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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
Mary Sojourner introduces her writer’s workshop in ASpace on Sunday morning.
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
Anne Sherrell reads about types of Broadway music from her daughter's book as her daughter Kat Sherrell accompanies her on the piano.
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
Kat Sherrell demonstrates the drama in Broadway music.
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
Megan Kimble discusses the book which recounts her experience of attempting to live for a year, as a city dweller, on only unprocessed food.
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
Paul Andrew Hutton discusses the writing of his book Apache Wars.
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
Bruce Wilson introduces Phil Connors.
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
Phil Connors shares his perspective on the memoir genre of writing.
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
Environmental author Melissa Sevigny discusses the plight of water in the American Southwest.
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
From left are Charlie Alfero who speaks about song lyrics, as Jack Crocker, Melanie Zipin and Andrew Dahl-Bredine listen.
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
Kate Nelson discusses requirements for submission of articles to New Mexico Magazine.
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
The Festival’s closing panel consisted of, from left, John Fayhee, Ron Hamm, moderator JJ Amarworo Wilson, Julie Iromuanya and Adrienne Celt.
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
Keanu Wilson holds a bucket of books as Shelby Hallmark takes a blind “lucky dip” into the bucket to choose a book after correctly answering a question.
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word Sunday 100117
Ivy Stephens-Etheridge holds a basket of books as another participant takes a “lucky dip.”
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Southwest Festival of the Written Word concluded a packed weekend with eight final sessions on topics as diverse as Broadway music and song lyrics to food and magazine writing. The festival finished with a standing-room only panel and light-hearted Great Book Giveaway with audience members guessing book titles based on panned book reviews.