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This year the annual Winter Fiesta celebration will be held virtually! The celebration will be on Thursday, February 25 at 6pm online via Zoom.
This year we will be presenting Denise Chávez with both the Richard Harris Award for her novel The Last of the Menu Girls, and the Book-in-Hand Award for her work with Libros para el Viaje (Books for the Journey).
The Richard Harris Award is funded by a grant from the Harris family. Harris was a founding member of the New Mexico Book Association, author of many books, and a mentor to publishers. The Harris Award is presented annually to a book whose outstanding excellence authorship, editorial preparation, design, and influence, is deemed worthy of high honor and recognition.
The Book-in-Hand Award recognizes exemplary service in getting books into readers' hands. We honor Chávez, whose dedication and generosity has helped put Spanish as well as bilingual books in the hands of refugee, asylum, and migrant families on the U.S./Mexico border.
The Richard Harris Award is funded by a grant from the Harris family. Harris was a founding member of the New Mexico Book Association, author of many books, and a mentor to publishers. The Harris Award is presented annually to a book whose outstanding excellence authorship, editorial preparation, design, and influence, is deemed worthy of high honor and recognition.
The Book-in-Hand Award recognizes exemplary service in getting books into readers' hands. We honor Chávez, whose dedication and generosity has helped put Spanish as well as bilingual books in the hands of refugee, asylum, and migrant families on the U.S./Mexico border.
About Denise Chávez:
A true child of La Frontera, Chávez is a novelist, playwright, actor, community activist and teacher whose work focuses on the border corridor of southern New Mexico, West Texas, and Northern México. While her work is centered in this ever-challenged break between the worlds, her characters speak to universal themes.
A true child of La Frontera, Chávez is a novelist, playwright, actor, community activist and teacher whose work focuses on the border corridor of southern New Mexico, West Texas, and Northern México. While her work is centered in this ever-challenged break between the worlds, her characters speak to universal themes.
Photo by: Daniel Zolinsky
Chávez’s books include The King and Queen of Comezón, A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food and Culture, Loving Pedro Infante, Face of An Angel, and a short story collection, The Last of the Menu Girls and a children’s book, La Mujer Que Sabía El Idioma de Los Animales/The Woman Who Knew the Language of the Animals. Chávez has performed her one-woman shows, Novena Narrativas: The Novena Narratives and El Muro/The Wall: A Chorus of Immigrant Women's Voices throughout the U.S.
The King and Queen of Comezón (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014) won the 2015 International Latino Book Award in Fiction and the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Fiction Award.
Chávez is working on publication of various novels: City of Crosses, about the homeless and dispossessed in her hometown of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Street of Too Many Stories, about the legacy of familial dysfunction in a small neighborhood on the U.S./México border. Chávez is also working on various children's books including The Two Delfina’s, La Hermana Ying y La Hermana Yang, and Chano’s Dream.
Chávez is the owner and bookseller at Casa Camino Real, a Bookstore and Multicultural Art and Community Center, on the Historic Camino Real. Chávez is a founding member of the American Booksellers Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality Committee
Chávez and her husband and fellow bookseller, Franco/Russian/American photographer Daniel Zolinsky, are working on the creation and development of MUSEO DE LA GENTE, a Borderland Resource Center, which will serve to preserve, document and celebrate the story of the borderland community in the Southwestern U.S. and Northern Mexico.
The King and Queen of Comezón (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014) won the 2015 International Latino Book Award in Fiction and the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Fiction Award.
Chávez is working on publication of various novels: City of Crosses, about the homeless and dispossessed in her hometown of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Street of Too Many Stories, about the legacy of familial dysfunction in a small neighborhood on the U.S./México border. Chávez is also working on various children's books including The Two Delfina’s, La Hermana Ying y La Hermana Yang, and Chano’s Dream.
Chávez is the owner and bookseller at Casa Camino Real, a Bookstore and Multicultural Art and Community Center, on the Historic Camino Real. Chávez is a founding member of the American Booksellers Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality Committee
Chávez and her husband and fellow bookseller, Franco/Russian/American photographer Daniel Zolinsky, are working on the creation and development of MUSEO DE LA GENTE, a Borderland Resource Center, which will serve to preserve, document and celebrate the story of the borderland community in the Southwestern U.S. and Northern Mexico.
Photo by: Daniel Zolinsky
Chávez has a B.A. in Drama from New Mexico State University (1971), an M.F.A. in Drama from Trinity University (1974), and an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico (1984) and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of New Mexico.
From 1994 to 2012, Chávez was the Artistic Executive Director of The Border Book Festival, a major national and regional book festival based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It brought thousands of international, national, regional, and local writers, artists, storytellers, filmmakers, and multi-genre artists to the borderland corridor.
From 1994 to 2012, Chávez was the Artistic Executive Director of The Border Book Festival, a major national and regional book festival based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It brought thousands of international, national, regional, and local writers, artists, storytellers, filmmakers, and multi-genre artists to the borderland corridor.
Chávez was an Assistant Professor of English, Chicano Literature and Playwriting at New Mexico State University and taught Acting, Multi-Cultural Theatre and Playwriting in the Theatre Department at the University of Houston. She was also taught Theatre and Creative Writing at the Northern New Mexico Community College.
Chávez is a deeply committed community-based artist who continues to explore the universal in the regional landscape. She continues to offer interactive workshops for writers, dramatists, and actors throughout the U.S. She is a popular Keynote speaker, panel member, and literary judge.
Since May 2018, Chávez has distributed books in Spanish as well as bilingual English/Spanish books to Refugee, Asylum and Migrant families on the U.S./México border in Las Cruces, New Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, México in a program called Libros Para El Viaje/Books for the Journey, in collaboration with the American Booksellers Association and with Border Servant Corps in Las Cruces. Thousands of books have been donated by publishers, bookstores, booksellers, writers, artists, agents, filmmakers and hundreds of readers and sponsors.
Chávez is a deeply committed community-based artist who continues to explore the universal in the regional landscape. She continues to offer interactive workshops for writers, dramatists, and actors throughout the U.S. She is a popular Keynote speaker, panel member, and literary judge.
Since May 2018, Chávez has distributed books in Spanish as well as bilingual English/Spanish books to Refugee, Asylum and Migrant families on the U.S./México border in Las Cruces, New Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, México in a program called Libros Para El Viaje/Books for the Journey, in collaboration with the American Booksellers Association and with Border Servant Corps in Las Cruces. Thousands of books have been donated by publishers, bookstores, booksellers, writers, artists, agents, filmmakers and hundreds of readers and sponsors.
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Sell your books with NMBA's Virtual Bookstore!
NMBA has created an online bookstore with Bookshop.org for members to list and sell their books!
Bookshop.org is a socially-conscious way to buy books online. They dedicate most of their profits to supporting local, independent bookstores, authors, and publications that cover books.
10% of every purchase made from our online bookstore will go to support NMBA--and a matching 10% will go to support independent bookstores.
Bookshop.org is a socially-conscious way to buy books online. They dedicate most of their profits to supporting local, independent bookstores, authors, and publications that cover books.
10% of every purchase made from our online bookstore will go to support NMBA--and a matching 10% will go to support independent bookstores.
How it works:
1. Pay a one-time fee of $5.00 per title to be listed for one calendar year. Can submit as many titles as you would like. (must be an NMBA member)
2. Provide us with the ISBN for your book(s).
3. When you sell a book, you do not have to handle inventory, fulfillment, shipping, or customer service. All book sales are fulfilled by Ingram. Ingram’s extensive inventory and regional warehouse system ensures that books can reach customers in as soon as 2-3 days.
4. You paid just as you would if a regular bookstore purchased your books!
1. Pay a one-time fee of $5.00 per title to be listed for one calendar year. Can submit as many titles as you would like. (must be an NMBA member)
2. Provide us with the ISBN for your book(s).
3. When you sell a book, you do not have to handle inventory, fulfillment, shipping, or customer service. All book sales are fulfilled by Ingram. Ingram’s extensive inventory and regional warehouse system ensures that books can reach customers in as soon as 2-3 days.
4. You paid just as you would if a regular bookstore purchased your books!
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VIRTUAL EVENT
FEBRUARY 27-28, 2021
FREE
The fourth annual Crestone Poetry Festival, featuring readings from your favorite poets from Colorado and New Mexico, open mics, and workshops.
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A message from the Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library
"The Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library and the National Endowment of the Arts are privileged to be sponsoring the community-wide Big Read featuring Luis Alberto Urrea’s novel Into the Beautiful North. While the NEA’s grant has been generous, we need your support to make our series of events available to and impactful for all members of our community.
The Big Read is a community-wide celebration of reading and literature in all its wonderful forms. We have chosen the magnificent and timely book Into the Beautiful North for its relevance to issues such as migration and cultural discomfort that impact our community. We feel that these issues will resonate within our community and provide opportunities for personal growth and foster discussions between all members of our community.
The Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library in conjunction with The Santa Fe Public Library and other community organizations are planning fantastic events that will focus on Urrea’s themes of migration, the meaning of home, and cultural discomfort.
We invite you to be part of these efforts and to consider becoming a sponsor of Santa Fe’s Big Read knowing that you will be fostering the joy of reading and unity in our community."
"The Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library and the National Endowment of the Arts are privileged to be sponsoring the community-wide Big Read featuring Luis Alberto Urrea’s novel Into the Beautiful North. While the NEA’s grant has been generous, we need your support to make our series of events available to and impactful for all members of our community.
The Big Read is a community-wide celebration of reading and literature in all its wonderful forms. We have chosen the magnificent and timely book Into the Beautiful North for its relevance to issues such as migration and cultural discomfort that impact our community. We feel that these issues will resonate within our community and provide opportunities for personal growth and foster discussions between all members of our community.
The Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library in conjunction with The Santa Fe Public Library and other community organizations are planning fantastic events that will focus on Urrea’s themes of migration, the meaning of home, and cultural discomfort.
We invite you to be part of these efforts and to consider becoming a sponsor of Santa Fe’s Big Read knowing that you will be fostering the joy of reading and unity in our community."
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First-, second-, and third-place winners will be awarded in 12 categories of fiction and nonfiction prose and 8 categories of poetry. The entries must be original, unpublished (see definition below*), and in English. You do not have to be a member of SouthWest Writers to enter.
Deadline: Midnight May 31, 2021 (Mountain Time)
Fees: $10 per entry
Submission: Online only
For the Contest Submission Form, click here.
Deadline: Midnight May 31, 2021 (Mountain Time)
Fees: $10 per entry
Submission: Online only
For the Contest Submission Form, click here.
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The Women’s National Book Association invites publishers to submit books for consideration for the 2021 Great Group Reads program by April 16, 2021.
Between February and July of each year, the GGR selection committee reads the books submitted by publishers and picks 20 books of literary merit that encourage conversation and reflection about timely and provocative topics. Books from last year’s list addressed issues such as family dynamics, illness, immigration, LGBTQ rights, racism, war, faith and social justice. The books illuminate the human experience and allow readers to explore social issues and personal relationships.
Submission information below:
Between February and July of each year, the GGR selection committee reads the books submitted by publishers and picks 20 books of literary merit that encourage conversation and reflection about timely and provocative topics. Books from last year’s list addressed issues such as family dynamics, illness, immigration, LGBTQ rights, racism, war, faith and social justice. The books illuminate the human experience and allow readers to explore social issues and personal relationships.
Submission information below:
- Publishers can submit books now through Friday, April 16, 2021 to be read by the Great Group Reads committee.
- 20 books will be selected at the end of July as 2021 Great Group Reads
- Preliminary submission guidelines:
- Publishers may submit literary fiction, including novels, novellas, short stories, and memoir, including essay collections. Books in translation are eligible
- Books must be published in the U.S. between October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021
- Titles must be submitted by publishers, be limited to two titles per publisher or imprint and be readily available through customary distribution channels
- All formats — except original e-books — are eligible, including trade-paper reprints published within the designated time frame
- Please do not submit previously submitted titles, previously selected authors or self-published books
- Publishers should submit titles to Kristen Knox, Great Group Reads chair, via email at ggr@wnba-books.org (subject line: Great Group Reads 2021). Please include suggested titles and a brief description of each title.