Hugo House

Richard Hugo House, 2008

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."

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. He left Hugo House in 2014 to work on a memoir.

In 2012, Tree Swenson became the Executive Director of Hugo House.

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:

Programs

Hugo House present a number of programs, including:

Articles

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