Nebraska Book Festival Archives
The Nebraska Book Festival (formerly the Nebraska Literature Festival 1991-2001) has been co-sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book and the Nebraska Humanities Council since its inception in 1991. Each year, an organization hosts the Festival, providing local arrangements and programming. Many other organizations and individuals have also contributed to the Festivals over the years.

The change of name from Nebraska Literature Festival to Nebraska Book Festival broadens the scope of the event to include authors and books from other venues as well. While a portion of the Festival may be dedicated to Nebraska writers and books, the Festival celebrates the reading and writing life throughout the world.

Links under the Festivals connect to information about the programs at each Festival.
2005 October 7-8 14th
Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln
"Local Wonders"

2004 September 17-18 13th
University of Nebraska at Kearney
"Voices of a Different Plain

2002 September 13-14 11th Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Grand Island
"A Sense of Time, A Sense of Place"

2000 September 15-17 9th
Beatrice--School Day
Lincoln (Cornhusker Hotel)--Public Day
"Prairie Visions: Nebraska Authors and Their Art"

1998 September 17-19 7th
"The World in the Plains: Plains Literature as World Literature"

1996 September 20-21 6th
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"In Our Own Write"

1994 September 22-24 4th
University of Nebraska at Omaha
"Go Big Read"

1992 September 25-26 2nd
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Click here for program

2006 October 6-7
Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln
"Beyond Borders: Nebraska & the World"

2003 October 24-25 12th
Creighton University, Omaha
Photos available at "Books Alive"

2001 September 21-22 10th
Peru State College
"The Writing Life"

1999 September 17-18 8th
Chadron State College
"Borders: Geographical, Ethnic & Literary Frontiers in Plains Literature"

1997 No Festival was held in 1997.

1995 September 22-23 5th
University of Nebraska at Kearney
"Voices of Color in Nebraska: The African Americans"

1993 September 17-18 3rd
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Click here for program

1991 September 28 1st
University of Nebraska at Omaha
"Nebraska: The Authors' State"

Last updated July 5, 2006