Past Events
November 2015
Clase magistral con Jorge Eduardo Benavides: La novela histórica: mucho más que un best seller
La novela histórica, como suele ocurrir con las novelas de género, tiene características especiales, pautas que el escritor debe conocer para lograr elaborar una trama verosímil, efectiva e interesante. La master class pretende abordar el aspecto técnico de este tipo de novelas, así como ofrecer un panorama general sobre las grandes obras que se adscriben al género, desde Memorias de Adriano de Marguerite Yourcenar hasta Creación, de Gore Vidal, pasando por las obras de Benito Pérez Galdós o Pérez Reverte. Jorge Eduardo Benavides nació en Perú.…
May 2023
The Poem as Rendering & Reclamation: A Poetry Workshop with Soleil Garneau
Tuesdays, May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2023 (4 weeks) at 7:00 – 9:00 PM EST In-Person, MDC Wolfson Campus (300 NE 2nd Avenue) Pay-What-You-Can Pricing: To ensure that these special workshops facilitated by our Emerging Writer Fellows are as accessible as possible to the widest audience possible, we’re putting it into your hands to pay what you can for this workshop. Choose a ticket price, ranging from $35 to $100, based upon what feels right to you.…
August 2023
Prose Workshop: Decolonizing Your Voice with Siham “Sam” Inshassi
5 weeks: Tuesdays, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. EST Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus Can you use your native language/slang in your writing? Should you translate, when, and how much? When and how much should you explain your culture or community in your writing? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, you are not alone. Typically, these questions boil down to audience—who you are talking to, or rather, who you want to talk to. Often the confusion comes because much of what we are still told regarding what good writing looks like is from the lens of Western neocolonialism.…
October 2023
Nonfiction Workshop: The Art of Thinginess: Image and Detail as a Path to Meaning with Ella Jacobson
Tuesdays, October 3, 10, 17, 24 (4 weeks) 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. EST (2 hours) In Person, MDC Wolfson Campus In this four-week workshop, we will look at how image and detail can be used to deepen meaning in creative nonfiction. The first session will focus on generating topics from image and detail. The remaining sessions will cover how image and detail can be used to strengthen dialogue, descriptions of setting and place, and characterization.…
November 2023
AN AFTERNOON WITH KERRY WASHINGTON IN CONVERSATION WITH EVA LONGORIA
In Thicker than Water: A Memoir, KERRY WASHINGTON provides an intimate view into her public and private worlds – as an artist, advocate, entrepreneur, mother, daughter, wife, and Black woman. Chronicling her upbringing and life’s journey thus far, she reveals how she faced a series of challenges and setbacks, effectively hid childhood traumas, met extraordinary mentors, managed to grow her career, and crossed the threshold into stardom and political advocacy, ultimately discovering her truest self and, with it, a deeper sense of belonging.…
FLASHBACK: OPENING NIGHT BLOCK PARTY WITH DJ/PRODUCER LOUIE VEGA!
Join us in celebrating the grand kickoff of the 40th Annual Miami Book Fair! The festivities begin with the electrifying “Flashback” Block Party, featuring Bronx native and Grammy Award-winning DJ/producer Louie Vega. Louie will work his magic, seamlessly blending classics, house, salsa, afro-beat, jazz, hip-hop, gospel, and soul into entirely new beats and rhythms that are uniquely his own. As you groove to the music, indulge your taste buds at the pop-up food and drinks market, Smorgasburg Miami, renowned for its lovingly crafted culinary delights.…
AN EVENING WITH JADA PINKETT SMITH IN CONVERSATION WITH LENA WAITHE
JADA PINKETT SMITH revisits lessons learned in the course of a difficult but riveting life journey in Worthy, a bracingly honest memoir that takes readers on a rollercoaster ride from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of personal rediscovery and authentic feminine power. With no holds barred, Pinkett Smith reveals her unconventional upbringing in Baltimore – as the child of two addicts to a promising theater student and a violent interlude as a petty drug dealer – followed by a parallel rise to stardom alongside her close friend,…
AN EVENING WITH JOAN BAEZ IN CONVERSATION WITH JUSTIN RICHMOND
From legendary singer and social justice activist JOAN BAEZ comes Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down Drawings, which feels like a long, funny letter from an old friend. Since retiring from active performing, Baez has focused her formidable talents on painting and drawing, and this collection of her work – lovingly loose and charming sketches on recurring themes such as politics, relationships, women, animals, and family – shows another, insightful side of her. Each section,…