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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!
October 18:
Instructor: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
Theme: Don’t Blink: Nightmare Poetics
Enter spooky season contemplating hauntings and horrors in poetry and prose with a dash of Doctor Who. Together we will write into the darkness together, exorcise some demons, and reemerge still intact, without looking away even if we flinch.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She co-translated Yi Won’s The World’s Lightest Motorcycle (Zephyr Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Translation Grand Prize from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. Cancio-Bello has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Knight Foundation, and American Literary Translators Association, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, and more. She is co-founder of the Adoptee Literary Festival and serves as a program manager for Miami Book Fair.