SWWF: Friday, October 27th, 3:30 – 4:30 pm MDT I would have loved the first book launch I attended after our Covid lockdown, no matter what book it presented. After all, that was my initial chance to be out, not just among people, but among my tribe, and readers. Yet I’m especially grateful that the […] Read More
The 2023 Felipe de Ortego y Gasca Lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct 4, 5:30-7:00 MDT, at WNMU’s Miller Library. This year writer, poet, performer Tim Z. Hernandez will deliver the talk: “The Lost Ones: Recovered Memory and Creative Storytelling.”THIS EVENT WILL BE PRESENTED ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4.The lecture series is named in honor of […] Read More
The LULAC Book Award, established by the Southwest Word Fiesta, honors the best book by an author of Hispanic descent who lives in the Southwest. The book must have been published in the last two years, that is, since the last Southwest Word Fiesta book festival. The winner is chosen by LULAC’s Council 8003 of Silver […] Read More
We are thrilled to announce a captivating addition to the Southwest Word Fiesta 2023: the esteemed Keynote Speaker, John Burnett, former NPR Correspondent. Mark your calendars for October 28th, 2023, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM, as John Burnett takes the stage at the Murray Hotel in Silver City, New Mexico, to present “A Reporter’s […] Read More
The next workshop offered in The Write Stuff writing series from Southwest Word Fiesta will be a poetry workshop presented by former Silver City and Grant County Poet Laureate, Elise Stuart. The workshop will be held on Saturday, July 15, from 10-11:30 AM MDT, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Silver City, NM, 3845 N […] Read More
Silver City is hosting a Men’s Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop called “A Wind Blows Through Us” on April 29th. This event features award-winning poets from northern New Mexico, including Hank Blackwell, Ray Johnson, and Mark Fleisher. Attendees will have the chance to listen to the featured poets read their works with open mic following […] 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).
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