2017 Southwest Festival of the Written Word

Category: Local Events Local Events
Published: 16 August 2017 16 August 2017

The Southwest Festival of the Written Word begins September 29th.

The Southwest Festival of the Written Word is coming in September--Check out the schedule and presenters!!

www.swwordfiesta.org

Support the Festival through session sponsorship advertising, donations.
HERE'S HOW!

WORD TRAVELS FAST in
FICTION SESSIONS AT THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL!
READ ABOUT THEM BELOW AND MARK YOUR CALENDARS TO ATTEND.
ALL ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FREE OF CHARGE

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 and a pure heart," and praised as an author who "will enlarge humanity." Raul H. Yzaguirre: Seated at the Table of Power, is her most current work.

Duarte has won honors and awards nationwide, including a 2009 American Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize nomination, the Southwest Book of the Year Award, and a Book Sense 76 Selection.

She is a descendant of Irish and Mexican American parents, and was born and raised in the Sonorita Barrio in South Phoenix. Inspired to write by a prophetic dream of her father, she believes that writing, like love, begins within, or it doesn't start at all. For more, visit stellapopeduarte.com.

MATT BELL
Saturday, September 30, 1:30-2:30pm, Old Elks Lodge
Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novel Scrapper and the story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall.

His previous novel, In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award and an Indies Choice Adult Debut Book of the Year Honor Recipient, as well as the winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award.

He is also the author of two collections of fiction and a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur's Gate II, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Conjunctions, and many other publications. A native of Michigan, he now teaches creative writing at Arizona State University, where he serves as the Interim Director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. For more, visit www.mattbell.com.

JULIE IROMUANYA
Saturday, September 30, 10:00-11:00am, Seedboat Gallery

Julie Iromuanya is the author of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House Press), a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction.

She earned her B.A. at the University of Central Florida and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she was a Presidential Fellow and award-winning teacher. She is an assistant professor in the creative writing MFA program at the University of Arizona. For more, visit julieiromuanya.com.

For a review of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor visit swwordfiesta.org/blog

STEVE HAVILL
Saturday, September 30, 11:30am-12:30pm, Seedboat Gallery

Release of Easy Errors, the latest Posadas County mystery, marks the 28th novel for New Mexico novelist Steven F. Havill-and the 22st in that popular series. The author of four western novels, 22 contemporary mystery novels set in fictitious Posadas County, New Mexico, and two historical-medical novels set in the Puget Sound area during the 1890's, Steven F. Havill has been writing since 1981.

The first appearance of Undersheriff William Gastner, whom Publisher's Weekly called "surely one of the most appealing heroes to come along in a while," was in Heartshot, the first of now 22 titles in the Posadas County Mystery Series, published by St. Martin's Press and Poisoned Pen Press.

One of Havill's other hobbies has been the history of medicine, and a long-term writing project, the mainstream historical/medical novel Race for the Dying, was released by St. Martin's Press in 2009. The protagonist, young Dr. Thomas Parks, finds himself caught up in a medical scam that was so popular and successful that its roots continue to thrive today. The sequel to that novel, Comes a Time for Burning, was also released in January, 2011.

JANE LINDSKOLD
Saturday, September 30, 11:30am-12:30pm, El Sol Theater

.Jane Lindskold is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling, internationally published author of twenty-five novels, including the six volume Firekeeper Saga, the three volume Breaking the Wall series, and, most recently, Artemis Awakening and Artemis Invaded.

Lindskold has also written something like seventy short stories, nineteen of which are included in her collection Curiosities. Another recent project is a non-fiction book on writing called, appropriately, Wanderings on Writing. For more, visit janelindskold.com.

LEE FRANCIS
Sunday, October 1, 10:00-11:00am, "A"Space Gallery

Dr. Lee Francis is an Indigenerd and one of the foremost scholars on Native and Indigenous pop culture in the United States. He is the CEO and Founder of Native Realities, the only Indigenous-centric pop culture media and publishing company in North America. Native Realities Press

He is an award winning poet and performer and has bene published in numerous books, journals, and magazines. His family is from the Pueblo of Laguna, where he continues to help his community through various projects and engagements.

ADRIENNE CELT Saturday, September 30, 11:30am-12:30pm, Old Elks Lodge

Adrienne Celt is the author of The Daughters, a novel, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award, and a book of comics, Apocalypse How? An Existential Bestiary.

Her work has appeared in the 2016 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Ecotone, Esquire, The Kenyon Review, Epoch, Prairie Schooner, and many other places, and she publishes a webcomic (most) every Wednesday at loveamongthelampreys.com. Her second novel will be published by Bloomsbury in 2018. For more, visit adriennecelt.com. Visit swwordfiesta.org/blog to read a review of The Daughters.

2017 SWFWW Festival Schedule and Presenter Bios
The Festival Schedule is now available on our website, www.swwordfiesta.org Join us for three days of hanging out with and listening to over thirty authors who live and work in the Southwest.

With "Word Travels fast" as our theme for 2017, the Festival introduces us to new authors and new ways of writing as well as to many of our favorite writers and genres.

There's "something for everyone" -- sessions discussing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, music, publishing, and theater that will address both traditional print formats and newer platforms for writing such as E-books, graphic novels, comics, print, self-publishing, and slam poetry. So many ways we now communicate our prose and poetry. A fast moving fall weekend in beautiful, historic Silver City!

You will also find the bios of each presenter on the website. Visit us and see what a dyamic weekend awaits you Friday - Sunday, September 29-October 1.

Reviews of 2017 SWFWW Presenters' Books are on our Blog
We are all busy reading and reviewing as many of the works of our Festival authors as we can. We will be posting these reviews on our blog www.swordfiesta.org/blog. Check it out.

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 his work. Directed by Wendy Spurgeon. Dinner included.

August 18 & 19, 2017, Fri/Sat - Doors open 5:00 pm; Dinner served 5:30 pm; Show 6:15 pm, Closing 7:15 pm.
August 20, Sunday - Doors open 4:00 pm; Dinner served 4:30 pm; Show 5:15; Closing 7:15 pm.

Menu: Soup or salad, meat or vegetarian lasagna, tiramisu and coffee.
Note: This is a private party for ticket holders. BYO wine or beer.
Location: Silver City Market Cafe, 614 North Bullard, downtown Silver City.
Tickets: $25.00 for dinner and the show.

Tickets are available at The Market Cafe, Gila Hike and Bike, & Vintage Fantasies

Listen to "Use Your Words: Writers Speak" KURU, 89.1 FM in Southwest NM or streaming at GMCR.org
"Use Your Words: Writers Speak," airs from 4:30-5:00pm on Fridays on KURU, Gila Mimbres Community Radio and streaming at www.gmcr.org

Silver City Town and Garden Club
James Edd Hughs, AAMS®, Edward JONES Investments

Southwest Festival of the Written Word
www.swwordfiesta.org
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