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Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2025)
Saturdays, September 6-October 18, 2025
3 p.m.-4 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!
September 20:
Instructor: Keith S. Wilson
Theme: Poetry vs. Video Games
From Mario, to Final Fantasy, to Fortnite, the video game industry employs artists and writers of all kinds. But video game designers often get their starts reading and “playing” books: Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books are very popular among game designers. Whether you’re interested in writing for video games or in writing poetry or stories, this workshop will teach you the basics of writing branching literature –stories and poems that let the reader decide where to go next.
Keith S. Wilson is a poet, game designer, and multimedia artist. He is an Affrilachian Poet and a Cave Canem fellow and a recipient of an NEA Fellowship, a Kenyon Review Fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship. Additionally, he has received fellowships or grants from Bread Loaf, Tin House, and the MacDowell Colony among others. His first book, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (Copper Canyon), was recognized by the New York Times as a best new book of poetry. His second book, Games for Children (Milkweed Editions) was a winner of the National Poetry Series. Keith’s nonfiction has won an Indiana Review Nonfiction Prize and the Redivider Blurred Line Prize, and has been anthologized in the award-winning collection Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy. His poetry and prose have appeared in Elle, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among others.
