Upcoming Events

During eight days each November hundreds of authors and thousands of readers converge on Downtown Miami for the nation's premier literary festival. And when that's over, we keep it going, month in, month out.

Saturday, September 27 @ 3:00 pm EDT
On Demand (Virtual),

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...

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Saturday, October 4 @ 3:00 pm EDT
On Demand (Virtual),

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...

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Wednesday, October 8 @ 7:00 pm EDT
MDC Koubek Memorial Center, 2705 SW 3rd St., Miami, FL, 33135,

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Presentación de Alma vieja, de Denis Fortún

DESCRIPTION:Denis Fortún presenta su nueva obra Alma vieja, en conversación con Yovana Martínez Milián, escritora y editora. Alma vieja (CAAW Ediciones, 2025) es un manuscrito de sonetos y romances, del reconocido escritor y poeta Denis Fortún Bouzo. El libro es el segundo de una colección de versos rimados del autor, iniciada con el manuscrito de décimas Coordenadas ilícitas (CAAW Ediciones, 2023). Denis Fortún Bouzo (La Habana, Cuba, 1963). Poeta, narrador y bloguero. Ha publicado...

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Thursday, October 9 @ 11:30 am EDT
Government Center, 111 NW First St., Miami, FL, 33128,

Big Read Miami + Miami-Dade Transit: Literature on the Move

In celebration of this year’s Big Read Miami, we’re collaborating with Miami-Dade Transit – the largest transit system in the Sunshine State! – to inspire communities through sharing quotes from Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street in stations and across buses and metromovers. Plus, free copies of the book will be given away October 9 at Government Center.  Keep your eyes open to spot Cisneros’ words as you move through the city for a daily dose of literary – and life...

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Saturday, October 11 @ 2:00 pm EDT
Green Space Miami, 7200 Biscayne Boulevard, Unit B, Miami, FL, 33138,

Image and Text, Text as Image, and Image as Text: A Poetry Masterclass with Diana Khoi Nguyen

Saturday, October 11, 2025 , 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. What is an image, and what can text entail? As an exploratory and interactive group, we will pay close attention to the nuances of these two words before excavating how they have been employed and evolved on the page over time. We will expand our original notions of these two crucial media, and how they can engage with each other. What happens at the intersection of image and text in creative work? Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Ghost Of...

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Saturday, October 11 @ 3:00 pm EDT
On Demand (Virtual),

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...

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Sunday, October 12 @ 12:00 pm EDT
Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, 33139,

The Big Read 2025: Writing Home: Telling Stories with Heart: A Creative Writing Workshop with Ruth Behar

Sunday, October 12, 2025 / 12-2 p.m. Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU (301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach) Free, RSVP required. In this workshop we will learn how to write about family, tradition, leaving and finding home. All of us have heard stories about where our ancestors lived and how they and their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren have found a sense of belonging in Florida and elsewhere. Drawing on those stories, we will discuss how to write about home with heart. And we will...

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Tuesday, October 14 @ 6:30 pm EDT
On Demand (Virtual),

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. Join poet and author Nadine...

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Thursday, October 16 @ 6:30 pm EDT
On Demand (Virtual),

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...

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Saturday, October 18 @ 3:00 pm EDT
On Demand (Virtual),

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...

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Saturday, October 25 @ 2:00 pm EDT
Museum of Contemporary Art, 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami, FL, 33161,

Big Read Miami: Live Arts Miami + MOCA Songwriting Workshop With Guest Artist Inez Barlatier

Led by professional songwriter INEZ BARLATIER, you’ll draw on themes found in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and discuss how they lend themselves to lyrics, melody, and chord progression, then craft an original song which you’ll perform together as a group at the end of class. No prior songwriting experience necessary! Inez Barlatier is an Ayisyen-American singer, songwriter, musician & actor with over two decades of performance history. Her music is inspired by her...

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Sunday, October 26 @ 10:30 am EDT
Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, 33139,

The Big Read 2025: Walking Tour: Jewish Miami Beach – A Century of Community, Culture & Change

Join us for an immersive, multisensory exploration of the historic Jewish presence in South Beach, tracing the rise, evolution, and enduring legacy of the Jewish community in Miami Beach over the past 100 years. Examined through the lens of how neighborhoods inform identity – inspired by Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street – this walking tour delves into how Miami’s Jewish communities helped shape the cultural and architectural fabric of South Beach and invites participants to...

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Tuesday, October 28 @ 7:00 pm EDT
Books & Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables,

Broadway, Books & the Arts — One Night Only at Books & Books with FAN Miami

This event is FREE and open to the public. Please RSVP only if you intend to join us. Broadway meets Miami’s arts scene in a lively evening with three powerhouse members of Funding Arts Network (FAN), the nonprofit fueling exceptional visual and performing arts across Miami-Dade. Susan Rose — Tony Award-winning producer (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Hurlyburly) & co-author of the beloved José & Feliz bilingual children’s series. Lisa F. Rosenberg —...

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Saturday, November 1 @ 5:00 pm EDT
Freedom Tower, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, 33132,

The Big Read 2025: The Roots of Freedom: Tracing the Past, Shaping the Future

Tour: Saturday, November 1 @ 3 p.m. Panel: Saturday, November 1 @ 5 p.m. As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary and Miami’s iconic Freedom Tower marks its centennial, Miami Book Fair – in partnership with the Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) and the Genealogical Society of Greater Miami – invites you to a special panel exploring the powerful intersections of personal history and national identity. Arrive early to explore the historic building and discover how American...

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Wednesday, November 5 @ 12:00 pm EST
Museum of Contemporary Art, 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami, FL, 33161,

Big Read Miami Meets MOCA: Field of Dreams + Book Club

Wednesday, November 5, 2025, to Monday, March 16, 2026  Textile artist DIANA EUSEBIO’s Field of Dreams at the Museum of Contemporary Art – her first solo exhibition – explores the significance of cultural preservation, ancestral memory, and the enduring connection between people and place. Drawing from her Indigenous Peruvian-Quechua and Afro-Dominican roots, Eusebio bridges personal memory with ancestral traditions, using natural dyes and textiles to create works grounded in both the...

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