Writing Workshop with Stephanie Pacheco (Read More)
National Youth Poet Laureate Stephanie Pacheco will lead a free writing workshop (recommended for ages 16+.) This workshop is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective’s Visiting Writers Series. Space is limited to 30 participants. Register now to secure your spot. Stephanie Pacheco is the 2024-2025 National Youth Poet Laureate and served as the 2023 NYC Youth Poet Laureate and the inaugural New York State Youth Poet Laureate. She was also a member of Urban Word’s 2022 Youth Slam Team. Hailing from The Bronx, she has been a leading organizer and strategist with several activist organizations, including the Healing Centered Schools Task Force, working to mobilize youth across the city against educational injustice. She is a recipient of the 2021 Princeton Prize in Race Relations. Her advocacy and poetry have been highlighted by The New York Times, The Today Show, NPR, The Daily News, CBS, and other publications. She has spoken and performed in notable venues such as The Schomburg Center, The Apollo Theater, The Barclays Center, The New York Public Library, TedXCUNY, and more.
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Visiting Writer Series: Workshop with George Abraham (Read More)
This writing workshop will be hosted by George Abraham (they/he/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, performance artist, and writer from Jacksonville, FL. There is a suggested donation of $10 for the workshop, but no one will be turned away. George Abraham's debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award and the Big Other Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry. He is also the author of the chapbooks al youm (The Atlas Review, 2017), and the specimen's apology (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019). He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, The Arab American National Museum, The Boston Foundation, the National Performance Network, and the MAP Fund, and more. Their writing has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Guernica, The Baffler, The Paris Review, Mizna, and many other journals and anthologies. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard University, Abraham has taught at Emerson College, and is currently based in Chicago, IL, where he is a Litowitz MFA+MA student in Poetry at Northwestern University. He is currently Executive Editor of the Whiting Award winning journal Mizna. Their collaborations include co-editing a Palestinian poetry anthology with Noor Hindi (Haymarket Books, 2025), and a performance art project titled EVE with Fargo Tbakhi.
Spring semester 2024 workshops for Nebraska Warrior Writers. Meeting in person in Lincoln. Zoom participation available. February 10 February 24 – Guest Speaker: Carolina Hotchandani March 9 – Guest Speaker: Kim Louise Whiteside March 23 – Guest Speaker: Karla Hernandez-Torrez April 6 – Guest Speaker: Steve Langan April 13 – Guest Speaker: Maggie Christensen May 4 – Guest Speaker: Ted Wheeler May 11 (at Larksong) – Guest Speaker: Wendy Weitzel
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Creative Writing Workshop with Gary Soto (Read More)
Gary Soto is known for a body of work that deals with the realities of growing up in Mexican American communities. In poems, novels, short stories, plays and over two dozen books for young people, Soto recreates the world of the barrio, the urban, Spanish-speaking neighborhood where he was raised, bringing the sights, sounds and smells vividly to life within the pages of his books. Soto’s poetry and prose focus on everyday experiences while evoking the harsh forces that often shape life for Chicanos, including racism, poverty, and crime. (Excerpt taken from the Poetry Foundation.) Gary Soto's workshop is part of the Touring Artist Series of the All Writes Reserved Youth Poetry Festival. Ticket required.
