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 NMBA Member Diane Hatz's debut novel Rock Gods & Messy Monsters won First Runner Up in Science Fiction & Fantasy at the 2024 Eric Hoffer Awards.
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 James Anhalt's recently published novel is available on Amazon. It is the story behind the headlines of what tipped the scales enabling religious fundamentalists, bigots, and isolationists to get a stranglehold on the Republican Party. In 1975, Evangelicals and Televangelists who were dismayed by the sexual revolution of the 60s, formed a counter-revolution that ultimately turned Southern Democrats into hardcore Republican voters.
In this somewhat true adventure, three very different people get in the way. Riley Blick is tall and serious. He wants to get married and become a teacher. Dewey Haze is short and full of jokes. He wants to date hot chicks and become a famous actor. Having survived Vietnam, they try to survive back in a country that changed while they were gone. On a road trip across the country, they land jobs in a religious play produced by a biblical crusader with a covert agenda. Naomi is a post-grad student attempting to expose the funding sources of an ultra-conservative plot to put Ronald Reagan in the White House. Her goals clash with everyone else's.  Join local Santa Fe author and illustrator Victoria Rabinowe, for a conversation with Kate Latimer, Director of the New Earth Institute and faculty at Southwestern College. Victoria’s new book, “Conversations with Psyche: A Dreamer’s Guide to Soul-Stirring Creativity,” offers 55 different creative ways to open up the secret life of dreams and access the rich landscape of the “night mind” via expressive arts and imaginal ways of knowing. This community lecture will offer resources for writers to explore the vast universe of the unconscious, opening doors to the unknown topography of the psyche.
Free Community Zoom Lecture: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 6:00 PM -8 :00 PM Mountain Time Free Registration: https://newearth.regfox.com/community-lecture  Grant-Making Season Opens
Since the inception of its grant making program in 2019, New Mexico Writers has awarded more than $50,000 to 48 writers—of all ages and at all stages of their writing endeavors—from across New Mexico and the greater Navajo Nation. Applications are now being accepted for the 2025 grants. To learn more and apply, visit NM Writers website. New this year is the Preston Young Writers Grant supported by author Douglas Preston and his wife Christine. This new grant of varying amounts is intended to assist an aspiring young writer between the ages of 18 and 25 obtain professional experience, networking, and training. Please also take a minute and forward this note to other writers who may not know about NMW grants. Yours, James McGrath Morris Executive Director  Weaving diverse cultures, vast landscapes, and ecological concerns, crossing beauty with danger, these poems are an invitation to the realm of possibility and enchantment. A flamenco dancer seduces his audience in Spain, and lovers travel through Istanbul. Writers live in exile while a menu for a dictator endangers the earth. The full moon shines over the Serengeti as nocturnal animals gather. Glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro melt too quickly. A poet writes from his house near the beached skeleton of a whale. Lanterns in the Night Market is a love letter to the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR MARY MORRIS is the author of three previous books of poetry: Enter Water, Swimmer (runner-up for The X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize), Dear October (Arizona-New Mexico Book Award), and Late Self-Portraits (Wheelbarrow Book Prize). Her work has been published in Boulevard, North American Review, Poetry, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, and Rattle. A recipient of the Rita Dove Award, Western Humanities Review Prize, and the National Federation Press Women’s Book Prize, Mary has been invited to read her poems at the Library of Congress, which aired on NPR. Kwame Dawes selected her work for American Life in Poetry from the Poetry Foundation. PRAISE “In the tradition of Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Morris poses questions of travel in her luminously attentiveLanterns in the Night Market. This peripatetic collection opens with a compelling invitation that also hints at a potential sadness, loss, or rootlessness. ‘Take my hand’ says the speaker. ‘The past is gone.’ What ensues is a gorgeous slide projector of place after place: ‘everything and and and.’ These are clear-eyed poems that gaze candidly at trouble and troubled places—taking in the complexities of history, politics, and environmental crisis. But these are also poems of immense gratitude—revealing a poetic joy within the gorgeously-rendered details and images. This is a lovely and powerful volume.”—Lee Ann Roripaugh, author of tsunami vs. the fukushima 50  Conversations with Psyche: A Dreamer’s Guide to Soul-Stirring Creativity
Seekers from diverse backgrounds can unlock internal reservoirs of imagination and insight by exploring their dreams. This book 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. Discover how to decipher the mysterious messages of the night and access the immense creative wisdom that dreams possess. Victoria Rabinowe is an American artist, author, international educator and director of the DreamingArts Studio in Santa Fe. She has led dream groups, workshops, seminars and retreats at her DreamingArts Studio in Santa Fe, on Zoom and abroad for conferences, universities, museums, writing schools and art academies. She has taught thousands of psychotherapists, spiritual guidance counselors, educators and creatives worldwide to understand the language of dreams through poetry, prose, creative conversations and book arts. She is educated at Harvard, Boston Museum School, Emerson and Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her artwork has been exhibited across the globe. Victoria Rabinowe presents a creative approach to dreamwork that is compatible with the wild and willful nature of dreams. In her books, she demonstrates how to coax Psyche out of hiding in an atmosphere of wonderment and curiosity with surprising discoveries and insights. Discover more at victoriadreams.com  Early Discount Registration $60 ends December 10th, 2024.
Register now for $60 and deliver your materials by December 10th. All registrations $75 after December 10th. The Eric Hoffer Book Award is a leading international independent book award for academic, small, micro, and self-published presses. There's a category for every printed and digital book. The 2025 registration desk is still open. visit www.HofferAward.com  Mary L. Grow participated in a radio interview on WRITER TO WRITER, hosted by Rebecca Evans and Kenneth Rogers, on November 3, 2024. The interview includes a discussion of her recent novel, NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESSA, and the differences and similarities between writing fieldwork ethnography and literary fiction. To listen please click:
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