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. Swing by a First Draft event for a drink (the first one’s on the house) and a guided writing prompt. Share your writing. You never know what you might knock out as you knock one back!

Dana De Greff holds a Masters in Fine Arts in fiction from the University of Miami. She is the author of Alterations (winner of the 2018 Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series published by Seven Kitchens Press), and is the recipient of the 2018 Lillian E. Smith Writer-in-Service Award, and the 2017-2018 Literary Artist-in-Residence at the Deering Estate. She has been accepted or awarded scholarships from Tent: Creative Writing, the Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop, The Key West Literary Seminar, and the Lemon Tree House Residency in Tuscany. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue, The Citron Review, PANK, Origins Journal, and Gulf Stream Magazine, among others. She is currently a Visiting Professor of English at St. Thomas University in Miami and teaches several Creative Writing workshops online. You can find out more at danadegreff.com.

First Draft: A Literary Social with Dana De Greff