An Interview with Author Michael Spiller

Author Michael Spiller is a carpenter, a photographer, and a retired home builder. He published three books of photography before releasing William and Jean Herrick, Pioneering New Mexicans (Sunstone Press, 2025), a book about the lives of his great-grandparents on the New Mexico frontier.




An Interview with Author David F. Menicucci

David Menicucci is a professional researcher retired from Sandia National Laboratories who still volunteers part-time as a research professor for the University of New Mexico. He has published three nonfiction books and is the author of, or contributor to,




Author Update 2025: Patricia Gable

After retiring from a 26-year teaching career, author Patricia Gable has published short stories for children, hundreds of articles for an educational website, and three middle-grade novels. The Right Discovery (November 2024) is the third book in her The Right Series.




2025 Call for Submissions: SWW Annual Writing Contest

The SouthWest Writers (SWW) annual writing competition is now open for submissions.

All writers, new and experienced, are welcome to enter the contest. Contestants don’t have to be members of SWW or live in the Southwest to participate.




Author Update 2025: Zachry Wheeler

Zachry Wheeler is an award-winning science fiction author who has published over twenty books across four series. His newest release, Starship Eternity: A Sci-Fi Horror Short (January 2025), is the fifth addition to his Twisted Simulations series.




Author Update: Jack Woodville London

Jack Woodville London is a historian, writing instructor, and speaker who has authored articles and short stories, a non-fiction book on the craft of writing, and five novels including the award-winning French Letters trilogy. Espionage, survival, and the fight for Texas independence come into play in his newest historical fiction release,




An Interview with Author Lisa C. Taylor

Lisa C. Taylor is an award-winning author of long and short fiction, as well as poetry. She is also a teacher and speaker, an editor and mentor, and co-director of the Mesa Verde Writers Conference and Literary Festival.




SWW’s 2025 Writing Contest Opens June 1

The annual SouthWest Writers (SWW) writing competition opens for submissions on June 1, 2025.

The contest is open to new and experienced writers. Contestants don’t have to be members of SWW or live in the Southwest to enter. Winners have the opportunity to publish their entries in this year’s contest anthology.




An Interview with Author Roberta Summers

Award-winning author Roberta Summers is a published novelist, short story writer, and poet. She served as an editor of San Juan College’s Perspective(s) Magazine and is the former co-owner of Silverjack Publishing. Her newest release, Pele’s Children (September 2024),




An Interview with Author Roger Floyd

Roger Floyd is a retired research virologist who is now a science fiction author of short stories and novels. He harnesses a fascination with outer space and space travel to bring readers on a journey with his characters to other planets and the stars beyond.