FRIDAY
® Preliminary
Schedule of Events, 2015 July 5 2015
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FRIDAY MORNING |
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PRE-FESTIVAL WORKSHOPS Presented in partnership with area schools, WNMU and the
Western Institute of Lifelong Learning |
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON |
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2:00-3:00 |
Format: talk Venue: Publishing
industry Peter Riva |
Format: poetry
reading Venue: The
poetry of … Elise Stuart &
Bonnie Maldonado & Orlando White |
Format: talk Venue: History Tom Chavez |
Format: talk Venue: My
New Mexican Rural Roots: A Source of Literary Inspiration Nasario Garcia
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Format: talk Venue: Fiction Kristin Valdez Quade |
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3:30-
4:30 |
Format: talk Venue: Young
Adult Sharman Russell |
Format: talk Venue: Historical
fiction Melody Groves |
Format: talk Venue: Narrative
non-fiction/Journalism Alfredo Corchado |
Format: talk Venue: Evolution, Ethics,
Exposure and Extreme Exaggeration John Fayhee |
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5:00-
6:30 |
OPENING CEREMONY Venue: Global
Resource Center Welcome, champagne reception: Mary Hotvedt, Jeannie Miller, Joe Shepard + talk/book launch by JJ
Amaworo Wilson
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SATURDAY
® Southwest
Festival of the Written Word, Preliminary
Schedule of Events, 2015
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10:00-11:00 |
Format: talk Venue: Spiritual/self-help Ambika Wauters
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Format: panel Venue: Nature/environment Susan Zakin & Susan Tweit (mod. Sharman Russell) |
Format: talk Venue: Fiction Lily Hoang
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Format: panel Venue: Writer’s life: Three Wise Men Simon J. Ortiz, Nasario Garcia, Felipe de
Ortego y Gasca |
Format: talk Venue: Teen Fiction + readings
by young writers Jennifer
Cervantes |
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11:30-12:30 |
Format: talk Venue: Writer’s life: In conversation with
... Stella Pope Duarte |
Format: poetry performance Venue: Poetry Tanaya Winder & Logan Phillips |
Format: panel Venue: Crime & mystery
writing Jonathan
Miller & Judith
van Gieson |
Format: workshop Venue: Editing Mary Sojourner |
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Buffet lunch for all
authors |
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SATURDAY
® Southwest
Festival of the Written Word, Preliminary
Schedule of Events, 2015
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SATURDAY AFTERNOON & EVENING |
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1:30-2:30 |
Format: talk Venue: Writer’s life: In conversation with
... Demetria Martinez |
Format: talk Venue: Writer’s life: In conversation with
... VB Price |
Format: performance piece Venue: … based on the poetry
of Bonnie Maldonado Virus Theater |
Format: talk/reading/workshop Venue: Food writing Rob Connoley & Carolyn Niethammer |
Format: talk/activities Venue: Children’s fun with reading and writing Betsy James |
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3:00-4:00 |
Format: talk Venue: Writer’s life: In conversation with
... Denise Chavez |
Format: poetry performance Venue: The poetry of… Hakim Bellamy & Jessica Helen Lopez |
Format: talk Venue: Memoir Phil Connors |
Format: talk Venue: Self-publishing: how to take your book from dream to reality Richard Mahler |
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4:30-6:30 |
Venue: Theater “Love Letters” (Phyllis and Jim
McQuade) |
Venue: Poetry/Flash fiction Open mike (Las Cruces/SC Slam poets/all) |
Venue: Round Table with
Writers (4:30-5:30) 7 writers shoot the breeze |
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7:00- 9:00 |
Format: Dinner Venue: Dan Chacon & Ben
Aliri Saenz (Free for authors + 1 guest. Public: $30
per person) |
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SUNDAY
® Southwest
Festival of the Written Word, Preliminary
Schedule of Events, 2015
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SUNDAY MORNING |
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10:00-11:00 |
Format: talk/workshop Venue: Lessons for new writers Lisa
Lenard-Cook |
Format: talk Venue: Fiction Evangeline Parsons-Yazzie |
Format: panel Venue: Book art, illustration
& photography Paul Hotvedt & Anne Lowe |
Format: talk/demonstration Venue: Electronic literature Sandy Baldwin |
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11:30-12:30 |
Format: panel Venue: Freelancing Tim Matthes & John Gist |
Format: panel Venue: Writer’s life: Three Wise Women Denise Chavez, Stella Pope Duarte, Evangeline
Parsons-Yazzie |
Format: talk Venue: The Short Story Lee Abbott
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Format: panel Venue: Song lyrics Jack
Crocker + TBC + TBC |
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12:45- 1:45 |
Format: panel Venue: Closing Buffet Lunch
& Round Table with Writers |
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