Check out Charmayne speaking at UTEP on February 22nd at 2PM at the Centennial Museum:
January 2025 Meeting
Happy New Year everyone! Let’s get this year kicked off right with a Las Cruces Writer’s Group meeting. The theme this month is poetry!
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 January 11th, 2024
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Poetry discussion
- Gretchen poetry reading and short talk
- Fenton poetry reading and short talk
- Rosemary poetry reading and short talk
- Jan poetry reading and short talk
- Poetry writing exercise
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
Winter Booknanza 2024!
It’s time for the Winter Booknanza! Come see the local authors of Las Cruces Writers (LCW) and show your support by purchasing or bringing along friends! You can find us at:
Mesilla Valley Mall near Barnes & Noble
Saturday, December 14th from 12 noon to 4 PM.
The following writers will be serving up written buffets:
- Diego Salazar
- Eva Nevarez St. John
- Desiree Bustamantes
- Fenton Kay
- Susan Pfieffer
- Heather Lutz
- Frank Lopez
December 2024 Meeting
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 December 7th, 2024
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Efrem membership address (15 min)
- Rosemary poetry reading and announcement (10 min)
- Reading by Diego Salazar of Ink
- Freewriting exercise
- Short surprise ceremony
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
November 2024 Meeting
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 November 9th, 2024
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- George secret presentation time (15 min)
- Freewriting exercise
- Discussion on inspiration
- Discussion on what makes a good book (for you!)
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
October 2024 Meeting
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 12th, 2024
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Get to know each other (introductions and greetings)
- Reading by Fenton Kay and critique (30 min)
- Open discussion on writing tools and software (Scrivener, etc.)
- Booknanza discussion, October workshop announcement
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
Critique Reading Material
Please follow the link below to read the material authored by Fenton Kay prior to the meeting. We provide this in advance so the membership can come to the meeting with some thoughts and to optimize the short time we have together. The password will be sent out to the membership via mailing list. If you did not receive it for whatever reason, please contact the executive committee of the LCW.
…Desiree Bustamantes Takes 2nd Place in the Desert Exposure Writing Contest!
Applause and plaudits for Las Cruces Writer Desiree Bustamantes for her 2nd place win of the Desert Exposure writing contest! Her story, “The Brothel,” is set in Old Mesilla and involves a young man getting “exposed” to a little more than he was ready for and reacting honorably.
Here’s the October issue with Desiree’s story and others!
As LCW’s Effrem Carrasco (a multiple contest winner himself!) points out: this is the 5th year in a row that LCW has won or placed in this esteemed writing competition.…
September 2024 Meeting
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
We are trying a new time slot. This meeting will be taking place on Saturday NOT Thursday!
2:30-4:30 pm September 14th, 2024
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Brief meeting time and activity additions discussion
- Reading by Diego Salazar and critique (30 min)
- Open discussion on author’s voice (what it means, how to find yours)
- Book report by Rosemary
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
Critique Reading Material
Please follow the link below to read the material authored by Diego Salazar prior to the meeting. We provide this in advance so the membership can come to the meeting with some thoughts and to optimize the short time we have together. The password will be sent out to the membership via mailing list. If you did not receive it for whatever reason, please contact the executive committee of the LCW.
…Southwest Word Fiesta at WNMU!
Check out the Southwest Word Fiesta coming to Western New Mexico University in Silver City on August 29th:
When Tough Cookies Crumble: New True-Crime Memoir by Eva Nevarez-St. John
Check out Las Cruces Writer Eva Nevarez-St. John’s exciting new memoir, When Tough Cookies Crumble: A True Story of Friendship, Murder, and Healing, now available on Amazon! Eva will be reading and signing her book at Downtown Blues Coffee on Saturday, August 24th, 2:00 – 3:30 pm.
Here’s the intriguing synopsis:
…As young soldiers in Korea in the late 1970s, Janice Starr and Eva Booker found themselves on the front lines of the women’s liberation movement, pushing the boundaries of what women could do in their professional and personal lives. Navigating jobs, school, interracial dating, and a playgirl lifestyle were among the challenges they faced when they relocated to the Washington, D.C. area together, where their bond was often tested but never broken.
Three months after Janice moved to southern Virginia on her own in the summer of 1981, she disappeared without a trace. Eva knew Janice had been murdered—and who did it—but the only one who believed her was Detective Kay Lewis. Together these tough cookies wouldn’t stop until they found Janice … and justice.