Richard Hugo House is a non-profit community writing center in Seattle, Washington.
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Hugo House was founded in 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."
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:
Hugo House present a number of programs, including:
ZAPP, an acronym for Zine Archive and Publishing Project, is a library of zines and related publishing materials inside the Hugo House. As of 2011 the collection included 20,000 zines, comics, chapbooks and other small press periodicals. It is one of the world's largest collections of such publications.[1]