Don’t Forget to Submit Your Entries for the 2021 Communications Contest & Zia Book Awards
This is a reminder for you to submit your entries now for the 2021 Communications Contest and the Zia Book Award Contest. Both are now open for submissions.
Category: Zia Award
2021 Zia Book Award
The Zia Book Awards and Scholarships will be presented at noon on Saturday, March 13. The event is free and open to the public. The link for the Zoom awards session is given below: Zia Book Awards and Scholarship Presentation Event: Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86903374596?pwd=dzNBb3dTWVVySS91andoREpBRlQ4dz09 If you need them: Meeting ID: 869 0337 4596, Passcode: […]
2016 Zia Book Award winners announced
Congratulations to the 2016 Zia Book award winners!
Receiving the 2016 Zia Book Award for fiction was Denise Chávez for The King and Queen of Comezón, her novel about the fictional border town of Comezón “Itch” New Mexico where the denizens work through their dreams of longing. The “Itch” refers to longstanding desires that will never be fulfilled.
Fiction book entries sought for women’s book contest
Fiction book entries sought for women’s book contest! An outstanding New Mexican writer will be honored for her work in fiction next spring when her book receives the prestigious Zia Award given by New Mexico Press Women.
New Mexico women writers are invited to submit their fiction books for consideration of the award, given each year at the annual New Mexico Press Women spring conference luncheon. The 2016 conference luncheon will be held April 23, 2016 at Bosque Retreat Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Finalists are required to attend the award luncheon to read from their work.
2015 Zia Book Award winners announced
Four New Mexican women were honored for their outstanding non-fiction books at the New Mexico Press Women annual spring conference, held this year at the Ghost Ranch Conference Center where the theme was “The Power of Storytelling.”
2015 Zia Award Finalists
2015 Zia Award Finalists
Be sure your work is represented in the 2015 New Mexico Press Women Communications Contest
Be sure your work is represented in the 2015 New Mexico Press Women Communications Contest
2015 Zia Book Award
2015 Zia Book Award: An outstanding New Mexican writer will be honored for her work in non-fiction next spring when her book receives the prestigious Zia Award given by New Mexico Press Women.
Zia Award Recognizes Four Outstanding Children’s Book Authors
Zia Award Recognizes Four Outstanding Children’s Book Authors: Four outstanding New Mexico women writers were honored for their work in children’s books on Saturday, April 26, at the Hotel Encanto, in Las Cruces. The 2014 Zia Book Award winners were Paige Grant for the picture book Kitten Caboodle, illustrated by Lisa Williams, and Laura Sanchez for the young adult novel Freaking Green. Honorable Mentions were awarded to picture book author Ana Baca for Tia’s Tamales, illustrated by Noël Chilton, and Anne Weaver for the youth book Children of Time: Evolution and the Human Story, illustrated by Matt Celeskey.
Children’s book entries sought for N.M. women writers contest
An outstanding New Mexican writer will be honored for her work next spring when her children’s 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 receive […]
