Saturdays, February 8 — March 22, 2025, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST

Únete a nosotros en línea para Speak Up, un programa de escritura creativa para adolescentes que apoya el crecimiento artístico y profesional de los jóvenes.

En esto GRATIS 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!

March 8:

Instructor: Marie Lu
Theme: “What If?” Building a Fantasy/SciFi World

It’s time to build a world together! With a given prompt of “What if?…”, participants will create a fictional world as well as a hero and villain that live in it. Along the way, we will learn about what makes a compelling fantasy or science fiction world, how characters are at the heart of worldbuilding, and what we really want in a good story.

Marie Lu es el #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Legend, Warcross, Skyhunter, y Stars and Smoke, among others. She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry, where she worked as an artist. A full-time writer, she spends her spare hours reading, drawing, playing games, and getting stuck in traffic. She lives in Los Angeles with her illustrator/author husband, Primo Gallanosa, and their family.