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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 



  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

 

The next monthly meeting will be on

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM

at the Pinecrest Library

5835 SW 111th STREET , Pinecrest, FL 33156

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

RSVP TO:

CONNIE GOODMAN-MILONE

cgmilone@gmail.com

 

 SEPTEMBER MEETING

We are going to try something new. There have been requests for a hands-on writing and critique experience.  You shall have it.

The leaders of our three critique groups (Fiction, Non-fiction, and Poetry) will be presenting brief sessions.  Don Daniels will speak for 20-25 minutes about overall critique groups.  Then you may choose one of the remaining groups, Non-fiction with Peter Luykx or Poetry with Steve Liebowitz. 

I suggest you choose the one you are less comfortable with, but the choice is yours.

Those who bring a short piece stand a better chance to have their work critiqued (bring about 8 copies). The less time I speak, the more

time we have for critiquing.  Without further ado, here are your speakers--all members. Let's give them a warm greeting.

Jonathan Rose, Program Director

 



~ GUEST SPEAKER ~



Peter Luykx taught for many years in theBiology Department at the University of Miami, specializing in cell biology, genetics,and evolution, before retiring in 2005.

He has been the recipient of a number of science and teaching awards. During his career he received research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, among others.

He has given public lectures on science and evolution. He is currently a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a former member of the Genetics Society of America, the American Society for Cell Biology, the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, and the Electron Microscopy Society of America.

He is the author of one book, several book chapters, and many scientific papers in his research field. In 1989 he had a new species of termite named after him, Neotermes luy kxi.



~ GUEST SPEAKER ~

STEVE LIEBOWITZ

 

 ~ GUEST SPEAKER ~

DON DANIELS



 



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.