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Published: 27 September 2015 27 September 2015

What: The Southwest Festival of the Written Word €™s Marketplace, featuring authors, editors, publishers, and literary organizations, with books and services to sell, is open to the public free of charge. Visit www.swwordfiesta.org for full Festival information including the names of the individuals and organizations who will have booths at the Festival Marketplace.

When: 9:00am-4:30pm
Where: Murray Hotel, 200 W. Broadway St, Silver City, NM €”Festival Headquarters

What: The Southwest Festival of the Written Word presents authors and publishers who live and work in the southwest discussing their work and creative processes in eighteen festival sessions throughout downtown Silver City, NM. Session topics include: the nature and the environment, fiction, crime and mystery writing, youth fiction, spiritual/self-help, poetry, editing, memoir, self-publishing, conversations about €œthe writer €™s life € and a performance piece based on the poetry of Bonnie Buckley Maldonado. All events are open to the public free of charge. Visit www.swwordfiesta.org for full Festival information, including the Festival Schedule and presenters €™ bios, and venue addresses.

When: 10:00-11:00am; 11:30am-12:30pm; 1:30-2:30pm; and, 3:00-4:00pm
Where: Festival Venues in historic downtown Silver City, NM: Murray Hotel, Old Elks Lodge, Seedboat Gallery, Church of Harmony, Silver City Library, Javalina Coffee House, Webb Theater at WNMU

What: Beginning at 4:30pm, The Southwest Festival of the Written Word offers three sessions that are somewhat different from the other sessions during the weekend. Please plan to attend one of the following: Round Table with Writers at the Old Elks Lodge; Open Mike/Poetry/Flash Fiction at €œA € Space; and, a production of €œLove Letters € by A. R. Gurney performed by Phyllis and Jim McQuaide at Yankie Creek Coffee House. Visit www.swwordfiesta.org for full Festival information, including the Festival Schedule and presenters €™ bios, and venue addresses.

When: 4:30-6:00pm
Where: Festival Venues in historic downtown Silver City, NM: Old Elks Lodge, €œA € Space, Yankie Creek Coffee House

What: The Southwest Festival of the Written Word €™s Festival Banquet keynote speaker is Daniel Chacón. Chacon €™s obsessions are the desert, the border and stand-up comedy. Author of four books of fiction, Chacón will discuss how he combines his preoccupations. For Hotel Júarez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops, he spent time in Júarez, often crossing over the border at night to walk the streets and talk to the people. To ensure the authenticity of his observations, he wrote and performed stand-up comedy based on these encounters. In his presentation he will show how writing humor is a very particular way of understanding and revealing humanity. For full Festival information, visit www.swwordfiesta.org including the Festival Schedule and presenters €™ bios, and venue addresses.

When: 7:00-9:00pm
Where: Light Hall, WNMU, 1000 W. College, Silver City, NM
Tickets are required for this event, $30 per person, and may be purchased by contacting tickets@swwordfiesta.org.