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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Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with Us at Hugo House and Seattle Pride!Join us for an evening of community, connection, and celebration. Browse vendor tables, meet local artists, and connect with
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Does writing always fall to the last spot on your to-do list? Or maybe, lately, it hasn’t even been making it on there at all? If life keeps getting in the way of your creative
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This Día de Muertos Celebration at Hugo House will feature Claudia Castro Luna and members of the 2026 Jack Straw Fellows cohort.Traditionally a Mesoamerican celebration of life for those who
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After a sold-out run in August, KAIDAN returns, featuring new stories and performers!WHO: Za Trans-Pacific ProductionsWHAT: KAIDAN ReturnsDirected by Mimi KatanoShow Description:Za Trans-Pacific Productions’s KAIDAN returns, featuring new stories and
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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 you
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Ready to shake off perfectionism and fall back in love with making things? This monthly creative writing circle for adults is your invitation to play. Each session, we’ll push past what we think
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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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Hugo House is excited to invite our community back to Long Story Short–a volunteer run quarterly zine event! Join us for a four hour write-in where we will introduce a
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POEMS OF DÍA DE MUERTOS: CALAVERAS LITERARIASHugo House and the Highline Heritage Museum are partnering for this special event at Hugo House!Explore the history of calaveras literarias—Día de Muertos poems
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Event descriptionMedicine is complicated: we navigate suffering and tragedy, deep human moments of love and connection, and even absurdity and hilarity. How do we hold these dialectics? Our workshop offers a space
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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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Open Mic for PlaywrightsNovember 12, 20267:00 - 9:00 pmWelcome to this special Open Mic Night for Playwrights where writers bring the writing, and the audience does the reading! We encourage
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NaNoWriMo, short for National Novel Writing Month, is an annual creative writing project where participants challenge themselves to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Bring your |
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Event descriptionMedicine is complicated: we navigate suffering and tragedy, deep human moments of love and connection, and even absurdity and hilarity. How do we hold these dialectics? Our workshop offers
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Hugo House welcomes back Castalia—University of Washington MFA program's monthly reading series featuring graduate students, faculty, and alumni. Showcasing published and unpublished drafts of work by authors from a variety
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Raven Chronicles Press in partnership with the Hugo House is pleased to announce a book launch and reading from the new anthology TRANSFORMATIONS: WOOD / METAL / STONE / SUNDRY.Join
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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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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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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!
Online at Zoom: Salon
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 creative play and permission to create without expectation.
Online at Zoom
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
Hugo House is excited to invite our community back to Long Story Short–a volunteer run quarterly zine event! Join us for a four hour write-in where we will introduce a theme for the quarterly issue and provide prompts that writers are welcome to use (or come up with their own–as long as it fits the theme!).
In Person at Lapis Theater
Explore the history of calaveras literarias—Día de Muertos poems that tease the living through Death's voice.
Learn about this uniquely Mexican poetic tradition, then create your own calavera in a fun, guided writing workshop.
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 Skye
This workshop is for all humans who have a story to tell (or an embryo or inclination of something to share) in the realm of health/healthcare/illness/disease/caregiving. Stories can be in the form of poems, prose, spoken word, or even songs or plays. They can be about loss, grief, bewilderment, or trying to make sense of things that don’t add up. Essentially, our workshop is an invitation to reflect and make art from your lived experience.
In Person at Lapis Theater
Welcome to this special Open Mic Night for Playwrights where writers bring the writing, and the audience does the reading! We encourage dramatic writers of all experience levels to share their work in this low-pressure, welcoming, and exciting evening of scene readings.
In Person at Lapis Theater
NaNoWriMo, short for National Novel Writing Month, is an annual creative writing project where participants challenge themselves to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Bring your draft and join us at Hugo House and Folio for timed writing sprints!
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!
In Person at Skye
This workshop is for all humans who have a story to tell (or an embryo or inclination of something to share) in the realm of health/healthcare/illness/disease/caregiving. Stories can be in the form of poems, prose, spoken word, or even songs or plays. They can be about loss, grief, bewilderment, or trying to make sense of things that don’t add up. Essentially, our workshop is an invitation to reflect and make art from your lived experience.
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
Join us for an evening of poetry and prose celebrating the discovery of, and connection with, found objects that hide within landscapes of urban and natural environments, that when revealed stand as testaments to time, place, and the transformative effects of nature and the elements.
In Person at Lapis Theater
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 evening with no prompts or themes. Create whatever you want but it must be physical and finished by the end of the night.
In Person at Lapis Theater
NaNoWriMo, short for National Novel Writing Month, is an annual creative writing project where participants challenge themselves to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Bring your draft and join us at Hugo House and Folio for timed writing sprints!
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 dedicated writing time with time to share.
Online at Zoom
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
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!
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