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To celebrate its 25th anniversary, WFLF hosted popular “Wild Woman” poet Judyth Hill for a four-day series of events, including open mic readings, two workshops and a keynote address at the closing banquet. In 2013, WFLF partnered with the African-American Heritage Society and Florida Humanities Council to bring poet-performer Kwame Dawes to Pensacola. In 2016, WFLF brought New York poets Barbara Henning and Lewis Warsh to Pensacola to lead sessions for "Writing Off the Wall" as part of November's Foo Foo Festival.Funds were provided with a grant from ACE.
In 1986, the same year the U.S. Library of Congress named the first poet laureate, WFLF named its first poet laureate. The honor has been held by Adelia Rosasco-Soule, Leonard Temme, Mary Hood, Laurie O’Brien, Henry Langhorne and , Juliet DeMarko. , and Jamey Jones . Katherine Nelson-Born is the current *[[https://wflf.org/PoetLaureate [Poet Laureate of Northwest Florida] Northwest Florida]].
WFLF publications, along with a special collection of works of local and regional authors and writing reference works, are housed in the Dr. Francis Patrick Cassidy Literary Resource Center. Located in the Pensacola Cultural Center, the library also serves as the office of WFLF and provides space for writing workshops. WFLF publishes ''[[Emerald Coast Review]]'', a biannual collection of work submitted by local writers, artists and poets. ECR provides a record of the area’s literary thought over the years. The Federation newsletter, ''The Legend'', first compiled and edited by Ora Wills and Ellen Pepler, has continued for 25 years as an outlet for promoting and expressing literature. The current editor is Andrea Walker.
