1995 Nebraska Book Festival
September 22-23, 5th Annual
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Schedule
Friday, September 22
School day
Saturday, September 23
Concurrent sessions were held in rooms at the Peter Kiewit Conference
Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
8:00 a.m.
- Registration, Book Fair, Photo Display, Open Microphone
9:00-10:15
- Workshop: Writing Your Family Tree. Marlene Plambeck. Writers
Reading: Brian Jones, Terri Shifferns, J.V. Brummels, Nancy
Westerfield.
- “Visit with Black Elk”. Hilda Neihardt.
- “Aldrich and Cather: Their Early Stories”. Diana Wendt.
9:00-11:45 a.m.
- Meet the Publishers and Producers. Don Cunningham, Carolyn
Johnsen, Hilda Raz, Dan Ross. Sponsored by NEBRASKAland, Nebraska
Public Radio, Prairie Schooner, University of Nebraska Press.
10:30-11:45
- Workshop: Writing From Your Life. Ruth Raymond Thone.
- Writers Reading: Eamon Wall, Roy Scheele, Nancy McCleery, Marge
Saiser.
- “Dramatizing Center”. Joel Geyer.
- “Reflections of a Bonehunter: The Life of Loren Eiseley”.
Christine Lesiak.
11:50-1:25
- Festival Luncheon. Host: Helen Winter Stauffer. Program: Betsy
Downey: “Mari Sandoz’s Love Song to the Plains”.
1:30-2:45
- Workshop: Organizing Writers’ Support Groups. Jennifer Henry,
Diana Lambson.
- Writers Reading: Susan Deal, Hilda Raz, Ted Kooser, Barbara
Emrys.
- “Mari Sandoz: Her Young Adult Novels”. Sandoz Society and
Friends.
- “Wright Morris: Female Voices in His Life”. Lone Tree Literary
Society.
- Storytelling: Native American Stories. Matt Jones.
3:00-4:15
- Workshop: Writing Poetry. Ted Kooser.
- Writers Reading: Annette Murrell, Bill Kloefkorn, Twyla Hansen,
Don Welch.
- “Our State Capital as ‘Text’”. Robert Ripley.
- “The Nebraska Roots of Weldon Kees”. Steve Shively.
- Slide Presentation: “Kate Cleary: A Gallant Nebraska Lady”.
Susanne George.
4:30-8:30
- Voices of Color in Nebraska: The African Americans. An evening
of music and readings with buffet. Host: Dr. Gladys Styles Johnston,
UNK Chancellor. Featuring Annette Murrell, Lincoln’s Queen of Jazz &
Blues and Images. Special programs in the galleries with Mary Cloud
and Rick Wallace.
Sponsors/Funding: Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska
Humanities Council, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Nebraska Public
Radio, University of Nebraska Press, NEBRASKAland, Prairie Schooner,
Nebraska Arts Council, Theodore Baldwin Foundation, US West.
Festival coordinators: Susanne George, Susan Emrys, Chuck Peek
Photos
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