As many of you know, the administration of the New Mexico Book Awards changed hands this year. It is now being run by New Mexico Writers out of Santa Fe.
Several SWW members entered their inaugural contest and did us proud! Below is a listing of our members who won. We lead off with a book that is FULL of winners from our 2024 Writing Contest: Mosaic Voices. To see the whole list of winners you can go to: https://nmwriters.org/nm-book-awards
SWW Winners and Finalists of the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards
Mosaic Voices – by SouthWest Writers
Anthology Division – Finalist
Congratulations to all the SWW members whose work appears in the anthology, and especially to the team who ran the 2024 Writing Contest: Judy Castleberry, Chris Allen, Brenda Cole, Rose Kern, Kathy Waggoner, and Dollie Williams.
House of Ravens – by Lynne Sebastian
Autobiography/Memoir Category – Winner
Anthropology/Archeology Category – Finalist
Competently Quirky Parables of an Eccentric Master Gardener – by Rosie Kern
Gardening/Crafts/Hobby/Home Category – Finalist
Fried Chicken Castenada – by Suzanne Stauffer
Fiction – Cozy Mystery – Winner
Requiem for Camelot – by Dr. Alan E. Diehl
Political & Current Events – Finalist
Bones in the Back Forty – by Marty Eberhardt
Fiction – Cozy Mystery – Winner
Death in the Land of Enchantment – by Holly Harrison
Fiction – Crime – Winner
Mama’s Boy – by Mike Avery
Fiction-Crime – Finalist
Dragon Train War – by RJ Mirabal
Fiction – Fantasy – Winner
Host of Evil – by Kirt Hickman
Fiction-Fantasy – Finalist
Murder in Blue – by Mike Avery
Fiction – mystery/thriller – Finalist
Fiction Crime – Finalist
Stealing the Hopi Snake Dance – by James C. Wilson
Fiction-Mystery/Thriller – Binalist
Dear Virginia, Wait for Me – by Marcia Butler
Fiction – other Finalist
Two Centuries to Freedom – By David F. Menicucci
History – Finalist
Multicultural – Finalist
General Non-Fiction,- Finalist
The Horses of Time – by Jeanne Shannon
Poetry – Finalist
Crow Wisdom: A Seasonal Journey – Art – by Jasmine Tritten
Cover Design – Finalist
Dragonfly – by Irene I Blea
Cover Design – Finalist
The Moth – by Scott Archer Jones
Cover Design – Finalist