The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference will celebrate Willa Cather and reading. Cather herself was an avid reader as well as a writer; she enjoyed sharing her book recommendations with friends, and she was pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age, she established her “library,” with her books […]
This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, and is free and open to the public. The Field, The Fire is a solo exhibition to be held in conjunction with the 69th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference. The conference, Cather and the Readerly Imagination, will focus on Cather's own books and reading habits, […]
This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, and is free and open to the public both in-person and online. Visit the event website to view the livestream. Kali Fajardo-Anstine will present an invited lecture "From Bookshelf to Dreamworld: Cather and the Underground Stream." Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the nationally best-selling author […]
The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference will celebrate Willa Cather and reading. Cather herself was an avid reader as well as a writer; she enjoyed sharing her book recommendations with friends, and she was pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age, she established her “library,” with her books […]
This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, and is free and open to the public both in person and online via livestream on the event page. Panelists Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Pat Leach, Arielle Zibrak, and Kari Ronning explore the Spring Conference topic, "Pleasures and Disruptions: Reading Cather Collectively." Moderated by Kelsey […]
This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, and is free and open to the public, but free tickets must be reserved by May 31. See the event website for details on how to reserve tickets. Join Willa Cather Foundation leadership, project partners and supporters, Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason, and […]
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 26TH. Fans of true crime will not want to miss author Debora Harding's talk about Dancing with the Octopus, a memoir detailing […]
Fans of true crime will not want to miss author Debora Harding's talk about Dancing with the Octopus, a memoir detailing her 1978 abduction at the age of fourteen. This title is the 2024 One Book One Nebraska selection. Harding's book also describes meeting her attacker as she processed her traumatic adolescent experience in adulthood. Registration […]
The National Willa Cather Center hosts a discussion of Svoboda’s answer to Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia: Bohemian Girl! Readers will delight in the story of Harriet as she searches for her father in the American West. This event concludes the fourth year of free programming with this last Virtual Author Series of 2024. Registration […]
Karen Russell will discuss her new novel, The Antidote. Set in Uz, a fictional Nebraska town, in the aftermath of Black Sunday, The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his […]
Kick off the 70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference with a talk from Ann Lundberg, English professor and longtime interpretive ranger, about Cather at Mesa Verde. As a professor of […]
Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley will give a talk on "Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer" to mark the conclusion of a year-long celebration of Cather's […]
