MDC Wolfson Campus Offers Workshops For Writers

The Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College will be hosting several workshops at Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. 2nd Ave., Room 4102 starting May 4-7.

The workshops will offer students manuscript consultations and a publishing question and answer session with literary agents and authors such as Betsy Lerner and Ayesha Pande.

Four days of fiction, non-fiction and poetry workshops are also available with leaders from the publishing industry.

Pitch-o-Rama 2011 will be on May 7. The event gives writers the opportunity to present their book ideas to a panel of literary professionals in 60 seconds and get feedback.

One three-day workshop is $225, one four-day workshop is $250, any two workshops are $400 and the publishing question and answer session is $40.

To register for seminars, students must visit the Florida Center for the Literary Arts website. The deadline to register is April 28.

Workshops are open to the public. Space for enrollment is first come first serve.

For more information, contact Lissette Mendez at (305) 237-3940 or lissette.mendez@mdc.edu or visit flcenterlitarts.com