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Florida Writers Association
Florida Writers Association (FWA) is a 501 (c) 6 trade association with a single over-riding purpose: Writers Helping Writers. FWA encourages and supports the formation and maintenance of writing groups, critique groups, workshops, seminars, conferences, and youth groups. It hosts an annual writers conference, six one-day conferences, and webinars, administers an annual literary competition, publishes an annual collection of selected short fiction, a bi-monthly magazine, and E-newsletter, and maintains a website, online store, and members-only online forum. It is an all-volunteer organization.〔Florida Writers Association- Writing Our History~One Writer At A Time: First Ten Years 2001 to 2011; Edited by Douglas Houck; Peppertree Press; 2011〕〔https://floridawriters.net〕 (floridawriters.net, Houck)
In 2015, FWA consisted of well over 1300 members across 47 Florida counties, thirty-two other states, the UK, and Canada. Fifty-seven associated writer's and critique groups in Florida and Nevada were headed up by sixty-five Group Leaders under the supervision of ten Regional Directors. The Board of Directors was made up of a President, Executive Vice President, Vice President of Administration and Membership, Vice President of Finance, a Director Emerita, and ten Board Members.〔https://floridawriters.net〕
==Founding and Early Years==
Florida Writers Association was incorporated and designated a 501 (c) (6) organization on May 14, 2001 by founder Glenda Ivey. Vickie Taylor and Weslynn McAllister were instrumental in the formation of the only (at the time) Florida non-profit "dedicated to helping writers of all genres, published or not".〔Florida Writers Association- Writing Our History~One Writer At A Time: First Ten Years 2001 to 2011; Edited by Douglas Houck; pg. 19; Peppertree Press; 2011〕 Glenda Ivey served as the first President, with Vickie Taylor as Vice-President and Rachel Lisi as Secretary-Treasurer. Writers Helping Writers began with the task of supporting local writers in their communities improve their writing, learn about publishing, and begin promoting their work. To this end, it was decided to appoint Regional Directors (who would also serve Board Members) to grow local groups. Vicki Taylor, Caryn Suarez, and Doug Dillion established one or more 'Palm Groups' to meet once a month in the areas of Tampa, Jacksonville, and Orlando respectively. The meetings were led by appointed Group Leaders and included workshops, panel discussions, writing critiques, screen writing, and poetry. The groups also worked together to hold book fairs and book signings in different locations. Contact with the growing membership that first year was through a twenty-page newsletter called ''Florida Palm Magazine'' mailed to members' homes. On its one-year anniversary in May 2002, FWA had 129 members, ten Regional Directors, and eight Palm Groups in Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, Lake Wales, St. Petersburg, New Port Richey, and Saint Augustine.〔Florida Writers Association- Writing Our History~One Writer At A Time: First Ten Years 2001 to 2011; Edited by Douglas Houck; pg. 19-22; Peppertree Press; 2011〕
Early Group Leaders - Freda Gower Ward and Sheila McNaughton, St. Petersburg Palm Group - Chuck Dowling, Orlando?-〔Florida Writers Association- Writing Our History~One Writer At A Time: First Ten Years 2001 to 2011; Edited by Douglas Houck; Peppertree Press; 2011〕
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