If you’ve been at a Thursday night loss since Friends ended, this is the week you’re finally going to leave the house. Two literary events are happening mere blocks from each other, replete with alcohol, donuts and writer types who will covertly eye you for their next character sketch.
Hugo House’s Cheap Beer and Prose—a spin-off of their Cheap Wine and Poetry series—has no qualms about the connection between alcohol and writing. Sponsor PBR offers beers for a buck to accompany readings from Seattle prose-ists David Schmader, Suzanne Morrison, Jeremy Richards and Emily White.
“Our four readers are real pros (Get it? Prose? Okay. That was bad) and, even if you don’t like readings, you can get drunk for five or six bucks, which is probably what you’d pay for one drink at any of the other events on the same evening,” says event curator Brian McGuigan. (Brian: all puns are forgiven.)
From there, it’s only a five-minute walk to the other event of the evening: the public launch party for Typetrigger, a formerly invite-only site that provides brief writing prompts and a six-hour time limit for those in search of inspiration. Held at Capitol Hill’s Sole Repair Shop, the celebration boasts two writing contests, a 9 p.m. performance from Shenandoah Davis, an under-wraps “big announcement” and a spread of donuts and coffee from site sponsor Top Pot.
Bonus: Typetrigger members get free drinks while they last, and you can become a member at the party. One user found the site so life-changing she wrote founder Lily Pierson to say she wants to attend the launch party so badly that she wishes she didn’t live in New Jersey. (We’re not touching that joke.)
Cheap Beer and Prose, 7 p.m.
Hugo House1634 11th Avenue
Typetrigger Launch Party, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.
The Sole Repair Shop, 1001 East Pike
