The poster says it all! Join Las Cruces Writers for the Holiday Booknanza and get some unique books for you, your friends, and your family. You won’t be disappointed.
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Holiday Booknanza 2025!
Category: Events
November 2025 Meeting
Where
Las Cruces Village (formerly Good Samaritan) in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday November 8th, 2025
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Visual writing prompt led by Rosemary
- Readings by members?? (THIS COULD BE YOU!)
- Discussion on the “soul of a story” (I have some interesting things I’d like to discuss here)
- Current advertising techniques
- Writing prompts based on the above conversation
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
October Meetup!
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday October 18th, 2025 (Changed date due to SNMBF!)
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- AI discussion continued (several people had more things to say that we didn’t quite get to last meeting. This won’t take up too much more time).
- Readings by members?? (THIS COULD BE YOU!)
- How to write tension and drama effectively in a scene
- Writing prompts based on the above conversation
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
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Eva Nevarez-St. John Gets Bronze Medal!
Just after her amazing leadership with the success of the Southern New Mexico Book Festival, Las Cruces Writer Eva Nevarez-St. John has been awarded a bronze medal (memoir/biography) for her book When Tough Cookies Crumble: A True Story of Friendship, Murder, and Healing by the Military Writers Society of America.
Here’s an action-shot of the book with its new award sticker:
Award-Winning Tanya Dawson Wins Again!
Fresh from the amazing Southern New Mexico Book Festival, we have new award announcements for LCW’s own Tanya Dawson, including recognition from Pencraft, Pinnacle, and Literary Titan Book Awards:
Tanya’s also been a regular representative of Las Cruces Writers at the Tucson Book Festival, another amazing event for book lovers in the Southwest.…
Amp Up for the Southern New Mexico Book Festival with the Las Cruces Bulletin!
Check out new articles in the Las Cruces Bulletin that cover our two rock-star writers and event organizers, Eva Nevarez-St. John and Charmayne Samuelson. First the two discuss the event, its origins and even a little about literacy in the 21st century. The second article covers Charmayne’s amazing run of awards and success with her Mata Ortiz pottery collaborations and, drum roll please… five new awards from the New Mexico Book Awards, announced Oct. 1st.
For more information on the book festival, check out our events page.
Digest the Southern New Mexico Book Festival with the Las Cruces Digest (and food trucks)!
The Las Cruces Digest has a great write-up about the upcoming Southern New Mexico Book Festival and, again, our own Frank López is front-and-center. Check out the incredible array of workshops, author presentations, children’s activities, and, yes, the critical food trucks available at the upcoming festival this Saturday.
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Visit Las Cruces Live and Las Cruces Writers talk Southern New Mexico Book Festival
Come one, come all and watch LCW’s Frank Lopez chat on the Visit Las Cruces Live podcast about the Southern New Mexico Book Festival:
Desert Exposure Exposes the Southern New Mexico Book Festival!
Charmayne Samuelson at Otero Artspace
Catch Las Cruces Writer Charmayne S. in Alamogordo at Otero Artspace appearing with Mata Ortiz potters on 8 November 2025, from 10AM-4PM.…