August 12th, 2025 / 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM / via Zoom

La Feria del Libro de Miami presenta "Primer Borrador", una serie de eventos de escritura gratuitos e informales donde la comunidad, el oficio y la creatividad rápida se unen en salones virtuales temáticos mensuales donde los escritores socializan, comparten su trabajo y se van con grandes historias.

Theme: “Rescuing Yourself”

In this generative workshop, we’ll write from prompts that send you back in time to visit a younger version of yourself. What will you say and what would your former self do with that knowledge? Part writing exercise, part emotional labor, we’ll pull the curtain back on the typical Roman à clef and fearlessly go there.

Jamie Ford is the author of Hotel en la esquina del amargo y el dulce, which spent two-and-a-half years on the New York Times bestseller list and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. This multi-cultural tale has been optioned for film, as well as a stage musical, and is now read widely in hundreds of schools nationwide. His other bestselling novels include Songs of Willow Frost, and more recently, Las muchas hijas de Afong Moy, which was published in August 2022 and has been optioned by Jenna Bush Hager’s production company, Thousand Voices. His work has been translated into 35 languages.