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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE INCOMING OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2018 TO JUNE 30 2019

President: Beverly Melasi-Haag

Treasurer: Evelyn Benson

Secretary: Dorothy Rider

Director-Program: Jonathan Rose

Director-Membership: Holly White

Director-Communications: Norma Chew

Director-Community Relations:

Connie Goodman-Milone

Director-Publication:  Teresa Bendana

Director-Website:

Margarita Pedrozo-Walling

Director-Contests: Jeffrey Dorn

Director at Large: Steve Liebowitz

Director at Large: Anika Madison 

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  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 JEFFREY DORN, Contest Director, dornjeffrey@gmail.com  or provide in person at a meeting.

Online payment for fees at:

http://southfloridawritersassn.org/eventsmembership_paypal_payments 

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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

The next monthly meeting will be on

JULY 7, 2018

*MEMBER READINGS*

 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM

at the Pinecrest Library

5835 SW 111th STREET , Pinecrest, FL 33156

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

*ONLY SFWA MEMBERS MAY SIGN UP FOR THE MEMBER READINGS*

RSVP TO:

CONNIE GOODMAN-MILONE

cgmilone@gmail.com

SFWA NEWS

 Saturday, July 7, 2018 will be a great day for members of the South Florida Writers Association!  We begin with the eagerly anticipated Member Reading (which takes place twice a year--next in February). 

Remember, these readings give us the opportunity to become more deeply acquainted with our fellow members--through their writing and the manner in which they express them selves. These readings also give us the chance to polish our material for future presentation to a larger audience, for which the South Florida Writers Association has already had several member opportunities.

Impress us with your content and delivery. I repeat some sage advice: "Selling yourself is the first step to [igniting interest]--and, of course, [selling] your books." [Jonathan Rose, Author's Voice ISSUE #7 JULY 2016]

Please do not neglect to RSVP to Holly White, hollybw@bellsouth.net, or Connie Goodman-Milone, cgmilone@gmail.com, to reserve your slot for the July 7th Member Reading by Tuesday,July 3 [I'll be away but will return for the meeting.] Anything for poetry and the written word.  After all. that's what writing groups are all about.

Reminder:Your dues are due July 1st ($75 or $25 for students). You may want to pay them so that you can read with a clear conscience. You can always sign up to read at the meeting, but it would be better (timewise) to know in advance how many intend to read.

I'm looking forward to hearing members read. Don't forget to practice honing your material to 5 minutes, and remember to deliver it in a loud voice so that everyone in the room can hear you.  

Enthusiastically submitted by,

Jonathan Rose, Program Director

South Florida Writers Association

P.S. If you are a member of the South Florida Writers Association and you cannot find a Critique Group that suits you (or you would like to be part of another group that does not yet exist), why not start your own Critique Group? SFWA used to have as many as 12 Critique Groups.  Also, if you start the group, you can determine when it fits into your schedule!  



IMPORTANT MEMBERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT

The SFWA Board of Directors voted to change the membership dues to coincide with the Associations fiscal year.

As of July 1, 2018, all membership dues for 2019 will be payable on July 1, 2018. Those who have paid in the previous three months - April, May and June of 2018, are paid up until July 1, 2019.

Questions and concerns about this change may be brought to the next Board meeting.