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: Sarah Audsley
Theme: Memory Palace: On Calling Forward the Past

Often what we want to write seems unattainable because it is a lost or watery memory. How can we pull from the past? What do we bring forward? As writers, we can learn to dig into our own memory archive and fill in the gaps of half-remembered moments. Using the memory palace technique as a starting point, you will be invited to generate new work that calls back and brings forward the past.

Sarah Audsley is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press). A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont.