Endowed Scholarship News
New Mexico Press Women has endowed two scholarships (the Rosenstiel Scholarship for graduate students and the Anne and Tony Hillerman Scholarship for undergraduates) through the Albuquerque Community Foundation. Any gift of $7.50, $75, $750, $1075, or more will be acknowledged in our 75th Anniversary Conference at the Isleta Resort and Hotel on March 15-16, 2024. […]
2024 Contests Are Open For Entries!
New Mexico Press Women’s three annual contests are now accepting entries for work published/presented in 2023. See the following pages for details: Communications Contest High School Communications Contest Zia Book Award Good luck to all!
Communication contest results 2023
The New Mexico Press Women thanks all individuals who participated in the 2023 Communications Contest and Congratulates to all the winners! Full list of winners below: 2023 NMPW Communications Contest Results
Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury to headline the New Mexico Press Women Banquet
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Born and raised in New Mexico, Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury leads with determination and compassion. She has dedicated her career to finding solutions to water issues, poverty, and climate change — representing New Mexico in the Legislature and now in Congress. She is a champion of efforts to address hunger, food, and water insecurity, conservation and […]
Sherri Burr on Black Range Pub podcast
Sherri Burr, who is in her fifth year serving as President of New Mexico Press Women, was the guest of Robert Kidera on his January 19, 2023 Black Range Pub podcast. She discusses the history of the organization, its currently active writing contests (ending soon) and her own recent and current writing projects. It can be […]
2023 Conference Details
The schedule of NMPW’s 2023 Conference are now available on our Conferences page! It will be a fascinating and fun event. There’s a link to register on the page, along with instructions for reserving a room at the Isleta Resort Hotel. Check it out!
2023 Conference
Plans are shaping up for the 2023 NMPW conference, which will take place at Isleta Resort on March 10 and 11. The conference theme is “Telling the Untold Story.” A detailed program will be announced January 20, as we are still waiting for responses from some invited speakers. There will be events on Friday afternoon […]
Albuquerque Press Women and Friends April Meeting
Albuquerque Press Women and Friends will meet virtually by Zoom on Monday, April 11, at 12 noon to discuss the guardianship issue, which could potentially affect any one of us. Our invited speakers are Kent Walz, senior editor at the Albuquerque Journal, who has written several stories about this, and Colleen Heild, investigative reporter, who has […]
High School Contest Results
Congratulations to the Albuquerque School of Excellence! Their at-large entries in the National Federation of Press Women won the following awards: > Student Sama Lilo: Honorable Mention for a News/Feature Photo > Student Sydney Noranyi: Second Place for a Cartoon and Honorable mention for an Editorial > The school’s newspaper, the Phoenix Times: First Place […]
Updated Communications Contest Results
The updated Communications Contest results include co-entrants and names of content creators instead of the person who submitted their entries. Winners and Finalists in book categories can order stickers. Congratulations to the winners of the Sweepstakes Awards: Organization: KUNM Programming, First Place Tumbleweeds Magazine, Second Place New Mexico Source, Third Place Individual: Diane Joy Schmidt, […]