Please join 18 women and nonbinary writers of color in what promises to be a dynamic, inspiring evening. Each of these writers was a student in Anne Liu Kellor’s Hugo House classes, and many are taking the stage for the first time. Come to listen, come to engage.Readers include Auzin Ahmadi, Portia Botchway, Aleyda Marisol
Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our best teachers rotate on a monthly basis to bring you a range of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with
In a new collection of autobiographical essays, Uncle Rico’s Encore, award-winning author Peter Bacho shares stories that illuminate the Filipino American experience. Bacho relates vivid stories of community, generational connection, defiance, and activism, including resistance to the union-busting efforts of the federal government and organizing for decent housing and services for elders. He also illustrates the
Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our best teachers rotate on a monthly basis to bring you a range of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with
One of our favorite writers, and human beings who are of the writerly persuasion, novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki makes this most welcome in-person Seattle return for the paperback release of last year’s luminous novel, her fourth, The Book of Form and Emptiness (Penguin). We had a wonderful online launch for this
Our mission during this time of distraction, artistic fatigue, and social isolation is to create a regular time and space for writers to write and to meet each other. In this group, writers introduce themselves and are provided optional fiction, poetry and nonfiction prompts to work on for 60-70 minutes of sustained silent writing time,
Works in Progress is Hugo House's semi-monthly open mic series.Held on the first Monday virtually and third Monday in-person of every month at 7 pm, Works in Progress is an open mic for all writers. Read your work, meet other writers, and find out what’s going on in the literary community. Poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs,
Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our best teachers rotate on a monthly basis to bring you a range of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with
Writing + Meditation is a free monthly drop-in writing workshop where students will explore different ways of meditation with intentional writing prompts. A Student’s TO-DO List: Study for a test Finish 3rd period assignment Eat Get ready for practice Talk to bestie Do my homework Look for a job Take care of myself? If you find yourself at the middle of the month, middle of the week, needing a space to
Join literary artist, Gabriela Denise Frank, for a free one-hour Q&A. Gabriela will offer some tips, tricks, and advice from the world of literary magazines. Come to the call with questions about your own works-in-progress or other inquiries for a lit mag editor.
University of British Columbia forest ecologist Suzanne Simard, long renowned among people who study forests and trees, showed the world what she has been about in decades of life and work in her brilliant book first published last year, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Vintage). She kindly gave Elliott Bay
In this group, 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 and write in response to those. At times writers will be invited to create community through sharing words or ideas with other writers in small groups. Attendees
Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our best teachers rotate on a monthly basis to bring you a range of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with
"I flew home— / then I flew from home— / having found my home is flight." Expatriate voices have always enriched our collective experience of literature. As Tolstoy asserted: "If literature is NOT translated . . . it's like blood that stays locked in one part of the body." Translation, while often a primary transfusion, is
Works in Progress is Hugo House's semi-monthly open mic series.Held on the first Monday virtually and third Monday in-person of every month at 7 pm, Works in Progress is an open mic for all writers. Read your work, meet other writers, and find out what’s going on in the literary community. Poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs,
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