Whether it’s a reading, discussion, craft talk, or interview, find these events and more featuring renowned authors, emerging writers, and talented new and local voices.
Works in Progress is an open mic for all writers. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with your literary community!
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DUNE* Mini-Comics Night is where folks are invited to create the contents of a black and white, 5.5” x 8.5” printed anthology within a limited amount of time, in one |
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Former Hugo House fellows Bill Carty, Laura Da’, Deirdre Lockwood and Shankar Narayan share poetry and chat about their fellowship experience and more.Event Schedule:6:30 IntroductionsShort readings6:40 Bill Carty6:55 Laura Da’7:10 Deirdre
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Please join us in uncovering long-held family secrets by way of a conversation in poems, from ekphrases inspired by misty old photos, secret marriages, incarceration, and flight from war—the poems of
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Works in Progress is Hugo House's open mic series inclusive of diverse formats and storytelling crafts. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with our
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Collections—A Live Magazine and Public Club hosted by Ariel Basom is a monthly showcase of both live readers and video performances featuring a diversity of positions, styles, and modes: poetry
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The Slide Rule is a comics strip extravaganza where Seattle cartoonists project their works on a screen and read them before a live audience! Music, comedy, drama and visual art
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Join us at Hugo House’s Lapis Theater for Industry Talks: Careers in the Literary Arts, an engaging evening that explores the many professional paths within the world of writing, publishing,
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In this beginner-friendly writing class, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts. The session will begin with introductions and a short warm-up, after which we’ll read two separate poems
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Inspired by improv shows and Dungeons & Dragons, Whose Crit is It Anyway combines them into a performance with a cast of professional actors that will take on the characters
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Works in Progress is Hugo House's open mic series inclusive of diverse formats and storytelling crafts. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with our literary |
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Join us online with Hugo House for an informational session about Golf Pencil Group (GPG), an organization that offers creative writing classes for people incarcerated at the King County Jail
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$3 wine & poetryReadings by Samar Abulhassan, Kevin Emerson, Ramon Isao, and Arlene NaganawaThursday, March 26, 7pmDoors at 6pmHugo House is delighted to partner with poet Jeanine Walker and mixed |
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Online at Zoom: Hugo Theater
Works in Progress is an open mic for all writers. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with your literary community!
In Person at Lapis Theater
Collections exists in a space in between the publishing world and the open mic—a third space. A space to present finished and polished work; a space to come together with peers and allies to share fresh ideas; a space to forge community.
Visit https://www.arielbasom.com/collections for monthly line-ups, more details, and archives of past collections.
In Person at Lapis Theater
The Slide Rule is a comics strip extravaganza where Seattle cartoonists project their works on a screen and read them before a live audience! Music, comedy, drama and visual art combine in a uniquely entertaining artistic event.
In Person at Lapis Theater
Join us at Hugo House’s Lapis Theater for Industry Talks: Careers in the Literary Arts, an engaging evening that explores the many professional paths within the world of writing, publishing, and literary production.
Online at Zoom
Write with Hugo House is a free drop-in writing circle for adults of all ages and genres of writing. In this session, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts.
In Person at Lapis Theater
Hugo House welcomes back Castalia—University of Washington MFA program's monthly reading series featuring graduate students, faculty, and alumni.
In Person at Lapis Theater
Inspired by improv shows and Dungeons & Dragons, Whose Crit is It Anyway combines them into a performance with a cast of professional actors that will take on the characters you create. Choose their adventure and guide their actions, and if you choose wisely, they might even survive!
In Person at Lapis Theater
Works in Progress is Hugo House's open mic series inclusive of diverse formats and storytelling crafts. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with our literary community!
Online at Zoom: Hugo Theater
Join us online with Hugo House for an informational session about Golf Pencil Group (GPG), an organization that offers creative writing classes for people incarcerated at the King County Jail in downtown Seattle.
In Person at Lapis Theater
Hugo House is delighted to partner with poet Jeanine Walker and mixed media artist Aaron Counts to bring It Goes On to the Hugo House stage! It Goes On features $3 glasses of wine, $12 bottles, and invaluable words.
Online at Zoom
Write with Hugo House is a free drop-in writing circle for adults of all ages and genres of writing. In this session, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts.
In Person at Lapis Theater
Join us on April 9, 2026, at the Lapis Theatre for the one-night-only premiere of Trauma Recovery Stories: Seattle.
Online at Zoom
Write with Hugo House is a free drop-in writing circle for adults of all ages and genres of writing. In this session, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts.
Online at Zoom
Write with Hugo House is a free drop-in writing circle for adults of all ages and genres of writing. In this session, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts.
Online at Zoom
Write with Hugo House is a free drop-in writing circle for adults of all ages and genres of writing. In this session, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts.
Online at Zoom
Write with Hugo House is a free drop-in writing circle for adults of all ages and genres of writing. In this session, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts.
Online at Zoom
Write with Hugo House is a free drop-in writing circle for adults of all ages and genres of writing. In this session, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts.
Online at Zoom
Write with Hugo House is a free drop-in writing circle for adults of all ages and genres of writing. In this session, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts.
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