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.

Instructor: Raul Palma

Theme: Wear It, Break It, Write It: Discovering Stories in Everyday Forms

Raul Palma is the author of A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens (Dutton) and In This World of Ultraviolet Light (Indiana University Press), which won the 2021 Don Belton Prize. His writing has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. He teaches fiction at Ithaca College, where he is the associate dean of faculty in Ithaca College’s School of Humanities and Sciences.