In Conversation With...outstanding authors at the Southwest Festival of the Written Word

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Published: 08 September 2015 08 September 2015

Southwest Festival of the Written Word

Friday-Sunday, October 2-4, 2015

Silver City, NM

Visit our website www.swwordfiesta.org

This year's Festival program features a significant number of sessions in which one of our outstanding guest authors has the whole hour, alone on the stage, to talk about his or her life as a writer and to engage directly with the audience. These sessions were created to give each author the freedom to select what he or she really wants to impart to the audience. Come enjoy these sessions and meet these wonderful writers.

                                                            History

 

Chasing History; The Trials, Tribulations and Joy of
Researching, Writing, and Publishing History
Thomas E. Chávez
Friday Oct. 2, 2pm, Silver City Public Library
Every book has a story behind it. That in itself is a bit
of history. This will be a personalized account of the
highlights and lowlights of research, then the "craft" of revealing the research in the written word, and finally the process of publication. Here will be real stories of archival discovery, the value of footnotes, denial, acceptance, and the pleasure of it all. Much of the talk will be based on sections of his most recent book Chasing History:Quixotic Quests for Artifacts, Art, and Heritage.

 

 

Writer's Life: In Conversation with ...
Sharman Apt Russell
Friday Oct. 2, 3:30pm, Church of Harmony
Sharman Apt Russell has published books ranging in
subject matter from archaeology to butterflies, hunger to
public lands grazing, pantheism to pollination ecology,
and, most recently, historical fantasy for young adults. In
this session, she will discuss her diverse writing career.

 

 

Narrative non-fiction
Midnight in Mexico: Searching and Writing for Truth against Time
Alfredo Corchado
Friday Oct. 2, 3:30pm, Javalina
Alfredo Corchado is the Mexico City bureau chief of The Dallas Morning News and author of the memoir Midnight in Mexico. Howard Campbell (author of Drug War Zone) writes, "[Corchado's] life embodies the complex blending of the U.S. and Mexico. Corchado's knowledge of the
Mexican political system, the drug trade, and modern Mexican society is non-pareil." In this session, Alfredo
will talk about his life and work.

 

Writer's Life: In Conversation with ...
Demetria Martinez
Saturday Oct. 3, 1:30pm, Old Elks Lodge
Demetria Martinez combines writing with activism. She
sees the two as "ways to explore and bridge borders
between people of different nations, languages, spiritualities and life experiences." Her best-known work is the novel The Block Captain's Daughter, which won a 2013 American Book Award and the International Latino Book Award. Here, Martinez will be interviewed by Jules Nyquist, founder of Albuquerque's Poetry Playhouse, and will answer questions from the audience.

 

 

Writer's Life: In Conversation with ...
VB Price
Saturday Oct. 3, 1:30pm, Seedboat Gallery
V.B. Price is a poet, novelist, editor, journalist, and chronicler of human rights and environmental issues. His numerous awards include a First Amendment Award for
Excellence in Journalism and the Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez Award for Historic Survey and Research. In this session, he will reflect on his prodigious career, and take questions from the audience.

Please visit www.swwordfiesta.org  for full Festival information and schedule and to read the bios of all the Festival presenters.

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