Nebraska Writers Collective

Poet Matt Mason lifts a trophy and cheers along with a crowd of high school slam poets

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Stacey Waite
Lincoln City Coordinator and Associate Professor
swaite2@unl.edu

Internship for undergraduate students — Available in spring semester

The Nebraska Writers Collective is a non-profit that exists to promote creative writing and performance poetry throughout the Midwest. It accomplishes this mainly through writing workshops offered in Nebraska and Iowa, including Louder Than a Bomb: Great Plains, the region's biggest youth poetry festival. Undergraduate interns help with all aspects of the festival: teaching and mentoring youth, organizing and running events, and assisting with workshops and readings. Through their involvement, students are trained in youth mentorship, writing pedagogies, community literacy, antiracist and LGBTQA+ youth programming.

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