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Learn about member benefits and other perks.

We award FOUR semi-annual grants of $500 each!

One for Publishing and one for marketing, awarded in June and December. Any member can apply! 

Winners are selected by random drawing of all applicants for each grant.

Review our monthly meetings' itinerary of guest speakers, critique groups, and other events.

  Our next meeting is our December Holiday Lunch at 

Duffy's Sports Bar and Grille. 8575 SW 124th Avenue, in South Dade.  

Click on "This Month" above for more details.

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Join us for the monthly showcase of talented authors now held on Zoom.

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LAURA SANCHEZ-RAMIREZ:

AUTHORS SHOWCASE SERIES ON SEPT 21, 2024

ON YOUTUBE 

By David Rolland

Author LAURA M. SANCHEZ- RAMIREZ is a bilingual writer (English and Spanish); journalist; university professor and advisor; bestselling author of Pasion De Vida: Recetas De Virtudes Y Valores En La Familia (Spanish Edition), Passion For Life: Recipes For Virtues And Values In The Family (English edition); producer of two video podcasts ,The Life With Purpose and the Camino Con Proposito; entrepreneur and founder of The Coaching for Life Goals Academy and The Camino Press. She holds a Master of Arts in Print Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts. Her professional career included writing for The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, The Sun-Sentinel, Vanidades magazine, Harper's Bazaar magazine, Cubanews Business Newsletter by Knight Ridder Media Company, The EastSider Entertainment News, The Sun-Sentinel, WordPress Blog, North Carolina News, and Medium.com. Learn more about the Laura and her projects at https://linktr.ee/authorlaurasachezramirez.

 

The Authors Showcase Series – A Virtual Experience is one of several membership benefits of the South Florida Writers Association.

 

The program provides a platform for members to discuss their books on YouTube and develop an audience for literary works.

 

In addition to the video that can be used for marketing, the participating member also gets publicity and various promotional support from volunteers of the association by print, email and social media tools. To view the videos of our Authors Showcase Series, visit SFWA’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcl-Zf1T5TsDZTJtvPyb1Pg

 

Or contact evelynbenson2@aol.com, about the Authors Showcase Series or SFWA Ca$h Grants for members’ book publishing or marketing projects.

HAVE YOU VISITED THE LUNAR CODEX SITE YET?

Click on the image below to visit the site and then scroll down. 

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A MANIFEST FOR THE MOON

The Lunar Codex uses digital and analog technology to preserve art, books, music, and more, enclosed in time capsules and launched to the Moon. It is a message-in-a-bottle to the future.

Curatorial Notes

 

The poetry represented in the Lunar Codex began with one volume, Tango Desolado, from the five-volume Semaphore Collection of Dr. Samuel Peralta's poetry. This was owing to a lack of space in the Peregrine Collection.

 

This grew to include the other four books from the series - the award-winning Sonata Vampirica, Sonnets from the Labrador, How More Beautiful You Are, and War and Ablution - all Amazon bestsellers in poetry. Sonnets from the Labrador was also published in a GOSS183 print edition.

In late 2021 the Lunar Codex, in cooperation with Brick Street Poetry, launched a call for poems under the editorial leadership of Joyce Brinkman,  inaugural poet laureate of Indiana, along with poet and professor Dr. Joe Heithaus of DePauw University and poet and science writer Jessica Reed of Butler University. This call was the basis for the anthology The Polaris Trilogy - the first poetry collection to be originally commissioned for archiving on the Moon.
 

The Lunar Codex now also includes three volumes from the Best New African Poetry series, and numerous other collections of note.

* Every poem in each of the books and anthologies listed below is archived in the Codex. Each author listed thus has at least one poetry work represented in the Codex, and often several. 

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Featured Speaker: Seth Bramson!

Our next meeting will be on November 2,  at the Pinecrest Community Center 5835 SW 111th Street.

(Across the Breezeway from the Library)

10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (But come earlier, at 9:30 for refreshments and mingling.)

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Our speaker for our Saturday, November 4th meeting will be none other than “Mr. Miami Memorabilia” (also known as “Mr. F. E. C.”) himself, our own SFWA board member, Professor Seth H. Bramson.

 

Even without appearances over the last seven years on A and E, Discovery Channel, Florida Public Broadcasting, Fox FX:  The Collectibles Show, History Channel, Learning Channel and Turner South Network as well as South Florida’s locally-based television stations it would still be safe to say that our speaker today is nationally known as America’s foremost authority on the history of transportation to, from and within Florida as well as on and about the history of the Southeast Florida Gold Coast.  

 

      A resident of greater Miami for more than 75 years, he is the senior collector of Florida East Coast Railway, Florida transportation memorabilia, Miami memorabilia and Floridiana in America and his FEC Railway and Florida transportation memorabilia collections are the largest in the world:  they are larger

than the state museum’s collection and larger than the Flagler Museum’s collection.  

 

     The founder and current president of the Miami Memorabilia Collectors Club as well as of the Greater North Miami Historical Society, and an honorary life member of the Miami Springs Historical Society Museum, the Gold Coast Steam Railroad and Fairchild Tropical Garden, his collections of Miami memorabilia and Floridiana are the largest in private hands in the country, but, and at that, larger than many of the state’s smaller libraries, museums and archives.

 

      A graduate of Cornell University’s famed School of Hotel Administration, he holds Master’s Degrees from St. Thomas University and Florida International University, both in Miami.

 

     After many years teaching at St. Thomas University and Barry University, he is now Adjunct Professor of History at both Nova Southeastern University’s Lifelong Learning Institute and at F I U’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Twice honored by F I U, he was presented with the University’s Torch Award, its highest alumni honor, in 2008.

 

      He is the only person in the country who bears the official title of “Company Historian” with an American railroad, and his book, “Speedway to Sunshine: The Story of the Florida East Coast Railway” is the official history of that famous line.

 

     The author of thirty-three (33) books on South Florida local and Florida transportation history, he is America’s single most published Florida history book author and he is currently working on numbers 34 through 38 (none self-published), the histories of North Lauderdale, North Miami, and Miami Springs as well as of the Flagler System Hotels.

 

     He gives 15 different talks on South Florida local and Florida transportation history, seven of which are his “adult show and tell” talks to which he brings the related memorabilia. The talks include presentations on and about the histories of many of our South Florida cities as well as of and about the histories of Florida’s railroads.

 

     Included in his talks are several of which he is the only person in the country who presents “The History of Discrimination in South Florida,” which is half Jim Crow and segregation and half restricted clientele (that is one of the “adult show and tell” talks); “Debunking the South Florida Myths” beginning with the “oh, Julia Tuttle sent Mr. Flagler some orange blossoms so he extended the railroad to Biscayne Bay” fable (a wonderful but completely without basis in truth or fact fairy tale); “L’CHAIM! The History of the Jewish Community in Greater Miami” and “The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told: Henry Flagler and the Florida East Coast Railway’s Key West Extension.” In addition, he has written almost 400 articles, seven of which have appeared in refereed or juried publications.

 

     In much of Florida he is known as “Mister F. E. C.” and in South Florida as “Mr. Miami Memorabilia,” but, happily, we know him as “our friend.”

So, dear members and friends, we are delighted to have, as our November speaker and presenter, our friend and SFWA board member, “Mr. Miami Memorabilia” himself, Professor Seth H. Bramson.

If you can't get there in person, 

 Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83899718493 Meeting ID: 838 9971 8493

You can even  even Join by  mobile: +13017158592,,83899718493# US

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