Events:

Thursday, September 22, 1994
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Ron Hansen Reading at the UNO Alumni House.

Friday, September 23, 1994
6:30-9:30
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, 1994
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/funding: Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska Humanities Council, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha World Herald.