Review by JJ Amaworo Wilson This memoir hinges on the suicide of the author’s brother, Dan. The book starts with a hot air balloon ride organized by Dan for himself and the author. They soar into the atmosphere and gaze down at the vast desert sands of New Mexico, the state that will eventually become […]
We’ve posted the schedule for the 2015 Southwest Festival of the Written Word. Like everything in life, it’s subject to change, but it’s a pretty true representation of what will be offered up for your enjoyment on the first weekend in October. So take a look and start planning to attend. Join us! […]
The blog 200 New Mexico Poems: One Hundred Poems Celebrating the Past, One Hundred More for the Future, celebrates New Mexico’s centennial through poetry. This month the blog won second place in the New Mexico Press Women’s 2013 Communication Contest Blogs-nonprofit category. The Communications Contest Chair, Sherry Robinson, said that this project was one that […]
Book review Rick Collignon: A Santo in the Image of Cristóbal García The story starts simply enough, for it’s a Rick Collignon novel. A fire burns in the mountains above Guadalupe, New Mexico, and Flavio Montoya struggles to irrigate his late sister’s fields. Then the story gets a little complicated, for it’s a Rick Collignon […]
Dave Gill is bicycling 11,000 miles around North America to film a documentary about people and their lifestyle choices. His project, Vague Direction, recently visited Joseph Wade at the J.W. Art Gallery in Hurley. Check out the blog post and video here: http://www.vaguedirection.com/day92/ You can also view the video on YouTube. Good job, Joseph!
The Silver City Sun-News published an article yesterday highlighting our writing workshop with Steve Havill, which occurred on January 26. Read it here: http://www.scsun-news.com/ci_22502166 We’re grateful to Mr. Havill for offering his time in support of our Festival. We are very eager to share more details, and will be doing so as soon as possible. Keep […]

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).