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First Draft: A Literary Social with Thomas Swick
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 @ 6:30 pm
Miami Book Fair presents First Draft, a series of informal writing events that turn happy hours into great stories. You’re inspired. But you’re also thirsty. Bring your own drink and log in for a First Draft event and a guided writing prompt. Share your writing. You never know what you might knock out as you knock one back!
Miami Book Fair presents First Draft, a series of informal writing events that turn happy hours into great stories. You’re inspired. But you’re also thirsty. Bring your own drink and log in for a First Draft event and a guided writing prompt. Share your writing. You never know what you might knock out as you knock one back!
A guided writing prompt with a twist.
Because writing is thirsty work.
Have a drink. Write a story. Have another drink. Write a better story.
Miami Book Fair presents First Draft, a series of informal writing events that turn happy hours into great stories.
You’re inspired. But you’re also thirsty. Bring your own drink and log in for a First Draft event and a guided writing prompt. Share your writing. You never know what you might knock out as you knock one back!
Instructor: Thomas Swick
Theme: Discovery
Thomas Swick was the travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel for 19 years. He is the author of Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland; A Way to See the World: From Texas to Transylvania with a Maverick Traveler; and The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them.
His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The American Scholar, Oxford American, Missouri Review, Wilson Quarterly, Ploughshares, Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, Literary Hub, and Longreads, and his essays and stories have been included in six editions of The Best American Travel Writing.
Swick has sold baked goods in London, worked on a farm in France, and taught English in Poland and Greece. He speaks French and Polish and lives with his wife Hania in Fort Lauderdale. He also draws cartoons, a good number of which feature writers. He, and they, can be found at thomasswick.com.
