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...
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...
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...
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...
How did your book frontpew@paradise come about?
I’d had frontpew@paradise in mind for the title early on and couldn’t shake it. It went through a dozen permutations while I wrote and collected the...
The poems in Todd Robinson’s Mass for Shut-Ins are simultaneously societal and intensely personal, gleaned through a lens of unifying solitariness, the sense that “We, anonymous cannon-fodder” share...
February 28, 2019
Congrats to our Poetry Slam 41 winners! Hurdle Papi (2nd place), Gopal Chitaure (4th place), Katie Flower (3rd place), and Taylor Penn (1st place)!
Slam Master: Christina Coffman
Slam...
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, February 28, 2019....
How did your book Points of Entry come about?
After seeing the movie, Bright Star, about the life of John Keats, I became obsessed with the line "Touch has a memory." And it wasn’t the first time...
Slam 41 will be held at the Max Bar and Grill in downtown Wayne, NE starting at 7:00 p.m., with registration starting at 6:00 p.m. Slam participants need four original poems and pay a $5 registration fee....
These poems by Amy Plettner are unique in the root sense of that word, which is to say they could only have been written by her. The vocabulary is simple and direct, the subject matter widely varied, the...
The Flat Water Rises: An Anthology of Short Fiction by Emerging Nebraska Writers was envisioned by a team of Wayne State College students and their faculty advisor, Dr. Stephanie Marcellus. The anthology...
