Hugo House
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Hugo House is a non-profit community writing center in Seattle, Washington.
About
Hugo House was founded in 1997 by Linda Jaech, Frances McCue, and Andrea Lewis. These three writers believed Seattle needed a center for local writers and readers to find a community and create new work. In 1999, Laura Hirschfield described the nonprofit organization: "Richard Hugo House is a two-year-old literary arts center in Seattle named after the Seattle-born poet and creative writing teacher Richard Hugo who wrote squarely and poignantly about people and places often overlooked."[citation needed]
In 2005, Brian McGuigan began working at Hugo House, where he developed new programs such as Cheap Wine and Poetry and Cheap Beer and Prose, the Made at Hugo House fellowship.[citation needed] He left Hugo House in 2014 to work on a memoir.[citation needed]
In 2012, Tree Swenson became the Executive Director of Hugo House.[citation needed]
House
Hugo House occupies a 16,206-square-foot (1,505.6 m2) Victorian house originally built in 1902. Previous occupants of the building include New City Theater and before the Bonney-Watson mortuary and funeral home.
In addition to administrative offices, the House include:
- an 88/150 theater
- a cabaret stage and cafe
- three multipurpose rooms
- a conference room
- an art gallery
- private meeting spaces
Programs
Hugo House present a number of programs, including:
- Hugo Writing Classes
- Hugo Classes for Youth
- Stage Fright Teen Open Mic
- Hugo Works in Progress
- Hugo Literary Series
- Word Works: Writers on Writing
- Writers-in-Residence
- The Cheap Wine & Poetry / Cheap Beer & Prose Series
- Zine Archive and Publishing Project (formerly a program of Hugo House, now independent)
Articles
- A Study in Social Entrepreneurship: Richard Hugo House, Laura Hirschfield, Grantmakers in the Arts Newsletter, Volume 10, Number 2, Autumn 1999
- All eyes on a timely topic at Hugo House, John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 10/4/2002,
- Open House, Christopher Frizzelle, The Stranger, 7/24/2003,
- Making Things Better, Frances McCue, Community Arts, 10/2004
- Not With a Bang, But a Whimper, Paul Constant, The Stranger, 9/16/2008
- Hugo House names interim director, John Marshall, Seattle PI, 10/23/2008