Meet our 2021–22 poet-in-residence, Jessica Mehta
We're pleased to announce that interdisciplinary author and artist Jessica Mehta will be our new poet-in-residence. Mehta is the author of fifteen books, eleven of which are collections of poetry. Her latest collections, When We Talk of Stolen Sisters (Not a Pipe Publishing) and Antipodes (New Rivers Press), will be released this year. She is currently completing her PhD in literature at the University of Exeter in England. Read more »
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Start sharpening your pencils... the Fall catalog is officially online!
We're thrilled to announce that this fall, we'll be reopening our doors for the first time in 18 months, to offer select in-person classes. If you're not from the Seattle area or can't make it into the city for class, have no fear: the majority of our classes this quarter will still take place online.
Scholarship applications for Fall are open through August 16, and general registration opens August 17.
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We're hiring for four new positions.
Want to get into literary arts administration at a fast-growing nonprofit? We've just opened four new positions: Events Curator, Education Manager, Development Associate, and Bookkeeper.
Learn more & apply »
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Register for Scribes
Scribes Summer Camps at Hugo House are in full swing! Whether your child or teen is interested in comics, poetry, audiovisual storytelling, or just learning the basics, there's something for every young writer in this year's camp lineup.
Learn more »
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Hybrid Moments: Exploring the Lyric Essay
with Sasha LaPointe
All Levels | 2 sessions | August 22 & 29
How do our stories of self become more realized when we break the constructs of traditional personal essay? In this class we will radicalize our approach to the personal narrative by intertwining poetry and personal memoir.
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Seattle Mayoral Candidate Arts Forum
Thursday, July 22 | 6 pm PDT
Please join us virtually on July 22 at 6 pm for the Seattle Mayoral Candidate Arts Forum! You'll hear from the candidates themselves about their ideas, hopes, and plans for post-pandemic arts recovery and how the creative industries can play a part in Seattle’s sustainable development. Long-time arts advocates Vivian Phillips and Marcie Sillman will moderate. The event will be livestreamed on our Facebook page. RSVP »
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Eat Read Hugo
Thursday, September 23
Celebrate the power of storytelling! Join us for Eat Read Hugo, a virtual, one-hour program on Thursday, September 23, where we’ll showcase the talented voices of our teachers and students and hear from our interim executive director, Rob Arnold.
This fundraiser supports every aspect of our literary arts programming: free classes, community outreach, youth and adult scholarship programs, and more.
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Congrats, Hugo Teachers! (April – July 2021)
Earlier this year, we shared out a list of literary successes our teachers have found so far in 2021, and we want to keep the celebration going! Check out our blog for new books, new essays, awards, and other major literary accomplishments Hugo House’s teachers have had in recent months. Read the blog post »
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Writing About Nature with Gail Folkins
All Levels | 4 sessions | August 4 – 25
Read and write essays with a nature and environmental focus. Discussions and exercises in this class will explore literary tools along with research methods such as personal observation and interviews.
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Race, History, and the Body (ASYNCHRONOUS)
with Aimee Suzara
All Levels | 4 sessions | August 9 – September 5
How do writers document, perform, and resist through the body? In this class, we will write, using the body and found texts about the body as source and inspiration.
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Seattle Arts and Lectures is hiring for two positions: Executive Director and Donor Relations Associate.
Applications are open for the Vashon Artist Residency. The residency to provides a diverse group of artists the time and space to create, the opportunity to engage with other residents, and the experience of living and working amidst the ecology and community of Vashon Island. Learn more »
Applications for the 2021 Cornish Arts Incubator are open through July 23. The goal of this program is to support artists in the creation of work that is outside the boundaries of their genre, discipline, or comfort zone. Learn more & apply »
Artist Trust is looking for a Communications Manager to share stories highlighting the impact of their work and the role individual artists play in creating a vibrant, resilient, and equitable Washington State. Learn more & apply »
Publishers Weekly is looking for experienced freelance book reviewers. Learn more »
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Prose writer-in-residence Ruth Joffre has published three new pieces recently: "A Girl Files a Claim" (in No Contact), "A Girl Makes Lemonade" (in Hobart After Dark), and "Fugues" (Florida Review Online). Congrats, Ruth!
Instructor Lisa Wells’s new book, Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World was published yesterday by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Congrats, Lisa! Pick up a copy »
Congrats to Hugo House instructor Lish McBride, whose new YA novel, Curses, was published yesterday by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers. Pick up a copy »
Congrats to instructor Danusha Laméris whose book, Bonfire Opera, won the Northern California Book Award for poetry! Watch the announcement »
Hugo House staff member Margot Kahn Case's new chapbook, A Quiet Day with the West on Fire, will be published by Floating Bridge Press. Congrats, Margot!
Have a recent literary success you'd like to share with the Hugo House community? Let us know here »
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