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Writing & Reading Classes Spring 2020 writing & reading classes oo TABLE OF CONTENTS From Our Executive Director About Our Classes ... 1 With this catalog, we welcome Margot Kahn Case as our new Visiting Writers ... 3 Program Director for Education. A writer and editor, Margot is the author of the biography Horses That Buck (University of Fiction ... 6 Oklahoma Press) and co-editor of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice anthology This is the Place. A graduate Nonfiction ... 01 of Columbia University’s MFA program, Margot has recently been a regular in Hugo House poetry classes. She has pub- Poetry ... 14 lished essays, book reviews, author interviews, and poems in numerous journals, including the Rumpus, BUST, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere. Mixed Genre ... 16 To her role here, Margot brings a spirit of gratitude and Reading ... 21 enthusiasm, as well as a curatorial attention to both the artistic zeitgeist and the hard work and great joys that The Writing Life ... 22 constitute a writing life. Youth Workshops ... 24 We heartily welcome her, Resources ... 25 About Our Teachers ... 26 Tree Swenson Executive Director Need a coffee fix before class? All Hugo House students receive a 10-percent discount from our generous friends at Cafe Argento. iiii ABOUT OUR CLASSES From Our Education Director REGISTRATION Register in person, by phone at (206) Spring comes to us like a blank page: a fresh start; a clean slate; a blustery, 322-7030, or online at hugohouse.org. roaring, delicate beginning. All registration opens at 10:30 am Among this season’s highlights, we’ll be welcoming a number of teachers $500+ donor registration: March 2 new to Hugo House. Visiting writers will include Horn Book Award- Member registration: March 3 winning author Isabel Quintero, Moth GrandSLAM champion Terry General registration: March 10 Wolfisch Cole, Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Karen Russell, and National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez. And from our own backyard, Register early to save with early bird Washington State Book Award winner Claudia Rowe will join us to pricing, in effect March 2–16. investigate the revealing nature of crime writing, while Washington State Book Award finalists Sarah Cannon and Kristi Coulter will explore the hybrid memoir and dig into humor, respectively. SCHOLARSHIPS National Poetry Month is nothing new, but we’ll keep you in fresh drafts Need-based scholarships are available all season long with Janée Baugher’s April intensive, an ecopoetics class with every quarter. Applications will be due Jessica Gigot for Earth Day, and a generative afternoon with Academy of March 13, and scholarship applicants will American Poets Chancellor Ellen Bass, alongside our standard tiered classes be notified March 20. and offerings with some of our most beloved poetry teachers. Visit bit.ly/AboutHHClasses for more Whoever you are, whatever you do, please don’t skim over the reading information and to apply. classes on page 22. For anyone who loves to read, these curated, seminar- style classes may be the best conversations you have all spring. ER doctor Stephanie Cooper’s narrative medicine class will look at literature of and MEMBERSHIP about the body in a whole new way. Christopher Frizzelle follows his sold- out winter reading class with a slim classic: Muriel Spark’s best-known novel, As a member, you help us provide The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. And UW Tacoma professor Annie Nguyen’s thought-provoking classes and events reading on immigration may be the most timely class we offer this quarter. that connect writers and readers to the craft of writing. You’ll also receive great Now there will be more light, more hours in the day. Why not pick up a pen benefits, including early registration and write your spiritual memoir? Draft your novel? Try to capture, in words, and discounts on classes and events. our universal longings? I hope in these pages you’ll find opportunities that Learn more at inspire, surprise, and delight—that spark for you something new. hugohouse.org/become-member/ See you in the classroom, QUESTIONS? If you want to know more about a class or Hugo House policies, email us at [email protected] or call Margot Kahn Case (206) 322-7030. We are here to help! Program Director, Education hugohouse.org 206-322-7030 [email protected] 1 ABOUT OUR CLASSES CLASS LEVELS STUDENT GUIDELINES TIERED | These courses are designed Our Student Guidelines are intended to help you and your fellow students to equip you with tools, skills, and an engage in our literary community with compassion, curiosity, and understanding of the diverse voices at consideration. work in each genre. You may self-select into classes based on where you feel Hugo House does not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind; comfortable. Take these classes as our intention is to create a space in which each participant feels welcome many times as you like. and safe. Please alert staff if you experience or witness any harassment or discrimination. ALL LEVELS | Many classes at Hugo House are intended for writers at any • Remain respectful of all writers (and their work) in the classroom. level, regardless of prior writing class • If you come into the classroom with a background of privilege, be experience. aware of that position and the ways in which it can potentially affect other students. INTRODUCTORY | Writers with • Be intentional in working against traditional power dynamics, which limited experience in a writing class or can alienate and silence voices that have been historically marginalized. workshop setting who want to expand their knowledge should consider • Be aware that your fellow students have an equal right to the class introductory classes. These classes are space and time. also designed for writers who want to • Put aside personal technology, if not being used for the purpose of explore a new genre. the class. INTERMEDIATE | Writers with some For the full version, please visit: hugohouse.org/classes/student-guidelines/ experience in genre-specific instruction looking to deepen their understanding should consider intermediate classes. CATALOG KEY These classes often feature a workshop Online class component in which student work is shared and critiqued. ADVANCED | Writers with significant experience in a writing class or workshop setting who seek assistance ABOUT OUR CLASSES and feedback with revision should consider advanced classes. REFUNDS CANCELLATIONS & TRANSFERS Hugo House cannot provide refunds, If you need to cancel your registration for a class, the following refund transfers, or makeup sessions for classes schedule applies: a student might miss. If Hugo House has to cancel a class, you will receive a • 3 days or more before a class, a class credit or transfer will be issued full refund. less a $15 fee. Refunds will be issued less a $35 fee. • Less than 3 business days before a class starts, no refund, credits, or transfers are available. • No refunds, credits, or transfers are available after classes begin. 2 VISITING WRITERS POETRY ELLEN BASS 13 WAYS TO MAKE A POEM FROM YOUR LIFE A poem begins with the writer and ends with the reader, but it must travel beyond the life of the poet to give the reader a meaningful experience. Using exemplary po- ems, we’ll explore thirteen strategies to transform the events of our lives into poetry. We’ll consider craft elements that help us open up our personal narratives and con- nect them to the larger human experience. As we work this way, not only will we be transformed, but we will make it possible for the reader to be transformed. We’ll use these practices to generate new poems and to revise a poem we’ve already written. One session | Sunday, Apr 19 | 12–4 pm | Max students: 40 VISITING WRITERS General: $260 | Member: $234 PROSE SIGRID NUNEZ THE PRACTICE OF WRITING What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever received? What do you wish you’d known when you started out? In this class, Nunez will discuss her writing practice and philosophy, as well as offer hard-earned advice. Questions and discussion will be welcome. A part of the class will be devoted to discussion and critique of partic- ipants’ work—short essays, short stories, or excerpts of longer fiction or nonfiction works. Manuscripts should not exceed 1200 words; they will be submitted to the instructor and distributed to fellow students for reading in advance of the class. One session | Friday, May 22 | 10 am–1 pm | Max students: 15 General: $260 | Member: $234 MIXED GENRE KAREN RUSSELL STRANGE APPETITES Hunger, literal and figurative, is the fuel of narrative. What happens on the page when our characters’ hungers contradict one another, or go unfulfilled, or threaten to swallow up the body of their host? What new languages might we invent to describe our strangest appetites, as well as our universal longings? In this class, we’ll discuss and learn from an omnivorous reading list across genres—poetry, journal- ism, memoir, speculative fiction, and so-called “literary” fiction—to see what con- temporary American characters hunger for publicly, privately, collectively, and in the deepest solitude of their bodies. One session | Saturday, May 30 | 10 am–1 pm | Max students: 30 General: $260 | Member: $234 3 ISABEL QUINTERO WHAT A DAY! One session Picture books are beautiful venues in which to celebrate the joyous moments of Wednesday, Apr 1 our day-to-day lives. In this workshop, we will examine and discuss “slice of life” 1:10–4:10 pm books: stories that focus on one day, or one event, rather than a longer narrative General: $90 | Member: $81 arc. Participants will examine and break down how authors are creating a story from a single moment. Then, we will generate story ideas, and hopefully complete MIXED GENRE some beginning drafts to share at the end.
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