On September 21 and 22, Peru State College will host the Nebraska Center for the Book’s 2001 Nebraska Literature Festival.
The tenth Nebraska Literature Festival will focus on living writers, with the theme, “The Writing Life.” The two-day festival will provide activities for students and adults. Registration is free for all readings and panels.
Groups of authors reading individually, and panels of authors talking about why they write, how they write, and why they choose particular genres will be presented.
The Friday evening testimonial dinner honoring Bill Kloefkorn and Don Welch for their enormous contributions to Nebraska's literary heritage will be the central event of the Festival. Governor Mike Johanns and First Lady Stephanie Johanns will participate in the event, held at 7:00 P.M. at the Steinhart Lodge in the Lied Center complex in Nebraska City, twenty miles north of Peru. The Mildred Bennett Award and the Nebraska Book Awards will be announced.
Authors will read and panels of authors will discuss why they write, how they write, and why they choose particular genres. The evening will feature a fiddlers' contest, cookout, open mike poetry reading, and street dance in the historic, brick-paved downtown of Peru.
Booksellers and Nebraska author organizations will present displays and books for sale at a Festival Book Fair. Book Fair participants include Aldrich House, Black Star Press, Friends of Loren Eiseley, Logan House Press, Mari Sandoz Heritage Society, Nebraska Book Arts Center, and John Neihardt Center.
Major funding for the Festival is provided by the Nebraska Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, Peru State College, and the Nebraska Humanities Council (NHC).
The NHC is a private, nonprofit organization funded with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, the State of Nebraska and private contributions.
9:00-10:30
10:45-Noon
2:15-3:30
3:45-5:00
9:00-10:30
12:30-2:00
2:15-3:30
Participating Authors: Jonis Agee, Susan Aizenberg, Ron Block, Kevin
Boos, J.V. Brummels, Deb Carpenter, Bill Clemente, William Coleman,
Kelly Madigan Erlandson, Charles Fort, Twyla Hansen, Neil Harrison, Dan
Holtz, Art Homer, John Janovy, Bill Kloefkorn, Greg Kosmicki, Doug Marr,
Nancy McCleery, Robert McEwen, Lyn DeNaeyer-Messersmith, Annette
Murrell, Chuck Peek, Jim Reese, Robert Richter, Marjorie Saiser, Lisa
Sandlin, Leon Satterfield, Roy Scheele, Barbara Schmitz, Karen
Shoemaker, James Solheim, Brent Spencer, Mary Helen Stefaniak, John
Walker, Don Welch, Jan Chisom Wright, Fred Zydek