The South Florida Writers Association is an association of independent and emerging writers.

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Board of Directors

2016-2017

  Calling All SFWA    Members:

Monthly Writing Contest

All genres accepted:

Poems, haiku, short stories, essays, personal essays, one chapter of a book.

Submissions must be received no later than one week prior to our monthly meeting.  Late submissions will be held over for the next month. Winners will be announced at the meeting and will be presented with a beautiful certificate.

First place winner has access to $20 toward submission of the winning work to a national contest. Writer must show the contest director the contest submission form and claim the $20 from the treasurer within 60 days of award date.

Submission fees: One article $3, two articles $5, three articles $7.  Fee is $5 for any piece of more than 10 pages.

Submit to Phyllis Teitelbaum, contest director, via email PTmiami113@gmail.com  or provide in person at a meeting.

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PRESENT YOUR POETRY!

Come to one of our poetry events!

You will have an open mic and the support of our many members.  Our next event is Member Readings, at our February 4 meeting.

For more information, please click HERE

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      Need a second look?

       Refine your work

If you would like to get feedback on your work before you send it out, feel free to attend one of our critique groups!

You will get group support from fellow writers. 

For more information, please click HERE

 SFWA NEWS

Join us for the annual Installation meeting on

  Saturday,

June 3, 2017

at the 

Pinecrest Library 

 5835 SW 111 Street

Pinecrest, FL 33156.

The meeting will be from

10:30 am - 12:30pm. 

The keynote speaker is

 South Miami Mayor

Philip Stoddard 

The meeting will feature the installation of SFWA President Mervyn Solomon with officers and board of directors. This is a great opportunity for prospective members to meet the board and members of South Florida Writers Association. This meeting is free and open to the public. A catered brunch is included. For more information, visit www.sflwriters.org. 

Meet The Speaker

Mayor Philip Stoddard was first elected to office in 2010 and is currently serving his fourth term as Mayor of South Miami.  In 2015 Mayor Stoddard was appointed by the White House to the Governance Coordinating Committee of the National Ocean Council where he developed national policy for sea level rise. In 2016 Mayor Stoddard was named by Politico Magazine to the Politico-50 “guide to the thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics in 2016.” He was named the Green Municipal Official for 2016 by the Florida Green Building Coalition.  Dr. Philip K. Stoddard has been a professor of biology at Florida International University since 1992.  A big proponent of renewable energy, his house and car are powered by the sun.  Mayor Stoddard has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, National Geographic, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Stern, The Bond Buyer, NPR, PRI, BBC, MSNBC, and numerous documentaries including National Geographic’s "Years of Living Dangerously" which has been shown in 171 countries and translated into 47 languages. It has been said that we are living in a post-truth era. It is an era of climate change denial. The printed words "climate change" cannot appear in official documents of our state by verbal order of its governor. In this changed climate, South Florida Writers Association is privileged to have as its Installing Officer a mayor, scientist, and a man who "walks the walk" for his beliefs, the Mayor of South Miami, Philip Stoddard. Let's give him a warm welcome.

Jonathan Rose, Program Director

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