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

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South Florida Writers  Association hopes you enjoyed our Installation Meeting to install the new Board of directors for the 2016-2017 year!

  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.

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

Meeting Agenda for Saturdau September 3: 

  SFWA GENERAL MEETING AGENDA                                                  

Saturday, September 3^rd, 2016, Pinecrest Library 10:30 am – Noon

1.     1. President’s Welcome to Members and Announcements  (5 minutes)

2.     2.  Self- Introduction by Members       (Membership, 30 – 40 minutes)

3.     3. Mini workshop: “Reading Out Loud”,  Phyllis Teitelbaum (5 – 7 minutes)

4.      4. Speaker’s Presentation:  Marsha Sims, “Organizing the Presentation of a Book”

5.      5. Monthly Contest Winners: Phyllis Teitelbaum (10 minutes)

6.  President’s Adjournment   

6.  

 SFWA NEWS

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    South Florida      Writers Association

The next monthly meeting of the South Florida Writers Association will be on 

As usual, this meeting will be held from 10:30 am – 12:30 pm at the Pinecrest Library, located at

5835 SW 111 Street, Pinecrest, FL 33156. 

Refreshments will be served.  This meeting is free and open to the public.  RSVP to Membership Director, Brenda Roman via e-mail:

  Meet The

Speaker:

Marsha Sims

  Among her speaking engagements on writing, she was a speaker at our SFWA conference downtown at and she spoke to a group of writers at the Rubell Collection several years ago.  Marsha will speak about organizing and preparing books for publication, and she might include a few tips on organizing other aspects of our lives as writers if we ask her nicely. [I have had the benefit of her class in organizing. I recommend it and her.] Marsha Sims. 

Marsha Sims is a professional organizer with over 20 years of experience in the organizing industry. She is an active Toastmaster, and has earned the coveted D.T.M. (Distinguished Toastmaster) designation. She is a member of the Florida Speakers Association, a graduate of Florida A&M University. An international speaker, Marsha has spoken to business groups in the US and abroad, at international conferences, national, community, and civic organizations. 

She is the Founder and President of Sort It Out Inc., the leading professional organizing company in South Florida, and is recognized as one of the top professional organizers in the country. She has authored five popular books on organizing.

After 20 years of hands-on organizing, Marsha has moved her business online and has hundreds of regular participants from around the world in her programs which include a monthly program to help people get organized, a weekly program for hands-on success, and a professional organizer certification course that trains and certifies people who want to become professional organizers.  In addition she offers a free daily 5-minute organizing challenge tips and offers on her e-mail list.

Marsha has been interviewed extensively in the media, and has been featured in national magazines, Florida newspapers, and has appeared on more than 100 radio stations, and television programs, her online newsletter reaches audiences worldwide.