Southwest Festival of the Written Word Starts This Weekend

Category: Local Events Local Events
Published: 28 September 2017 28 September 2017

The Southwest Festival of the Written Word starts this weekend -- Check out the schedule and presenters!!

www.swwordfiesta.org

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

IT'S HERE! TIME TO START THE FESTIVAL AND FESTIVITIES!

Festival Headquarters open at 1:00pm Friday, September 29. 206 N. Bullard Street

Come in and pick up a Festival Program. It has all the information you need to have a great written word weekend!

SWFWW events and sessions are casual, comfortable, and always about those fascinating written words.

SWFWW Events are always provocative, stimulating, intriguing.

SWFWW attendees and authors mix, mingle, converse, and listen. Great words. Great ideas


COME CELEBRATE THE WRITTEN WORD WITH US THIS WEEKEND!

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.

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

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/

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