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Writing & Reading Classes ALL CLASSES ONLINE Winter 2021 writing & reading classes oo TABLE OF CONTENTS COVID-19: All Winter 2021 classes will take place online. About Our Classes ... 2 All classes are listed in Pacific Time. Highlights ... 3 Classes listed as “Asynchronous” will be held on our Wet Ink platform that allows for asynchronous learning. Students will receive Fiction ... 4 an invitation to join Wet Ink on the class start date. Nonfiction ... 9 Poetry ... 14 Mixed Genre ... 19 Writing for Performance ... 25 Reading ... 26 The Writing Life ... 27 Free Resources ... 28 About Our Teachers ... 30 iiii From Our Education Director REGISTRATION Register by phone at 206.322.7030 There is so much to celebrate as we head into a new year. The lengthening or online at hugohouse.org. days. The literal and figurative turning of pages. The opportunity to renew, recommit, and revise. All registration opens at 10:30 am $500+ donor registration: November 30 This quarter, Vievee Francis and Emily Rapp Black will offer perfect new- Member registration: December 1 year classes: “The Ars Poetica and the Development of a Personal Vision” General registration: December 8 and “Crafting an Artistic Intention,” respectively. Bonnie J. Rough’s “Diving In: First Pages,” Susan Meyers’s “Write Your Novel Now,” and Register early to save with early bird Elisabeth Eaves’s “Launch Your Longform Journalism Project” will offer pricing, in effect November 30– structure and support for your new beginnings, as will any of our tiered December 14. classes in poetry, creative nonfiction, or fiction. If you already have a manuscript in the works, take a close look at your SCHOLARSHIPS storytelling structure with Lauren Groff, the architecture of your story with Sunil Yapa, scenes with Becky Mandelbaum, dialogue with Evan Need-based scholarships are available Ramzipoor, backstory with Natashia Deón, and characters with Liza every quarter. Applications are due Birnbaum or DaMaris B. Hill. Or head to an intensive revision class with December 7, and scholarship applicants Naomi Jackson. Historical fiction, YA, and romance are covered this will be notified December 14. quarter by bestsellers Elise Hooper, Lish McBride, and Olivia Waite. Visit bit.ly/HHscholarship for more A new section of this catalog is devoted to free resources, including information and to apply. community classes and drop-in writing circles. Community classes are open to anyone but intended for students who’ve never taken a class with us before, would like to get to know a new teacher, or for whom class MEMBERSHIP tuition is prohibitive, and we’ll be expanding these offerings throughout the year. Another new section features writing for performance—television, As a member, you help us provide film, and theater—where you’ll find a range of classes featuring top-notch thought-provoking classes and events instructors from Seattle to L.A. that connect writers and readers to the craft of writing. You’ll also receive great New teachers you won’t want to miss? Tess Taylor. Rena Priest. Carrie benefits, including early registration Fountain. Geraldine Woods. Beth Ann Fennelly. Major Jackson. Marci and discounts on classes and events. Calabretta Cancio-Bello. Esther Lin. Maya C. Popa. Mark Wunderlich. Learn more at Carlyn Ferrari. Jericho Brown. hugohouse.org/become-member/ And, back to the joy: Gabriela Denise Frank’s “Writing on Delight,” Danusha Laméris’s “Poems of Affirmation and Praise,” and Luther Hughes’s QUESTIONS? free class “Reaching for Joy” are not to be missed as we head into the light. If you want to know more about a class See you in the classroom, or Hugo House policies, email us at [email protected] or call 206.322.7030. We are here to help! Margot Kahn Case hugohouse.org 206.322.7030 [email protected] 1 ABOUT OUR CLASSES STUDENT GUIDELINES CLASS LEVELS Our Student Guidelines are intended to help you and your fellow students TIERED | These courses are designed engage in our literary community with compassion, curiosity, and to equip you with tools, skills, and an consideration. understanding of the diverse voices at work in each genre. You may self-select Hugo House does not tolerate racist, sexist, homophobic, ableist, into classes based on where you feel transphobic or any other oppressive behaviors. Please alert Margot Kahn comfortable. Take these classes as Case, education director, if you experience or witness any harassment or many times as you like. discrimination. At all times, please: ALL LEVELS | Many classes at Hugo • Remain respectful of all writers (and their work) in the classroom. House are intended for writers at any • If you come into the classroom with a background of privilege, be level, regardless of prior writing class aware of that position and the ways in which it can potentially affect experience. other students. • Be intentional in working against traditional power dynamics, which INTRODUCTORY | Writers with can alienate and silence voices that have been historically marginalized. limited experience in a writing class or workshop setting who want to expand • Be aware that your fellow students have an equal right to the class their knowledge should consider space and time. introductory classes. These classes are • Put aside personal technology, if not being used for the purpose of also designed for writers who want to the class. explore a new genre. For the full version, please visit: hugohouse.org/classes/student-guidelines/ INTERMEDIATE | Writers with some experience in genre-specific instruction looking to deepen their understanding ACCESS NEEDS should consider intermediate classes. For students with access needs, Hugo House is ready to help. Teachers These classes often feature a workshop should reach out about access needs, but please also feel free to notify the component in which student work is registrar of your individual needs before your class begins. shared and critiqued. ADVANCED | Writers with significant CATALOG KEY experience in a writing class or workshop setting who seek assistance This denotes an asynchronous class. These classes can be done ABOUT OUR CLASSES and feedback with revision should at your own pace throughout the week. 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 HIGHLIGHTS FICTION LAUREN GROFF WAYS TO THINK ABOUT STORYTELLING STRUCTURE Storytelling structure is often thought of in architectural metaphors: think Freytag’s Pyramid, or even Alice Munro’s house (“A story is not like a road to follow . it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows.”) In this talk, we’ll borrow from a larger palette of metaphors to come up with more surprising—and possibly more helpful—ways of envisioning story structure. One session | Friday, February 5 | 1:10–4:10 pm General: $150 | Member: $135 POETRY HIGHLIGHTS JERICHO BROWN WRITING THE DUPLEX In this 90-minute class, Jericho Brown will lead students through an exercise for writing a duplex poem—a form he invented that blends the ghazal, the sonnet, and the blues. Each student should bring 14 disparate lines of 9–11 syllables to class. Lines may be from sentences of the student’s own prose or lines from poems that haven’t worked. No two lines have to be from the same source or time. Each student should come to workshop with each line on its own small sliver of paper. Students will leave class with a new process and a new poem. One session | Sunday, March 7 | 1–2:30 pm General: $90 | Member: $81 MIXED GENRE GERALDINE WOODS WRITING GREAT SENTENCES We’ll examine sentences from an array of authors and genres, analyzing how form and content align. We’ll look at structure (e.g. a “pocket” that hides or safeguards and a “u-turn” that surprises or subverts), diction (coinage, descriptions, word shifts), sound (matched sounds, onomatopoeia, repetition), and what obeying—or breaking!—grammar rules adds to a sentence. Experiment with these techniques by writing new sentences or revisising old ones, then share the results with the class. One session | Saturday, March 20 | 10 am–1 pm General: $150 | Member: $135 3 FICTION tiered CLASSES FICTION I SUSAN MEYERS Whether you’re looking to write stories or a novel, this course will introduce three Six sessions key elements of fiction: description, conflict, and character. Alongside published Wednesdays, January 6–February 10 examples and writing prompts, you will write a short story and learn the basics of 5–7 pm the workshop model. General: $305 | Member: $275 FICTION II ALMA GARCÍA This class will build upon craft learned in Fiction I. We’ll review the basics of Eight sessions character, conflict, and plot, then focus on craft elements including point of view, Thursdays, January 14–March 11 setting, scene, pacing, and dialogue. Students will read published stories weekly, [No class Feb. 18] do weekly in-class and take-home writing exercises, lead discussions, and workshop 7:10–9:10 pm their own drafts (including one full story or story/novel excerpt) in a supportive General: $395 | Member: $356 environment with their teacher and peers.
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