{"id":1817,"date":"2026-01-28T00:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:19:23","slug":"las-cruces-writer-charmayne-samuelson-wins-southwest-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/las-cruces-writer-charmayne-samuelson-wins-southwest-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Cruces Writer Charmayne Samuelson wins Southwest Book Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"779\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FINAL-SOUTHWEST-AWARD-FLYER-1.27.26-841x1024.jpg?resize=640%2C779&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FINAL-SOUTHWEST-AWARD-FLYER-1.27.26.jpg?resize=841%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 841w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FINAL-SOUTHWEST-AWARD-FLYER-1.27.26.jpg?resize=247%2C300&amp;ssl=1 247w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FINAL-SOUTHWEST-AWARD-FLYER-1.27.26.jpg?resize=768%2C935&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FINAL-SOUTHWEST-AWARD-FLYER-1.27.26.jpg?resize=300%2C365&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FINAL-SOUTHWEST-AWARD-FLYER-1.27.26.jpg?resize=850%2C1034&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FINAL-SOUTHWEST-AWARD-FLYER-1.27.26.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s official, Charmayne&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/ORTIZ-POETRY-Pottery-Poems-Artists\/dp\/B0D85K4L4T\">MATA ORTIZ POETRY OF THE CLAY Pottery. Poems. Artists: POES\u00cdA DEL BARRO Cer\u00e1mica. Poemas. Artistas<\/a><\/em> just won the SOUTHWEST BOOK AWARD from the Border Regional Library Association. This represents the 8th award for the tome and is an inspiration for all border region writers and poets, especially since poetry is underrepresented and underappreciated in our modern era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s official, Charmayne&#8217;s MATA ORTIZ POETRY OF THE CLAY Pottery. Poems. Artists: POES\u00cdA DEL BARRO Cer\u00e1mica. Poemas. Artistas just won the SOUTHWEST BOOK AWARD from the Border Regional Library Association. This represents the 8th award for the tome and is an inspiration for all border region writers and poets, especially since poetry is underrepresented&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[119,90,44,22,32],"tags":[397,31,316,223,396,243],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest","category-members","category-poem","category-prize","category-writers","tag-border-regional-library-association","tag-charmayne-samuelson","tag-mata-ortiz-poetry-of-the-clay-pottery-poems-artists","tag-poetry","tag-southwest-book-award","tag-spencer-maccallum-memories-mystique-mata-ortiz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdvZx1-tj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}