We want to express our immense gratitude to everyone who made the 2013 Southwest Festival of the Written Word a tremendous success! Thank you to our speakers, our volunteers, our sponsors. We have attempted to make a comprehensive list of all our supporters, as follows: MAJOR SPONSORS Western New Mexico University Community Enhancement Fund SPONSORS […]
The New Mexico Humanities Council has announced financial support for the Southwest Festival of the Written Word, downtown Silver City’s first literary festival, September 27-29. The Council, which receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, is underwriting five festival sessions that are woven together by the theme “To Write – Defining a Region”. […]
May 21, 2013 The Southwest Festival of the Written Word announces that Western New Mexico University has become the major sponsor of Silver City’s first literary festival, according to Tom Hester, chair of the festival organizing committee. “WNMU has always been a big part of the festival plans,” says Hester, “but we celebrate this affirmation […]
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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