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First Draft: A Literary Social with Flint
April 8th, 2025 / 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM / via Zoom
Miami Book Fair presents First Draft, a series of free and informal writing events where community, craft, and rapid-fire creativity meet for monthly themed virtual salons where writers get social, share their work, and leave with great stories.
Theme: “In The Beginning—Putting Your First Sentence to Work.”
With the first sentence of a novel, memoir, short story or essay, the author opens a door to a new storyscape and invites you inside. In this First Draft session, we will examine the inner workings of a variety of first sentences, and engage with a series of prompts to experiment with creating our own informative or intriguing first sentences.
Flint, the Nonfiction Fellow of our Emerging Writer Fellowship program, earned an MFA in writing from the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and is a 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow in Nonfiction. She has published in The Offing, Arts & Letters (Unclassifiable Contest winner) and Staging Social Justice, CutBank, among numerous other publications and anthologies.
