"Kingsman: The Golden Circle" (R) 6:00pm   

Megan Kimble is the editor of Edible Baja Arizona, a local food magazine serving Tucson and the borderlands, and the author of Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food (William Morrow 2015). Megan has written for the Los Angeles Times, ...   

Purchase Prize Art Show open to the public.   

The Southwest Festival of the Written Word presents authors and publishers who live and work in the southwest discussing their work and creative processes in eight festival sessions throughout downtown Silver City, NM. Saturday morning session topics include: Poetry, Fiction, ...   

Julie Iromuanya is the author of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House Press), a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard ...   

Adrienne Celt is the author of The Daughters, a novel, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award, and a book of comics, Apocalypse How? An Existential Bestiary. Her work has appeared in the 2016 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Ecotone, Esquire, ...   

Jane Lindskold is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling, internationally published author of twenty-five novels, including the six volume Firekeeper Saga, the three volume Breaking the Wall series, and, most recently, Artemis Awakening and Artemis Invaded. Lindskold has also written ...   

Release of Easy Errors, the latest Posadas County mystery, marks the 28th novel for New Mexico novelist Steven F. Havill-and the 22st in that popular series. The author of four western novels, 22 contemporary mystery novels set in fictitious Posadas ...   

Featuring Stella Pope Duarte.   

1:30-2:30pm and 3:00-4:00pm. Saturday afternoon session topics include: Fiction, Panels on The Writer’s Life, Panel on Establishing a Publishing Imprint, Narrative Non-fiction, Journalism, Poetry, and the production of “Blatant Attempts at Understanding” by Melanie Zipin and performed by the Virus ...   

Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novel Scrapper and the story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall. His previous novel, In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, was a finalist ...   

"How is Journalism Changing?" Algernon D'Ammassa has been the author of the Deming Headlight's "Desert Sage" opinion column since 2013. He has been a reporter for the Headlight since April, and is an occasional contributor to the Las Cruces Sun ...   

 Algernon D'Ammassa and Kate Nelson   

"Writer''s Life: Three Wise Men in Conversation about the Writing Life"Paul Andrew Hutton is an American cultural historian, an award-winning author, a documentary film writer, and a television personality. He holds the rank of Distinguished Professor at the University of ...   

"Narrative Non-Fiction: Reading and Discussion from his new Book, 'All They Will Call You'"Tim Z. Hernandez is a writer and performance artist. He is the recipient of an American Book Award for poetry, the Colorado Book Award for poetry, and the ...   

2nd Anniversary Celebration. Our authors will read poetry, short stories and excerpts from longer works.   

Open mic/Poetry/Flash Fiction hosted by Damien Davies with Manuel Gonzalez. Open to the public free of charge.   

Round Table with Writers plus The Great Book Giveaway Quiz. Algernon D’Ammassa, Matt Bell, Jane Lindskold, Andrea Cote-Botero, Steve Havill do “give and take” conversation among themselves and with the audience.    

Live music, Jazz duo, voice and guitar   

"The Hitman's Bodyguard" (R)   

Free. Part of the Southwest Festival of the Written Word. Chosen for the 2016 Mark Medoff Directorial Project Award, a one-woman play that deconstructs Custer, his life, and his last stand. Marissa Bond is a regular on the theater stages in Las ...