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NHCC Book Club: The Wind That Lays Waste

5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us “The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca. As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy (more…)

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NHCC Book Club: The Taste of Sugar

5:30 pm (MDT) Live via Zoom To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us “It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the

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NHCC Book Club: The Five Wounds

5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family’s extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as “legitimate masterpieces” (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.” – Goodreads Free community event

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NHCC Book Club: The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez

5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “In the 1950s, tensions remain high in the border town of La Frontera. Penny loafers and sneakers clash with boots and huaraches. Bowling shirts and leather jackets compete with guayaberas. Convertibles fend with motorcycles. Yet amidst the discord, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist’s daughter. But as they’ll soon find out, their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they

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NHCC Book Club: Queen of America

5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea’s bestselling The Hummingbird’s Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and “Saint of Cabora,” with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America. Teresita’s passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St. Louis,

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Escribir | Escuchar: Hispanic & Latine Writer Series Gritos Creative Writing Workshop with ire’ne lara silva

10:00 am to 1:30 pm Gritos: On Finding the Sources of Our Voices… While gritos are most often associated with mariachi groups, el Grito de Dolores, or Mexican culture, we will be looking at gritos from another viewpoint—as a way of finding our own deepest personal voice, to ground the creative mind in our bodies, to root the voice in our hearts, and to both release and control emotion in the body and voice. There will be various visualization exercises, a lot of playing with physical stances,

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NHCC Book Club: Afterlife—Julia Alvarez

5:30 pm (MDT) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves—lines from her favorite authors play

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Money for Writers Workshop: Grant Writing for Latinx Writers

11 am (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE “Beyond Teaching: Out-of-the-Box Writing Gigs and Getting Them Funded” This workshop features three Latinx writers who generate income outside of teaching. They collaborate with other writers and artists, work in journalism, provide professional writing services, and create innovative projects that support their careers as writers. These gigs are financially supported by foundations, municipal agencies, and other funders. Join us to learn more. There will be time for Q & A at the end of this session. This workshop is

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