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.
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...
Ciclo Homenajes: Manuel Mujica Lainez. La actriz y periodista Adriana Bianco comparte sus recuerdos sobre su amistad con el escritor argentino, creador de Bomarzo.
Saludo del Consul General de Argentina en Miami Marcel F. Gilardoni. La Feria del Libro de Miami del Miami Dade College, el Consulado de la República Argentina en Miami y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española invitan al homenaje al escritor argentino Manuel Mujica Lainez. ______________ Adriana Bianco: profesora de Filosofía y Letras de Universidad Buenos Aires, Argentina, con post-grado en la Universidad de La Sorbonne. Miembro Correspondiente de la Academia Norteamericana de la...
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...
Big Read Kickoff: International Children’s Day @ Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami
Join us as we officially launch this year’s Big Read Miami during International Children’s Day at the 39th International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami, featuring face-painting, stilt-walkers, and carnival games; painting, puppetry, dance, and percussion workshops; and Comicópicos, an interactive and family-friendly variety show that’s fun for all ages! Plus, free copies of our Big Read title, La casa en Mango Street and Hairs / Pelitos by Sandra Cisneros, while supplies last. The...
Un encuentro entre música y literatura, con Ricardo Oropesa, Tony Pinelli, Daniel de Prophet y Lázaro Caballero
DESCRIPTION:La Editorial Unosotros Ediciones y la Feria del Libro de Miami invitan a un encuentro único donde se dan la mano la música y la literatura.En esta cita se presentarán cuatro títulos imprescindibles que replantean y celebran la riqueza de la cultura cubana. Acompáñanos junto a los autores en esta velada inolvidable. Abakuá. La huella sonora en la música cubana, autor Ricardo Oropesa Con una lata y un palo. Panorama de la música cubana, autor Tony Pinelli La invasión...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Big Read 2025: Museum of Contemporary Art Book Club: The House On Mango Street
Join us in reading and discussing books inspired by MOCA’s contemporary art exhibitions. Each selection is inspired by our exhibitions and culminates in an in-person discussion at MOCA. Together, we explore great literature and enrich our experience with the arts. You can join our MOCA Book Club anytime by signing up here. This year, to kick off the 2025 NEA Big Read Miami, MOCA Book Club members will be reading Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street, inspired by the...
