Saturdays, February 12 – April 9 / 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST

Join us online for Speak Up, a FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series for teens (ages 13-19).

miniserie virtual de taller de escritura creativa, los adolescentes se asociarán con artistas docentes experimentados para potenciar el proceso de escritura creativa, desde el borrador hasta la interpretación y la publicación, para mejorar la alfabetización y empoderar a la juventud en Miami a través de actividades de escritura basadas en la comunidad.

¡El programa está abierto a todos los adolescentes (de 13 a 19 años) y es tan gratuito como libre de tareas! ¡No se necesita experiencia previa!

February 12—Margaret Cardillo (Screenwriting workshop)
February 19—Margaret Cardillo (Screenwriting workshop)
February 26—Margaret Cardillo (Screenwriting workshop)
March 05—Wendy Xu, autor de Tidesong y Mooncakes as part of the NEA Big Read (Comics workshop)
March 12—Wendy Xu, autor de Tidesong y Mooncakes as part of the NEA Big Read (Comics workshop)
March 19—Trung Le Nguyen, autor de The Magic Fish as part of the NEA Big Read (Comics workshop)
March 26—Trung Le Nguyen, autor de The Magic Fish as part of the NEA Big Read (Comics workshop)
April 02— Elizabeth Shvarts (Poetry Workshops)
April 09—Elizabeth Shvarts (Poetry Workshops)

Elizabeth Shvarts is the 2022 NYC Youth Poet Laureate and the National Youth Poet Laureate of the Northeast. A fierce advocate for educational equity, she is a Daily Point of Light Award-nominated, co-founder/co-director of Bridge to Literacy, a global, UNESCO-recognized U.S Department of State-funded nonprofit that fosters a love of language through literacy-based mentorship in 150+ youth across 6 continents. A 2021 National YoungArts Finalist in Play/Script and Urban Word NYC Slam Winner, Elizabeth is an avid writer with work recognized by or featured at The New Yorker, PBS, the United Nations, the Apollo, Lincoln Center, NY1, Grist Magazine, the MacDowell Foundation, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Alliance for Climate