In a Good Time by Mark Sanders
September 13, 2019
Sanders is a poet attuned to the sustaining mysteries of the places we call home, as well as the graces and frailties of the human heart, and In a Good Time only extends his considerable range. It is a book of midnight moments and dry seasons, of the inexorable passing of years, of the ways we grow o...
Omaha Lit Fest
September 13, 2019
The return of Omaha Lit Fest! The main event features a day of panels, readings, and talks with featured authors of both local and national profile, hosted at the event space of Highlander Omaha. Plus, a community fair, food trucks, and book signings all day! Check out the main event schedule at...
Plains Writers Series – September 12, 2019
September 7, 2019
Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities and the WSC Press are pleased to hold this fall’s Plains Writers Series on Thursday, September 12, 2019. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to bring attention to the prose and poetry of Gr...
MINI INTERVIEW: Sarah McKinstry-Brown
May 25, 2019
How did you get into writing? When I was 19 years old, I wandered into a poetry slam team performance at a coffeehouse in Albuquerque, my hometown, and was hooked when I saw the team performing a poem about New Mexico’s history of Spanish colonization, layering their voices as they chanted, “Tel...
MINI INTERVIEW: Greg Kosmicki
May 16, 2019
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 with people or with other creatures. If I pay attention—and I think that nearly a hundred percen...
MINI INTERVIEW: Ruth Williams
May 6, 2019
What do you find easiest about writing? This is an interesting question since I feel like we writers often focus on the hardest aspects of writing. I suppose for me the easiest part about writing is the part where you simply write and don't edit yourself or consider the quality. Letting the words flo...
Fiction Slam: The Great Rebirth! Spring 2019
May 5, 2019
Congrats to our Fiction Slam Rebirth winners! 3rd place Meena Dalal, 1st place Vito Cole, 2nd place Tana Buoy, and 4th place Bill Tindle. Special thanks to all the readers and supporters! Contestants: Katie Flower, Myah Gibney, Natasha White, Alex Retzlaff, Christel Wiggan, Vito Cole, Gabriel Malfileno,...
MINI INTERVIEW: David Wyatt
April 22, 2019
What inspired you to write Gathering Place? What notions appear in Gathering Place are those which have shown up in most of my writing. The fact that the book, a first, is published quite late in my writing life has for me made it a kind of selected poems, even though it's the length of a standard...
MINI INTERVIEW: Todd Robinson
April 11, 2019
How did your book Mass for Shut-Ins come about? Several years ago, Greg Kosmicki, founder and editor of Backwaters Press, said he’d like to publish my next book. I held him at bay for a time, knowing I didn’t have enough poems of note to hold a collection together, but the last four years have be...
Plains Writers Series – April 25th, 2019
April 8, 2019
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 25, 2019. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to bring attention to the prose and poetry of Gr...
Fiction Slam: The Great Rebirth – April 25th, 2019
April 3, 2019
Join us for the Spring 2019 Fiction Slam: The Great Rebirth, April 25th at The Max Bar and Grill. Slam starts at 7 pm. There will be no preliminaries for this slam, registration starts at 6pm. Bring 2 short stories and $5 entry fee to compete. Prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place participants....
MINI INTERVIEW: JV Brummels
April 1, 2019
How did your book [email protected] come about? I’d had [email protected] in mind for the title early on and couldn’t shake it. It went through a dozen permutations while I wrote and collected the poems but ended up back where it started. I liked the idea that it could serve as an address for me...