R Words: Poetry and Performance for Social Change with Nikkita Oliver
All Levels | 8 sessions | June 22-Aug. 10 | Online
Explore the elements which open our eyes, preserve our stories, change our hearts, and create new narratives. Through the power of poetry and performance, we will write together to be the change we want to see in the world. R words: Resilience, Resistance, Revelation, Rise Up, Revolution, Reparations, Restoration.
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Hybrid Forms: A Generative Workshop with Erika Meitner
All Levels | 1 session | June 25 | Online
Explore and create three different hybrid forms of writing: pieces based on the language of forms we encounter (and fill out) on an everyday basis (government, school, medical, etc.), pieces based on sustained lists and memories of objects, and pieces based on interactive and journalistic techniques.
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Writing About the Ones You Love with Sonora Jha
All Levels | 1 session | June 26 | Online
The people we love have a way of showing up in our fiction and nonfiction. How do we tell our truths and stay compassionate to theirs? How do we write with humor, courage, rage, or beauty about the ones we love(d)? We’ll look at the work of renowned writers for inspiration, and you’ll learn to find the moments and voices that lend themselves best to the story you want to tell—as well as how to navigate the ethics and perils of writing uncomfortable truths.
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From Page to Stage with Jaime Parker Stickle
Introductory | 2 sessions | June 29-July 6 | Online
In this two-part workshop, participants will first learn how to craft personal experience into a compelling and captivating story. We will then take those words and read them aloud, examining how the written word and the spoken word differ, adding performance as another element of the craft.
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Miss You: Let’s Open the Portal with Gabrielle Calvocoressi
All Levels | 1 session | June 29 | Online
What a time of missing it's been these last two years. In this class, we'll turn that missing into a form to then think about and work into deepening our attention, memory, and boundless ability to make the present moment bloom into something extraordinary.
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HAPPENING TONIGHT!
Works in Progress
June 20, 2022 | 7-9 pm PT | In-person
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, plays, unclassified, and unclassifiable work of a literary nature are all welcome. This event is free and open to the public.
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Write with Hugo House with Alma García
June 21, 2022 | 6-7:30 pm PT | Online
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, though they are more than welcome to work on their own projects instead. Small group breakout sessions at the end of our time together encourage participants to share and respond to work generated during the session, or just get to know the other writers in the group.
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Book Talk with Ruth Ozeki
June 21, 2022 | 7-8 pm PT | In-person
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.
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Community Write-In with Marguerite Harrold
June 23, 2022 | 5:30-6:30 pm PT | Online
Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community. Whether you want to journal, blog, start something new or get some fresh ideas for a work-in-progress, this hour will jumpstart your creativity.
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Scribes Summer Camps start June 27th!
Online & In-Person
Scribes Summer Camps provide young writers the opportunity to participate in week-long, all- or half-day workshops, during which you can focus on, dig deep into, and nurture your inner writer. You’ll work alongside instructors who are published writers and educators themselves, as well as guest teaching artists. Learn more & register »
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Congratulations to Hugo House Development Associate Ally Ang for winning Columbia Journal's 2022 Spring Poetry Contest. This will sadly be the last week for Ally Ang at Hugo House, but we are so happy for them and the next chapter of their career! Fondest farewells to this fantastic human and colleague and accomplished poet. Read Owed To My Father’s Accent by Ally Ang here.
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