Join us at Stage Fright, an open mic event that gives young writers the opportunity to share poetry, fiction, journals, songs, plays, and more. If you have a piece of writing and want to share it in front of an audience, share it at Stage Fright! If you have a piece of writing and arenât
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, youâll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with
Write Time is a writing circle for teens that takes place every Thursday from 4:30-5:30 pm PT during the school year. Want to improve your craft and learn new techniques during brief opening lessons? Bring something youâre working on and nail down your next sentence? Or simply come to share your work with other young
Join Jennifer Egan to celebrate the release of her new book The Candy House. A sibling novel to her Pulitzer-Prize and National Book Critics Circle-winning A Visit from The Goon Squad, THE CANDY HOUSE is a triumph of imagination and empathy and every bit as bravura, brilliant, and exhilarating as its predecessor.Read Hugo Houseâs current COVID safety policy for in-person events
Join us for creative inspiration and fun writing projects to try! Kids Write-In is a free, weekly writing circle for elementary school-aged youth who want to write independently or with the help of an adult. In each 40-minute session, students have the opportunity to read various styles of writing, discuss these with their peers, practice
Join Rajnii Eddins as he reads excerpts from his latest work, In The Coded Language Of This Mortal Tongue, along with performances by friends and fellow poets Ebo Barton and Chelsey Richardson.Read Hugo Houseâs current COVID safety policy for in-person events here. We are continuing to track local, state, and federal health recommendations and guidelines as circumstances change and evolve. We will notify registrants of any
Romance Writers will discuss how to burn down the patriarchy and lead you through exercises to push past internalized misogyny and racism through your writing. Drinks will be served. TEST 2:36pm
Join New York Times best-selling author and Hugo House teacher Steve Almond (Candyfreak, Against Football) for a reading from his long-awaited debut novel, All the Secrets of the World, followed by a candid conversation with local Lit Goddess Maria Semple (Whereâd You Go, Bernadette, Today Will Be Different). Among the topics on tap: how humor helps us contend with tragedy, what we can
Thereâs little doubt that time has felt weird over these last two years. For this seasonâs Hugo Literary Series, twelve writers and musicians will be riffing on variations of time. For this eveningâs event, writers Jami Attenberg, Deesha Philyaw, E. Lily Yu, and Nic Masangkay started from the prompt of Uncountableâtime flashing ahead or away.Time waits for no oneâsnag a ticket
Write-O-Rama is here! Here's your chance to try out several workshops offered by Hugo House teachers all in one writing-packed day. Plus, at $45 for five 50-minute classes, you're getting each class for $9 â a steal, if we do say so ourselves! Craft a found poem, improve the voice of your fiction, write a
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