1994 Nebraska Book Festival
September 22-24, 4th Annual
Peter Kiewit Conference Center, Omaha
“Go Big Read”
Schedule
Thursday, September 22
7:00-10:00 p.m.
- Ron Hansen Reading at the UNO Alumni House.
Friday, September 23
6:30-9:30 pm
- Festival Benefit Reception and Musical Performance, and
Presentation of Nebraska Humanities Council Sower Awards, both held
at the UNO Strauss Performing Arts Center.
Saturday, September 24
Concurrent sessions were held in rooms at the Peter Kiewit Conference
Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
8:30-9:20
- Reading: The Omaha of Josie Washburn. Margaret P. Killian, Bess
Streeter Aldrich, Harl Dalstrom, Orville Menard.
- Talking: Neihardt’s Black Elk Speaks.
- Telling: Teaching Native American Autobiography. Craig Womack.
- Teaching: Teaching Cather’s O! Pioneers. Steve Shively, Manya
Lucca-Thyborg.
- And More: Wright Morris’s Photographic Strategies. Joseph
Wydeven, Nancy Johnson.
- The Business of Writing. Bob Doyen.
9:30-11:00
- Writing: Writing for Children--Essential Ingredients.
- Reading: Forming a Successful Book Group--Everything You Need to
Know. Sara C. Radil, Judy Gacek.
- Censored. Mary Heise, Karen Weber.
- Talking: Morris’s The Home Place.
- Telling: The Cattlemen. Sandoz Panel A--Sandhills Ranching,
Suzanne George, Donald Green, John Wunder and others.
- Listening: Nebraska Writers Reading (9:30-3:30). Richard Duggin,
George O'Connell, James Reed, Jean Delehant, Fidel Fajardo-Costa,
Karen Mockler, Eric Jolly, Duane Hutchinson, Craig Womack, Karen
Foster, Doug Marr, Sheila Rocha Cruz, Terri Brown-Davidson, Season
Harper Dowell, Annette Murrell, Barbara Emry, Robert McEwen, Mark
Sanders, Jonis Agee, Carol Light, Arthur Homer.
- Open Mike (10:00-2:00).
- Teaching: Bess Streeter Aldrich--Pioneer Author. Paula Damke.
- And More: Nebraska Women Poets. Hilda Raz.
- First Encounters--Indians in the Omaha Area Enter the Written
Record. Kira Gale.
11:00-11:50
- Writing: Figurative Language--Poetry (10:00-11:30). Ted Kooser.
- Reading: Eiseley for Young People--Universal Values. Jane
Stillwell Smith, Naomi Brill.
- Dramatization of Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing”.
- Talking: Sandoz’s Old Jules.
- Beth Streeter Aldrich “In Person”. Maxine E. Cline.
- Telling: Writing History: The Upstream People. Michael Tate.
- Teaching: Teaching Malcolm X in Primary and Secondary Schools .
Dr. George Garrison.
- Ron Hansen interviewed by Jim Delmont.
12:00-1:00
- Writing: Journals: Writing for Self-Discovery (11:30-1:00).
David Martin.
Reading: Myth and Archetype in the Work of John G. Neihardt. Pam
Saalfeld, Gretchen Ronnow.
- Talking: Cather’s O! Pioneers.
- Teaching: Wright Morris’s West. Barbara Allen-Langdon, Jerrine
McCaffrey, Jogn McKenna, Joseph Wydeven.
- Czech Elements in Nebraska Literature. Mila Saskova-Pierce.
1:00-1:50
- Writing: Plotting Mysteries. (12:00-1:30). Diane Kirkle.
- Reading: A Shaman for our Time--Loren Eiseley. Dr. Bing Chen.
- Talking: Welsch’s Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies.
- Writing Plays in Omaha. Doug Marr.
- Teaching: From Life to Stage: Rachel Snowden. Mimi Lrogin, Stu
Lynn, Helen Sundell.
2:00-2:50
- Writing: From Literature to Music (Songwriting).
Co-sponsors and funding: Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska
Humanities Council, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha World Herald
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