New Directions/New Dimensions

Florida Writers Association Collection, Volume 17

Florida Writers Association is happy to announce this year’s list of Collection 17 titles and authors. Thank you to all our members who submitted this year and congratulations to the authors whose writing was selected for inclusion in our 17th volume of the best of the best writing that our members have to offer!

Publication: October 17, 2025

Creative Nonfiction

Gerri Almand, Should Old People Plant Blueberries?
Deborah Crutcher, Past Life
Margaret Daisley, Now Streaming
David Godin, Fridays with Jack
John Hope, New Roads
Sharon Keller Johnson, Joy in a Time of Sorrow
Brenda K. Lavieri, Where the Compass Breaks
Stan Watkins, Dancing Through the Rain

Fiction

Lynn Bechdolt, The Pandemic
Barbara A. Busenbark, Secrets of the Forest
Scott Corey, Maisie
L.H. Davis, Moon Dreams
Nanette Davis, An Unlikely Superhero
Diana Faherty, Ordenado Park
Cristina Farinas, The Midnight Gardener
Jim R. Garrison, The Bridge
Lorrie Gault, Getting Aweigh
Bill Griffith, Synchronicity
Ellen P. Holder, Serendipity
Henry James Kaye, Your Turn
KE Manning, Beyond the Gates
Chris Marek, Bugs ’n’ Bubba
Meredith S. Martin, The Path to Happiness
Robert E. Marvin, Stop Reading—Now!
Mark H. Newhouse, Finding My Direction
Donna Parrey, The Recliner
William R. Platt, The Commitment
Barbara Ryan, Rocking High
H.G. Silvia, Terms
K.L. Small, A New Game for Travis
Lona A. Smith, Grand Opening
Bobbie Thiessen, Grandma’s Wisdom

Poetry

Angela Adde Andriesse, Upon the Loss of an Old Friend
Ann Favreau, A Measure of Love
Gail Ghai, Maroon Moccasins
Sylvia Whitman, Fledging
Kathleen Willoughby, The Atoms Align at Last

NextGen Poetry

Finn Anderson, The New Way
Perla Anderson, Dreams
Reed Barnwell, Shifting Horizons
Genevieve Blitch, The Synthetic Frontier
Conner Brown, Fish●ing