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Thank you

The Festival steering committee wishes to extend their heartfelt thanks to everyone who made the 2017 Southwest Festival of the Written Word possible. Thank you to the speakers for your time, effort, and incredible insights!

Thank you to our major sponsors the New Mexico Humanities Council, Western New Mexico University, the McCune Charitable Foundation, New Mexico Arts and Cultural Districts (Silver City Arts and Cultural District), Town of Silver City (Lodger’s Tax), James Edd Hughs of Edward Jones, the Grant County Community Foundation, the Western Institute of Lifelong Learning, the Town and Country Garden Club, the Silver City Daily Press, Silver City Radio, and the Friends of the Silver City Public Library.

Thank you to all of the businesses, organizations, and individuals who sponsored Festival sessions, donated, and purchased advertising space in the Festival program.

Thank you to all of our volunteers, who make the event run smoothly.

We are fortunate to be part of such a supportive, creative, and enthusiastic community.

Panelists interact with the audience on Saturday, September 30, 2017.

Disclaimer:
The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Southwest Word Fiesta™ or its steering committee.

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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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