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, April 30, 2026. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to highlight the prose and poetry of Great Plains writers through readings and interactions with area audiences.

This Plains Writers Series will feature Lydia Kang, author of K-Jane published by Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins, a Kirkus Best Book of 2025. The reading will begin at 2 p.m. in the lounge on the second floor of the Humanities Building at Wayne State College.

Following the Plains Writers Series will be the Fiction Slam. The slam will be held at the Max Bar and Grill in downtown Wayne, NE, starting at 7:00 p.m., with registration from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Slam participants need two original flash fiction stories and a $5 registration fee. All events are free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE READER:

Lydia Kang is an associate professor of internal medicine and an award-winning and bestselling author of adult fiction, young adult fiction, and science non-fiction, including Opium and Absinthe, Star Wars: Cataclysm, and the Nebraska Book Award winners, The November Girl and Patient Zero. Her nonfiction includes Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, an NPR Science Friday Best Book. She is the author of the recently released Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them (Workman Publishing) and K-Jane (Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins), a Kirkus Best Book of 2025.