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  • Date: February 8
  • Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT

Ask a Memoirist with Edgar Gomez

Join memoir writer, Edgar Gomez, for a free one-hour Q&A. Edgar will offer some of his tips, tricks, and advice on the art and craft of writing memoir. Come to the call with questions about your work-in-progress or for ideas about how to get started. At the end of the event, we will be giving away two copies of Edgar Gomez’s recent memoir, High-Risk Homosexual. Be sure to attend to be eligible to win!

Purchase a copy of High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez from Soft Skull Press here.

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.


Edgar Gomez is a Florida-born writer with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico. A graduate of University of California, Riverside’s MFA program, he is a recipient of the 2019 Marcia McQuern Award for nonfiction. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in This American Life, POPSUGAR, Narratively, Longreads, Catapult, Ploughshares, the Rumpus, Lambda Literary, and elsewhere online and in print. His first book, a memoir titled High-Risk Homosexual, is forthcoming in January 2022 with Soft Skull Press. He currently lives in New York, where he is saving up for good lotion. For more, visit EdgarGomez.net.