About The NMPW Conference
WNMPW hosts a state conference every year in the spring. The conference is a perfect opportunity to network with media professionals across the state. Workshops are held and the organization announces the winners of the Zia Book Award, Communications Contest, Communicator of Achievement, and scholarships.
The 2025 NMPW Conference will be held Friday and Saturday, March 21 and 22 at Isleta Resort. The conference theme is “Artistic Expression.” Program outline is below. Registration will open in January 2025.
Sponsorship opportunities are now available! Scroll down for details.
Friday, March 21, 2025
- 11:30am-1:00pm – Board Meeting Luncheon
- 2:00pm-3:00pm – Panel: Creating a Multi-media Guardianship Community
Panelist: Léonie Rosenstiel, Jay Newton-Small, Jack Canfield (video), and Michael Brasher. The panelists have explored the issue of elder care and guardianship in radio, podcast, TV, video formats, newspapers, and other media. These may be motion pictures, a series of radio shows, or other formats where the problem is explored.
- 3:15pm-4:45pm – Workshop: Photography and Poetry of Sunrises in New Mexico Make Magic Wanda W. Jerome, Ph.D. and Jasmine Tritten, B.A Participants will explore artistic expression through photography and poetry. They will review and discuss techniques for taking quality impromptu, inspirational photographs.
Participants will review and discuss a variety of popular poetic forms, today’s changing guidelines for poetic craft, and then experience writing and reciting their own poems as inspired by photographs of Sandia Mountain sunrises. - 5:00pm-6:30pm – Reception: Marcial Delgado – Voices of the Barrio Slam Poetry
Marcial Delgado is a poet from Albuquerque, NM. He is also the host and curator of Voices of the Barrio Open Mic Poetry at El Chante: Casa de Cultura in downtown Albuquerque. In 2017 Marcial Delgado became the ABQ Poetry Slam Champion. Marcial’s poetry is firmly rooted in community, Chicanismo, and family. There is a groundedness in his poetry and he exemplifies the direct, clean, unfussy language of a working-class approach. He is a strong performer, who can command a stage with not only his physical presence, but his delivery and the heart of his message.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
- 7:00am-8:00am – Breakfast
- 8:00am-9:00am – Panel: Healing Generational Trauma Through Artistic ExpressionPanelist: Regina M Griego, Denise Chavez, and Josie Méndez-Negrete. The panelists have all written and engaged in several artistic endeavors to heal and lead others through generational trauma and grief. The panelist will discuss the nature of generational trauma and the need for healing.
- 9:15am-10:15am – Panel: Artistic Expression through Cultural Lenses
Khadijah VanBrakle, Alexandra Diaz, and Laurel GoodluckThe panelists represent Native American, Muslim American, and Cuban American viewpoints on artistic expression. They will explore how culture/background affects artistic expression, what fuels writers and/or dictates the stories they tell, and what are barriers to artistic expression. - 10:30am-11:45am – Keynote
Jay Newton-Small – The new Executive Editor and Vice President of Albuquerque Journal.
Jay Newton-Small is an American author and journalist. She has worked for TIME Magazine and Bloomberg News. She is also one of the founders of MemoryWell. In 2016, she wrote Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works. - 12:00pm-1:15pm – Zia Award and Scholarship Lunch (Jen Hull and Brandon Larrañaga)
- 1:30pm-3:00pm – Workshop: True Voice Writing Workshop by Denise Chavez and Josie Méndez-Negrete
Few writers have True Voice. The True Voice is frightening sometimes. Often comforting. Often sobering. Sometimes the True Voice seems to come from out of nowhere, it resides in the air with the spirits who are always voicing things we don’t want to listen to. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to explore your True Voice. - 3:00pm-4:00pm – Annual Meeting
- 5:30pm-8:30pm – Communications Banquet
- 5:30pm – Reception
- 6:00pm – Dinner
- 7:00pm – Speaker: Michelle Otero
Michelle is the author of Malinche’s Daughter, an essay collection based on her work with women survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Oaxaca, Mexico as a Fulbright Fellow, and Bosque: Poems (University of New Mexico Press, 2021), a collection written during her tenure as Albuquerque Poet Laureate. Her memoir, Vessels is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press. Originally from Deming, New Mexico, Michelle holds a B.A. in History from Harvard University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College. - 7:30pm – Communicator of Achievement Award
- 7:45pm – Communication Contests Awards
This year we will take more time to honor our Communication Contests winners. The awards program will highlight winners from all of the categories from the NM Press Women Professional Contest.
Registration Information: Pricing
Conference attendees can reserve a room at the Isleta Resort Hotel for the discounted rate of $159 per night by calling 877-475-3827 and giving the code NMP0325.
- Early (until Jan 15, 2025) Full registration* for NMPW members: $180
- Early (until Jan 15, 2025) Full registration* for nonmembers: $210
- Full registration* for NMPW members: $200
- Full registration* for nonmembers: $225
- Friday full day only: $100
- Saturday full day only*: $160
- Saturday lunch** only (NMPW member rate): $50
- Saturday lunch** only (Nonmember rate): $55
- Saturday banquet*** only (NMPW member rate): $85
- Saturday banquet*** only: (Nonmember rate): $95
- Banquet table for 10: $1,000
- Banquet half-table for 5: $500
NOTES:
*Full registration includes all conference sessions including meals
**Zia Book Awards and Scholarships will be awarded at the lunch.
***Communications Contest results and the 2024 Communicator of Achievement will be announced at the banquet.
Register online at new-mexico-press-women.square.site/s/shop. You can pay your 2024 dues at the same time and take advantage of the member rate! If you prefer to pay by check, please send it, payable to NMPW, to Treasurer Linda Lockett, 3 Tierra Madre Rd. Placitas, NM 87043. Please include your email address and/or telephone number.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Help NMPW conduct an outstanding conference! All sponsors will be acknowledged in the conference program.
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