PWS April 30th, 2015

PWS banner April 30 2015

Wayne, Nebraska, Wednesday, April 15, 2015― Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Art and Humanities and the WSC Press are pleased to hold this spring’s Plains Writers Series on Thursday, April 30, 2015. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year in an attempt to bring attention to the prose and poetry of local Great Plains writers through reading and interacting with area audiences.

This spring’s Plains Writers Series will highlight two authors, R.F. McEwen and Margaret Lukas. The authors will share selected pieces of their recent works in the second floor lounge in the Humanities Building at Wayne State College at 2:00 pm.

Following the Plains Writers Series will be the Lucky 13 Fiction Slam. The fiction slam will be held at The Max Bar and Grill in downtown Wayne, NE starting at 7:00 pm, with required prelims starting at 5:00 pm. If anyone would like to participate in the slam they will need two original short stories and $5 for registration at the door. All events are free and open to the public.

AUTHOR BIOS:

mlukasMargaret Lukas is an instructor in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska@Omaha. She received her BFA from UNO’s Writers Workshop and her MFA from Rainier Writer’s Workshop in Tacoma Washington. She is a contributor to NEBRASKAland Magazine and an editor on the quarterly journal Fine Lines. Her writing also appears online and in the 2012 anthology published by the University of Nebraska Press, On Becoming. Her award-winning short story, “The Yellow Bird” was made into a short film and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. She is a recipient of a 2009 Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist fellowship. Farthest House is her first novel.

 

McEwenRobertR.F. McEwen was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1945. Since 1962 he has been a professional logger and tree trimmer, working trees throughout the United States as well as in, during the late 1960’s, Guyana, South America. In 1972 he began teaching Middle School English in Chadron, Nebraska. He has been teaching ever since, and is currently a professor of English at Chadron State College. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Kansas Quarterly, The Prairie Schooner, Melville Extracts, South Dakota Review, and in The Yellow Nib: The Literary Journal of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. His book, Heartwood, was featured on CBS SUNDAY MORNING. He co-produced a two-CD collection of the great Irish sean nos singer Joe Heaney: “Tell a Story: Joe Heaney in the Pacific Northwest” (Camsco Music). His most recent book is Casey Joe MacBride’s White River, volume I.