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In 2008, WFLF participated in Milton’s Riverwalk Fine Arts Festival with live poetry readings by members; WFLF also partnered with Pensacola Chamber of Commerce to publish winners of the Chamber’s Military Appreciation Month student Essay Contest in Escambia County, with prize winners featured in ECR XIV. That year also marked an NEA grant to WFLF to implement The Big Read, in conjunction with Friends of the Library and Pensacola Little Theatre.
In 2020, during the pandemic, WFLF launched its second catharsis writing project, "[https://wflf.org/LifeIntheTimeofCorona Life in the Time of Corona.]" In 2010, when the Deep Water Horizon oil spill threatened life as Floridians knew it, WFLF introduced its first online publication, The Spill. The [https://wflf.org/TheSpill literary site ] features prose, poetry and photographs submitted by artists seeking a venue for expressing concern of the ecological disaster. https://sites.google.com/site/wflfonline/online-publications
WFLF provided financial assistance in the inaugural year of the international event, 100,000 Poets for Change, assists other groups with like interests, hosts book signings and occasionally participates in the Downtown Development Board’s Gallery Night in Pensacola.
'''Sources:''' Archives, West Florida Literary Federation. Interview Ora Wills.[http://www.wflf.org]Walker, Andrea, Pensacola News Journal, Sept. 21, 2014.