The Parris Award was established by SouthWest Writers to honor a published writer, screenwriter, or editor who has given outstandingly of time and talent to other writers. Previous recipients of the Parris Award include Tony Hillerman and the Pulitzer nominee Norman Zollinger.
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Author William (Will) Murray accumulated a lifetime of adventures as a rancher raising cattle, horses, and dogs and as an outfitter guiding hundreds of people through private land and national forest. He has so many stories that it takes three memoirs to share them all.
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Cornelia Allen was raised in rural New Mexico and became a woman of many talents and adventures from time spent in various occupations including farm fieldworker, national park ranger, biology teacher, medical practitioner, and eventually the Dean of Education at two colleges.
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Author and creative writing instructor Michael Backus is an essayist, novelist, short story writer and screenwriter as well as a memoirist. His latest release, The Heart Is Meat: An 80s Memoir (Oil on Water Press,
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Lynn Ellen Doxon had authored over a thousand newspaper and magazine articles, three nonfiction books, and a children’s book before she branched into historical fiction in 2022 with the publication of the first World War II novel in her Becoming the Greatest Generation series.
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Greetings SWW members!
We are offering you an opportunity to sell some books at the UNM Arts & Crafts Fair on November 9. Unfortunately, UNM is restricting the number of tables any crafter can have to two,
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Author Rachel Bate is a retired elementary and special education teacher who writes stories that encourage children to follow their dreams and to care about others and our planet. Her fifth children’s book release, Hatch Chile Willie (Mascot Kids,
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Dr. Irene Blea is a nonfiction author, novelist and poet, as well as a retired university professor and civil rights activist. Her newest book release is Dragonfly (March 2024), a collection of poems spanning 50 years of her life in which she “shares her transformation from the prescription of traditional female roles riddled by confusion and conflict to one of peace,
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Five members of SouthWest Writers have been recognized at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico for their entries into the 2024 VA Creative Writing Contest.
The winners are:
Mark Fleisher
“A Look Over My Shoulder” – Short,
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