Orlando Writers Group
Welcome to the Florida Writers Association
Next Meeting
Date/Location:
The Maitland Public Library, 6:30 to 8:30, Thursday April 11th.
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This month we have Nylda Dieppa. She is the author of Alborada: A Poetic Memoir Across Cultures, winner of a Royal Palm Award from the Florida Writers Association in 2015. The second, enhanced edition was published in May 2023 as Alborada: A Cross-Cultural Memoir in Poetry.
Nylda’s work has been published in Cadence, “Of Poets & Poetry,” “Somos en Escrito,” “La Respuesta,” and “America” magazines. She has read her poetry at various venues including the Polasek Museum in Winter Park and Timucua Arts in Orlando where she will be the featured poet on October 20, 2024 at the Authentic Selves Poetry Open Mic. She has also performed at Medgar Evers College, Cornelia Street Café, and The Ear Club in New York City as well as Casa Aboy and Poet’s Passage in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has made presentations to writers groups on “Thinking About the Writing Life,” “Adding Emotional Depth to Your Writing,” “An Invitation to Write the Unspeakable,” “A Writer’s Guide to Genealogy,” “Breathing Life Into Your Characters,” “A Picture is Worth a Couple of Paragraphs at Least,” “How I told My Life in Poetry and How You Can Too!” and other topics.
A member of the Florida State Poets Association, Florida Writers Association, Las Comadres para las Américas, and International Society of Latino Authors, Nylda serves as Vicepresident of the Orlando Area Poets Association as well as on the board of the Florida Writers Foundation (FWF) as its Vicepresident. She led the Maitland Writers Group, affiliated with the Florida Writers Association, for nine years and published its monthly newsletter. Currently, Nylda publishes her own newsletter “Word Sketches” and FWF’s “Sunshine State Literacy Spotlight.” You can visit her website www.NyldaDieppa.com for more information.
A Writer’s Guide to Genealogy
In this presentation, Nylda Dieppa will share lots of illustrations of her own genealogy research and how this subject can relate to writing.
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Are you interested in the Florida Writers Association (FWA)? Do you want to learn more about writing in general, network with other authors, and work to improve your writing and maybe help them? Then this is the group for you!
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To learn more about FWA, here is a link to their website: Home (floridawriters.org)
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To learn more about this group and participating in meetings, fill out the contact sheet and/or check the blog. Upcoming meetings will be listed there along with info about the speaker. If you'd like to make a presentation at a future meeting, let me know, and give a little blurb about what you'd like to speak on. Meetings run about two hours, so tailor your lecture accordingly.
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