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Jenifer Rae Vernon, author of Rock Candy, published by West End Press (2009), has won the Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing (published book of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and other genres) from the Working Class Studies Association.
The award was established in honor of Tillie Olsen, working class feminist author, following her death in 2007. It celebrates “insightful and engaging representations of working-class life and culture; addresses issues related to the working class; and highlights the voices, experiences, and perspective of working-class people.”
The award will be presented at the “How Class Works” conference at SUNY Stony Brook, Long Island, June 3-5.
Jeanetta Calhoun Mish won the Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy Museum and Western Heritage Center for her book Work is Love Made Visible.
Check out coverage of the award from the Daily Oklahoman here and here and from the El Paso Times here and in Fence Post here.
Visit Jeanetta’s Facebook page for photos from the awards ceremony.
And the accolades keep coming for Jeanetta Calhoun Mish’s book Work is Love Made Visible. Jeanetta also won the Oklahoma Book Award for poetry. A full list of winners is on the Oklahoma Center for the Book site.
Sasha Pimentel Chacon’s new book Insides She Swallowed was recently reviewed in Albuquerque’s Weekly Alibi.
Sasha was also featured in What’s Up El Paso. Randall Radic reviewed the book in his blog Basil and Spice and it was also covered in Lantern Review.
Sy Hoahwah’s book Velroy and the Madischie Mafia was recently reviewed in World Literature Today.
The Arkansas Times recently reported on Sy Hoahwah’s reading at the Arkansas Literary Festival.
A poem from the late Maisha Baton’s Sketches was excerpted in the April issue of Santa Fe art magazine, THE. Click here to see a PDF of the page, with the poem overlaid on a powerful photo.
Albuquerque Arts interviewed West End Publisher John Crawford on his trip to the Associated Writer’s Program annual conference in Denver.
At the AWP event, held April 6 to 10, West End Press featured book signings at the table by Sasha Pimentel Chacon and Erika Wurth. West End authors Glenna Luschei, Sharon Doubiago, Arlene Biala, Laura Tohe, and Peter Oresick also visited the West End table.
The AWP event was “huge, surprisingly optimistic, and full of interesting venues,” according to Crawford. Here is a recap of AWP from one of our favorite bloggers, Lyle Daggett.
The third Albuquerque Cultural Conference will be held at Harwood Art Center on Labor Day Weekend, September 3-6, 2010.
The title for this year’s conference is “Crisis, Community, and Performance: Building a Resilient Society.” We’ll consider the presence of trauma and resilience in modern society and the role of performance art in particular in providing a pathway to social change.
Once again we’ll feature a Friday night performance by invited guests of the conference, followed by two days of panels and informal evening readings by conference participants.
The Albuquerque Cultural Conference blog is now open for conversations about the themes of the conference. Online registration will begin on June 1.
Sasha Pimentel Chacon read her poem “Granada” recently on El Paso’s KTEP-FM “State of the Arts” program. Listen here….
Sasha was also interviewed on the Moe Green Radio Show.
Sy Hoahwah discusses his book Velroy and the Madischie Mafia with Connie Gotsch on KSJE-FM’s “Write On! Four Corners.”
Sy Hoahwah was also recently on the Moe Green Poetry Hour with Rafael FJ Alvarado. Listen here…
Jason Yurcic reads from Odes to Anger in Taos, New Mexico, at SOMOS.
You can also hear Yurcic read on KUNM and on Youtube.
Charles Potts, author of Inside Idaho was recently on the Moe Green Poetry Hour with Rafael FJ Alvarado. You can hear it here…
Garrison Keillor reads Jenifer Rae Vernon’s “Blackberry Pie” on Writer’s Almanac.
Alaska Public Radio host Jeff Brown interviews Jenifer Rae Vernon on KTOO-FM’s “A Juneau Afternoon.”
Rafael FJ Alvarado, aka “Moe Green,” interviews Jen Vernon about her new book Rock Candy on his Blogtalk Radio show.
Marianne Broyles, author of The Red Window, and Erika Wurth, author of Indian Trains, read their works on Youtube.