 He is former Chair of the English Department at Purcell Marian High School where the Writing Program he designed and administered won the National First Prize in The English-Speaking Union "Excellence in English Award" in 1994.Since 2015 he has served as Writer-in-Residence at Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Kentucky.Hague was the 1982 Cincinnati Post-Corbett Award winner in Literary Arts.He has been a member of the staff of the Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman, Kentucky, most recently in 2004, The Augusta Writer's Roundtable in Augusta, Kentucky, the Midwest Writers Conference at Kent State University, The Highlands Summer Conference at Radford University in Virginia and was Literary Artist for the 1984 Kentucky Institute For Arts in Education at the University of Louisville.