works in Progress
• Cheap Wine & Poetry—CANCELLED
• Landscapes of the Self: Scott Ferry and Jory Mickelson
• Writing the Natural World: John Farnsworth and Lyanda Haupt
• Writers Resist: Write the Vote 2020 — CANCELLED
• Youth Speaks Seattle Preliminary Slam #3—CANCELLED
• Book Launch | The Inspired Poet: Writing Exercises to Spark New Work by Susan Landgraf—CANCELLED
• Word Lit Zine Presents…—CANCELLED
• Great Souls: Live Short Stories Read by Seattle’s Finest Actors – POSTPONED
• Word Lit Zine Presents…Beginning, Middle, and End
• Bad Brother: Religion and Politics by Loren Niemi
• Bibliophilia Presents: Vonnegut Unexpected
• Bibliophilia Presents: Let Me Tell You A Story
• Bibliophilia Presents: Poetry Verse Play
• Bibliophilia Presents: Heathcliff Letters
• Bibliophilia Presents: The Word Lit Zine Quiz Show!
• White Noise: Readings by Queer Writers of Color—CANCELLED
• Seattle Arts & Lectures Presents: Local Voices—CANCELLED
• Book Launch: Orange by E. Briskin, sponsored by Entre Ríos Books
• Seattle Arts & Lectures Presents: Local Voices
• Book Launch: Ed Skoog and Susan Leslie Moore (Zoom)
• Virtual VOW: Voices of Womxn Salon
• Seattle Arts & Lectures Presents: Local Voices
• Mineral School Presents: Fresh Fiction — POSTPONED
• UW Castalia
• UW Castalia—CANCELLED
• A Tribute to David Wagoner
• Run Me to Earth: An Evening with Paul Yoon (At Elliott Bay Book Co.)
• 2019–20 Hugo Fellows Mid-Year Reading
• House Lessons: An Evening with Erica Bauermeister—CANCELLED
• Eat Read Hugo 2020
• Spotlight Poetry: Unsun : f/11 by Andrew Zawacki
• A Remembrance of Judith Roche
• Virtual Book Party | Subduction by Kristen Millares Young
• Word Lit Zine Presents: Literary Nerd Hour
• Book Launch | Ensō by Shin Yu Pai
• Black on Craft: Porsha Olayiwola and Quenton Baker
• Works in Progress
• Works in Progress
• Works in Progress
• SubContinental Drift: Dilruba Ahmed, Kazim Ali, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, and Prageeta Sharma
• Fight for Our Lives: A Night of Performances Benefiting the Trans and Queer Community
• Spotlight Poetry: Sherwin Bitsui with Elee Kraljii Gardiner
• UW Castalia
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• UW Castalia
• Book Launch: Black Imagination by Natasha Marin
• Bushwick Book Club: Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad
• Bushwick Book Club: The Works of Shakespeare
• Bushwick Book Club: The works of Cecilia Vicuña
• Bushwick Book Club: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
• Bushwick Book Club: Tara Westover’s Educated
• Native Womxn Writers Celebration
• Open Books Series: Kaveh Akbar, Paige Lewis, Billie Swift, and Lena Khalef Tuffaha
• 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—POSTPONED
• 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
• CANCELED: Word Works | Sigrid Nunez: Giving Full Play to the Imagination
• Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place
• Hugo Literary Series: Karen Russell, Tyehimba Jess, and Tara Conklin—VIRTUAL
• 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
• WLA Frolic
• The Last Romantics: Book Release Party with Tara Conklin
• Mother Country: A Reading and Conversation with Irina Reyn and Carol Cassella
• Cephalopod Appreciation Society
• 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
• 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
• Yoga for Writers
• [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
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• The Zeitgeist and Me with Jeanne Heuving
• UW Castalia
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• 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
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• Works in Progress – Cancelled!
• Works in Progress
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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
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• Yoga for Writers — CANCELLED TONIGHT
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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
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• UW Castalia
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• UW Castalia
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• Works in Progress
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• Eat Read Hugo 2018: Benefit Dinner & Auction
• Ask the Oracle: Michael Shilling, Amber Flame, and Montreux Rotholtz
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• A Night of Bad Stories: Straight Talk for the Politically Heartbroken with Steve Almond
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• Made at Hugo House 2016-2017 Final Reading
• Hugo Literary Series: Lidia Yuknavitch, Tarfia Faizullah, Ijeoma Oluo, and Nick Droz
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• Hugo Literary Series: Jericho Brown, Porochista Khakpour, Rachel Kessler
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• Word Works: Ben Lerner
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• Josh Weil with Carol Guess and Urban Waite
• E.J. Koh Book Launch: A Lesser Love
• A Reading with Anastacia-Reneé & Friends
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• CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Queer Writers in Conversation | Chavisa Woods with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
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• UW Castalia
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• Seattle Fiction Federation No. 9
• APRIL in April
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• Eat Read Hugo 2017 [SOLD OUT]
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• 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
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• Ask the Oracle: Claudia Rowe, Randy Sue Coburn, and JM Miller
• Residencies Revealed: Writers and Programs Tell All
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• 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
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• 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
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• CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Randa Jarrar with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• Community Writing Circle
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• Kerry Cohen: Girl Trouble @ Elliott Bay Book Company
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• CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Rebecca Brown and C. Davida Ingram
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• Where the House Was
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• Book Launch Party for Neal Bascomb’s The Winter Fortress
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• Weed* & Memoir with David Schmader & guests
• Happy Hour with Manuel Gonzales
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• Epilogue/Prologue: A Celebration of Hugo House
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• A Reading with Nguyen Phan Que Mai
• Working Stiffs: Tales from the Grind
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• 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
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• Residencies Revealed: Writers and Programs Tell All
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• Writers Under the Influence: Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman
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• Writers Under the Influence: Octavia E. Butler
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• 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
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• Cheap Beer & Prose
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• Passing the Laurel: Washington State Poet Laureate
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• Ask the Oracle at Hotel Sorrento
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• Book Launch Party for Sean Beaudoin’s Welcome Thieves
• Noir at the Bar
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• Wage Slaves: the 78 Cents Edition
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• 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
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• 9 Ounces: A One-Woman Show by Anastacia-Renee
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• great weather for MEDIA Anthology Release Party
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• An Evening with The University of Iowa International Writing Program
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• SHORE: Story (curated reading)
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• Celebration for Seattle City of Literature
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• Writers Under the Influence: Richard Hugo
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• Poetry World Series 2015: Seattle Edition
• Cheap Beer & Prose
• Joe Meno, Nina Revoyr, and Rachel Kessler at Elliott Bay Book Company
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• A Reading by Blue Begonia Press Poets
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• Book Party for Alexander Chee’s The Queen of the Night
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• Join Us! An Evening of Collaborative Novelists
• Word Works: Ellen Bass on “Controlled Chaos,” co-presented by LiTFUSE
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• Clare Johnson’s (love songs), an art exhibition
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• Rental: Book Launch for Exercises to Free the Tongue
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• A Reading with Rae Armantrout
• Hugo Literary Series: Rough Day
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• I Change: An Evening of Poetic Divination
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• Rachel Kessler and Friends
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• An Evening with Tony Hoagland
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• Word Works: Luis Alberto Urrea on Understory
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• Hugo Literary Series: One Hour
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• AWP Offsite Event: St. Mary’s College of California Reading
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• A Reading with Blake Bailey
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• 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
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• Lit Crawl Seattle at Hugo House
• 2013 Washington State Book Awards Party
• New Voices: Performance Class Reading No. 2
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• UW Castalia
• Hugo Literary Series: The Paper Chase — Dorothy Allison, Stephen Elliott, Kirsten Lunstrum, and Levi Fuller
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• 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
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• Lyrics and Prose: A Reading with Iceland’s Sjón
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• State of the Book Salon 3: Book Reviews in the Digital Age
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• WITS Reading
• State of the Book Salon 2
• Castalia Reading Series: January 2013
• Book Launch Party for Morris Stegosaurus’ Zebra Feathers
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• 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
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• PANEL: Residencies, Conferences and Grants
• Floating Bridge Press Reading
• Castalia Reading Series: November 2012
• Lit.mustest: Goddard College Student Reading
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• 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
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• 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