Richard Hugo House

Seattle, WA

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Hugo Classes for Kids

We believe you're never too young to begin practicing the habits of a lifetime. Through our writing classes for …
- 8 to 14 year olds
- All difficulty levels
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Scribes Mentor Program

The SCRIBES Mentorship Program matches teens 14-18 with working writers for three-month, one-on-one mentorships.…
- 14 to 18 year olds
- All difficulty levels
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Scribes Summer Workshops

Teen writers are invited to participate in Scribes, an intensive two-week summer creative writing program for yo…
- 15 to 18 year olds
- All difficulty levels
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Scribes at Ingraham

Scribes at Ingraham is an after-school creative writing program that meets at Ingraham High School one afternoon…
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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Performing Your Life: A Performance Workshop

Saturday 1-4p.m. Michelle Tea has spent her professional career turning life into an art form. In this class,…

1 session available for $60.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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The Joy of Revision

The sign of a serious writer, one who wants every word to count, is the ability to revise. We will begin with ot…

1 session available for $195.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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Invisible Ink

Tuesdays 4-6 p.m. Invisible ink is the writing below the surface of the words. This class teaches you to obse…

1 session available for $195.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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Genre Benders

Tuesdays 7-9 p.m. Just as cross-training helps keep an athlete at the top of his or her game, switching genre…

1 session available for $195.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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Missing Him One Place Search Another: The Poetry of Walt Whitman

Thursdays 7-9 p.m. Walt Whitman's “Song of Myself,” first published in 1855, ends with the following challeng…

1 session available for $195.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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The Reflective Artist (spring quarter)

Wednesdays 4-6 p.m. Congratulations: you have a draft! But you also have the sneaking suspicion your short st…

1 session available for $195.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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Writing the Nonfiction Book Proposal

Tuesdays 4-6 p.m. A nonfiction book proposal is not just a marketing tool, although you need it to sell your …

1 session available for $195.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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Good Blog Bad Blog

Tuesdays 7-9 p.m. Weblogs—or “blogs”—are powerful tools for writers. They can help you hone your voice, find …

1 session available for $195.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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It's Not About You: Writing Other People's Lives

Tuesdays 4-6 p.m. Reporting needn't lead to dry journalism. In fact, it's the raw material of the very best c…

1 session available for $195.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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Organic Poetry

Thursdays 7-9 pm. What's the force behind powerful poetry? Lorca called it “duende”; Charles Olson called it …

1 session available for $195.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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Write Write Write

Saturday 1-5 p.m. Create free writes and journal entries and learn to mine them for poems, stories, personal …

1 session available for $80.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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Chapbooks: Northwest Explosion

Saturday 1-5p.m. Become chapbook savvy, and apply these insights to your own poems. We will consider the Nort…

1 session available for $80.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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Finding the “Lie That Tells the Truth Truer”

Saturday 1-4p.m. Stories happen every day. The trick is to find the stories, sculpt them out of raw material …

1 session available for $60.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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Navel Gazing 101: A First-Person Writing Workshop

Saturday 1-4p.m. Whether you're dealing with personal essays, memoir or autobiographical solo performance, wr…

1 session available for $60.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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Music and the Writing Process

Saturday 1-5p.m. Music can offer the writer a soundscape, an atmosphere in which to enhance, ignite and deepe…

1 session available for $80.00
- All ages
- All difficulty levels
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