Writing seminars during the Miami book fair

So we know Miami Book Fair International,  which is sneaking up on us at an alarming rate (alarming for me, anyway), is all about reading. But it's also - surprise! - about writing. The Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College is offering some shockingly good writing seminars  on Nov. 14 - the Friday the street fair opens - featuring two of the authors who will be appearing: memoirist Honor Moore (at right) and poet Andrei Codrescu.

Moore will teach "Shaping Memory into Memoir," noon-2 p.m. $50.

Codrescu will teach "Writing Poetry with Andrei Codrescu," 3-5 p.m. $75. Class size is limited to 10 people, so you'd better get a move on signing up for this one.

Also on the schedule: "Publishing Boot Camp: Everything You Wanted to Know About Publishing But Were Afraid to Ask" with superagent Sandy Dijkstra, 3-5 p.m. $50.

For more information click here or call 305-237-3940.