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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.

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: Children's Author Marta Magellan!

Our next meeting will be on September 7,  at the Pinecrest Library 5835 SW 111th Street.

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

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Marta Magellan taught Creative Writing, Composition, and Survey of Children’s Literature at Miami Dade College, where she was a full professor and adviser to the award-winning literary arts magazine, Miambiance.

 

Born in Rio de Janeiro and now living in Miami, her love for nature, reading, and children segued naturally into writing children’s nonfiction picture books.

 

Her focus is on nature and wildlife conservation both for the educational and trade markets, among them Just Wild Enough: Mireya Mayor, Primatologist (She Made History)  also, Bee Catastrophe, and Python Catchers: Saving the Everglades. 

Two of her books, Amazing, Misunderstood Bats, and Up, Up, and Away: Monarch Butterflies, have been used by Columbia University to teach reading and several have received honors and awards. She often collaborates with her brother, illustrator Mauro Magellan.

 

More information can be found on her website:

www.martamagellan.com

Jonathan Rose, Program Director

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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