Hugo House is delighted to host our friends The Bushwick Book Club Seattle as they present: Original Music Inspired by Isabel Allende’s Violeta.What would it be like to have your life marked by not one but two pandemics? Meet Violeta, born in 1920 near the end of the Spanish flu’s rampage, who will live through
Join us in welcoming Ada Limón, the nation's 24th U.S. Poet Laureate, for a one-night-only reading from her six collections of poetry and the debut of new work for the very first time on Hugo House's stage! Following her reading, Ada will be joined in conversation with Seattle poet and educator Quenton Baker. Books will
Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our instructors rotate on a monthly basis to bring you an array of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with other
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
Write Time for Teens is a free drop-in writing circle for creative writing teens ages 13-19. We welcome young writers to explore a variety of writing genres and techniques, flex and perfect their skills, and celebrate their work in community with their fellow artists! All sessions are facilitated by a published writer and experienced youth educator. Virtual Write
Creative writing teens are invited to join this free bi-monthly drop-in writing circle where young writers can explore a variety of writing genres and techniques, flex and perfect their skills, and celebrate their work in community with their fellow young writers. All sessions are facilitated by a published writer and experienced youth educator. Come join
Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our instructors rotate on a monthly basis to bring you an array of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with other
If you are a middle school student who loves creative writing, join us at Just Write! A free monthly drop-in writing circle where young writers can acquire new skills, experiment with a variety of genres, and meet other young writers, too! All Just Write! sessions are facilitated by a published writer and experienced youth educator. Just
Join us for creative inspiration and fun writing projects! Kids Write-In provides free monthly opportunities for youth in Kindergarten-5th grade to explore writing with creative writing projects and/or prompts, facilitated by a published writer and experienced educator. Kids Write-In is geared toward elementary school kids who want to write independently or with the help of
GiveBIG is happening May 2 & 3, 2023! GiveBIG is an annual event of giving that brings together individuals and organizations across Washington to invest in our communities. Click here to GiveBIG to Hugo House now. For this year's GiveBIG, the Hugo House Board of Directors is matching all gifts dollar-for-dollar up to $15,000. This
Every year, Hugo House commissions new prose, poetry, and songs based on a writing prompt. During the Hugo Literary Series, authors share the results. This year, we’ve decided to go with the theme re/birth to celebrate, if not the end of the pandemic, then at least some way of us living in the world with
Join Hugo House in welcoming back SOAP and The Baker Theatre Workshop as they present 1954—The Kings Go South.ABOUT THE PLAYThe year is 1954. Should young Martin King and Coretta Scott, recently married, leave the academic world and relative peace of Boston for small-town Alabama – not far from where Coretta grew up and faced
Since 1997, Stage Fright has been the place for youth to share fiction, poetry, journals, songs, comedy routines, art, 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 aren’t sure whether you
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 us for Local Voices, a reading series in celebration of the brilliance of Seattle Arts & Lectures' Writers in the Schools (WITS) cohort. SAL’s Writers in the Schools (WITS) program connects professional writers with public school classrooms throughout the Puget Sound region to elevate the expressions of all students as they discover and develop
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