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Published: 21 August 2017 21 August 2017

This newsletter has additional presenter information and schedules.

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
JOURNALISM 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

ALGERNON D'AMMASSA
Friday Sept 29: 3:30-4:30pm, Silver City Public Library, Journalism and Theater
Saturday, Sept 30: 3:00-4:00pm, Silver City Public Library, How is Journalism Changing?
Saturday, Sept 30: 4:30-6:00pm, Seedboat Gallery,

Writers' Roundtable
Algernon D'Ammassa has been the author of the Deming Headlight's "Desert Sage" opinion column since 2013. He has been a reporter for the Headlight since April, and is an occasional contributor to the Las Cruces Sun News.

Killing Buddha, a play he wrote about criminal and social justice and which he has performed around the country with Las Cruces musician Randy Granger, has taken prizes at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival and the San Diego International Fringe Festival.

D'Ammassa's blog can be found  here.

KATE NELSON
Saturday, September 30, 3:00-4:00pm, Silver City Public Library, How is Journalism Changing?
Sunday, October 1, 11:30am-12:30pm, Old Elks Lodge, Magazine Writing

Kansas native Kate Nelson moved west in 1989 and planted roots in Placitas, New Mexico. An award-winning reporter and columnist, she worked at the Kansas City Star and Albuquerque Tribune before leading PR and marketing at the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors.

Last year, she became managing editor at New Mexico Magazine, for which she has already won a silver award as writer of the year from the International Regional Magazines Association.

An active freelancer, she also wrote the biography Helen Hardin: A Straight Line Curved

M. JOHN FAYHEE
Friday, September 29, 2:00-3:00pm, Old Elks Lodge, Outdoor Writing
Sunday, October 1, 1:00-2:00pm, Seedboat Gallery, Writers' Roundtable

M. John Fayhee is the author of 12 books and has twice been a finalist in the Colorado Book Awards. He edited the Mountain Gazette for 13 years, was a contributing editor at Backpacker Magazine for 10 years. He worked in the newspaper business for 15 years.
His work has appeared in "beaucoup" national publications, including High Country News, Aspen Sojourner Magazine, Islands, Adventure Travel, The Walking Magazine, Family Camping, Summit, Canoe & Kayak, Outside, Sierra, Sports Illustrated, USA Today & Men's Fitness.

His books include The Colorado Mountain Companion: A potpourri of useful miscellany from the highest parts of the highest state (West Winds Press, The Pruett Series: 2012), Smoke Signals: Wayward Journeys through the Old Heart of the New West (Raven's Eye Press: 2012), Bottoms Up: M. John Fayhee's Greatest Hits from the Mountain Gazette (Round Mountain Publishing: 2010) and Along the Colorado Trail (Westcliffe: 1992),-the first of three long-backpacking-trip, trail-related coffee-table/nature books he did with photographer John Fielder. For more, visit mjohnfayhee.com

MEGAN KIMBLE
Sunday, October 1, 10:00-11:00am, Old Elks Lodge, Food Writing
Saturday, September 30, 8:30am-Noon, Silver City Farmers' Market  

Megan Kimble is the editor of Edible Baja Arizona, a local food magazine serving Tucson and the borderlands, and the author of Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food (William Morrow 2015).

Megan has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Orion Magazine, and High Country News. Her articles and essays have been anthologized in Best Food Writing 2015 (Da Capo Press), Coming of Age at the End of Nature (Trinity University Press 2016), and How We Speak to One Another (Coffee House Press 2017).

She holds an MFA in Creative Writing nonfiction from the University of Arizona, and teaches as an adjunct lecturer in the school of journalism. For more, visit  
megankimble.com

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.

Our Sponsors and Partners

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

Southwest Festival of the Written Word
www.swwordfiesta.org
www.facebook.com/SouthwestFestivalOfTheWrittenWord/