Plains Writers Series — Septemeber 23, 2020
September 9, 2020
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 Wednesday, September 23, 2020. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to bring attention to the prose and poetry of Great Plains write...
Of Bone, of Ash, of Ordinary Saints: A Nevada Gospel by Gailmarie Pahmeier
September 2, 2020
"This book should be mandatory reading for every visitor to and resident of Nevada. A brilliant celebration of Nevada’s state park system, a travelogue of Nevada’s beauty, the rangers keeping it so, and the traveler’s passing through. There’s a reason Pahmeier was the first poet laureate of Reno,...
MINI INTERVIEW: Twyla Hansen
May 6, 2020
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 late great Nebraska State Poet Bill Kloefkorn. I had never written a poem before, but I’d read K...
MINI INTERVIEW: William Trowbridge
April 29, 2020
How did your interest in poetry begin? I came to poetry late. I was studying to be a fiction specialist. In fact, my dissertation was on Faulkner’s novels. But while studying modern poetry in preparation for my doctoral orals, I came across a Howard Nemerov poem titled “Mousemeal.” I was so...
MINI INTERVIEW: Theodore Wheeler
March 23, 2020
Your latest novel In Our Other Lives was released on March 3, 2020. What do you want potential readers to know about the book? The story is told from the perspective of an NSA/FBI investigation into a Midwestern family whose son has disappeared while working as a missionary in Pakistan and then reem...
MINI INTERVIEW: Mark Sanders
February 19, 2020
How did your latest work In a Good Time come about? Could you talk a little bit about the title? Various pathways led to In a Good Time. While the final push to publication came quickly (the book was published in September 2019), the book took about four or five years to complete. The poems were finis...
MINI INTERVIEW: Marjorie Saiser
December 21, 2019
What is your reason for writing? Or what role does writing play in your life? I write to find out, to stay green, to keep learning. Writing teaches me what I should be paying attention to. Do you have a particular time, place, or routine for writing? Early mornings are good, also at night. Afternoon...
MINI INTERVIEW: Neil Harrison
December 13, 2019
How did you get your start in creative writing? I started classes in creative writing and photography at Northeast Community College back in 1980, after deciding that sorting mail all night, six nights a week, was a pretty fair recipe for going postal. What are some of the challenges you hav...
Fiction Slam winners! Fall 2019
December 10, 2019
Slam Winners: Brianna Hupp 1st, Jessica Schenck 2nd, Rylee Smith 3rd and Christel Wiggan 4th. Contestants: Brianna Hupp, Sean Petersen, Madison Mueller, Jessica Schenck, Christel Wiggan, Mckaylla Christian, Celine Eggerling, Rylee Smith, Meena Dalal, and Tyler Murray. Judges: Allison Hain, Jacob Stewart, and...
Plains Writers Series – December 5, 2019
November 18, 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, December 5, 2019. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to bring attention to the prose and poetry of Gr...
Poetry Slam 42 winners! Fall 2019
November 10, 2019
Vito Cole: First Place Kjersten Schuttler: Second Place Christel Wiggan: Third Place Junior Aguilar: Fourth Place Christel Wiggan, Hunter Godfry, Summer Larsen, Conall Tabbert, Charleyne Kirkindengo, Wright Chamberlin, Caleb Cohen, Diamante Jones, Tyler Surber, Angel Rosales, Jessica Palmillas,...
Plains Writers Series – November 21, 2019
October 30, 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, November 21, 2019. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to bring attention to the prose and poetry of Gr...