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General registration is open for Winter!
Do you have ambitious writing goals for 2022? Our classes can help you get the skills you need to make them a reality. Join us for sessions in fiction, memoir, poetry, reading, the writing life, and more.
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Member registration for Winter 2022 is now open! View the catalog here.
Upcoming Fall courses:
- First Fight, Then Fiddle: Toward a Revolutionary Poetics with Kaveh Akbar: Explore poetic revolution against form, against line, against grammar.
- Points of View as Points of Light with Tommy Orange: Take an in-depth look at how point of view can be used as a tool for revision.
More info is available in our online class catalog.
From The House
Fall Quarter COVID Policies for Classes
Posted Tue, 8/10/2021
by Megan GallagherIf you’re thinking about joining us for an in-person class this fall, here’s what you need to know. This fall, we’re offering our first in-person classes in over a year…
Pair Hugo House classes with SAL events!
Posted Thu, 12/9/2021
by Shawn Baker GibsonIn Seattle, we’re fortunate to have a diverse arts ecosystem, which includes several longtime literary arts organizations like Hugo House, our public libraries, Seattle City of Literature, and our friends…
Criticism as Equipment for Living by Kevin O’Rourke
Posted Mon, 11/1/2021
by Guest ContributorToward the end of his recent book, Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist, Patrick Nathan offers a robust defense of the art of criticism. Here, despite the…