Author Jo Donahue (aka Dorajane Grummer) is a retired nurse turned author of romance, suspense, and cozy mysteries. Her 2025 novel, Murder in the Wind (Volume 1 of The Writers Club Mysteries), takes readers to an annual retreat with a group of writers,
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SouthWest Writers’ member Chris Allen and her husband Paul J. Knight are both award-winning authors whose individual work can be found in a variety of publications. Chris holds a master’s degree in archaeology and began her writing career as a technical writer before expanding into more creative storytelling.
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Author, artist, and teacher Nancy Schrock (writing as N. J. Schrock) is a retired corporate researcher with degrees in chemistry and English who has published across genres. Her newest release, Morning of a Crescent Moon (Indigo River Publishing,
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Author and artist Diana Lee comes from a “wordy clan” of writers. Though she has always written, it wasn’t until retirement that she found the time to pursue a career in storytelling. Her newest novel is Blood on the Ball (October 2025),
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Kathleen A. Hessler is an attorney, retired registered nurse, and author. She spent most of her legal career representing long-term care providers while navigating her own mother’s journey with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Her dual careers and specialized knowledge have earned her national recognition as a speaker at premier healthcare and legal conferences.
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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.
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Linda Bairstow is an educator, a retired preschool teacher, and an author whose writing is a hybrid of verse and poetic essays. Her 2025 release from Sunstone Press, Catch a Twinkle: A Foreverness of Life in Verse,
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Sherri L. Burr is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and the Yale Law School. Following her retirement from a decades-long career as a full-time law professor, she became the Dickason Chair and Regents Professor of Law Emerita at the University of New Mexico.
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The annual SouthWest Writers (SWW) writing competition opens for submissions on May 1, 2026.
Hey AI, tell me a story in the style of…STOP! STOP! STOP! No one wants to hear an artificial story imitating the work of someone else,
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