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Cheese, Wine, and Words
You are invited to show your support for the upcoming Southwest Festival of the Written Word, better known to most of us as SWFWW. On Sunday, September 24, 3:00 to 4:30 in the afternoon, at the Church of Harmony on 7th and Virginia Streets, in beautiful and unique Silver City,Read the Rest…
Book Review: Artemis Awakening by Jane Lindskold
Award-winning novelist Jane Lindskold will discuss the art of writing science fiction at the Southwest Festival of the Written Word on Saturday, September 30, 11:30am at the El Sol Theater. Frost McGahey reviewed Lindskold’s Artemis Awakening, the start of a new series: The planet Artemis was created as an Eden,Read the Rest…
Book Review: The Apache Wars by Paul Andrew Hutton
Paul Andrew Hutton will give a presentation, “From Ivory Tower to the Big Apple—Writing Popular History and Academic Publishing,” at the Southwest Festival of the Written Word on Sunday, October 1, at 10:00am at the Seedboat Gallery. The transition from academic writing to the creation of a commercial work forRead the Rest…
Book Review: Raul Yzaguirre by Stella Pope Duarte
Stella Pope Duarte will give the Festival keynote address on Friday, September 29, 5:30pm at Light Hall on the campus of Western New Mexico University. “Up the Spiral Staircase”: A young girl who liked to read, collect words and produce dramas enacted by barrio kids in her backyard, will inRead the Rest…
Book Review: Unprocessed by Megan Kimble
Megan Kimble will speak at the Southwest Festival of the Written Word on Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 10:00am at the Old Elks Lodge. She will discuss her book Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food (William Morrow 2015), which describes her experience living an entire year without eatingRead the Rest…
Book Review: Chinatown a toda hora by Andrea Cote-Botero
Andrea Cote-Botero will speak at the Southwest Festival of the Written Word on Saturday, September 30 at 10:00am at the Old Elks Lodge in Silver City. She will discuss her experience as a writer: main literary influences, elements of the creative process, critical approaches to her artistic work, and more.Read the Rest…
Fascinating Fiction at the Festival
Check out some fiction authors coming to Silver City September 29-October 1! We are very pleased to be able to host them. STELLA POPE DUARTE Festival Keynote Presenter Friday Sept 29: 5:30-7:00pm, Light Hall at WNMU Stella Pope Duarte is described as a “magical weaver with a sure hand andRead the Rest…
Theater at the 2017 Festival
“Word Travels Fast!” We invite you to attend three outstanding theater events at this year’s Festival. All are open to the public free of charge. Mark Medoff Friday Sept 29: 2:00-3:00pm, Seed Boat Gallery Legendary playwright and screenwriter Mark Medoff talks about how his career and how his words haveRead the Rest…
Who Invited Falstaff?
WHO INVITED FALSTAFF? by Frost McGahey Presented by the Silver City Community Theater LAUGHTER AND LASAGNE $25 Join a Shakespearean version of the Academy Awards where Falstaff wreaks havoc. A staged reading of Frost McGahey’s play that will entertain and inform you about the life Shakespeare and movies of hisRead the Rest…
Words and Music August 19
Poet Laureate Beate Sigriddaughter invites you to join us for Words and Music! The August 19, 2017 Words and Music event at the Tranquilbuzz Coffee House features Silver City’s second poet laureate Elise Stuart who will read from her brand new memoir My Mother and I, We Talk Cat. Lonesome Richard will provideRead the Rest…
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