Read our 2020 Annual Report
2020 was a challenging year for everyone—but with its challenges came opportunities for us to make necessary changes to our programs and our organization. By pivoting quickly to digital instruction, events, and programs, we were able to teach more classes, serve more people, and reach more neighborhoods than ever before.
Take a look at the report »
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What's Scholarship Donation Day?
Last quarter we introduced a special registration day that gives community members who donate $250 or more to Hugo House’s scholarship fund an opportunity to register early for classes while also making it possible for more folks in the community to take classes with us. Learn more on the blog »
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Ask an Essayist with Kate Lebo
Tuesday, August 10 | 12 pm PDT
Join local essayist Kate Lebo for a free one-hour writing Q&A. Kate will offer some of her expert tips, tricks, and advice on the art and craft of writing essays. Come to the call with questions about your work-in-progress or for ideas about how to get started.
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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Teacher Feature: Aimee Suzara
Hugo House instructor Aimee Suzara’s mission as an artist and teacher is to create poetic and theatrical works about race, gender, and the body as a way of encouraging dialogue and fomenting social change. We recently caught up with her to learn more about her path as a writer; her upcoming class on Race, History & the Body; and more. Read the interview »
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Author Marketing 101 with Andrea Dunlop
All Levels | 1 session | August 14
This class will cover a variety of tools, such as social media, blogging, and newsletters, and help you build a strategy for how to build and maintain an audience (and have fun doing it!).
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Memoir Intensive with Theo Nestor
All Levels | 3 sessions | August 20 – 22
Spend three days diving into the memoir. This intensive will include lecture, discussion, writing prompts, brainstorming activities designed to get to the heart of your work as a writer, and more.
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The South Seattle Emerald is accepting short fiction submissions of previously unpublished stories for their weekly Friday Fiction feature, as well as previously unpublished poems for their Sunday Poetry feature.
Applications are open for the Northwest Editors Guild and Crosscut's 2021 Writer Mentor Program. The program is designed to connect professional editors with amateur writers and to give underrepresented voices a full writing experience, from pitch to print. Learn more & apply »
The Stranger is looking for a full-time staff writer to cover City Hall as Seattle endeavors to replace its mayor, update its council, and steer itself out of the pandemic’s wreckage. Apply »
Submissions are open for Never Whistle at Night, an anthology exclusive to Indigenous creatives edited by Shane Hawk and Ted Van Alst. The anthology will comprise of twenty-one dark fiction short stories, approximately seven of which are reserved for lesser-known and up-and-coming Indigenous authors who will be selected through this open call. Learn more & submit »
Applications are now open for the Academy of American Poets First Book Award. The winning manuscript, chosen this year by Tyehimba Jess, will be published by Graywolf Press. Learn more & apply »
Palette Poetry is now accepting submissions for the 2021 Palette Poetry Prize. They are seeking one excellent poem that speaks to what poetry is and can be for our world today. The winner will be selected by our guest judge, the 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown. Submit your work »
A Public Space is seeking poetry by emerging writers who identify as first-generation immigrants and are interested in what it means to write within the conjunction of a multicultural identity. Selected works will appear a special portfolio in the magazine, edited by Miguel Coronado. Learn more & submit »
Submissions are open for Empower Her Voice's 2021 international writing competition. Editors are looking for creative pieces under 500 words that engage with the theme Stereotypes and Perceptions. Learn more »
The Loft Literary Center is seeking a Program and Event Project Coordinator to support the Loft’s major events through timely and effective relationship-building, communications, logistical, planning, and administrative support to the program team. Learn more & apply »
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Congrats to instructor Judith Skillman, whose chapbook, The Misanthropist, was recently named the winner of Floating Bridge Press’s 2021 Washington State Chapbook Competition.
Instructors Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and E. J. Koh’s translation of Yi Wong’s The World’s Lightest Motorcycle was recently published by Zephyr Press. Congrats, Marci and E. J.! Pick up a copy »
Congrats to community member Raúl Sánchez, whose new collection, When There Were No Borders, was published earlier this summer by Flowersong Press. Learn more »
Former prose writer-in-residence Kristen Millares Young’s essay, “Father’s Day,” was recently published in PANK. Congrats, Kristen! Read the essay »
Congrats to instructor Martha Silano, whose poem, “Dream Weaver,” appears in the latest issue of Tab Journal. Check it out »
Have a recent literary success you'd like to share with the Hugo House community? Let us know here »
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