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WE'RE BUILDING A NEW HOME FOR WORDS IN SEATTLEFor twenty years, Hugo House has been a place where everyone who loves words can find inspiration and explore their craft as they search for meaning through writing. Now, we have a singular opportunity to secure a new — and permanent — home on the very site where we first opened our doors almost two decades ago.

Designed specifically to better serve readers and writers, our new home will feature more classrooms, a dedicated performance space, and more community space where writers can gather — and the whole building will meet ADA standards, so everyone can take part in our work.

We will continue to update you in the coming months and hope you’ll stay tuned on all the exciting developments!

Sincerely,

Tree SwensonExecutive Director

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206-322-7030

DATES OF REGISTR ATION

All registration begins at 10:30 a.m.

May 19 Scholarship applications open

June 12 $500+ donor registration

Early bird pricing in effect

June 13 Member registration

June 20 General registration

June 23 Scholarship applications due

June 26 Early bird pricing ends

July 3 Scholarship applicants notified

VISITING WRITERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

FIC TION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

MULTIGENRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

NONFIC TION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

POE TRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

THE WRITING LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

YOUTH CL A SSES & PROGR AMS . . . . .

ABOUT OUR TE ACHERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

HOW TO REGISTER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

E ARLY BIRD

Register early to save! Early bird pricing runs June 12 through June 26.

• $10 off one-session classes• $20 off classes that are two to six sessions• $35 off classes that are eight sessions or more

*Early bird pricing is automatically applied at checkout when registering online.

MEMBERSHIPDo more at Hugo House while supporting the literary arts. As a member, you’ll help us provide thought-provoking classes and events that connect writers and readers to the craft of writing. You’ll also receive great benefits, including early registration and discounts on classes and events!

For more information or to join, visit hugohouse.org or call (206) 322-7030.

ABOUT OUR CL ASSESAt Hugo House, we offer courses in a wide range of writing styles and experiences. Whether you’re writing your first poem or have a few novels behind you, Hugo House offers a class to help you become a better writer. Most classes at Hugo House are intended for writers with all levels of experience. If a class is intended for a specific level, it will be noted in the class description.

Introductory: Writers with little or no experience in a writing class or workshop setting but who want to expand their knowledge of craft.Intermediate: Writers with some experience in genre-specific instruction looking to deepen their understanding and hone their craft. Advanced: Writers with significant experience in a writing class or workshop setting who seek assistance and feedback with revision. All Levels: Classes open to all levels are useful to a writer at any level of prior writing class experience. Questions? Email us at [email protected] or call (206) 322-7030. We're here to help!

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VISITING WRITERS

All Levels | In our two days together, we will break down passages from literature, study panels from comics, and deconstruct clips from film so that we might apply these artful, compulsive techniques to our own stories. There will be generative exer-cises, brainstorming sessions, and lots of fun, intensive discussion. Students can come to class with a project in mind (whether short story, novel, screenplay, or memoir) or with an eagerness to start something fresh. Either way, they'll leave with a literary arsenal and several electric ideas at the ready.

GENER ATIVE WORK SHOP IN SUSPENSE & MOMENTUM with Benjamin Percy

FICTION

General

All Levels | We'll discuss the troubles, problems, and pitfalls of time travel in fiction by examining well-known works about time travel, discussing topics such as multi-ple dimensions, parallel universes, time warps, wormholes, portal vs. machine, and affecting time. Students will select and read two time travel-based short stories to be discussed in class, develop and explain their own theories and ideas, and write their own time travel stories.

Six sessionsTuesdays, July 18–Aug. 227:10–9:10 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

YESTERDAY, TODAY & TOMORROW: WRITING BELIE VABLE TIME TR AVEL IN SCI-FI & FANTA S Y with BJ Neblett

All Levels | Developing characters that enhance plot is a key ingredient to success, whether you have a completed draft of a novel or are beginning a short story. In this one-day seminar, we will investigate the strengths of primary and secondary charac-ters and discuss the importance of characters’ lives outside of the story to infuse your characters with unique depth. Students will share re-vamped characters with the class. We will look at excerpts from Amy Tan, Chimamanda Adichie, and others.

One sessionSunday, July 301–4 pmGeneral: $89 | Member: $80.10

UNPACKING CHAR AC TER AND PACKING YOUR PLOT with Beth Slattery

All Levels | As Elizabeth Bowen wrote, “Speech is what characters do to each other.” The best dialogue is the nastiest: the sharpest, the most conflict-driving, the most layered and fraught, the truest to our contemporary experience of inattention and misunderstanding. We’ll look at how good dialogue cuts, examining scenes by Joan Didion, Lorrie Moore, ZZ Packer, and others. You'll bring a dialogue-driven scene to class and have the opportunity to sharpen it—and, should you feel so inclined, to share it.

One sessionSunday, July 301–4 pmGeneral: $89 | Member: $80.10

WRITING DIALOGUE with Alex Madison

Two sessionsThursday, Aug. 24, 2–5 pmFriday, Aug. 25, 1–4 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

PROSE

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FICTION, continued

All Levels | Ever cried over a book? Grinned at a happy ending? If so, you know that skillfully crafted emotional scenes create a true sympathetic response in readers—and you know making a reader feel something is more complicated than writing, “It was sad.” Together, we'll engage with scenes by writers like James Baldwin and J.K. Rowl-ing, and through writing exercises will learn to charge our own prose with emotional electricity. Come prepared to go deep…Also, to make funny faces.

One sessionSaturday, Aug. 1212–5 pmGeneral: $145 | Member: $130.50

RE AD IT AND WEEP: THE ART OF EMOTION with Emma Törzs

Intermediate | Can a work of fiction attain more than one “central conscious-ness” by combining different points of view? How might hybridizing first, second, or third-person increase the richness of a text, or undercut the ego of a story? This class will explore these questions, studying examples by authors such as Jennifer Egan, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Junot Díaz. Prospective students should have a basic under-standing of how to manage point of view in fiction.

Two sessionsSaturday & Sunday, Aug. 19 & 201–4 pmGeneral: $172 | Member: $154.80

HYBRID POINTS OF VIE W with John Englehardt

All Levels | Have a story or novel chapter ready for workshop, but don’t have the time to commit to a six-week class? Does commenting on your peers’ work from the comfort of your home excite you? Are you self-motivated and reliable? The Speed-Fic-tion Workshop might be for you! In this class, you will provide written commentary on your peers’ submissions in the month before the class is to be held, in preparation for a one-day, instructor-led workshop marathon.

Note: Registration for this class ends on July 31 to allow time for class preparation. View the syllabus at hugohouse.org.

One sessionSaturday, Aug. 261–5 pmGeneral: $120 | Member: $108

SATURDAY AF TERNOON SPEED -FIC TION WORK SHOP with Alma García

The Novel

Intermediate | You’ve drafted a novel from beginning to end. You see its potential, you want to keep living in its world, and maybe, even, you’d like to make it publish-able. Now what? In this class, people will read each other’s fully drafted novels and help each other begin or complete a second (or later) draft. Authors such as John Gardner and Jane Smiley and books on structure such as Sandra Scofield's The Scene Book may be consulted for their wisdom.

Six sessionsThursdays, July 20–Aug. 245–7 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

SCULP TING THE NOVEL : A RE VISION WORK SHOP with Cara Diaconoff

Short Stories

All Levels | The short story remains arguably the best medium through which a fic-tion writer hones her craft, and that’s exactly our aim. In this class, we’ll read, write, discuss, and workshop short fiction with equal parts rigor and vigor. Students will submit one story and conduct a fun micro-fiction experiment. Expect lively exchanges of ideas, stimulating prompts, occasional baked goods, and mind-blowing readings from the likes of George Saunders, Zadie Smith, Junot Díaz, Jamaica Kincaid, Haruki Murakami, Donald Barthelme, and more!

Ten sessionsTuesdays, July 11–Sept. 19[No class Aug. 15]7:10–9:10 pmGeneral: $460 | Member: $414

SHORT STORY WORK SHOP with Ramon Isao

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Young Adult

Introductory | This seminar will equip first-time picture book writers with tools to help position them for success. Guided by a literary agent, writers will learn what the modern picture book market looks like, how to make writing decisions with that market in mind, and how to avoid common mistakes. Mentor texts will be examined and the class will provide insight on the process of taking a book from manuscript to publication and provide tips on how to find an agent.

One sessionSaturday, July 2910 am–1 pmGeneral: $89 | Member: $80.10

SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A PIC TURE BOOK with Clelia Gore

Six sessionsSaturdays, July 22–Aug. 261–3 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

All Levels | The title says it all: Whether you’re new to comics or a seasoned veteran, Greg and David will guide you through a lot of great exercises (and homework, option-al) to help you generate as much new work as possible this summer. The final result will be each student collecting their assignments into an individual mini-comic—ready just in time for the fall convention season!

SUMMER COMICS INTENSIVE with David Lasky & Greg Stump

MULTIGENRE

Graphic Forms

All Levels | Connect to your heart and mind through writing and reading about themes such as gratitude, fear, empathy, solitude, community, ritual, and giving. To-gether we will read and discuss essays or poems by writers such as Terry Tempest Wil-liams, Joy Harjo, and Nayyirah Waheed; write from a variety of prompts; and share without judgment. We will ask, what is abundant or lacking in our lives and how can writing bring us into greater awareness and equilibrium? Writers of all beliefs/non-beliefs welcome.

Six sessionsTuesdays, July 11–Aug. 157:10–9:10 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

WRITING A S A SPIRITUAL PR AC TICE with Anne Liu Kellor

Poetry & Prose

All Levels | In this course we'll be in conversation with poets, Audre Lorde, Gwen-dolyn Brooks, June Jordan, and Lucile Clifton. You’ll generate six new pieces of work as a response to their poetry and prose. We will discuss writing as an act of resistance and activism and create new forms of poetry and prose with traditional form as our foundation. This class is for emerging and seasoned poetry and prose writers.

Six sessionsMondays, July 17–Aug. 217:10–9:10 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

LISTEN UP! CONVERSATIONS WITH AUDRE LORDE, GWENDOLYN BROOKS, JUNE JORDAN, AND LUCILE CLIFTON with Anastacia-Renee

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Poetry & Prose

All Levels | Nonce (invented for the occasion) forms are fun and creatively freeing. The abecedarian, acrostic, round, anaphoric rant, and prose and/or poetic “palimp-sest” that replies to works by other poets and writers all extend the writer’s ongoing conversation in new ways. We will consider key examples of nonce-form work by Wel-don Kees, Vince Gotera, Agha Shahid Ali, Barbara Hamby, Denise Duhamel, Edward Hirsch, Ander Monson, and others, and write our own using prompts.


NONCE SENSE: FUN & FREEING PROSE & POE TIC FORMS with Carolyne Wright

All Levels | In this course, we'll study the encyclopedic brilliance and critical skills of Maggie Nelson, award-winning writer of essential books such as The Argonauts, Blu-ets, and The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning. We will explore how Nelson pieces together her own genre(s) through fierce yet vulnerable politics, poetics, and engaged literary theory. Together we will generate our own writing and experience the magic of what literature can be and mean as a cultural powerhouse.

Six sessionsWednesdays, July 19–Aug. 237:10–9:10 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

WRITING WITH MAGGIE NEL SON with Cody Pherigo

All Levels | Study afrofuturist visual and literary art as inspiration for generating new poetry and prose. This class will introduce you to afrofuturism as a concept and inspire you to create works that carry the African American aesthetic into the future. We will study artists like Joshua Mays, Aramis Hamer, and Krista Franklin.

Four sessionsWednesdays, Aug. 2–Aug. 237:10–9:10 pmGeneral: $235 | Member: $211.50

BROKEN CONCEP TS with Imani Sims

All Levels | Whether you are a dancer wanting to develop your writing, or a writer interested in how movement can bring new ideas to the surface, this writing workshop will consider what might happen if and when we let our “secondary processor” take the reins. We’ll discuss how choreographers think about and notate their creative pro-cesses and, through in-class exercises, we’ll borrow from dancers’ ideas about phrasing, repetition, and intrinsic movement to funnel the truest movements of our minds onto the page. Open to dancers, writers, and process-makers of all levels.

One sessionSunday, Aug. 131–4 pmGeneral: $89 | Member: $80.10

BODY L ANGUAGE: E XPLORING YOUR SECONDARY INTELLIGENCE with Jill Leininger and ilvs Strauss

All Levels | Read and listen, write and record, in this workshop that examines the relationships between reading, listening, and writing. Students will practice listening with recordings and texts (work by Matana Roberts and Nathaniel Mackey, among others), make sound recordings, and write texts—or enhance writing projects in prog-ress—rooted in sound journaling. Readings and recordings are provided by the in-structor. Students may bring a recording device of any quality (suitable phone is fine). Please contact Hugo House if you do not have access to a recording device.

One sessionSunday Aug. 1312–4 pmGeneral: $120 | Member: $108

WRITING & SOUND with Gust Burns

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All Levels | Learn how to build posts that are compelling and have literary value from a professional blogger. Literature does not end with the book or the poem. It can and must enter the blog. But how? By the art of compression. The literary note form has a home in blogs. The notes of Paul Valéry and Walter Benjamin will be a part of this class, which will be structured like an editorial enterprise. We will look for stories, compose them, and post them.


THE ART OF LITER ARY BLOGGING with Charles Mudede

Prose

All Levels | See how delving into the past can drive a story forward. We’ll look at examples from fiction and memoir, studying the tricks and techniques of seamless narrative flashbacks. We’ll talk about the purpose of flashbacks—the how, when, and where.

One sessionSaturday, July 291–5 pmGeneral: $120 | Member: $108

FL A SHBACK TECHNIQUES with Nicole Hardy

All Levels | A cornerstone of literary writing, scenes dramatize a moment and bring it to life for readers. This course will share some tools for effective scene-setting, from sensory detail and imagery to character, dialogue, and plot. Through reading samples and writing exercises, students will practice using these building blocks to craft their own scenes, culminating in a short essay or story by the end of the class.

Four sessionsWednesdays, Aug. 2–Aug. 237:10–9:10 pmGeneral: $235 | Member: $211.50

WRITING SCENES with Gail Folkins

Introductory/Intermediate | Forget talent: it’s stamina and patience that will see your project to completion. So how do you develop both? How do you focus on today’s portion of words when you have tens of thousands yet to write? We’ll discuss how to make room for writing in your schedule, and how to cultivate inspiration for the long haul. Whether you’re writing your first chapter or your fifteenth, this class will give you the tools you need to complete your draft.


HOW TO STICK WITH A LONG -TERM PROJEC T with Suzanne Morrison

All Levels | You have a first draft finished; now what? In this class, you’ll learn meth-ods for expanding and deepening your writing in revision. You’ll leave with strategies for seeing what’s on the page (as opposed to what you think is there) and where you can go further, be bolder, or find humor in your stories. Whether you have a first draft completed or want inspiration to get there, this class will help you see your work with fresh eyes.


STR ATEGIES FOR EDITING with Suzanne Morrison

Introductory/Intermediate | Characters make a story come alive, but what makes a character herself come to life? Description? Dialogue? Behavior? Aristotle said that human beings are their desires. In this workshop, we’ll explore character desire as the main motivation for plot, looking at how characters interact, struggle together, reveal (or don’t) their inner wants, and respond to what gets in the way. You’ll leave with a clear sense of how to enliven your characters and use them to build your story.

One sessionSunday, July 301–5 pmGeneral: $120 | Member: $108

YOU ARE WHAT YOU WANT with Susan Meyers

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Prose

All Levels | There’s no such thing as a “good-enough sentence.” Sentences not craft-ed to tell a particular story or essay just get in the way. Learn to build sentences that grip the reader, evoke tone, deepen mood, reveal character, advance plot, and help a narrative breathe. We’ll examine how sentence length, structure, rhythm, and varia-tion convey meaning. Writing exercises will be designed to play with and master the sentence. Bring a sample of your prose to analyze and revise, and get ready to fall in love with the sentence.


SENTENCES ARE THE STORY with Mary Potter

Two sessionsSaturday & Sunday, July 22 & 239 am–5:30 pmGeneral: $375 | Member: $337.60

HUNGRY FOR WORDS: AN INTRODUC TION TO FOOD WRITING with Kathleen Flinn

Introductory/Intermediate | Anyone can write about a meal, but truly great food writing informs, entertains, and inspires. In this weekend workshop, we’ll take a ho-listic approach to the art and craft of modern food writing, from understanding what made great food writers endure, varying approaches needed for different genres, gen-erating ideas, basics of nonfiction book proposals, culinary travel writing, and the complexities of recipe writing. Writing exercises designed to stimulate and challenge will be incorporated into the weekend.

All Levels | How have writers who lived in times of injustice written about what they witnessed without compromising their art? Course participants will read and discuss the work of a range of writers, from Audre Lorde to Vladimir Nabokov, and explore different strategies for literary resistance. Each week will begin with a prose workshop, move on to discussion, and end with a writing prompt. Each participant will produce at least one draft of a short prose piece.

Six sessionsSaturdays, July 15–Aug. 1910 am–12 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

RESISTANCE WRITING with Erin Gilbert

NONFICTION

The Essay

Six sessionsWednesdays, July 5–Aug. 95–7 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

POLITIC AL ESSAY with Sonora Jha

All Levels | Craft that chapter in your memoir where the personal meets the political, that OpEd you have the authority to write, or that cultural critique for a literary jour-nal. Learning from James Baldwin, Rebecca Solnit, Arundhati Roy, George Orwell, Mindy Kaling, and others, we will generate essays that tap into your own rage or your biting wit. Expect to leave with at least one strong essay and a pitch for an editor.

Six sessionsWednesdays, July 19–Aug. 235–7 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

ESSAY E XPERIMENTS with Waverly Fitzgerald

Introductory/Intermediate | The essay is a fluid and experimental form, and in this class we will explore the boundaries of what is possible, working on essays that include found text, poetry and prose, and taking advantage of images and technology. We’ll read excellent examples of essays and write in class and at home. Writers can apply these techniques to sections of longer works or write five separate essays during our six weeks together.

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Memoir

Four sessionsSaturdays, July 22–Aug. 1210 am–12 pmGeneral: $235 | Member: $211.50

THE ARC OF YOUR MEMOIR with Nicole Hardy

All Levels | We’ll define, discover, and map your memoir’s (sometimes elusive) nar-rative arc. If you’re preparing a book proposal, stuck in a draft, or in the early stages of outlining, this class will help identify and illuminate the underpinnings of your story.

Four sessionsMondays, Aug. 7–Aug. 285–7 pmGeneral: $235 | Member: $211.50

SCENE WRITING INTENSIVE with Theo Nestor

All Levels | Get some concentrated work on your manuscript done this summer. In this class, you will be asked to write two scenes a week for four weeks. Class will include lecture, discussion, and workshops of your new scenes. We will do an in-depth study of what makes a scene sizzle, including discussion of the topics of internal and external conflict, dialogue, action, description, and more.


MEMOIR ESSENTIAL S with Theo Nestor

Introductory/Intermediate | We will discuss the essential elements of memoir writing: how to create scenes that move your story forward, how to use summary and reflection effectively, how to narrow your topic and structure your narrative. This class will also include numerous material-generating activities that will help you hone in on the story you need to tell and develop the voice in which to tell it.

One sessionSaturday, Aug. 261–4 pmGeneral: $89 | Member: $80.10

HOW TO WRITE A MEMOIR BOOK PROPOSAL with Theo Nestor

Intermediate/Advanced | In this class, you will learn about each component of a memoir book proposal, strategies for writing a proposal that will gain the attention of agents/editors, as well as tips for writing a killer query letter. Bring your laptop or a notebook.

Six sessionsMondays, July 10–Aug. 145–7 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

MEMOIR : PICKING UP THE STITCHES with Tara Hardy

Introductory/Intermediate | Stitched for a while or just beginning to thread the needle? This class will guide you through creating one cohesive story whose elements are in concert with one another: purring image pattern, functional structure, potent scenes, shaved-to-essence dialogue, fully plumbed characters, and hooking narrative tension. We’ll ask ourselves if the overall assembly is clear and pulsing with intention. Workshop format; students will receive feedback from the instructor at least once.

Two sessionsSaturday & Sunday, Aug. 26 & 2710 am–1 pmGeneral: $172 | Member: $154.80

FREEL ANCE WRITING with Chaney Kwak

All Levels | Led by a full-time travel writer, this interactive class will take a hands-on approach to breaking into independent journalism. In the first session, you will learn about identifying potential outlets and querying editors. In the second session, you will present your pitch to other participants in a supportive workshop-style environ-ment and discuss strategies for expanding your horizon.

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The Essay

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Advanced | The aim of this poetry workshop will be to help the students, regardless of age or previous experience, work toward writing the best poems they can write. The instructor will offer examples from poetry of the past and present and will ask the students to bring some examples from their own reading, but the main work will be critiquing each other’s poems. The instructor will try to help reinforce the connections between sound, rhythm, and meaning and will make a number of suggestions about working methods, revision, and self-criticism.

Ten sessionsSundays, July 2–Sept. 310 am–12 pmGeneral: $460 | Member: $414

ADVANCED POE TRY WORK SHOP with David Wagoner

POETRY

Intermediate/Advanced | The present times demand poetry that ignites public awareness toward changing regressive policies that violate civil and human rights. Drawing from June Jordan, Danez Smith, Patricia Smith, Martin Espada, and others, including diverse refugee and immigrant poets, we will focus on honing powerful poems that speak with passion and intelligence. Emphasis on using craft elements to avoid rants will be highlighted as participants engage in honoring the role of poetry as both an art form and platform for witness and protest.

Six sessionsThursdays, July 6–Aug. 105–7 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

THE POE TRY OF WITNESS & PROTEST with Merna Hecht

All Levels | This class proposes to break our personal conventions and allow the deeper poem to break through with a series of targeted in-class writing exercises and take-home assignments that you’ll then share in class. We’ll discuss issues of craft along the way as they come up. You’ll finish the class with some completed poems and a number of poem starts.

Five sessionsMonday–Friday, Aug. 7–Aug. 1110 am–12 pmGeneral: $265 | Member: $238.50

LE T YOUR POEMS SURPRISE YOU with Judith Roche

All Levels | In this series of workshops, we will uncover and bring to light hidden poetry from some unexpected places like science textbooks, political speeches, pop music, Yelp reviews, graffiti, and more. Incorporating new vocabularies and different voices and styles, we will place ourselves into situations we’ve never experienced and try to make sense out of dynamics that baffle us. We will shift between both treated and untreated found poems, engaging in “Frankensteining” pieces of text together, black-out poems, and even adding in our own unpredictable inspired words to the mix.

Four sessionsThursdays, Aug. 3–Aug. 247:10–9:10 pmGeneral: $235 | Member: $211.50

FOUND POE TRY with Daemond Arrindell

Intermediate/Advanced | Toni Morrison has said that “as a writer, a failure is just information,” and revision is recognition of past failure. In this class, we’ll study how to improve our writing through utilizing a process of “conscious” revision, where the writing process itself becomes part of the work. We’ll look at the poems and strategies used by poets such as Bhanu Kapil, Matthew Rohrer, Terrance Hayes, Wallace Ste-vens, and Emily Dickinson to refine old work and generate new ideas.

Four sessionsMonday–Thursday, Aug. 28–315–7 pmGeneral: $235 | Member: $211.50

GENER ATIVE RE VISION with Bill Carty

All Levels | All poets write with influence: what we read, conversations, the interests of the world around us—each serves as an outside influence. The voice is the inside influence. To make a poem truly good, the voice must rise through the fray, wearing those other words like a coat but still allowing the voiced body to be visible, heard. In this generative class, we’ll read, write, and workshop—practicing talk, observation, and listening—to create poems that speak with our own poetic voice.

Six sessionsTuesdays, July 11–Aug. 155–7 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

DISCOVERING POE TIC VOICE with Jeanine Walker

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THE WRITING LIFE

All Levels | This class is open to all teachers involved (or interested in being involved) with the practice of teaching creative writing in any venue. Class is geared toward adult education, but will offer strategies to those who teach high school students as well. The content of our course will be very much student-driven, so bring your questions, worries, and actual teaching problems and concerns, and we’ll sort them out together.

Two sessionsSaturday & Sunday, July 15 & 161–4 pmGeneral: $172 | Member: $154.80

TE ACHING CRE ATIVE WRITING with Stephanie Barbé Hammer

All Levels | This workshop is for any writer who longs to be a calmer, more confident reader. Using your finished work, as well as writing generated in class, we’ll learn to project the voice, connect with an audience, and transform a once-scary spotlight into a shared (and fun!) experience. Leave your nerves behind and discover a deeper, more authentic public voice. Expect to be surprised.

Two sessionsSaturday & Sunday, Aug. 5 & 610 am–4 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

GIVING RE ADINGS THAT MAT TER with Christine Hemp

All Levels | If you consider yourself a writer, proclaim to love writing, but find a mil-lion things to do before you “let” yourself write, then this seminar is for you. We will explore reasons for, strategies to overcome, and even the benefits of procrastination. We will discuss both the psychology of why we procrastinate and authors who have overcome this tendency or learned to work with it. Students at all levels will leave with strategies to navigate their own procrastination.


WRITING FOR PROCR A STINATOR S with Beth Slattery

All Levels | Yes, the headlines have always been maddening. In this generative poetry workshop, we will attempt to grapple with the weekly news by exploring prompts and techniques that offer the poet a chance to craft a response to an increasingly complex world. Every week, students will be encouraged to submit their poems.

Four sessionsThursdays, July 13–Aug. 37:10–9:10 pmGeneral: $235 | Member: $211.50

SE AT TLE POE TS RESPOND with Roberto Ascalon

It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day for lack / of what is found there. — from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower by William Carlos Williams

THE WRITER ’ S WELCOME KIT

Introductory | New to the writing life? This six-week e-course includes a 100-page course workbook, audio interviews with writers, templates for writ-erly processes, 100 bookmarks to helpful sites for writers, 100 flashcards, 100

writing prompts, and more—“an incredible resource for writers, especially those com-ing up to speed in the competitive and ever-changing business climate of publishing” (Jennie Shortridge, author of Love Water Memory).

For more information,visit bit.ly/writerswelcomekit.

Six-week e-courseGeneral: $100 | Member: $90

ONLINE

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SCRIBES SUMMER WRITING C AMPS

Scribes summer writing camps provide an opportunity for middle- and high-school students to engage intensely with creative writing. Programming includes instruction from accomplished writers, writing activities, craft exercises, and exposure to a diverse range of genres, forms, and writers. Since its launch in 1998, Scribes has not just been a place where young people receive high-quality arts instruction, but has been the hub where young writers from diverse backgrounds find community and voice. Full and partial scholarships are also available.

All camps take place Mondays–Fridays from 10 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

YOUTH CLASSES & PROGRAMS

All Levels | A zine is a handmade publication produced by its creator(s). Zines chal-lenge the easily digestible mainstream media, opening up a vast array of perspectives while highlighting community-based sharing. In this course, students will create four zines, each an original work of writing and/or visual art. We will discuss what makes effective writing and successful creative work while exploring the history of DIY pub-lishing. We’ll place special emphasis on the power of sharing our creativity within our communities.

Six sessionsSundays, July 16–Aug. 27[No class Aug. 13]10 am–12 pmGeneral: $295 | Member: $265.50

ZINES: Wri t ing In and For a Communit y with Colleen Barry

July 10 –21 Scr ibes at MoPOP with Michelle Peñaloza and Imani Sims

Ju ly 17–28 Scr ibes at The Henr y Sess ion I with Emily Bedard and Erich Schweikher

Ju ly 17–28 Scr ibes at Hugo House Sess ion I with Rachel Kessler and Corinne Manning

July 24–Aug. 4 Scr ibes at MOHAI with Roberto Ascalon and Sierra Nelson

July 31–Aug. 11 Scr ibes at Hugo House Sess ion II with Karen Finneyfrock and Anastacia Tolbert

Ju ly 31–Aug. 11 Scr ibes at Hugo House Sess ion II I with Quenton Baker and Emma Törzs

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Attending Scribes last summer was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made…I felt immediately welcomed and I think the instructors were a big part of that, because they weren’t just instructors, they were participants as well. Their approach was to teach from the inside out, leading by example and never relying on artificial authority. They weren’t above us, they were right there with us, always engaged. The environment Hugo House created at Scribes fostered learning effortlessly…

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ABOUT OUR TEACHERSDaemonD arrinDell is a writer and teaching artist. Adjunct Faculty at Seattle University and Cornish College for the Arts; a 2013 Jack Straw Writer; and a 2014 VONA/Voices Writer’s Work-shop fellow. He has performed across the country and has been repeatedly commissioned by Seattle and Bellevue Arts Museums.

roberto ascalon is a poet, writer, arts edu-cator, and spoken-word performance artist. The recent recipient of the 2013 Rattle Poetry Prize, Ascalon has taught at Nova High School and participated in Seattle Arts and Lectures’ Writers-in-the Schools program. He currently works as a teaching artist and mentor for Arts Corps, Youth Speaks Seattle, and the Service Board.

stephanie barbé hammer is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee and University of Cali-fornia professor who has published short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in places like The Bellevue Literary Review, Hayden’s Ferry, Pearl, and The James Franco Review. She loves teaching.

colleen louise barry ’s work has been published in jubilat, Sixth Finch, Forklift, Ohio, and others. Her chapbooks are Sunburn / Freezer Burn (smoking glue gun) and The Glidden Poems (dancing girl press). She's the founding editor/creative director of Mount Analogue.

Gust burns is an artist and scholar making work woven through experimental composition, jazz, contemporary art, black and marxist studies, art-critical theory, and musicology. He holds an MFA from Bard College and is a graduate student in English at UW.

bill cart y has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Artist Trust, and Hugo House. He is the author of Huge Cloudy (forthcoming, Octopus Books). His poems have appeared in the Boston Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, and other journals.

cara Diaconoff is the author of Unmar-riageable Daughters: Stories and a novel, I’ll Be a Stranger to You. She has taught creative writing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and many other places.

John enGleharDt is a writer, editor, and recent Made at Hugo House fellow. He holds an MFA from University of Arkansas, and his work has appeared in Sycamore Review, The Stranger, Seattle Review of Books, and The James Franco Review.

Waverly fitzGeralD is a teacher and student, writer and reader, publisher and author. For her essays on urban nature, she has received a fellow-ship from Jack Straw Cultural Center, a grant

from Artist Trust, and a residency at Hedgebrook.

Kathleen flinn is a New York Times best-selling author best known for her memoir, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry (Viking/Penguin). Her newest book, Hungry for Words, expands on food writing curriculum she devel-oped over a decade. kathleenflinn.com.

Gail folKins is the author of two creative nonfiction books: Light in the Trees and Texas Dance Halls: A Two-Step Circuit. Her essay “A Palouse Horse” was a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2010.

alma García ’s short fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Kweli Journal, and Blue-stem, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and has received numerous writing awards. Her novel is currently under consideration at several publishing houses.

erin Gilbert is a writer and translator whose essays, stories, poems, and reviews have appeared in journals such as AGNI, Brevity, and Structo. A former assistant editor at Asymptote, she is pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Washington.

clelia Gore is a literary agent who heads the children's division of the Seattle-based agency, Martin Literary Management. Clelia represents authors of fiction and nonfiction picture, middle grade, and young adult books.

nicole harDy ’s memoir, Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin, was a Washington State Book Award finalist. Her nonfiction has been adapted for radio and the stage, and noted in 2012’s Best American Essays. She earned her MFA at Ben-nington College. nicolehardy.org.

tara harDy , former Hugo House writ-er-in-residence, is author of two books. Former Seattle Poet Populist, alumna of Hedgebrook, Arts Director at Gay City, with an MFA from Vermont College, Tara has been teaching writing for 17 years.

merna hecht founded the Stories of Arrival: Youth Voices Refugee and Immigrant Poetry Project. She teaches Humanities and Creative Writing at UW, Tacoma. Poet, essayist, and award-winning storyteller, her teaching and writ-ing focus on community, art, and social justice.

christine hemp has aired her work on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and has performed as both poet and musician. Her awards include Harvard University’s Conway Award for Teaching Writing, and a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship for literature.

ramon isao has received the Tim McGinnis Award for Fiction, an Artist Trust fellowship, and an MFA from Columbia University. His writing appears in The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, City Arts, and elsewhere. His screenplays include Dead Body, ZMD, and Junk.

sonora Jha is the author of the novel Foreign and professor of journalism at Seattle University. A former journalist, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Seattle Times, and elsewhere. So-nora is a current Hugo House writer-in-residence.

anne liu Kellor has received support from Hedgebrook, 4Culture, Jack Straw, and Hypa-tia-in-the-Woods. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Fourth Genre, Waking Up American (Seal), Vela, The Los Angeles Review, and more. Anne has taught since 2006. anneliukellor.com.

chaney KWaK contributes to Condé Nast Trav-eler, The New York Times, and other publications. He received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and was a 2015 Emerging Writer at the Key West Literary Seminar.

DaviD lasKy has been writing and drawing comics for the last 25 years. He co-authored the graphic novel Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song, which won comics' Eisner Award.

Jill leininGer ’s poems have been published recently in Nimrod International Journal, New Ohio Review, and Poet Lore. Though her primary mode is poetry, she can also be found thinking in color, prose, film, and movement. Follow her at @congressoffish.

alex maDison ’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Indiana Review, Salon, Bitch Me-dia, The Rumpus, City Arts, and elsewhere. She is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

susan v. meyers ’ first novel, Failing the Tra-peze, won the Nilsen Award and the Fiction Attic Press Award. She has received grants from the Fulbright foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, 4Culture, Artist Trust, and several artists’ residencies.

suz anne morrison is the author of Yoga Bitch (Random House/Three Rivers Press), which was an Indiebound bestseller and has been trans-lated into six languages.

charles muDeDe is a Zimbabwean-born film-maker and writer. His films, Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance; Zoo at Cannes. Mudede, who is an editor for The Stranger, has contributed to The New York Times, LA Weekly, Village Voice, and e-flux.

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bJ neblet t ’s books include Elysian Dreams, Ice Cream Camelot, and the Planet Alt-Sete-Nine trilogy (Fall 2017). He is a regular contributor to eFiction and Romance magazines. More about BJ may be found on Facebook and his blog: bjneb-lett.blogspot.com.

theo pauline nestor is the author of Writ-ing Is My Drink (Simon & Schuster, 2013) and How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over (Crown, 2008). Nestor has taught the memoir certificate course for the University of Washington’s Professional & Continuing Ed program since 2006.

benJamin percy is the author of three novels, most recently The Dead Lands. He is also the author of Red Moon and The Wilding, as well as two books of short stories. His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Whiting Writers’ Award, two Pushcart Prizes, the Plimpton Prize, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.

coDy pheriGo was a 2016 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize finalist and 4Culture Artists Grant recipient and has self-published two chapbooks: Blue Thunder Children and Animal’s Sabbath. He is a writer-in-residence with the WITS program at Seattle Arts & Lectures.

mary lane pot ter is the author of the novel A Woman of Salt and Strangers and Sojourners: Stories from the Lowcountry. She’s been awarded writing residencies at MacDowell, Hedgebrook, and Caldera, and a Washington State Arts Com-mission/Artist Trust Fellowship.

anastacia-renee is the author of 26 (Dancing Girl Press) and her cross-genre work has been published widely. Three books—Forget It (Black Radish Books), Answer(Me) (Winged City Chap-books, Argus Press), and (V.) (Gramma Press) are forthcoming in 2017.

JuDith roche has won two American Book Awards and has published four collections of poetry. All Fire All Water from Black Heron Press is the most recent. She has taught for many years at all levels from elementary to university.

imani sims is a 2016 CityArtist Grant recipient, Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas curator, Gay City Arts Fellow, and serves as a Board Member for Earth Pearl Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to creating safe spaces for queer black women to be empowered through artistic collabo-rations, social events, and educational workshops.

beth sl at tery is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Assay: A Journal of Nonfic-tion Studies and Southern Women’s Review. Before moving to Seattle, she taught creative writing for eighteen years at Indiana University East.

ilvs strauss is an analytical chemist turned multi-disciplinary performance artist and theater tech. Her art cuts a wide swath across disciplines, ranging from Dance Narrative performance to anamorphic outdoor sculptures, illustrated story-telling to haiku poetry. More information can be found at ilvsstrauss.com

GreG stump ’s work in comics includes the weekly strip Dwarf Attack and the acclaimed

comic book series Urban Hipster. A longtime contributor to The Stranger and The Comics Jour-nal, he recently debuted his first graphic novel, Disillusioned Illusions.

emma törzs is based in Minneapolis. She is the recipient of a 2015 O. Henry award, and her stories have appeared in journals such as Plough-shares, Threepenny Review, Narrative, Cincinnati Review, and Salt Hill, among others.

DaviD WaGoner has published 17 books of poems and 10 novels. He is professor emeritus at the University of Washington and was writ-er-in-residence (2005-2008) at Hugo House.

Jeanine WalKer was a 2015 Jack Straw Writer and has published poems in Cimarron Review, Narrative, Pleiades, and Web Conjunctions. She holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Houston and teaches for Writers in the Schools.

carolyne WriGht has nine poetry volumes, five books of poetry in translation (Spanish and Bengali), a collection of essays, and edited the anthology Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace. She has received Fulbright, NEA, 4Culture, and Seattle Arts Commission fellowships.

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