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Board of Directors

2017-2018

  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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      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 Saturday,

October 7, 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:

Pablo Cartaya is the author of the acclaimed middle-grade novel, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora. He is a Publisher's Weekly "Flying Start" and has received starred reviews from Kirkus,  Booklist, and Publisher's Weekly. For his performance recording the audiobook of his novel, Pablo received an Earphone Award from Audiofile Magazine and a Publisher's Weekly Audiobooks starred review. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora was named one of the best books of the month by Amazon and Barnes and Nobles and one of the "50 Most Brilliant Books of Summer" by Scholastic Library. His novel Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish, also with Viking, is set for publication in summer 2018, with two forthcoming titles to follow in 2019 and 2020. He is the co-author of the picture book, Tina Cocolina: Queen of the Cupcakes, a contributor to the literary magazine, Miami Rail; the Spanish language editorial, Suburbano Ediciones; and a translator for the poetry chapbook, Cinco Poemas/Five Poems based on the work of the poet Hyam Plutzik.

       Pablo has been a guest speaker at Florida International University’s Exile Studies Program, University of Miami's Lowe Museum, and has visited schools throughout the US. He holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA from Loyola Marymount University. He currently serves as lead faculty at Sierra Nevada College's low residency MFA in the Writing for Children and Young Adults track. He calls Miami home and Cuban-American his cultura. 

        Pablo will speak On Multilingual Creative Writing.  Infusing dialects and other languages while writing in English is a tool to use not something to shun or run away from. This talk focuses on ways a multilingual approach expands the potential of a story, and will show how multiple languages are effectively incorporated into writing. It will incorporate writing prompts, textual examples, and detailed discussions. Pablo also hosts Escribe Aqui, an Ibero-American writers program that takes place at The Betsy Hotel on Miami Beach. I know Pablo from The Betsy, where he has hosted writers for several years. He is a charming fellow, in addition to being a marvelous writer and scholar. South Florida Writers, let's hear it for Pablo Cartaya.

Jonathan Rose, Program Director

South Florida Writers Association

Pablo Cartaya

Twitter @phcartaya

www.pablocartaya.com

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