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Are you an aspiring poet? Fiction writer? Memoirist? SouthWest Writers (SWW) annual short story and poetry writing contest challenges you to bring your tales to life. With more than 66 prizes and an option to have your work published, this is an opportunity to give wings to your creativity. Whether your interest lies in the […]
Out of concern for the health of our members, conference participants, and the staff at the Canyon Club, the 2020 New Mexico Press Women Conference has been postponed until March of 2021. Conference panelists and registrants, along with winners of the Communications Contest, Zia Awards, Scholarships, and Communicator of Achievement, will receive additional notifications. On […]
DEADLINE INFORMATION: The deadline for conference registration is 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 17. That is also the deadline for cancelling a registration and receiving a refund. We have to give final meal counts that day, so the deadline is firm. You can register for either the full conference (including all meals) or for just the […]
Albuquerque Press Women and Friends will host University of New Mexico Lecturer Peter Kierst on Monday, February 10 at 11:30 a.m. at Mimi’s Restaurant (4316 The 25 Way) to discuss President Trump’s Impeachment Trial and the Constitution. We are living in a complex time when it is hard to unravel just how the three branches […]
Journalist Steve Terrell has just retired from forty years of reporting in Santa Fe, most of it at the Santa Fe New Mexican. He calls himself a full-fledged Rock ‘n’ Roll retiree and he will be speaking to Albuquerque Press Women and Friends as a kick-off to a new year. Join us at 11:30 a.m. […]
Join New Mexico Press Women for a salute to legendary author Tony Hillerman on the 94th anniversary of his birth on Saturday May 25 at Bookworks (4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW) at 3 p.m. Anne Hillerman, the New York Times bestselling author will be there to discuss her father Tony Hillerman and his work, as […]
An outstanding New Mexican writer will be honored for her work in nonfiction next spring when her book receives the prestigious Zia Award. New Mexican women writers are invited to submit their books for consideration for the award, given each year by New Mexico Press Women at the annual spring conference. To be eligible to […]
Leading up to a historic “vote for (name) change” at our 60th anniversary conference, I implore our members and attendees to read the history as presented by NMPW Historian Denise Tessier in the recent BROADSHEET. In true journalism form, she shows rather than tells the story behind the passion our upcoming discussion and vote are sure to ignite. As a state board member, former […]
What’s in a Name? 60 Years of History
One could conclude that I’m in favor of keeping the name New Mexico Press Women, based on that headline.
But as a member of this organization for half its existence – 30 years, nearly 20 of those as NMPW’s historian – I submit this article rather as an as-close-as-I-can-get-to-factual observation about previous attempts to take the “women” and the “press” out of our organization’s name, so that when it comes to a vote at our 60th anniversary conference in April, members will have the benefit of a bit of institutional memory.
At the latest NMPW Board meeting there was a good deal of discussion not only of the past (thanks to our able historians), but of the future. How do we best find our organization’s way forward? In what ways have we responded to the changing nature of journalism and communication in the new century, and what might be next for us? Is our new reality reflected fully in our organization’s name? Do we hold on to that name in order to reflect and honor our origins? Or do we change it to facilitate our future? Is it exclusionary? Is it justified? Do we really mean it?
