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Hugo House: Your best source for writing classes in Seattle. For more information on the schedule, scholarships, the various formats of our writing classes, and cancellation policies, check out our About page. Or, go meet our talented instructors.
Registration Dates
All registrations open at 10:30 am
$500+ donor Registration: November 30
Member Registration: December 1
General Registration: December 8
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Beautiful Chaos: Alternative Forms in Personal Essays
Sometimes our personal material is elusive, fragmentary, or obscured by our emotional response to it. We can represent this beautiful chaos by creating an indirect, meandering way into the essay or book. These ways may include alternating voices or themes,…
Course Type: 2 Day
| Instructor: Sonya Lea
Start Date:
1/22/2016 –
1:00 PM
This class is full
Blurring the Lines
We’ll look at models from classical and contemporary literature that illustrate the way borders between genres can be blurred to beautiful and powerful effect, then we’ll do some blurring of the borders in our own writing. A series of generative…
Course Type: 1 Day
| Instructor: Cecilia Woloch
Start Date:
1/22/2016 –
1:00 PM
Under the Influence of Elizabeth Bishop
“I don’t like teaching,” was how Elizabeth Bishop began her legendary workshops at the University of Washington, “but we’ll practice a most useful poetic strategy—writing in form.” In this workshop modeled on her example, we’ll read poems by Bishop, Weldon…
Course Type: 6 Week
| Instructor: Carolyne Wright
Start Date:
1/23/2016 –
10:00 AM
Satirize Your Life
Satire is both a playground for imaginative buffoonery and a sensitive tool capable of great humanity and insight. For this class students will look at examples of contemporary satire from George Saunders to Key & Peele to The Onion and…
Course Type: 6 Week
| Instructor: Brett Hamil
Start Date:
1/26/2016 –
5:00 PM
Level Up Your Young Adult Novel
If you’re working on a draft or revisions of a young adult novel, this class will help you take it to the next level. Our weekly discussions will hone in on how to get to the heart of your story,…
Course Type: 6 Week
| Instructor: Stephanie Kuehnert
Start Date:
1/26/2016 –
7:00 PM
Vision and Revision
In this revision-focused workshop we are interested in everything that happens after the first draft. We will engage questions great (point of view, structure, endings, etc.) and small (sentence mechanics, line editing, etc.), with an eye toward becoming stronger writers…
Course Type: 6 Week
| Instructor: Justin Taylor
Start Date:
1/28/2016 –
5:00 PM
The Body in Time
In his review of French writer Herve Guibert’s collected journals, The Mausoleum of Lovers, Wayne Koestenbaum writes: “I hope that Guibert’s journal will bring this philosophically inclined subset of body-smeared literature back into prominence. What else is there to write…
Course Type: 1 Day
| Instructor: Maggie Nelson
Start Date:
1/29/2016 –
10:00 AM
This class is full
The Writer’s Welcome Kit
Want to be a writer? Don’t waste time. The Writer’s Welcome Kit aims to save you 100 hours of work and worry as you go from wanting to be a writer to working to be a writer. It’s the first e-course…
Course Type: 6 Week
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Start Date:
1/30/2016 –
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