Before coming to the United States, author Heidi Marshall wrote more than 50 radio scripts of children’s stories. After immigrating, she became an award-winning short story author published in several anthologies. In September 2024, she released The Town That Lost Its Colors,
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Christie Palmer Lowrance has used her passion for writing in her many careers including as editor, biographer and historian, speaker and instructor, and journalist, as well as author of two non-fiction books. Her most recent release is The Last Heath Hen: An Extinction Story (May 2024),
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Author Peter Gooch is a painter and former art professor whose short fiction appears in numerous literary magazines. Apprentice House Press published his debut novel SEREN in April 2025 and his second literary fiction release LIPS: Kiss The Lips That Lie in June 2025.
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Retired professor Ed Lehner is an author and poet who has published three novels and a short story collection. His newest contemporary fiction release is Sunset in Paris (Alkira Publishing, March 2025), book two in the Jennifer Morse Series.
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While working on an MFA in Nature Writing, Kira Córdova spent a year editing poems written over a period of 40 years by her grandmother, lifelong poet Carma Lucatero. The dream of publishing Carma’s poetry became a family endeavor with the help of Kira’s father as well as a cousin,
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Gary Lucero is an author, poet, and software engineer who has published poems and short stories, as well as a book of photography dedicated to his best friend and constant companion Geordi. Gary’s newest poetry collection is The Unknown Race,
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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.
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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,
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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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