Upcoming Events
October 2025
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.…
First Draft: A Creative Writing Social with Nadine Pinede
October 14, 2025 / 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM / via Zoom In English and Haitian Creole. 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. Theme: Writing History in the Present Tense Step into the time machine of your imagination. History speaks—and in this workshop, it sings.…
The Big Read 2025: LatinoLand: An American History With Marie Arana
MBF will celebrate America as the land of freedom and opportunity with author Marie Arana. LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing yet personal overview of the Latino population of the United States from 1492 through today. As the book shows, Latinos are not a monolith, but share a main commonality – their overwhelming and historically factual desire to be Americans and champion the values set out in the Declaration of Independence. Marie Arana was born in Lima, Peru. She is the author of the memoir American Chica,…
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.…