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

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SFWA OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS  

EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2018 TO JUNE 30 2019

President: Beverly Melasi-Haag

Vice President: Jeff Dorn

Treasurer: Evelyn Benson

Secretary: Rocio Vargas-Herrera

 Director-Program: Jonathan Rose

Director-Membership: Holly White

Director-Communications: Norma Chew

Director-Community Relations:

Connie Goodman-Milone

 Director-Publication:  Teresa Bendana

Director-Website: Billy Jones

Director-Contests: Jeffrey Dorn

 Director at Large: Steve Liebowitz

 Director at Large: Anika Madison 



   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

      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

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.

OUR NEXT MEETING will be on JULY 6, 2019

SFWA MEMBER READINGS/SHOWCASE

    10:30 A.M. TO 12:30 PM

PINECREST LIBRARY

5835 SW 111 STREET

PINECREST, FL 33156

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

 RSVP TO:

CONNIE GOODMAN-MILONE 

Director-Community Relations  

cgmilone@gmail.com

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Twice a year, SFWA members read their works in an open-mic fourm. Each member is allotted a maximum of five minutes to present his or her work. To sign up to read, one must be an active, dues-paid member of the association. To sign up or for more information, please contact Jonathan Rose at proserosegusy@aol.com.   

We cordially invite you to the next Authors Showcase Series of the South Florida Writers Association in collaboration with Books & Books @ Suniland in Pinecrest, featuring authors Brenda Romoan and Louis K. Lowy.  

2019 SFWA Authors Showcase Series

Updated Schedule