Hugo House

THANKS FOR PROPOSING A CLASS AT HUGO HOUSE

Please fill out the course information as completely as possible. Submit by October 3rd for priority consideration for the Spring 2022 catalog. Questions? Contact the Education team: education@hugohouse.org 

If you haven't yet taught at Hugo House, PLEASE be sure to attach your resume/CV and teaching philosophy. We also recommend familiarizing yourself with our previous course offerings before submitting.
SELECTION CRITERIA & LOGISTICAL INFORMATION

When selecting courses, we are looking for a fit with our current curricular needs, including a balance of genre, skill-level required of the students, and platform (such as workshop, generative, reading). When hiring teachers, we consider a combination of prior teaching experience, publication history, and the strength of teaching evaluations from Hugo House or other institutions. We're equally committed to hiring a teaching corps that's representative of different and diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to diversity of ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, age, religion, ability and culture.

An education committee of Hugo House staff members reviews all class proposals. The committee of seven is comprised of active writers and students who represent a range of ages, ethnicities, genders, religions and backgrounds. 

The basics:

• A two-hour, multi-week class may be scheduled Mondays through Thursdays at 10 a.m., 1;10 p.m., 5 p.m., or 7:10 p.m., or weekends from 10 a.m.-noon, or 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
• A one-day class generally meets for three hours, either from 10 am - 1 pm or from 1-4 p.m. We occasionally run longer one-day classes or two-day classes, depending on space availability.
• Alternate schedules may be possible. Please ask. 
• COVID-19: The majority of classes are being held online through Zoom or Wet Ink. Please indicate if you are willing to teach in-person using the class location selection.
• Generally, class enrollment is set at a maximum of fifteen and a minimum of five. If fewer than five students register for a class, it will be cancelled.
• Pay rate for classes is $10.50 per teaching hour times the number of registered students in your class, and $11.00 per teaching hour after running 10 classes.

SAMPLE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning Each week we will discuss an essay from Cathy Park Hong’s provocative new book of essays, Minor Feelings, and freewrite about our own personal  experiences as Asian Americans, interrogating themes such as: coming of  age, the model minority myth, class, the white gaze, microaggressions,  shame, family, language, and community. Let’s get personal and political  as we examine what connects us or holds us apart in a candid and safe  space for exploration.  

Intro to the Short Story “Where does one begin?” asks Amy Hempel in an essay on short stories. Her answer: “With obsession and nerve and ground worth reporting on.” This two-day introduction lays down a few simple but fundamental craft concepts related to writing short stories. Students will generate and share new work in class while we look at the bold and felicitous work of pros like Hempel, Denis Johnson, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Donald Barthelme, and Sandra Cisneros. Students should be willing to risk vulnerability and intimacy. They can expect to come away with two beginnings to new short stories.