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Writing Contest Winners
SOMOS is pleased to Announce the Winners of the SOMOS Writing Contest (4/1 – 6/15/20)! Congratulations to: Kimberley Shaw, from Taos, NM – Best in Fiction, “Haddie Mae” Jock Jacober, from San Luis, CO – Best in Poetry, “Refuge” Sylvia Ramos, from Albuquerque, NM –...
Taos Writers Conference: Video Conversations with the Faculty
SOMOS director, Jan Smith, talks with the faculty of Taos Writers Conference 2020 in one-on-one Zoom videos. Get to know all 22 writers before the July 24-26 conference.
4th Annual Taos Writers Conference, July 24-26, 2020 – ONLINE via zoom
SOMOS, the literary organization in Taos, New Mexico, since 1983 presents the 4th Annual Taos Writers Conference over three days, from July 24 – July 26th, 2020 on the zoom online platform. With over 20 workshops in diverse genres including fiction, memoir, poetry,...
SOMOS Poetry Month Continues with Poets Veronica Golos and Gary Worth Moody
TAOS, N.M. — In celebration of National Poetry Month, held every year in April, the Society of the Muse of the Southwest (SOMOS) is continuing to bring poetry to Taos. The month-long celebration curated by Ariana Kramer has been reconfigured to take place entirely...
SOMOS Brings Poetry Month Celebration Online
TAOS, N.M. — In celebration of National Poetry Month, held every year in April, the Society of the Muse of the Southwest (SOMOS) is bringing poetry to Taos starting April 1. The month-long celebration has been reconfigured to take place entirely online, starting with...
Submission Call: Poetry in Nature Project
Dear Poets, As Taos, New Mexico’s second Poet Laureate for the years 2020-2022, I proposed as my poetry project Poetry in Nature which is the installation of poems into natural settings on private and public properties in Taos County. Being well-received, the...
SOMOS Announces New Taos Poet Laureate
Catherine Strisik, a poet, teacher, editor and resident of Taos since 1983 has been selected as the new Taos Poet Laureate. This year’s judges include Darien Fernandez, Town Council Member; Bernadette Track, a former model for RC Gorman for 27 years, a Pueblo potter...
Press Release: Week Four of Prose Month, Ending with a Bang
If you have not had a chance to attend one of the many fantastic readings sponsored this month by SOMOS Prose Month, this is your last chance to get out and see one. Every weekend in November has been packed with award-winning novelists, playwrights, memoirists and...
Press Release: Week Three of SOMOS Prose Month, Evenings of Lively Literature
PRESS RELEASE Week Three of SOMOS Prose Month Evenings of Lively Literature SOMOS sponsored Prose Month is not losing any steam as it moves into its third weekend of multiple nights of readings by regional authors. Audience attendees can expect three nights of...
Press Release: Prose Month Week Two, The Diversity of Prose
PRESS RELEASE Prose Month Week Two The Diversity of Prose Week two of Prose Month is underway, consisting of four full nights of readings from local and regional authors. For the last two years, Johanna DeBiase has been the Curator for Prose Month, organizing weekly...
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SOMOS programs are made possible in part by these organizations: New Mexico Arts, a Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts • Taos Community Foundation • The McCune Foundation • The National Endowment For The Arts • The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation • Taos County Lodgers Tax • TaosNetLLC for high speed internet service • LANL (Los Alamos National Labs) • New Mexico Humanities Council • Nusenda Foundation • Witter Bynner Foundation • Amazon Literary Partnership • Literary Emergency Fund
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