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Please give generously to help writers find camaraderie, evolve as artists and people, and bridge the gap between humans through story and language. Not only will your support strengthen Hugo House, it will enrich your community by promoting engagement with the literary arts as a path to deeper empathy and understanding. Plus, your gift makes it possible for all writers, regardless of income, to have access to programs such as writers-in-residence and more than seventy free readings a year.

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WRITE-O-RAMA

Dec. 5, 12-6 pm, $45 / $25

Generate tons of new work in this afternoon full of mini writing classes put on by regular Hugo House instructors. Come to sample our regular offerings in miniature, sign up for a discounted membership, and meet new writing comrades. This event almost always sells out, so act fast!

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9 OUNCES: A ONE-WOMAN SHOW

Dec. 17–19

9 Ounces, written by Anastacia Tolbert, stars Tolbert as three characters: Alice, Luna, and Saraphina. Using the audience as mirror, epiphany, and diary, three narratives crochet themselves around evolving frames.

9 Ounces first premiered at The Project Room.

General admission shows run Dec. 17 and 18 and feature a Q&A following the performance. $12

A special VIP performance on Dec. 19 will feature a special Q&A with characters Alice, Luna, and Saraphina, as well as complimentary wine and snacks. $20

BOOK RELEASE PARTY FOR DAVID SHIELDS'S WAR IS BEAUTIFUL

Dec. 10, 7 p.m., free

Shields will read the intro to and present a slideshow of his new book, War is Beautiful: A Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict, which Noam Chomsky called “shattering.” Organizing the photos into chapters such as Beauty, Movie, Painting, and Pietà, Shields demonstrates how the photos aestheticize both war as a whole and the suffering of the human body during war.

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COPPER CANYON PRESS HOLIDAY PARTY

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Dec. 15, 7–10 pm, free

Holiday book sale! Poetry reading by Deborah Landau and others! Behind-the-scenes stories from the press!

UPCOMING CLASSES

Winter classes have blown in like snowflakes on a strong wind. Want to learn to write a better sentence than that? You know what to do.

View the full catalog here. Registration begins on Dec. 1 for members and Dec. 8 for the general public.

FICTION CLASSES
on risk, writing a novel in six weeks, writing 1000 words a week, Borges's short stories, workshopping, improving your young-adult novel, revision, making your fiction powerful, beginning a young-adult novel, time as object, historical characters, surrealism, prize-winners, fiction based on fact, reading for your writing, and first pages.

NONFICTION CLASSES
on starting projects, personal essays, scenes, writing a book in six weeks, book reviews, worldly memoirs, environmental writing, beginning, alternative forms for essays, finding the "real" subject, writing about the brain, tools for telling true stories, memoir essentials, and vulnerability.

POETRY CLASSES
on generating work, local poets, workshopping, poetry as séance, Elizabeth Bishop, finding the poem's purpose, objects, persona, exaggeration, repetition, poetry as resistance, love poems, first books, poetry as navigation, re-charging your poetic life, disturbing poems, Frank Stanford, and poetry of the body.

WRITING LIFE
on ideas and proposals, legal concepts for writers, brainstorming, re-charging your writing life, demystifying publication, indie publishing, and collaborating with an editor.

MULTIGENRE CLASSES
on POV, field research, reading like a writer, screenwriting, satire, memory, character psychology, fundamentals of narrative, letter writing, capitalism in writing, voice, dialogue, writing about animals, tarot of character, sentences, and establishing authority.

WRITING CONTESTS

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Fellowship
Due Dec. 1
Spend seven months in Provincetown, Massachusetts writing in your own private apartment! Past recipients include our own instructor Bill Carty.