Registration opens:
January 01st, 2026

Creative Writing Workshop with author Fabienne Josaphat

One Book One Broward

Join local author Fabienne Josaphat for a reading from “Kingdom of No Tomorrow” and “The Seed Keeper” followed by a creative writing workshop to create Fiction as Social Justice.

From the Black Panther Movement People’s Free Food Program to the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, join Broward-based author Fabienne Josaphat for a reading from the authors new book “Kingdom of No Tomorrow” and the One Book One Broward featured novel “The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilson.  Explore similar themes from two different cultural perspectives that will inspire this creative writing workshop.  Using interactive prompts to guide your concept, you will generate Fiction as Social Justice.

Fabienne Josaphat was born and raised in Haiti, and graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University. Of her first novel, Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow published with Unnamed Press, Edwidge Danticat said, “Filled with life, suspense, and humor, this powerful first novel is an irresistible read about the nature of good and evil, terror and injustice, and ultimately triumph and love.” Her second novel Kingdom of No Tomorrow, is the winner of the 2023 PEN Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was longlisted for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize. The New York Times calls it "Muscular, searing... a novel for our times." In addition to fiction, Josaphat writes non-fiction and poetry, as well as screenplays. Her work has been featured in The African American Review, The Washington Post, Teen Vogue, The Master’s Review, Grist Journal, Damselfly, Hinchas de Poesia, Off the Coast Journal and The Caribbean Writer. Her poems have been anthologized in Eight Miami Poets, a Jai-Alai Books publication. Fabienne Josaphat lives in South Florida.

One Book One Broward 2026

Start the New Year READING with Broward County Libraries annual initiative One Book One Broward (OBOB).  Join all who live, learn, work and play in Broward County from January 1 to February 28, 2026 to build deeper connections through a single book community read.  This year’s theme Our Nature: How Our Physical Environment Can Lead Us to Seek Hope, Courage, and Connection will be guided by the matrilinear storytelling in the novel “The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilson and the youth companion book “The First Blade of Sweetgrass” by Suzanne Greenlaw and Gabriel Frey. From Sawgrass to Seagrass, residents and visitors will participate in beach side, board walk, and trail head book discussions, presentations, programs, workshops and a festival kick-off at ArtLit on January 10.  This initiative will provide human connection, cultural heritage preservation, and diverse perspectives that enable deeper understanding of our community while celebrating reading in South-Florida’s great outdoors.

One Book One Broward is supported by the Broward Public Library Foundation.

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