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HAPPY NEW YEAR

From all of us at SOMOS!

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Available by mail or stop by the SOMOS office,
        CHOKECHERRIES, the SOMOS annual anthology

2008               14.00 each
1997 – 2007    6.00 each

Please add $3.00 per book for shipping. Make checks out to SOMOS or use PAYPAL on our website.

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We are reading Mary Karr’s,”The Liar’s Club” this month and will be discussing it on Tuesday, January 5^th, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the SOMOS office.  Karr’s memoir is “…a spectacular prose debut, a fierce, defiantly loving portrait of a family, a memori with the insight of Mary McCarthy’s “Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood” and the boldness of Frank Conroy’s “Stop-Time”.  Karr writes in a direct and fearless manner about the types of experience that could have caused those who endured them to be lost forever in the darkness.  However she is able to explore the effects of alcoholism, rape, mental illness, and cruelty without shying away and without self-pity.  In the end secrets are revealed and the truth brings healing, many years in the coming.

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THE SOMOS 2010 WINTER WRITERS SERIES BEGINS........
                         FRIDAY, JANUARY 8TH, 2010!

Friday, January 8^th, 7 p.m. The SOMOS Winter Writers Series starts with academic, scholar, and author, Lois Palken Rudnick, who will present a slide show and reading from her latest book, “Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism”.   After a brief introduction by docent, Judy Jordan, of the Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Rudnick will share her research, fascination and tremendous appreciation for one of the formidable but regrettably less well known painters of the early 20^th century in New Mexico, Cady Wells.  Following by a slide show of his paintings and reading excerpts from her book Rudnick will answer questions from the audience and be available for book signings after the program. 

At Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Morada Lane (off Kit Carson Rd).  Contact SOMOS 575-758-0081 somo@somostaos.org   www.somostaos.org  Tickets $8 general & $6 for SOMOS members/seniors/students.

 Lois P. Rudnick is Professor Emerita of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she served as Chair of the American Studies Department for 26 years.  She has written and edited many books about the artist and writer colonies of Santa Fe and Taos, including “Utopian Vistas:  The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture”; “Mabel Dodge Luhan:  New Woman, New Worlds”; and most recently, “Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism”.

Cady Wells (1904-54) was one of the most innovative modern artists to work within the Santa Fe and Taos colonies in the years between 1932 and 1954, and one of the few in northern New Mexico to respond dramatically in his art to WWII and the atomic weapons project at Los Alamos.  He was a contemporary and close friend of both Georgia O’Keefe and Martha Graham. He was touted in the regional and national media and in books on the state of modern and contemporary art in the U.S., alongside such now better known artists as Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Adolph Gottlieb, and Jackson Pollack.

Rudnick’s interest in writing about Wells was rekindled after reading Earl Ganz’s historical novel, “The Taos Truth Game” published in 2006.  Ganz’s novel covers the same time period and includes sections about famous artists, writers and musicians living in Northern New Mexico. “Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism” includes essays.

Attached is the SLATE for the whole WINTER WRITERS SERIES.

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SOMOS HAS A BLOG!!!!

With the brilliant technical and creative help of new member Jim Kimmons, Hannah Rappaport is creating a new SOMOS BLOG.  This site will eventually replace our current website.  It will contain all the present information with the addition of some exciting interactive features.  Members will have the opportunity to submit posts such as poems, short stories, links to their own websites, and more.  There will be the opportunity to communicate with other members, keep up with SOMOS activities, find volunteer opportunities, and create new opportunities member to member. 

Through the WordPress Blog we will be able to save paper and postal expense by sending out our Muse News online.  Please notify the office if you do not wish to switch to paperless newsletters as in the very near future we will be making the switch.  For members who adamantly refuse the current technology we will continue to snail mail you paper.  But reducing the costs of this mailing is becoming necessary in this economic climate.

SOMOS began as a venue for local authors to read their works to one another.  This new Blog will carry the muse into the current cyberspace century (21^st for those who have lost count).  Stay tuned for this new format, coming soon.

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SUPPORT SOMOS by cleaning out your closets!
Please help SOMOS by taking clothing, furnishings and other items to PIECES!!!!
1024 Paseo del Pueblo Sur

SOMOS' account is SO5 
737-0500

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SOMOS USED BOOK SALE!!
Every weekday from 10-1
10 mass market books for $1 or 25 cents each!!!

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SOMOS "SPRING BLING" Jewelry Fundraiser!
Thanks to the wonderful efforts of volunteer coordinator Donna LeFurgey, SOMOS is planning a very fun FUNdraiser for March 20 that will involve jewelry, and lots more. In the meantime, we need your 'oldies but goodies' jewelry!! Just bring it by the office weekdays between 10-1 or by appointment.
Please contact SOMOS by email somos@somostaos.org or by phone at 758-0081. 
Donations are tax-deductible!!

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The Storytellers of New Mexico are sponsoring a
STORY SWAP on

Saturday, January 16th, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
at the Taos Public Library community room.

Come to tell a story, or simply come to listen.

This story swap is free to the public.

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ZIA AWARDS

An outstanding New Mexican writer will be honored for her work in fiction next spring when her book receives the prestigious Zia Award.

Women writers living in the state are invited to submit their books for consideration for the award, given each year by the New Mexico Press Women at the annual spring conference. The 2010 conference will be held in Albuquerque, April 16-17.

The 2010 Zia Award will be given to the author of an outstanding book in fiction published in 2007, 2008 or 2009. The contest is open to novels, novellas and short story collections and to all genres.

Each year the award rotates to one of three categories: nonfiction, fiction and children’s literature. To accommodate this schedule, a book published in the last three years is eligible.

Submissions can be made by the author or by someone else on behalf of the author, such as a publisher. Membership in the association is not required, but the writer must be a woman. Authors must also live in the state or have a strong connection to New Mexico; however the book can be published anywhere. A $10 submission fee is required and helps to defray the costs of the award. Entries must be postmarked by Jan. 11, 2010.

New Mexico Press Women is an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women and exists to provide professional development, networking and First Amendment rights protection to professional journalists and communicators. For more information on the association, visit www.NewMexicoPressWomen.org.

The Zia Award was started by members in 1953 to honor an outstanding woman in New Mexico media.

Book entries are considered a donation to the organization and are not returned. The books will be part of the silent auction held at the annual spring awards banquet to raise scholarship funds.

To submit a book entry to the Zia Award contest please send a cover letter containing contact information and a paragraph stating the author’s connection to New Mexico, an email address or stamped postcard for acknowledgement of receipt, the book and a check for $10 payable to New Mexico Press Women to the following address postmarked by Jan. 11, 2010:

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THIS PROJECT IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY NEW MEXICO ARTS, A DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT  OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, AND THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, MAG DIMOND, THE VIRGINIA WELLINGTON CABOT FOUNDATION, THE PETER & MADELEINE MARTIN FOUNDATION FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS, HEALY FOUNDATION and the TAOS COUNTY LODGERS TAX.

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SOMOS
www.somostaos.org        somos@somostaos.org <mailto:somos@somostaos.org>
233 B Paseo del Pueblo Sur       P O Box 3225, Taos NM 87571
575-758-0081         FAX 575-758-4802