Events:

September 22, 1995
School day

September 23, 1995

8:00 a.m.
Registration, Book Fair, Photo Display, Open Microphone
Concurrent sessions were held in rooms at the Nebraska Student Union and Copeland Hall, University of Nebraska at Kearney.

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.
9:00-11:45 a.m.
Meet the Publishers and Producers. Don Cunningham, Carolyn Johnsen, Hilda Raz, Dan Ross.

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