Check out Las Cruces Digest covering the Southern New Mexico Book Festival, here.
Category: Reading
Southern New Mexico Book Festival
Upcoming Events with LCW’s Charmayne Samuelson
Charmayne has the following exciting events coming in the next several months. Here they are, straight from her newsletter:
FRIDAY SEPT. 11 & SATURDAY SEPT. 12
Major Mata Ortiz exhibition, trunk show, powerpoint presentations, wine reception, and pottery demo and firing at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
I am honored to be attending this event with the world-famous Master Mata Ortiz potters, Hector Gallegos, Laura Bugarini, Paula Bugarini and Yetito Bugarini.
An opening wine/cheese reception on Friday with pottery and books, and on Saturday I will be sharing the unbelievable story of how it all began! Details in the flyer below. Pottery Sales and Book Sales!
SATURDAY OCT 3
SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO BOOK FESTIVAL
I will be attending with my books ready to autograph for you, and I will be leading a workshop. This will be the second year for this event, and it was hugely successful last year. Authors from all over the Southwest will have their books for sale, and there will be other special events.
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, OCT. 8, 9, 10
I am very excited to launch the Spencer MacCallum biography En Espanol in Mata Ortiz, Mexico and will be attending a book signing event while there for the world-famous Concurso, competition of the potters. It is a fun and exhilarating weekend full of amazing art, delicious food, and wonderful friends!…
March Meeting Madness!
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 March 14th, 2026
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Rosemary poem and questions
- Genre discussion
- Readings by members?? (THIS COULD BE YOU!)
- Writing prompt (something outside your genre)
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
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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Southern New Mexico Book Festival
Eva Nevarez St. John on Friendship, Healing, and Murder Most Foul at Branigan!
Continuing Las Cruces Writers’ seemingly endless successes (can we call it “the Summer of LCW?”), catch Eva Nevarez St. John talking about her book, When Tough Cookies Crumble: A True Story of Friendship, Murder, and Healing at Thomas Branigan Memorial Library on July 16th.…
Karen Ray in the Gila Centennial Anthology!
Catch LCW member Karen Ray with a poem and three photographs in Looking to the Mountain: Sacred Lands, Healing Cultures—A Gila Anthology of Words and Pictures. The print version will be published this fall. Join Karen and other contributors for readings, live music, and food on September 13th from 3-8:30pm in Kingston, NM and click the link above to read now!…
