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.
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.
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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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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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Oppression: A Community Reading We are in an era of systemic oppression, a time in which authoritarian practices have eroded our civil liberties. In 2025, 32 people died in ICE custody.
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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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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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Meet Dario Cvencek, a Bosnian refugee turned Seattle poet whose debut collections excavate the stubborn presence of love amid displacement and trauma. Drawing on a childhood shaped by the 1990s
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Join us at Hugo House in the Lapis Theatre for Microfiction Lab: Form, Prompt, Write, an engaging and laidback writing environment to dive into the art of microfiction, free to
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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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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
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Join tabletop game designer Banana Chan as she leads you through her solo journaling game, Forgery, a story about a down-on-her-luck art forger who is commissioned to recreate a cursed
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Former Poet Laureate Zach Polis will read an excerpt from his novel, The Zookeeper. In this feral, tongue-in-cheek coming-of-age story, Edward, an autistic zookeeper, is kicked out of his parents’
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Join us at Hugo House in the Lapis Theatre for Microfiction Lab: Form, Prompt, Write, an engaging and laidback writing environment to dive into the art of microfiction, free to
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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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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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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 tabletop game designer Banana Chan as she leads you through her solo journaling game, Forgery, a story about a down-on-her-luck art forger who is commissioned to recreate a cursed painting.
In Person at Lapis Theater
Join us at Hugo House in the Lapis Theatre for Microfiction Lab: Form, Prompt, Write, an engaging and laidback writing environment to dive into the art of microfiction, free to attend.
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 Theater Lobby
Former Poet Laureate Zach Polis will read an excerpt from his novel, The Zookeeper.
In Person at Lapis Theater
Join us at Hugo House in the Lapis Theatre for Microfiction Lab: Form, Prompt, Write, an engaging and laidback writing environment to dive into the art of microfiction, free to attend.
In Person
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
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
The volunteer staff of Hugo House are excited to invite our community to our first Long Story Short quarterly zine event!
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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 for our Limited Twice a Month Works in Progress: The Odyssey Edition! This special series follows the same format as our regular Works in Progress sessions, but with a themed twist. Each month features a unique theme, and participants are invited to share pieces that either interpret the theme in their own way or incorporate it into their work.
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 Lapis Theater
2026 Jack Straw writing fellows read some of the poetry and creative non-fiction they’ve been working on this year.
In Person at Hugo House Rooftop
This August, the Hugo House rooftop tumbles down the rabbit hole for our Mad Tea Party, and you're invited to the table. Join us on the rooftop for an evening of tea, libations, canapés, and a little bit of literary mischief beneath the summer sky.
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.
In Person at Lapis Theater
Many writers have abandoned hope of signing a traditional publishing deal, because the process seems difficult, slow, and bewilderingly complicated. In this talk, Peter Mountford will discuss how he’s published and helped recent clients ink deals with Big 5 and smaller presses (even if they don't have a “platform”).
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 creative play and permission to create without expectation.
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.
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 dedicated writing time with time to share.
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 creative play and permission to create without expectation.
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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