Last week, Hugo House announced their fall Word Works slate. These are lectures on the craft of writing from big, established names in the literary world. Here's the lineup of writers and the names of their talks:

• September 19th: Michael Cunningham, "The Problem Is Never the Plot"
• October 18th: Chris Abani, "Mining for Awe"
• November 14th: Tom Perrotta, "Laughter Is Only the Beginning"
• February 20th, 2020: Gish Jen, "Politics and Possibility"
• March 12th, 2020: Sigrid Nunez, "Giving Full Play to the Imagination"
• April 2nd, 2020: Adam Johnson, "The Art of Listening"

Tickets for individual talks and season passes are now available on the Hugo House's website.

If you're a writer who learns more in a class situation than a lecture format, you should know that signups for Hugo House's fall classes are now open, and the Seattle Public Library recently announced its Seattle Writes program of free one-day writing classes with local authors through the end of the year. Between all these programs, you can find classes for virtually every type of writer, and every style of learning, within a broad range of schedule options. You don't have an excuse, anymore — take a writing class this fall.