Winners of Poetry Slam #47 (from left to right): Miranda Davis (1st), Chloe Hibler (3rd), Mary Helms (2nd), Katy Edmisten (4th)
Judges: Shawn Pierce, Charlene Pierce, & Tom C. Hunley
Slam Emcee:...
Praise for Near Misses
Can falling water nourish sorrow? Do burnt mattresses and boneyards possess mythologies of their own? What are the conditions whereby actual fish might bubble up from the depths...
April 28, 2022
Winners of the Spring 2022 Fiction Slam (from left to right): Rhiannon Van Fleet (4th place), Alex Retzlaff (2nd place), Olivia Wright (1st place), and JR Brown (3rd place).
Judges:
Slam...
How did you get started writing poetry?
In the early 1980s, not long after I began employment at Nebraska Wesleyan University as a horticulturist, I enrolled in a poetry-writing class taught by the...
Libby Dunn is from Falls City, NE, and currently lives in Wayne, NE. She is a student at WSC studying journalism and political science. In her free time she enjoys knitting, hiking, reading, and writing.
Originally from southwestern Ohio and currently residing in Omaha, Stepha Vesper holds a BA and an MA in poetry from Miami University. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Nebraska-Omaha....
How has your family inspired your writing?
My family didn’t exactly inspire my writing as much as it provided raw material for writing. My writing is usually triggered by or suggested by interactions...
Envisioned by a team of Wayne State College students and their faculty advisor, Dr. Stephanie Marcellus, The Flat Water Rises was designed to share the work of emerging Nebraska fiction writers.
Kyara Brown – “Woman” & “Notice”
Tana Buoy – “The Playground for Lost Boys”
Sophie Clark – “The Jesus Game”
Gustavo Cruz – “Flight Time” & “Working the Two Train”
Moisés...
Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities and the WSC Press are pleased to hold this spring’s Plains Writers Series on Thursday, March 1st, 2018. The...