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Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2024)
Saturday, October 26 @ 3:00 pm
Saturdays, September 14 — October 26, 2024, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST
Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens.
In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities.
The program is open to all teens (ages 13-19) and is as free of charge as it is free of homework. No previous experience necessary!
October 26:
Instructor – Nadine Pinede
Theme – The Joys of Historical Fiction
Nadine Pinede is the daughter of Haitian exiles from the Duvalier dictatorship. She created her own interdisciplinary major at Harvard and then continued on to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. She also has an MFA in fiction and poetry and holds a PhD from Indiana University. Her debut historical novel-in-verse, When the Mapou Sings, will be published by Candlewick Press later this year.