Classes begin Wednesday, September 25. By application only. Visit miamibookfair.com/speakup for more information. Speak Up after-school creative writing workshops are taught by nationally-recognized and experienced teaching artists at MDC’s Koubek Center on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 6 p.m. The focus of these workshops is to cultivate the creative writing process in spoken word and performance poetry, from drafting to performance to publishing to ...