About this Event Description: We’ll look at ways to simplify and add complexity to poems, leaving a door open for mystery and surprise. We’ll discuss a narrative poem and a lyric one, and do a short in-class exercise. Get tickets here. About Andre Cohen: Andrea Cohen’s poems and stories have appeared in…
RSVP HERE Description: Poetry frequently offers glimpses of Black and queer joy in times of societal turmoil and uncertainty. As Black creators become increasingly essential to local and national movements for change, participants in this workshop will encounter the bop poetry form created by Afaa Michael Weaver at the Cave Canem…
Reading Queer is closely monitoring the news around COVID-19 and will suspend all community events through April 30th.
DATE: FEBRUARY 10TH, 2018 from 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM LOCATION: THE LIGHT BOX @ GOLDMAN WAREHOUSE @ 404 NW 26TH ST, MIAMI, FL 33127. Map here COST: ALWAYS FREE. Donations appreciated. Donate here. April Dobbins is writer, photographer, filmmaker, and Sundance Institute Knight Fellow who believes that discovering great characters are…
DATE: JUNE 10TH 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM LOCATION: MDC Live Arts Lab located at Miami Dade College, Building 1 300 NE 2nd Avenue. Get directions here. COST: *All Reading Queer workshops are free and open to the public. However, we welcome your donation today to make this and future workshops possible.…
DATE: MAY 13, 2017 from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM. LOCATION: O CINEMA WYNWOOD @ 90 NW 29TH AVENUE MIAMI, FL 33127. Map here. COST: *All Reading Queer workshops are free and open to the public. However, we welcome your donation today to make this and future workshops possible. Donate now. DESCRIPTION: Who…
“QUEER (DIS)PLEASURE” with E. Parker Phillips Join Reading Queer for our next writing workshop: “Writing Queer (Dis)pleasure” with E. Parker Phillips. The workshop is free and open to the public. We also encourage newbies–aspiring writers who just need a spark to ignite their writing careers. This workshop will take place at…
Join us for the READING QUEER LITERARY FESTIVAL @ MIAMI BOOK FAIR 2015, from Wednesday, November 18th – Sunday, November 22nd, 2015. This year, Reading Queer partnered with the Miami Book Fair to advance RQ’s mission to foster and promote queer literary culture in South Florida by bringing a diverse cross-section of…
Get your writing boots on! On March 28th (Saturday) and 29th (Sunday), join Jan Becker for “WRITING BOOTCAMP FOR QUEER WRITERS,” an intensive prompt-driven poetry and flash non-fiction workshop. The term ‘boot camp’ may sound intimidating, but the only real order is, “permission to write freely.” This two-day workshop is…
Your story matters! Join Reading Queer and Christine Morando for “THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL: TELLING YOUR STORIES AND MAKING THEM VISIBLE” at the Hôtel Gaythering-South Beach Saturday, February 21st from 2 – 5 pm. Morando will help participants appreciate their own life stories and introduce them to the stories of contemporary…