{"id":899,"date":"2023-09-30T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/?p=899"},"modified":"2023-09-30T22:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T22:03:41","slug":"desert-exposure-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/2023\/09\/30\/desert-exposure-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Exposure Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/desert.jpg?resize=640%2C228\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/desert.jpg?w=774&amp;ssl=1 774w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/desert.jpg?resize=300%2C107&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/desert.jpg?resize=768%2C274&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Southern NM&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertexposure.com\">Desert Exposure<\/a><\/em> arts and culture magazine just selected LCW&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/rememberingthetime.net\/\">Karen Ray<\/a> for Grand Prize for her poem &#8220;Flying with Sheets&#8221; that recollects the idyll of youth growing up in the desert. It reminded me of hitching those spring winds with a sheet fashioned into a sail and attached to a ten speed, all part of my own crazy, experimental youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multiple winner Efram Carrasco won Prose Honorable Mention for &#8220;The Desert Girl,&#8221; and many other local writers won awards as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, LCW&#8217;s Charmayne Samuelson&#8217;s new biography <em><a href=\"http:\/\/Spencer MacCallum Memories \u2013 Mystique \u2013 Mata Ortiz\">Spencer MacCallum Memories \u2013 Mystique \u2013 Mata Ortiz<\/a><\/em> is discussed in the same issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To check out all these great works, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertexposure.com\/stories\/october-2023,59767\">read the PDF<\/a> or pick up a copy locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern NM&#8217;s Desert Exposure arts and culture magazine just selected LCW&#8217;s own Karen Ray for Grand Prize for her poem &#8220;Flying with Sheets&#8221; that recollects the idyll of youth growing up in the desert. It reminded me of hitching those spring winds with a sheet fashioned into a sail and attached to a ten speed,&#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":[33,4,90,44,22,32],"tags":[31,18,175,242,164,243],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-release","category-events","category-members","category-poem","category-prize","category-writers","tag-charmayne-samuelson","tag-desert-exposure","tag-desert-exposure-writing-prize","tag-efram-carrasco","tag-karen-ray","tag-spencer-maccallum-memories-mystique-mata-ortiz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdvZx1-ev","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}