The Scalpel and the Thread A Master Workshop for Writers with Mary Sojourner writer, writing mentor and instructor Using five pages of your own written work *Learn the beauty of taking the scalpel to your words, and *Rediscover how to weave threads of color back into your writing You’ve written for a while, but you […] Read More
As if developing our plans for the 2015 Southwest Festival of the Written Word (Friday-Sunday October 2-4, 2015), wasn’t keeping us busy enough, we decided it was important to provide events to support reading and writing, prior to the 2015 Festival. What were we thinking? That this would be a good thing! And to that […] Read More
DENISE LOW Former Kansas Poet Laureate and Co-Publisher at Mammoth Publications (www.deniselow.net ) SOUP TO NUTS: From First Draft to Publishable Poetry A Workshop for Poets of all Levels Using a one-page sample of your writing – Learn how to go from draft, to revision, to readiness for a journal editor’s sharp eyes. […] Read More
This year the Southwest Festival of the Written Word was an official supporter of the 2014 adult summer reading program at the Silver City Public Library. The library programming team reports that the program was a success; 62 people signed up and 47 books were rated or reviewed! For more details, see the library’s post […] Read More
AUTHOR: SONNIE SUSSILLO I recently found myself crying—not sniffling, but full-out two-Kleenex tears—over the last chapters of not one, but two books. Both books were part of a series of mysteries starring Miss Maisie Dobbs as the intuitive, insightful sleuth. I got to wondering about what it is that makes me get so emotional over […] Read More
We respectfully acknowledge that the entirety of southwestern New Mexico is the traditional territory, since time immemorial, of the Chis-Nde, also known as the people of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. The Chiricahua Apache Nation is recognized as a sovereign Native Nation by the United States in the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Friendship of 1 July 1852 (10 Stat. 979) (Treaty of Santa Fe ratified 23 March 1853 and proclaimed by President Franklin Pierce 25 March 1853).