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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1997 No Festival was held in 1997.

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

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

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

1993 September 17-18 3rd
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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1992 September 25-26 2nd
University of Nebraska at Kearney
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1991 September 28 1st
University of Nebraska at Omaha
"Nebraska: The Authors' State"