Ask a Young Adult Novelist with Ray Stoeve

Join local novelist Ray Stoeve for a free one-hour writing Q&A. Ray will discuss their new novel, Between Perfect and Real, and offer some of their expert tips, tricks, and advice on the art and craft of writing for young adults. Come to the call with questions about your work-in-progress or for ideas about how to get started.

Registration is limited, so RSVP at the “Tickets” link today. If you RSVP but cannot make the event, please notify our registrar at lily@hugohouse.org so we can open that space to another participant.

Ray Stoeve is a writer. They received a 2016-2017 Made at Hugo House Fellowship for their young adult fiction, and created the YA/MG Trans and Nonbinary Voices Masterlist, a database that tracks all books in those age categories written by trans authors about trans characters. They contributed to Take The Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic Books). Their first young adult novel, Between Perfect and Real, will be published by Amulet Books on April 13, 2021, with a second standalone novel to follow. When they’re not writing, they can be found gardening, making art in other mediums, or hiking their beloved Pacific Northwest.