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 Finishing Line Press has opened pre-publication sales for Benjamin Green's His Only Merit, a chapbook of poems. Benjamin is a resident of Jemez Springs.
More information at: finishinglinepress.com  The Southern New Mexico Book Festival is looking for workshop leaders, speakers, and panelists to help us bring the magic of books and storytelling to life!
Are you an author, editor, educator, or literary expert with something to share? We’re now accepting proposals for workshops, talks, and interactive sessions for readers and writers of all ages. Topics can include (but aren't limited to): Writing craft Publishing tips Book discussions Children’s literacy Creativity & storytelling Event Date: Saturday, October 11th 2025 Location: DACC East Mesa Campus, Las Cruces, NM All sessions should be engaging, inclusive, and accessible to a diverse audience. Interested? Submit your proposal today and be part of a celebration that inspires readers and writers across the region! Deadline is July 15th, 2025.  Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group has named Conversations with Psyche: A Dreamer's Guide to Soul-Stirring Creativity among the best indie books of 2024!!!! My book won two top awards for the category of "MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT", and for the category of "ILLUSTRATIONS", and one Conversations with Psyche-A Dreamer's Guide to Soul-Stirring Creativity finalist award for the "BEST OVERALL DESIGN" of 2024." Next Generation Indie Book Awards is the largest international book awards program for independent publishers and self-published authors.
Conversations with Psyche also won two finalist awards in the categories of BEST INTERIOR DESIGN and NEW AGE NONFICTION in the Annual "Best Book" Awards sponsored by American Book Fest. Conversations with Psyche: A Dreamer's Guide to Soul-Stirring Creativity offers an innovative approach to dream work that is compatible with the wild and willful nature of dreams. This book holds a wellspring of inspiration for my workshops, seminars and retreats in Santa Fe and abroad. Conversations with Psyche showcases a diverse range of introspective writing and art-making practices designed to coax Psyche out of hiding with unconventional methods for decoding symbols and metaphors. Available from Amazon in paperback, e-book and soon to be available in German.  "We were pleasantly surprised at the quality of the narration. To read more about our experiences in using Amazon’s virtual voice program, take a look at our blog post on jacanapress.com.
The audio version is available through Amazon either as part of a subscription program or the audio book can be purchased outright for $7.99 or for about the same price in combination with an ebook. It was quite an amazing process, and although we would have liked to be able to do more customization and skip things like lists of maps, the glossary, and timeline. Overall it has been a positive experience, that cost us no more than a weekend spent setting it up and listening chapter by chapter. For more details or to contact Kent directly, visit jacanapress.com." NMBA Member - Linnea Hendrickson  Nothing Rhymes With Orange, an online literary zine published by Las Vegas Lit, is now live at nothingrhymeswithorange.pub. To receive future issues, subscribe by email to [email protected].
NRWO brings several new voices to readers, along with contributors who have appeared in previous Las Vegas Lit print publications, Tapestry: Tales, Essays, Poetry, and Up From the Ashes We Rise. The zine is organized for easy access to the work of specific writers by clicking on Writers Index and then on the writer’s name, which will take you to their published submissions. Or click on Essay, Poetry, or Short Fiction to read submissions in each category. This is Volume One with more to come. Submissions for the Summer edition may be submitted at lvlitnm.org/call-for-submissions-nrwo.  Join poet Claudia Stanek and friends for the release of her new book, Beneath Occluded Shine
with Denton Loving, Gail Hosking, and Catherine Farout, Bennington MFA Writing Seminars alumni. Hosted by Jules Nyquist, Bennington alumni, and John Roche Jules Nyquist collage is cover art followed by open mic FREE - pre-registration required  Where: Travel Bug (839 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501) When: April 12, 2025 at 5:00PM Come to be inspired about how Bear and his partner Jessica lived and survived on the Yukon River in the Yukon Territory and in the central mountains of Alaska during the 1970s. It is based on his recently self-published book, “Becoming Ravenbear, An Alaskan Magical Memoir.” You will see how they built cabins and hunted for food and foraged for berries and mushrooms. Bear will relate how they explored living on the land in harmony with the natural beauty that surrounded them. You will learn about their experience of delivering their baby girl. Bear will show a lot of photos about the cycles of the rivers, from the freezeups in the Fall to the breakups in the Spring.  Saturday, April 5, 2025
4:00 pm Main Library 145 Washington Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Register to attend at tinyurl.com/Wamponomon WAMPONOMON: The Place of Shells is a poignant and heart-breaking look at the past we all carry within us. A reflection on place, it is the Long Island of the author’s childhood, but also the history of the land, both real and imagined. It is both small town America and colonialism writ large, and reading through this collection of poems will take the reader on an unforgettable journey through time and memory. KAREN PETERSEN has published poetry, short stories, and flash both nationally and internationally. Her poems have been translated into Persian and Spanish, and she has been nominated for numerous prizes, including ten Pushcarts, and most recently long-listed for the UK’s international Bridport Prize, Forward Prize, and Australia’s Peter Porter Prize. In 2022, her chapbook “Trembling,” published by Kelsay Books, won the Wil Mills Award, judged by Annie Finch, and her poem “The Price of Love” was nominated for Best of the Net. New work is in The Wallace Stevens Journal and The Cimarron Review. More information can be found at: karenpetersenwriter.com  Authors, designers, publishers, and publicists from New Mexico (or any book with a creative connection to New Mexico) may now enter the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards.
The book awards program, a nearly two-decades-old book competition, was slated to cease this year. Instead it will continue under new management by New Mexico Writers with NMW’s own administrator, Lisa McCoy, in the role of director. The NM Book Awards entry process should feel familiar to previous participants. During this transition year, much will be the same as was created and shaped by Paul Rhetts, co-founder of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. Entry eligibility, submission fee/instructions, and categories for the 2025 NM Book Awards can be found on the NMW website at: nmwriters.org/nm-book-awards All entries must be postmarked no later than Friday, April 25, 2025. Finalists will be announced at the end of September. Winners will be announced before mid-November. Judges needed for the NM Book Awards! Help us discover great New Mexico books. Sign up here to be a judge in the New Mexico Book Awards. Judges can be booksellers, librarians, teachers, authors, publishers, agents, or avid readers. Judges will typically have about 3 months for reading and scoring their assigned books. The deadline for judging is August 1, 2025. |
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