IN NOVEMBER, AND ALL YEAR ROUND During 8 days each November, hundreds of authors and thousands of readers converge on downtown Miami for the nation’s premier literary festival.
AND WHEN THAT’S OVER, WE KEEP IT GOING, MONTH IN, MONTH OUT.
What happens each November?
PROGRAMS IN SPANISH
AUTHOR SESSIONS DURING THE WEEK
Sunday, November 17 through Sunday, November 24 • 80+ authors from U.S., Latin America and Spain with books in Spanish • Some sessions have simultaneaous interpretation into English • Only program of its kind in the United States
Sunday, November 17 through Friday, November 22 • Author events in English and Spanish each evening • “Evenings With” (keynote) authors • National Book Award nominees and winners on Friday night
STREET FAIR WEEKEND
CARIBBEAN PROGRAM
Sunday, November 17 through Sunday, November 24 • Focus on Haitian and Caribbean authors • Panels and discussions • Some sessions have simultaneaous interpretation into English
Saturday, November 23 and Sunday, November 24 • 16-22 venues • Back-to-back programs • Authors for adults, teens and children • Presentations in English, Spanish, French and Creole • 200+ exhibitors and publisher selling books
CHILDREN’S ALLEY
DESTINATION: COMICS
Saturday, November 23 and Sunday, November 24 • Panels and presentations with comics creators • A section of the Fair dedicated solely to comics and graphic novel exhibitors • Managed/programmed in partnership with industry professionals
GENERATION GENIUS PROGRAMS FOR K-12 STUDENTS
• Year round School visits • Field trips to festival in November • 8000+ students participated in 2018 • Writing workshops for teens taught by authors • Guaranteed 50-700 book buy
COLLEGE CLASS VISITS
• Diverse authors and topics, fiction, nonfiction and poetry • Guaranteed 30-150 book buy • Includes Honors College • During festival in November and year round
Friday, November 22 through Sunday, November 24 • Large plaza in the center of the Fair featuring themed pop-up venues programmed with backto-back activities • Children’s book authors • Child-centered live performances, music, and storytelling • Authors visit schools • 10,000+ students visit the Book Fair on Friday, November 22
SAVE THE DATE!
2019 MIAMI BOOK FAIR November 17-24
Street Fair Weekend: November 22-24
CONTACT US
PROGRAMS STAFF Lissette Mendez
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS (305) 237-7899 lmendez@mdc.edu
Paola Fernandez Rana PROGRAMS MANAGER
(305) 237-7846 paola.fernandezrana@mdc.edu
Marci Cancio-Bello PROGRAMS MANAGER (305) 237-7889 mcanciob@mdc.edu
Mariela Gal
SPANISH PROGRAMS MANAGER (786) 499-8734 mariela.gal@mdc.edu
MARKETING & PUBLICITY PRINT, RADIO AND TV: 500+ national and international media placements in 2018. Partnership with PBS, C-Span, and UAinMedia to broadcast and livestream the Fair. English and Spanish dedicated PR consultants. Comprehensive ad plan including TV, radio, outdoor media and digital. EMAIL: 250k subscriber list SOCIAL: Total # followers 65,409. 4-person social media team. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat. Cross promotion to Books & Books social. WEBSITE: Desktop and mobile.
VENUES Chapman Conference Center: 300 or 700 seats. (Room can be split.) There is overflow capability outside in front of a theater-size LCD screen. Wolfson Auditorium: 450 seats (Theater.) Freedom Tower: 200-600 seats (Multipurpose room in fully restored 1923 nationally registered historic building.) Multiple additional venues with capacity up to 300 seats. For authors whose events may draw more than 1,000 people, we have the capability of live streaming the event to a screen in the Auditorium, which seats an additional 450. We also have the capability of hosting larger scale events at the nearby Olympia Theatre, which seats 1,800, or Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, which seats as many as 2,500.
FAIRGOERS GUIDE: 60,000 printed, distributed throughout South Florida and regional Sunday New York Times (for Nov. festival only). PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: Special issue on Miami Book Fair to PW subscriber list of 750,000. An additional 30,000 copies were printed for South Florida distribution.
BOOK SALES Books & Books is the official bookseller at festival in November and at Book Fair events throughout the year. All book sales are reported.
What does Book Fair do the rest of the year? GENERATION GENIUS
EVENTS ALL OVER
SOUTH FLORIDA.
WRITING AND READING FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS.
FIRST DRAFT LITERARY SOCIALS
THE BIG READ
READING CAMPAIGN TO ENGAGE RELUCTANT READERS.
WRITE A STORY. HAVE A DRINK. WRITE A BETTER STORY. MONTHLY.
PAZ PRIZE FOR POETRY
POWERED BY A GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS.
MBF/DE GROOT PRIZE VISITING AUTHORS
PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES.
AWARDED TO THE AUTHOR OF AN UNPUBLISHED NOVELLA.
CREATIVE WRITING & PUBLISHING NON-CREDIT COURSES AND WORKSHOPS.
READINGS, LECTURES AND SIGNINGS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
MIAMI WRITERS INSTITUTE CREATIVE WRITING CONFERENCE EACH MAY.
5 UNDER 35
READINGS WITH YOUNG FICTION WRITERS AT THE BEGINNING OF THEIR CAREERS. PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION
TRUE STORIES TOLD LIVE ON STAGE.
LITTLE HAITI BOOK FESTIVAL
A CELEBRATION OF CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE. EVENTS IN HAITIAN CREOLE WITH SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION.
READ TO LEARN BOOKS FOR FREE FREE BOOKS THAT GET KIDS READING.
LIP SERVICE
ENGLISH, SPANISH AND CREOLE. PROGRAMS IN
2018 Miami Book Fair by the Numbers
205,000
total number of visitors to 2018 Miami Book Fair
49
countries
represented by presenting authors
607
520 sessions
held during the eight days, including cooking demos and culinary discussions, Children’s Alley storytelling and entertainment, live music and author presentations for children
authors
1,000 volunteers
powered the Fair in 2015
235
exhibitors,
including publishers, bookstores and community organizations
77°F average temperature during the Street Fair
118 million
total social media impressions
12,066 books given FREE to kids
11,411 students
attended author sessions on Thurs. and Fri.
9,000 children visited the Fair on Sat. and Sun.
20,411
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children
enjoyed and learned at the Fair
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